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Frankly, I don't understand any of the choices made by anybody on either side of this gigantic shit show.

@antoniogm I work in a very niche field, and what I keep trying to explain to people who are looking for these AI gains is that computers do the same thing today that they did before AI. Anything really worth making, we've already made the old fashioned way.

You can finally say this without being canceled: AI isn't creating a Cambrian explosion of apps, if anything it's holding app creation back. Earlier tech waves had 'the mythical man-month'. Our generation has 'the mythical AI engineer' who magically turns enormous token usage into equally enormously-adopted products. Well, where are the apps and new businesses then? Because compared to prior cycles (e.g. the mobile app boom starting in 2010 or so), right now seems positively sterile, app and UX-wise. Other than Claude or ChatGPT itself, name a new app you use now you weren't already using five years ago? It's a truism of tech that throwing more people and time at a product often results in only lack of focus, confusion, and yet more code to support. This is the parable of the company that over-raised and over-hired and grew too quickly, and now has lots of mediocre, weakly-adopted products, internal communication problems, distracted leadership, code bloat, technical debt...and so the spiral begins, which ends with an apologetic CEO post after some layoffs announcing "we're refocusing on our core customer". Every tech company announcing they're either lowering token caps or shifting to lower-priced models is essentially saying: "we o̵v̵e̵r̵-̵h̵i̵r̵e̵d̵ over-spent on tokens, and are scaling back to focus on our core product" blah blah blah...same same. It's the corporate version of someone using AI to write a long email, someone else using AI to summarize it, and both sides would have been better off just writing a shorter email. But now, even small companies can have that same problem thanks to AI. I refuse to believe that an LLM prompt is the teleological endpoint of human interaction with computer intelligence. The fact we've apparently recrudesced to CLIs, like me farting around with RedHat 7.1 in 2001, feels like a step back. Another world here has to be possible, and while I have every faith (as someone as deep in AI psychosis as the next person) that AI can help get us out of it...just racking up tokens costs isn't how we get there. The AI Jesus isn't coming to save us, human taste, discernment, and radical re-invention will. Like Kafka wrote in his notebooks: "The messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last.”

There is genuinely no way for “free market” Right-Wingers to cope over North Korea’s economic success story. It hasn’t adopted market reforms like China and Vietnam did. It retained centrally planned, conventional socialist economics. And it’s thriving in spite of having been besieged and isolated by the US for decades. That’s the power of Communism.

@deplorablerebi1 @awstar11 @RonColeman People are calling it "One of the most online sentences of all time."

@awstar11 @RonColeman I hate that I understood that sentence completely. 😔

Ken White has become the Keith Olbermann of Briahna Joy Grays

@NickyFrank30 And if anyone would know something about weaponizing allegations in bad faith, it's Democrats.

So now there’s a chance that even if the “worst stuff” comes out before November, and my guess is that it will, it won’t really hurt them all because it will be clear, true or not, the allegations were being weaponized in bad faith.

So here’s some insider baseball on Platner’s stuff. I knew about the Fifield abuse allegations last October when I was in Maine. I didn’t know who it was or the extend of it. All I knew is that he got violent with an ex and she was a Republican, I hinted at them here several times, saying that Mills campaign was trying to get her on the record but she, a couple of other women, didn’t want to talk. Mills campaign knew Fifield was a Republican and that she and others were holding on to their story until it was advantageous for the GOP (1)

@JohnConnor_US Dude is on an absolute heater.

No one, not Jarvis, not Coach, and certainly not your humble senator, can top this master baiting.

@Ally_Sammarco Imagine having a ruined life and blaming anyone but yourself.

Elon Musk is a trillionaire but it’s def the people on SNAP ruining your life

@charlescwcooke Because "work smarter, not harder" is not an option for communists.

That isn’t the claim. Why do all these people sound like they’re six years old?

My favorite new Twitter genre is “I’m a loser who has failed at life but you should totally listen to my ideas about how to upend and fundamentally transform our entire capitalist economic system”

@olivertraldi There are going to be studies done on this generation of Ivy grads who think they are geniuses, but are just mediocre activists.

Ivy League students suing their schools with AI slop is a bit too on the nose

You could work a part time job at $15 an hour for five weeks and make $3000, and you would actually be contributing to society rather than tearing it down.

@CptAncapistan @mite141 Isn't it strange how all of these tweets pushing communism have tens of thousands of likes, and next to no actual comments in support?

@mite141 Okay, so for you it’s envy

Niggas who earn Minimum wage, eat boiled water for breakfast and can’t afford rent on their way to Glaze Elon Musk

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire. What I can’t figure out is how Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, and Ilhan Omar went from modest backgrounds to multimillionaires on a government salary.

Commies in the luxury box, feasting on capitalism. The irony writes itself.

I don’t give a shit about Elon becoming a trillionaire. Good for him. Focus your hate where it belongs: on our own government becoming millionaires off our tax dollars while calling it “public service.” That’s the real grift, you braindead parasites.

@davidyelland Oh man, I bet this sounded so good in your head.

What has Elon Musk taken from you? So ask many including Andrew Neil. Here's the answer: He has taken our peace of mind. He has purposefully pushed us apart, divided us further and profited from our loss of community. And that is hard to ever forgive.

The thing that winds me up is how Elon has a trillion because he’s set up a system where he forcibly takes 40% of what hard working people produce, leverages it up as debt, spends it ineffectively and does dumb things to win the votes of millions of people who’ve become dependent on his handouts.

@cloud2014 @JohnnyVomits @grahamformaine Then why accept it at all? Why not return it and say "Thanks, but no thanks" if it's so inconsequential? I think we all know the answer.

@RandoRanting @JohnnyVomits @grahamformaine

The media is obsessed with this race. That obsession doesn't seem to extend to healthcare or housing or any of the life-or-death issues at stake in November.

@blockhim2026 Wait until you find out how much your government spends every year.

A trillion dollars could solve virtually every problem. Any problem at all. But instead it’s all just going to Some Guy

@RoKhanna You can get all of that and more if you just got rid of the fraud in government programs. You won't do that because it is smart, but difficult. Stealing the money from the people producing value for society is dumb, but easy.

Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?

@Jerematic79 @jeffreytucker I trust your math more than me asking grok, but I think my point stands.

@RandoRanting @jeffreytucker Inflation has been high, but not that high. Musk would still have well over $100 billion if there had been no inflation at all in 50 years.

Elon Musk is a trillionaire, or, as we would have said six years ago, a six-hundred-fifty billionaire.