Robert Redscare

Atlantic friction

@PolymarketMoney There is no AI bubble. We are only like 5% of the way to the top

BREAKING: Odds the Al bubble bursts by year-end nearly double as Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund exits its entire public stock book. 22% chance.

@JamesLucasIT I once had a big hardback compilation of famous 19th and 20th century artists, and this was the painting for Wyeth. The book described it as "a young woman lounging in a field". I knew the real story, so I always thought that was funny

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at... The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power. Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually. That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made... Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept. There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it: "Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

@aelfred_D It's not?

“He’s a man made of wicker” “Ah, so it’s some kind of reimagining of The Wicker Man” “No”

@basedbriguy @NoContextHumans All their sketches are like that

@NoContextHumans This has the plot flow of a dream. An awesome dream

This deserves an Oscar

@beffjezos He overleveraged himself. His bets are all directionally correct

situationally unaware. It's over.

@HedgieMarkets It's definitely correct long term. He overleveraged and got burned

🦔Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness just got forced out of all its public holdings after margin calls from Bank of America, Goldman, and JPMorgan. The fund hit $45 billion at the start of July. His biggest bets were SK Hynix, Nebius, SanDisk, Micron, and CoreWeave, all down more than 35% this month. His shorts on software names like Adobe went against him too. Citadel bought the bulk of what was left. He's 25 years old. My Take Aschenbrenner wrote the essay series that became the intellectual blueprint for the AI infrastructure trade. Massive expansion of chips, memory, data centers, power. He was probably right about the demand. He just needed it to arrive before his margin calls did, and it didn't. When both sides of your book move against you at once, longs down and shorts up, there's no way out. His prime brokers sold for him. He named the fund after the ability to see what's coming, and got margin-called because he didn't see the turn. $200 million into $45 billion in two years, given back in a month. Korea liquidated 75% of its leveraged positions this month. Now Wall Street funds are getting the same calls. The AI infrastructure thesis might be right over the long run, but a leveraged fund has to survive until then, and his didn't. Hedgie🤗

@dreamingtulpa Unc upset by all the young fools wilin out at the Shape Store, but then realizes that it's actually lit

@dreamingtulpa Brilliant

@redditisleaking MoB was upset her daughter got heightmogged

AITA for wearing high heels as a tall woman at someone's wedding?

My wife is in education (business graduate program). They are so far behind. They haven't updated to the fact that you don't really have to teach this anymore. All you have to do is literally ask it to do what you want, and iterate. She is blowing people away with full stack apps she is building. She has zero technical or coding experience.

Talking to the general public about AI is so frustrating, they are so behind on the current sentiment. Example of a convo I had today “OpenAI is doing horrible, they’re losing a ton of customers” Me: like who? Them: >Disney

@TheInternetFish I can't breathe lmfao

Top 1 worst feelings ever

@EverythingOOC I mean, why not lol

How Travis should've sounded in the Odyssey

@Flashdelirium2 @_shoopy For me it's Fuck FUCK my toe

@_shoopy "Give me a beat! What's a song by him?" always gets the biggest laugh from me when I watch this

This gives me an excuse to post one of my favourite videos

@skywalkerlikeme It's the best film of the 21st century imo. It has the most to say about the 20th century, while also being portentous about the 21st. Astounding achievement that I don't think a lot of people yet realize.

My actual rating system ½ -not There Will Be Blood ★-not There Will Be Blood ★½ -not There Will Be Blood ★★-not There Will Be Blood ★★½ -not There Will Be Blood ★★★-not TWBB ★★★½ -not TWBB ★★★★-not TWBB ★★★★½ -not TWBB ★★★★★-There Will Be Blood

think im going insane looking at this back in the day new yorker cartoon because i have zero idea what this is trying to tell me

@87lbofbees Mountain lions aren't cursed with knowing that there is more than that

If you’re going to have a future as a male mountain lion you have no other choice but to learn how to fight and kill other lions… what a crazy way to live. Imagine having no other option but learning how to kill every other guy within 100 square miles. Otherwise your days are numbered. I couldn’t do it

@GrahamC47 It's good tho

I will never understand getting positioned as Tom Cruise’s protégé and then agreeing to do a Hulu show loosely based on an Eli Manning comedy sketch.

@justalexoki That's a pretty big market tbh

this is the weirdest launch video I've ever seen. genuinely who is this for? the gf who's boyfriend doesn't give a shit about her or the bf who doesn't give a shit about his relationship?

@max_spero_ When someone asks about whether AI can be art, dripped-out Pope is in the top five

Success

@TyWebb72661163 @Melody9Earth @OrevaZSN @MissyPetes17 X is really on fire with doofuses today

@Melody9Earth @OrevaZSN @MissyPetes17 What planet do you live on that a hotel wont store your luggage if you arrive early. Your take might be dumber than the stupidity of the OP

The fact that you can’t check into a hotel until 4pm when the day is basically over but have to check out by 10am the next morning should honestly be illegal.