YoungBoy Never Work Again

Chrome Hearts is just the Hot Topic house brand

“We are living in unprecedented times.” -Every living person ever But actually, though.

Cape Fear is so fucking stupid

Renegade ass Tiana sounds like such a rascal

SF is so fucked up right now even the techies are experiencing gentrification.

I don’t care about Taylor Swift’s private jet emissions

I bet the Germans have a specific word like schittenparkenüpen for when you drive around for 30 minutes to find a parking spot, finally find one 5 blocks away, and then see one wide open right in front of where you were going.

The Bay Bridge buses only carpool lane is consistently 99% cars

lol come on

“There’s a hole in my bucket” still hits. Industry show of the year?

I push it down, I push it dooOooOoOwn

Anyone excited to see Supergirl? Looking for anyone at all.

I just got fired from Microsoft. I was the guy responsible for making sure that when you start typing your password in on the Windows lock screen, it ignores your first keystroke for no fucking reason

Skinny + Lizzo = Skizzo

cold open: google campus. a conference room named “moonshot serenity 4b.” twelve people are in a meeting titled: pre-sync for sync alignment on ai velocity. sundar sits calmly at the head of the table. a pm clicks to slide 1 of 187. “the agenda today is simple,” she says. “how do we move faster while preserving our culture of not doing that?” everyone nods. then the door opens. noam shazeer walks in. the room goes silent. noam: “i’m leaving.” a vp of gemini reliability, brand, trust, latency, policy, and vibe raises a hand. “leaving… this meeting?” noam: “google.” someone gasps. someone else opens a doc titled retention narrative draft final final noam v7. sundar blinks once. “noam, we brought you back.” “for two point seven billion dollars.” “technically you licensed some technology and reacquired talent.” “that sentence is why we need legal in the room.” legal is already there. cut to: openai. sam altman stands beside a whiteboard that just says ship. an engineer walks by carrying a server rack and what appears to be the future. sam: “we can offer speed, compute, and one meeting.” noam: “one meeting per week?” sam: “no. one meeting. total.” back at google, the emergency retention committee forms instantly. it has 31 members. a director says, “what if we give him a new title?” “he already co-leads gemini.” “distinguished super co-lead?” “google fellow?” “he already left google, founded a company, got brought back for billions, then left again. he’s folklore.” meanwhile, a gemini launch review begins. pm: “we’re ready to announce the model.” policy: “can it answer questions?” eng: “yes.” policy: “too risky.” marketing: “can we call it experimental?” research: “the model is better than the last one.” brand: “better is aggressive.” trust & safety: “what about ‘more contextually adjacent to usefulness’?” a staff engineer whispers, “openai just shipped a model while we were discussing the adjective.” cut to noam’s exit interview. hr: “what could google have done better?” flashback montage: a chatbot blocked because it might be too good. a launch delayed because a button was the wrong shade of responsible blue. a spreadsheet comparing twelve ai product names. a meeting where someone says “we need a single coherent ai strategy” and three new strategies are created before lunch. noam: “nothing comes to mind.” hr: “great. we’ll mark that as positive attrition.” later, sundar calls him privately. “google is still google. best researchers. best infrastructure. billions of users.” “yes.” “so why leave?” noam looks out the window. “because you have everything except permission.” silence. sundar, softly: “we can create a permission working group.” cut to all-hands. sundar addresses the company. “noam is leaving. this is not a loss. it is an opportunity to reflect on our operating model.” chat explodes: “is this recorded?” “which gemini?” “can we ask gemini why people keep leaving?” “it said ‘insufficient context.’” a vp steps up. “to honor noam’s legacy, we’re launching project attention.” applause. “it will study whether attention is, in fact, all we need.” a researcher raises a hand. “didn’t we answer that in 2017?” “yes. but now we need enterprise readiness.” final scene: noam arrives at openai. badge works instantly. receptionist: “yeah, we just made one.” no pre-read. no doc. just a whiteboard, five people, and a model running somewhere hot enough to toast bread. sam: “ready?” noam smiles. cut back to google. a calendar invite appears: meeting: reduce meetings task force kickoff duration: 90 minutes required attendees: 214 sundar sighs, opens gemini, and types: “how do we move faster?” gemini responds: “have you considered leaving google?” smash cut to credits.

>renames it to the Department of War >names himself the Secretary of War >fights one war >loses

how it feels to roll one up and watch uzbekistan vs colombia at 2 am

SpaceX IPO on Reddit ad inventory is probably the most performant targeting ever.

Had to? We were asking for apples even when a pipe was available. I chased the smoking out of an apple in some bushes in the traffic median high for 20 years.

"yeah so "getting Shanghaied" came from people getting snatched up and shipped off to China back in the day" "wow that sounds really disorienting" "It's extremely Orienting, actually"