Jordan Carpenter

My SECOND tribute to the great Chuck Norris - but this time I'm testing what he did in his movies with my golden gloves champ, UFC fight trainer coach. How good of a fighter was he in his movies? We're finding out. Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=0Iyi9J…

I'll always remember Ted Turner most for his role in WCW and the Monday Night Wars, but you can't be a 90s kid without remembering Captain Planet, either. So tacky - but charming, not repulsive. His interview with Carl Sagan is still worth watching. RIP. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

🚨Chrome silently installed a 4GB AI model on your computer. Delete it and Chrome puts it back. Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff verified it. No consent prompt. No notification. The file re-downloads if you delete it. Tom's Hardware and TechSpot confirmed it. Hanff set up a fresh Chrome profile on a clean machine. Never clicked anything. Never typed a single keystroke. Just opened the browser and walked away. 14 minutes and 28 seconds later, Chrome had scanned his hardware, evaluated his GPU, RAM, and storage, then quietly wrote a 4GB file to his hard drive. No permission dialog. No checkbox. No notification. The file is called weights.bin. It contains the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device AI model. It lives buried inside a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel inside your Chrome profile. Hanff verified the entire install chain using macOS filesystem logs that Chrome cannot modify. The visible AI feature is a lie. Chrome 147 added a prominent "AI Mode" pill to the address bar. Users assume their queries stay on the device since the 4GB model is sitting right there on the disk. They do not. The AI Mode pill routes every query to Google's cloud servers. The on-device model powers buried features most users will never find. You pay the storage. You pay the bandwidth. The headline feature ignores the local file completely. To check if Google did this to your machine. On Windows: C:\Users\[YourName]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\OptGuideOnDeviceModel. On Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel. If there is a file called weights.bin, the answer is yes. Stopping it permanently requires more than a delete. Type chrome://flags. Search "optimization-guide-on-device-model" and disable it. Search "prompt-api-for-gemini-nano" and disable that too. Restart Chrome. Then delete the folder. Skip the flag step and Chrome re-downloads the 4GB file on the next launch. Chrome has 2 billion users. Hanff estimates pushing 4GB to a fraction of those users represents exabytes of data transfer and between 6,000 and 60,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per model push. The environmental cost of one company deciding what gets installed on two billion machines. This violates the EU ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3). The same law that requires cookie consent banners. It mandates "prior, freely-given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent" before storing data on user devices. Chrome failed every part of it. Firefox requires opt-in for AI. Apple Intelligence requires consent. Chrome just took your hard drive. Google did not ask. They took your storage. Your bandwidth. Your electricity. They just took it. Source: Alexander Hanff, thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-si… Verified by: Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Cybernews, gHacks

John Sterling was part of the Yankee tradition I grew up with. Sad to see more of it fading away.

@DeltaClimbs @QuintusCurtius I'm sure you feel very good about yourself, but I don't need to know about it.

@jmcarpenter_ @QuintusCurtius Translation of your words: I love the algorithmic cage I am in, which is why I am content to express myself within those given. Translation of my actions: can topology & dynamics of human interaction be reshaped, even if I will fail in most attempts? x.com/DeltaClimbs/st…

It's become clear that the overwhelming top priority is to stop these predatory rent-seekers and mad scientists from putting us into their dream cyberpunk dystopia. They will use their toxic algorithms to divide and prevent a coalition from forming against them. @QuintusCurtius

Why is the AI backlash growing? Outside of coding (where there is clear value), and a handful of other domains (e.g. brainstorming), Generative AI has been a net negative for society. GenAI has been undermining secondary and college education, opening up mass surveillance, increasing disinformation, delusions, impersonation, phishing, and other forms of cybercrime, nonconsensual deep fake porn, bias in employment and other domains, and economic disparity, drowning the world in slop and unwanted, over-leveraged environment-damaging data centers that risk causing a recession. Simultaneously it has empowered a bunch of people who want to privatize almost all the gains while leave all the downsides to society, taking almost zero responsibility. I don’t think we are better off than we were four years ago. Some of this is technical (LLMs aren’t reliable), some of it is political/economic (such as the utter lack of responsible regulation). Most of this was predictable. Almost none of it is good. All that said, I honestly believes some future form of AI might be great. But Generative AI has hurt more than it has helped, and been managed irresponsibly. It’s no wonder many people have had enough.

@DOdeniyi9389 @solo_levelingx His company's valuation is predicated on the notion that AI will automate vast swathes of human labor. Now he's admitting it's not going to happen at the level he's sold. And that means only one thing for the hype bubble.

@solo_levelingx How is it fraud 😭 do you want humans to be replaced?

He just admitted they falsely hyped up the chatbots and committed fraud

Translation: "I've been full of shit for years but I conned you out of so much money that I dare you to pull the plug now."

@SuvyBob @EdLatimore And even in Africa it's declining fast.

@EdLatimore It's not just the developed world anymore bro. It's every part of the world except Africa and a few other countries.

