Stop the Forever Wars

If the wife of the murdered CEO of UnitedHealth is upset now, just wait until she gets the emergency room bill

My stance on phone bans in schools is that even if they have absolutely zero measurable effect on outcomes they are still worth doing because we want to habituate students into having real-life conversations and not withdrawing into digital life during lunch periods.

@kenshii_ai Agree with everything except calling AI a "once noble project." AI is all about deception and nothing good will ever come from it. In it's purest form, it's Satan.

OpenAI is nothing but a billionaire factory for people who put in ZERO effort. Greg Brockman just testified that his stake is worth nearly 30 billion dollars and he contributed not one penny himself. Sam Altman and his inner circle have turned the company into their personal cash cow. They preach about saving humanity with AI but deliver massive payoffs to founders who risked nothing financially. Brockman and Altman are greedy frauds who hijacked a once noble project for their own enrichment. The public and investors take all the downside while these parasites collect the billions. It is time to call out this blatant scam for what it is.

FYI: Context on why Elon Musk reportedly told Greg Brockman: "By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be." OpenAI's filing claims Elon Musk messaged Brockman two days before the trial began to gauge a settlement. When Brockman suggested both sides drop their claims, Elon Musk fired back with that line. Now things are starting to make sense. During today's testimony, Brockman confirmed his stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm is worth $20 to $30 billion, even though he invested $0 to get it. The same OpenAI that started as a nonprofit, funded by donations including Elon Musk's $38 million. If you step back and look at it like a normal person: Someone donated millions to a nonprofit set up to benefit humanity. The people running it slowly turned it into a for-profit, pushed the donor out in a tricky way, and quietly built personal stakes worth tens of billions. The donor, who was always told the project was nonprofit, never got an honest answer about any of it. That is the case Elon Musk is making in court. And every day, more pieces of it become public.

Just for the record - I'm not "threatened" by AI, I just don't want to be exposed to it and prefer the work of real human beings

@MatthewGattozzi @jappleby Pbbbbt, I remember spending days removing the backgrounds of thousands of images by mouse cursor using Photoshop. Your definition of "Photoshop has always been AI" is extremely loose and self-serving

@jappleby But photoshop is AI…. Adobe software has always been AI since its inception. That’s the only way it works. Signaling this feels like a short term gain even when it’s not true.

This tweet has 17,000 likes in one hour. Presenting your brand as "anti-AI" really does work in 2026, when regular ol' humans feel very threatened by technology.

@jappleby It's not that I feel threatened. I just don't want to be exposed to any messaging that was not produced by a human being

@ns123abc This guy is a liar on such an epic scale that it depresses me about the state of our society

🚨 GREG BROCKMAN CLAIMED UNDER OATH TODAY HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S BEING SUED FOR The most damaging single exchange in the entire day's testimony came at the end of Brockman's testimony: Today on cross-examination: Q: Did this lawsuit prevent you from publishing the new charter? Brockman: "I've honestly never really been certain what I'm being sued for." Q: You're not? Did you read the complaint? Brockman: "In great detail." Q: They hired some really well-known lawyers, well-known law firms — and they never explained to you what you're being sued for? Brockman: "I understand the claims. I've seen how they've changed over time too. But —" Q: So you do understand? Brockman: "I do stand by my testimony." Q: I thought you said that you didn't understand what you were being sued for. Brockman: "Those are the words I used. Yes." Q: And you stand by that testimony? Brockman: "Yes." Then Musk's lawyer stated the claim directly: Q: You are being sued for breaching your fiduciary duty to the charity, to follow the mission you proclaimed as recently as right now to the world on the website. Understand? Brockman: "Oh, I just disagree with that." Q: You don't get to disagree. I'm asking. You said you didn't know what you're being sued for, and I'm telling you, YOU ARE BEING SUED FOR BREACHING THE CHARITABLE MISSION OF OPENAI, which was to DEVELOP SAFE AI ON AN OPEN SOURCE BASIS FOR THE BENEFIT OF HUMANITY AND NO ONE PERSON IS TO PROFIT INDIVIDUALLY BY IT. Understand that's what you're being sued for? Brockman: "That's not what we did." On the same day, also under oath, Brockman testified to: - Holds $30 billion in personal OpenAI equity, with $0 invested to acquire it - Received a secret $10 million side-payment from Sam Altman in 2017, concealed from co-founder Musk - Wrote in his August 2017 diary: "This is the only chance we have to get out of Elon... take me to $1 billion" - Wrote in his November 2017 diary: >"If three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie." >"I would actually be warm to steal the nonprofit from him to convert to b corp without him." >"His story will correctly be that we weren't honest with him in the end about still wanting to do for profit just without him." - Has four undisclosed financial conflicts with OpenAI counterparties (Cerebras, Stripe, CoreWeave, Helion) - Testified that the OpenAI Foundation had ZERO full-time employees until this lawsuit was filed - Never delivered the $100,000 he publicly pledged in charitable donations to OpenAI eight years ago - Drafted a new charter in December 2023 removing "Our primary duty is to humanity" and adding "capitalism as a positive force" - Agreed he had a fiduciary duty to OpenAI as a 501(c)(3) Charity and to Humanity - Then testified he is not sure any conversation explaining his fiduciary duties ever occurred in his nine years as a charity fiduciary. Greg Brockman has been in the courtroom throughout this trial. He spent five hours confessing every element of unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of charitable trust. Then he played dumb in front of the jury when asked what he was being sued for — because the answer is everything he just confessed. The bench reads behavior. The contradiction is itself the record. The witness already made the case for Musk.

