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@nickshirleyy Just think about how many of these scammers will never be caught. The sheer arrogance of these room-temperature-IQ fraudsters — who stole enough to never work again while we still grind — is only matched by the enablers who keep protecting them.

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud. The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted CNN said there was "little evidence." Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud Today: $90M busted and 15 charged. IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

That little woke turd isn't even funny. He's a grinder comedian. He goes to every open mic he can find. His whole life is just him trying to get people to like him, but he couldn't write a joke with a popsicle stick. Charisma is actually negative with this one. No one will know his name in three years.

🔥🚨JUST IN: DailyShow host Josh Johnson was blatantly hating on Nick Shirley because of how impactful his reporting is during his BreakfastClub appearance with Charlemagne Tha God who surprisingly defended Shirley against negativity. Josh Johnson: Because this dude because he’s not a journalist, doesn’t know protocols so then this dude also just shows up at daycare and it’s like “let me in with the camera.” And they’re like “no.” “Well you must be doing fraud.” No, you are a grown man with a camera that wants to come in. Now I have to ask, who is Josh Johnson?

We just discovered a new form of fire. Our AI tech is basically at the banging rocks together development level. Once the frameworks start to mature and we build the equivalent of the lathe, the amount of work that will be automated is beyond comprehension. It's day one of kindergarten out there, just wait a couple years and it'll get silly.

Ken Griffin went home on a Friday "fairly depressed" after watching AI agents at Citadel do work that used to take teams of PhDs in finance months to complete. Done in days. His words: "These are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI." This is the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in history saying the people he pays seven figures to analyze markets and structure deals are being replaced by software that works in hours instead of months. Not theoretically. In his own office. Right now. The Coatue deck we covered earlier this week called agents "the biggest unlock" in AI. Griffin just confirmed it from the buy side. The shift from copilots to agents is not a future event. It is already happening at the highest levels of finance.

"The canons of narrative in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies." - J.R.R. Tolkien

@Variety Casting a non-conventionally attractive black actress as Helen of Troy is absolutely a deliberate social message You're not going to be able to gaslight the public into not noticing or pretending they can't see what's in plain sight Pathetic propaganda slop

From the team that brought you “Why is Snow White Latina?,” “Why are there Black people in ‘The Rings of Power’?,” and “Star Wars has gone woke” comes the latest online onslaught against the diverse cast of “The Odyssey.” These culture warriors have been led to battle by their own personal Agamemnon, Elon Musk. Read the full story now: variety.com/2026/film/opin…

@Variety "The canons of narrative in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration, and in the intrusion of unwarranted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies." J.R.R Tolkien

Air is sacred, so maybe you should set the precedent, and stop breathing it. Everything in life is sacred if you open your heart. Every beach, every forrest, every ocean, every mountain is sacred and living your life to its fullest is how you honor everywhere you visit. There's not a single place on earth that one should not dare to live their life by visiting.

@KrisAnnapurna Everest is considered a sacred mountain. Climbing it should be forbidden.

Bad news again Tragic death on Everest: Phura Gyaljen Sherpa, 20 years old, grandson of the legendary Ang Rita Sherpa (the “Snow Leopard”), died on Monday night during summit preparations. Phura Gyaljen, son of Phura Nuru Sherpa (Ang Rita’s youngest son), was working as a guide for the Kaitu Expedition. He left Camp 2 at 7:00 pm on May 11 carrying heavy loads. Four hours later, around 11:20 pm, he slipped and fell from a ridge below Camp 3 (approx. 7,000 m) on the Lhotse Face. He was found about 400m lower in a crevasse. His companions rescued him, but he had severe head and body injuries. He was pronounced dead after examination. His body was flown by helicopter to Lukla. Phura Gyaljen was the grandson of Ang Rita Sherpa, the only man to summit Everest 10 times without supplemental oxygen and the only person to have climbed it without oxygen in winter. The young Sherpa is the third worker to die this season in relation to Everest (previously: Lakpa Dendi Sherpa and Bijay Ghimire). R.I.P. everestchronicle.com/sherpa-climber…

@davepl1968 flathub.org/en/apps/com.gi… Hope more people can have some fun playing pinball.

I'm so old I wrote that! That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it work on RISC, and so on. Success has many fathers, and all credit should really go to the original designers... I'm just the fun uncle that brought it to the masses.

@EndWokeness That's a great advertisement for Spencer. Even the Onion couldn't make a better ad.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This was meant to be an attack ad AGAINST Spencer Pratt.

@Aizkmusic Walmart bought Vizio recently so they could slurp up everyone's data. They sell the TV for a loss just to get their data collection devices in homes. I hope you crack open their hardware and get us a bootloader going.

Today, I crashed my TV (zero click) with Claude code, and heres's how: Knowing it runs linux, I asked Claude think about common vulnerabilities that a basic linux box from 2014 would be susceptible to, given it's only exposed to the local network. We tested a few out (such as heartbleed) and eventually found CVE-2012-5958, a bug in libupnp, a c lib in almost every smart tv from that era. We send a single network packet with one field a few bytes too long, overflowing a stack buffer and crashing the TV. Up next - firmware decompilation, figuring out exactly what the hell these tv manufacturers can see from you with their shady ad programs. Vizio got sued by the FTC in 2017 for secretly tracking everything you watched and selling it to advertisers!

@KantInEastt At least the kid a Subway pretends he didn't just come back from wiping his ass and not washing. I prefer the illusion over ethic cooking.

This is the most popular food in Pakistan and apparently this is the only way to do it.