This has turned into a hill I am willing to die on (strong opinion, strongly held). The falling birthrates across the *entire* developed world are a combination of 3 things. 1) Opportunity cost. There's simply more shit to do that looks like a lot of fun/takes time. 2) Individualism. As western culture spreads, individual values over community take precedent. 3) Work culture. This is especially true in S.Korea and Japan. There isnt much time built in to raise a family (or do much else), which effectively leads back to number 1. Many countries have tried tax and monetary incentives (Hungary, Russia, Italy, Singapore, Japan) with little/no effect When talking of the birthrates in the United States, two important things are forgotten. 1) Before the early 1970s, there weren't even any seriously viable ways for most women to survive outside of marriage and men were looked down on for NOT having a family–often passed over for jobs or not rented to. 2) The post war baby boom was a bit of an anamoly. People only had a lot of kids because they *had* to. In the United States, you can see as child mortality decreased (better medicine and tech), so did the birthrate, with a pretty sharp decline from the 1900s to the 1940s. What we're seeing is an uncomfortable truth that we should be honest about if we ever want to reverse it: When the shackles are off, and there's no pressing need, many people opt out of having kids. *Note: I don't think I'll be alive to see it, but the only way to reverse this trend is to put the shackles back on a la A Handmaiden's Tale.

Seems pretty obvious what Altman's plan is: race to an IPO hand the hot potato over to stupid retail investors, and then bail at the high. Hopefully the bubble pops completely before then.

TKO enshittification of WWE and the UFC getting even worse. You can't use AI for any creative story. Ever. And even the "engagement metrics" have to be rigorously scrutinized because of bias and hallucinations.

Seems too late to say it: I'm completely fed up with AI generated content. It's gone from 10 percent to 90 percent in a very short time. As someone who has believed my entire life in writing as an expression of mind and spirit, the trash being cranked out today is a disgrace. What can be done?

@WrestleFeatures I can't stress enough how much Danhausen influenced me to stop watching AEW. It was so corny and got way more time than it should have. It signaled to me Tony wasn't interested in building a legit product. Now WWE seems keen on it to sell merch. Textbook enshittification.

Dave Meltzer is concerned that WWE is overexposing Danhausen, and WWE could be burning him out: "I feel that Danhausen is great in small doses and Friday night’s show was not small doses. I think if you put a lot of him on the show it becomes a turn off. To be honest, most people that would be the case, but Danhausen it’s kind of like a one note gimmick and it was just so much on this show. When the show was half way over I was like, ‘They’re gonna burn this guy out.’ That type of a gimmick is gonna have a shelf life anyway and the key is to extend it as long as possible." Do you agree? (WOR)

A Florida ‘Nole meets a Texas rattlesnake.

He was appointment TV at the height of the attitude era. Also saved WWF when it was getting smoked by WCW.

@TrajansS @IterIntellectus And this BENEFITS nobody.

@jmcarpenter_ @IterIntellectus Most students are using chatGPT, most teachers are. They are using it for a reason. This is cope.

really tragic beside the obvious national security implications, there's not a precedent in history where stopping a technological advancement brought any benefit. ever. what's even more baffling is that it's mostly young people opposing progress, while they should be the ones championing it

@QuintusCurtius And then ironically their offensive got smashed and Truman and Ridgway had the ability to roll them back over the river and destroy North Korea. I don't blame them for not doing so, but it's regrettable that they didn't.

In October 1950, Chinese foreign minister Zhou Enlai warned the US repeatedly that if US forces in Korea approached the Yalu River, China would enter the war. These warnings were ignored, to our extreme detriment. The lesson here is that reckless adventurism, combined with ignorance about one's opponent, can lead to disaster.

@cicigici @BullTheoryio And who hired Lutnick?

@BullTheoryio Lutnick has used and abused not only President Trump, but our entire country. We pay the inflated tariff price of goods and lutnick‘s sons reap our cost of that inflation. Devious.

🚨 THIS IS INSANE. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights. Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick's sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. The firm told clients it had "capacity to trade up to several hundred million" in these claims. They confirmed at least one $10 million trade was already executed as of July 2025. They said they expected that number to "balloon in the coming weeks." That was 9 months ago. Today those claims are worth 100 cents on the dollar. The refund portal is live, $166 billion in refunds are being processed. If Cantor bought $100 million in refund rights at 25 cents on the dollar, they spent $25 million. They now collect $100 million from the government. That is a $75 million profit. A 300% return. If they scaled to "several hundred million" as they told clients they could, the profits run into the hundreds of millions. Howard Lutnick was the architect of the tariff policy. He pushed Trump to impose them. He fought against officials who wanted to limit them. Then he left Cantor Fitzgerald to his sons and transferred his equity into a trust benefiting them. Tax free under government ethics rules. He received $360 million from the buyout. His sons positioned the firm to profit from the exact policy their father built. Their father publicly championed tariffs he knew could be struck down while his sons were buying refund claims betting they would be.

All of this was on full display in 2020. We saw who Trump was then. You were warned about his record of failure, his disqualifying character flaws, and that he was too old. You chose not to listen. Now live with the embarrassment. I am so, so glad I didn't hold my nose in 2024.