@vxunderground @cgarciae88 Cristian is paid a lot of money to pretend his creation is a living thing

@cgarciae88 My Brother in Christ, it's a fancy GPU with some Python scripts and a Linux OS. It's not that deep (it is however incredibly expensive)

claude is most likely not conscious but I haven't read a single post explaining why not

@cgarciae88 Cristian, were you born a robot or did you gradually become one

comments somehow deem carbon-based computation as special but give no insights into why

If legislation that 84% of Americans want can’t be passed, then we no longer have a republic; we have an oligarchy.

@BlabAlongGuy This is the way

@DoctorFishbones I dream of finding a small printer and only making a few batches of my books at a time.

Now that AI slop has completely flooded and destroyed the self-published e-book market, maybe we should all go back to printed books

🚨 BOTH ALTMAN AND BROCKMAN SELF-DEALING ON CEREBRAS >Greg Brockman acquires personal Cerebras ownership in 2017 >Altman, separately, invests in Cerebras >Brockman pushes OpenAI to merge with Cerebras that same month >Brockman never discloses his Cerebras ownership to Musk >December 2025: OpenAI signs $10 billion Cerebras deal + loans Cerebras $1 billion >February 2026: Cerebras valuation triples from $8B to $23B on OpenAI commitments >April 2026: OpenAI commitment expanded to $20+ billion through 2029 >April 2026: Cerebras files IPO at potential $26.6 billion valuation Brockman, under oath today: Q: When you were having discussions about a financial transaction between OpenAI and Cerebras, you were actually an owner of Cerebras, weren't you? Brockman: "There was some overlap between discussions and being an investor in Cerebras. Yes." Q: Can you point to an email in which you told Elon you were an owner of Cerebras at the same time you were advocating that OpenAI do this transaction with Cerebras? Brockman: "I do not believe an email that says that exists." Q: How about a chat? Brockman: "I did not." Q: A text? Brockman: "No." Q: And yet you stood to gain personally if there was a transaction between OpenAI and Cerebras. Brockman: "I suppose so, but it wasn’t something on my mind " Both co-founders. Both fiduciaries of a 501(c)(3) charity. They directed OpenAI to commit $20+ billion to a company in which they both hold personal undisclosed equity. Cerebras valuation tripled. The IPO is the cash-out. California charitable-trust law calls this self-dealing.

@ns123abc Laughed out loud at this one

8 military and surveillance systems reduced to one AI system by Palantir - what they are not admitting is that this automated reduction of data by AI will introduce +30% chance of error into military decision making.

@HarveyJackalope HP used to be a great company before they became a printer ink monopoly racket

@DoctorFishbones They're trying to charge a subscription for printing on your printer these days.

We need to start talking about how obscene it is that printer ink is $10,000 a gallon

this trial is wild. elon: they stole a non profit to make themselves billionaires. openai founder: no way. openai founders journal: man i can’t believe we are stealing this non profit. feels unethical but at least i’ll be a billionaire.

We went from 100,000 new eBooks a month to 300,000. Basically 2 out of 3 new books are now AI slop.