@dom_lucre Looks like AI was used to create the video. What a time to be alive.

🔥🚨JUST IN: Legendary rapper Ice Cube just released this song called “Free Dumb that appears to be an anti AI, Social Media and techno age record. Cube appears to claim these platforms exist to divide us and that AI and Google is turning people against God.

I remember when first learning ml studying tensorflow in 2016, a guy in Japan had created a model that sorted cucumbers using a pi3 and a 7000 image dataset. Very similar to the potato counter, only it represented the knowledge of an expert that normally took many years to develop. Sorting these cucumbers required identifying far more aspects than just size, and his little tensorflow model distilled all of that classification knowledge a decade ago! cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

Someone built a potato counter for a conveyor belt using a single annotated frame & a tiny YOLO nano model No giant dataset. No massive infra. One frame trained w/ SAM 2 & it works across the whole video Most useful AI in industry looks like this

Market forces are the best mechanism to drive innovation. Go read a book about the "Internet" that the USSR tried building, or really any study of the efficiency of their manufacturing sector, and all you see time and time again is massive inefficiencies. Competition is the very core driver of efficiency.

@berkey @dreadconquest You're describing the development of productive forces. Look around you, look around the world. Is capitalist liberal democracy creating broad prosperity or poverty? It cannot properly utilize the productive forces it develops.

they said this during the industrial revolution too, but it just resulted in large numbers of people being replaced by machines and going directly into poverty and extreme hardship. any increases in quality of life afterwards were hard won by organised labour in retaliation

I'm not against commerce. Especially when talking about aspects of efficiency, but I see so much engineering talent spent building the same "wheels" that aren't really serving the general good, that I wonder what would be built if everyone wasn't spending everyday trying to increase their conversion rates. I guess I'm just sharing silly shower thoughts. :)

@berkey @valhalla_dev Commerce is people getting stuff they want. The majority of projects being related to getting people stuff they want seems... ideal?

The reason why people are turning against AI is that 99% of the benefits of AI have been for software developers and techbros, a demographic that was already fairly unlikable, while 99% of people have seen very little benefit from it, and tons of detriment.

@r0ck3t23 Okay commie.

Mo Gawdat spent years inside the machine at Google X. Now he is saying out loud what the economists will not. Gawdat: “The very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.” That is not a prediction. That is a coroner’s report on a system that has not stopped breathing yet. Capitalism was never about innovation. It was about one equation. Buy human time cheap. Sell the output high. Pocket the spread. Every empire. Every fortune. Every supply chain on Earth was built on that margin. AI just closed it to zero. A humanoid robot now costs $9,000. It does not sleep. It does not negotiate. It does not quit. It runs every hour of every day at a quality ceiling no biological worker will ever touch. When production costs fall to nearly nothing, the entire pricing structure of the global economy falls with it. But here is what every CEO celebrating margin expansion has not thought through for five minutes. Gawdat: “Even if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobody’s able to buy what you’re making.” That single sentence should end every strategy meeting on the planet. Capitalism is a closed loop. You pay workers. Workers become consumers. Consumers buy products. Revenue funds the next payroll. Cut the worker and you do not just eliminate a cost. You eliminate the customer. Every company racing to automate headcount out of existence is quietly engineering the death of its own demand. They are building the most efficient production systems in human history to sell to a population that no longer has income. 50% unemployment is not a recession. It is the demand side of the economy going permanently dark. You cannot push infinite supply into zero purchasing power. The math does not care about your earnings call. Gawdat: “Wealth is going to have very little meaning for most of us in a few years’ time.” This is where it turns on the people who think they are winning. If production approaches zero cost, scarcity begins to dissolve. And scarcity is the only reason money holds value in the first place. The billionaire class is stockpiling a currency that is quietly losing its reason to exist. Gawdat: “So the entire capitalist model has to be rethought.” He is right. And nobody in power is doing the rethinking. Every board meeting about efficiency is a conversation about dismantling the very economic engine that made the board meeting possible. The question was never whether AI could produce enough. It was whether capitalism could survive its own success. The machine does not just replace the worker. It erases the consumer. And a system that can produce everything but sell nothing is not an economy. It is a machine that perfected itself into extinction.

@redgreenmaniac @dygytylace @anonymous161686 @patriach2051 You sound stupid.

@dygytylace @berkey @anonymous161686 @patriach2051 Exactly, i am so tired of this individualistic ethos and all that "you have to work non stop and care for nobody to live a decent life" propaganda. Specially in the tech space, i see no cyberpunks or free software people anymore, there are only scammers with bullshit saas ideas

This is the single most important economic truth that no commie can ever engage with or acknowledge. The cognitive dissonance required to maintain ignorance of these facts is so intense that they are likely mentally deficient or there's no other way they could live in modern society and believe taking from the productive will lead to utopia.

Hey @jimthegiant, calling capitalism’s poverty reduction a myth while crediting “socialist movements” is peak disingenuous hackery. Global extreme poverty fell from ~90% in 1820 to under 10% today thanks to markets, trade, and property rights. Not welfare checks.

@RockChartrand So many people look at the world and think it's some fixed system. They can't understand that it's a free to play world and they can create anything. Their minds only fit in the rat maze that isn't even there.

If your complaint is that wealth didn’t “trickle down,” you’re already assuming it was owed to you in the first place. Wealth doesn’t exist to be distributed. It has to be created, and it only gets created when people are free to produce, invest, and trade. If your standard is that success is a problem unless it’s redistributed, you’re rejecting the idea that people are entitled to what they earn.