The SpaceX IPO only put 5% of its shares on the market. Another 20% were scheduled to unlock after the Q2 earnings call. That call was yesterday. In the meantime, the stock has fallen over 40% from its initial days of trading. $SPCX 📉 9.25% in pre-market trading as shareholders offload this junk.

SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plans

Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company.

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Then he added, "So there is literature that you enjoy and is meaningful to you. That's good. That's a start. Now what is it about the works of Ayn Rand that you enjoy so much?" "I dunno, really, there's just something about sexy vampires that really gets me involved in the story."

WordPerfect had this in the mid-1980s iirc 40 years of progress!

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

They should replace Max Miller the senator with Max Miller the guy who does Tasting History

Macaroni & Cheese from 1845

YouTube video by Tasting History with Max Miller

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“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”

AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users

Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.

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Just a lil guy who came over to say hello

Wait did i show yall the worlds best cow painting?

Kate Compton@galaxykate.bsky.social · 2d ago

Im here to be encouraging and post cool historical ceramics

"If you think it is bad that Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and a handful of their billionaire buddies are effectively unconstrained, then the most effective thing you can do is pick a fight over data center siting in your area." by @davekarpf.bsky.social

The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.

I have a

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The GOP is the party of the working class! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c...

'“I saw my state senator[...] and I ran over to him and said, ‘What would happen to a woman with an ectopic pregnancy if this bill passes?’ And he had no idea,” she said. “That was the moment where I realized I couldn’t help him understand. I just needed to replace him.”' apple.news/ANMsuEZ3oQGC...

Inside the Democrats’ Push to Win Back Religious Voters — The Wall Street Journal

Iowa’s Sarah Trone Garriott and a growing number of Democratic ministers nationwide are trying to challenge the GOP’s long dominance among white Christians

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5 cops standing around in the station (not even on the platform) while their car is illegally parked in a pedestrian crosswalk on the street.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 6d ago

5 cops and 2 soldiers in full camo standing around on one train platform, studiously ignoring one another. Your tax dollars at work!

Sadly it is the case that this has been internalized to such an extent that there are otherwise normal people who will look at an online space and wonder what's wrong with it if they aren't seeing people openly discussing 1920s race science right away

Bsky signals the alarm that another Jerry post has broken containment

Bluesky Server Status@status.bsky.app · 23h ago

We're currently experiencing an issue with the Discover feed. We expect an update or resolution shortly. status.bsky.app

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Angelita has my vote (assuming that Angelita is the cat)

scott⚡️mccloud@scottmccloud.bsky.social · yesterday

Voter intimidation.

Remarkable that "PhD level" super genius LLMs can't detect the sentiment my newsletter might have towards AI

> there is no such thing as automated plagiarism detection software. They are a scam sold by the very same companies that create the AI systems used for plagiarism in the first place. And companies through such so-called tools want to further erode our trust in each other. olivia.science/anxiety/

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 2d ago

AI detectors are deeply flawed. The same ethical concerns about the training corpus of most commercial chatbots applies to these punitive, unreliable, and potentially reputation-destroying detection technologies. The Atlantic owes HM Wolfe a public apology. www.thebookseller.com/news/tor-bra...

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

"Oh, I only use LLMs for research. I just use AI for ideas. ChatGPT wrote the first draft, nothing else." So what you're telling me is that it's doing all your thinking for you.

I quite like jank as the opposite of slop. Slop is smooth, pre-chewed. Jank is unpolished, jagged. Slop works like how you would expect, because you've seen it a million times before, while jank (mal)functions in unexpected ways.

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · yesterday

I don't actually hate 'friendslop' as a term and think it is quite endearing, but I wish we got 'friendjank' instead

Tbh, this kind of friction happens when we practice new skills or try to get better at something. It happens when we seek out challenges to our acquired skills or when we "test" ourselves in the world. The friction and its overcoming are valued in these moments.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · yesterday

I would call it a "good friction," or a "willful friction," or a "voluntary friction" because it's a friction we willingly adopt and not everyone wants that degree of friction or resistance from the world. That friction is gone when the hive mind tries to anticipate her needs and just fill them.

It's 2007: - our war of choice in the middle east has turned sour - we are on the precipice of a recession - every asshole you know is "working on" an MMO

Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...

motherfuckers trying to preach about how we should understand the evil agenda of the AI companies, and you can read all about it on their paywalled Substack newsletter.

The wonderful thing about each new day is that it is rife with possible Its that might Happen

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · yesterday

maybe it will happen today

Wearables on artists and authors to provide a data stream that they are being creative and not using #AI. More tech surveillance will always be the answer when data is the only acceptable proof.

Once again, just relinking my primer on the empty promises and weighty failures of strategic airpower: acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower-101/

Collections: Strategic Airpower 101

This week, I’m going to offer a fairly basic overview of the concept of strategic airpower, akin to our discussions of protracted war and nuclear deterrence. While the immediate impetus for t…

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So, I find it pretty problematic that the Canada Revenue Agency is recording conversations btwn citizens & agents for the purpose of training their AI. A recorded message informs you of this prior to speaking to an agent and there is no opting out. You have to give your SIN, DOB, address etc. 🤯☠️