Have to scroll down past three stories about Lindsey Graham to find this, btw
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: Trump notifies Congress of new war against Iran, per POLITICO
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3w agoThis technology has created a power + return structure that requires it to be destructive first and beneficial second vs No it won’t.
Searching@negativegw.bsky.social · 3mo agoPretty clear by now that the only way the currently planned AI spend is sustainable is a massive gutting of white collar jobs. This comes w/ a host of issues the market is not pricing. No sorry just making all software free does not get you there.
No one wants to hear this but these guys are making the next BRK type fandom
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 4mo agothat is a bold editorial choice calling this "fashion"
I haven’t seen AI as a bubble in some time, but I really question those with a strong opinion that it isn’t if you are not up close and personal with how knowledge workers are using these tools.
I feel like it’s under-reported how variable AI output is becoming. Would Google have become as dominant if every 3 weeks, searching for a restaurant yielded extremely different quality results?
Idk what’s gonna happen but I was raised right: to buy calls when the president threatens annihilation
Once you get “Trump reciting the Shahada” into your mind, it never goes away
*Vibes based analysis* This seems like an environment where an AI shoe could drop and really get people in trouble.
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It’s so sick that you can tweet false and misleading information just because you have a fake job like “Secretary of Energy”
Think this is roughly right, but the OS models also get some low end SMB-like use cases.
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 7mo agoIf I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots
2026 Predictions: * Consumer preferences will go from hostile to only mildly negative for AI in media/outputs. * The Year of AI Psychosis * We’ll keep ascending AI benchmarks, keep hyperbolizing, and keep wondering why it doesn’t quite get the job done.
A few observations on AI that have been interesting to me: * A significant rise in engineers calling the recent models AGI. * A general investor reluctance to admit there’s a bubble, even though most of the industry admit one * The implication that there’s no value in deterministic processes.
“We’ll see how [obviously bad thing] turns out in the data” is such a good online position to always hold because it lets you be both incredibly pompous and so late to everything that you can pretend “but that’s obvious” when you turn out to be wrong.
A brain fully imprisoned by the Laffer curve and handcuffed by tax policy. Reversing tariffs will be the *easiest* of the tasks ahead for the next president.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11mo ago".. I’m increasingly [thinking] that high tariffs are here to stay, [and] that a Democrat, say in 2029, is not going to reverse Trump’s tariff policy, because the federal government won’t be able to afford to." @thehill.com thehill.com/business/547...
The serious person take on all this is that somehow SCOTUS and other institutions thought the Fed would somehow still be off limits? There was an implicit bet or bargain? C’mon. You’ll be marks until your last day.
A few things in the org structure here stick out as strange to me. It’s beginning to seem like Zuck promised each of these major hires their own fiefdom, and they’re more likely to go to war than accomplish their goals.
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 12mo agoNEWS: Meta will announce an AI reorganization today, dividing the Superintelligence division into four units weighing some cuts or employees moved from AI division considering licensing closed source models to build new AI products w/ @elitan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...
One crank belief I have great fondness for is 10 years of jail time for endorsing development on national park land
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 12mo agoOne crank plan I do have great fondness for is that the Feds should just build Hong Kong on the Presidio, it's already exempt from local zoning codes.
Trump’s lasting legacy will be America’s transition to state capitalism, and embrace of authoritarian measures to safeguard it. We’ll have no push back from the normal free enterprise crew, as long as they’re promised a place on top of the plebs in hierarchy…until we have a new president.
Accidentally making ourselves into China because we were scared of becoming Denmark
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12mo agoFORTUNE MAG: “.. Trump has seized control of private enterprise’s strategic decision-making and investment policies while invading corporate board rooms .. “.. This is far more dangerous to capitalism than a city-run grocery store.” @jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/08/12/m...
Spoke with a patent lawyer on an unrelated topic and he told me: “I know it sounds crazy but I tell clients to never, under any circumstances, discuss the contents of a potential patent with an LLM”
Oswald@oswald.bsky.social · last yr.We’ve burnt our Library at Alexandria and are starting all over from here. Only new information/knowledge is valuable. Everything else has been commoditized. New techniques are to be hoarded and never, ever discussed on the internet.
Tbh I’m surprised that this is settling out with revisions from the *supplier’s* side.
Oswald@oswald.bsky.social · last yr.I have never seen a bigger gap between end customers and suppliers visions of the future than LLMs/AI.
Beginning to get a little suspicious that we’re missing something on initial claims, broadly speaking.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 12mo agoInitial claims still outperforming residual seasonality, continuing claims not so much. Clear message is weak hiring and longer duration of unemployment as opposed to layoffs (rapid declines in labor demand).
Watching Yellowstone for the first time and I think it’s perhaps the greatest show ever made with atrocious politics. Can’t think of another one in its class.
