Art Powell

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@DannySlavich Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili.

Don’t even think about saying Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

@elonmusk @HarmlessYardDog The Globalization fantasy.

@HarmlessYardDog We got lazy

Which one of you bozos thought it was a good idea to build the entire world economy off just in time supply chains from the most unstable regions on the planet?

@JennMGreenberg Oof. Prayers for the family.

I’m very saddened to update that she has passed way. I know God heard our prayers though, and she is with him. Please pray for her husband, who absolutely adores her, and her family.

@nedryun It's amazing how many people still try to defend these views.

"The truth of the matter is that Paul Ehrlich was a crank and a charlatan whose credibility should never have been established in the first place, much less preserved for decades after all his most fundamental predictions and assessments proved themselves fabulously wrong. Particularly after his disastrous and disqualifying bet with Simon." spectator.org/death-of-a-cha…

I have really no way to describe what you are about to see if you watch this video.

@Rainmaker1973 What in tarnation did I just witness?

Japanese yodeling will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day.

We will see more of this as people continue to reject AI content.

SM has allowed people to live in extremes, when reality doesn't work that way. An example is the environment. One extreme is that we are all doomed unless we radically change our lives and give power over to people to rule how we live. Yet none of their predictions have come true. The other extreme is wasteful use of resources, pollution, and a lack of stewardship of Earth's resources. We saw the results of this in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. No one wants to go back to polluted rivers and chemicals in drinking water. We need to find a way to live with our environment that promotes good stewardship without all of the apocalyptic nonsense. No, the world isn't going to fall off the ecological edge, but that doesn't mean we don't need to work on removing the billions of tons of plastic from the Oceans.

@aalexotero1 @BigBrainPhiloso Einstein said: It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher. We can now add atheists (not all of them) to this list.

@savebyj @BigBrainPhiloso Reading about the history of epistemology might prove useful to them, but very few read philosophy nowadays, or read at all. I mean, some here are asking what “trust” means.

Daniel Dennett: "If I gave a prize to the best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin." Not Newton. Not Einstein. Darwin. In a 2015 documentary, philosopher Daniel Dennett makes a striking case for why Darwin's idea of natural selection is the single greatest intellectual achievement in human history. His reasoning isn't just about biology. Dennett argues that what makes Darwin's idea so extraordinary is what it unifies. Before Darwin, the world was split into two seemingly incompatible realms: the physical world of cause and matter, and the world of meaning, purpose, and consciousness. These felt like they belonged to different categories entirely. One explained by science, the other by something else. Darwin's idea, Dennett says, is the backbone that bridges them: "The Darwinian idea of natural selection unifies the world. It unifies the world of cause and matter and physics with the world of meaning and purpose consciousness. The whole spectrum of life depends on uniting the living with the non-living, the meaning with the non-meaning, the purposeful with the merely mechanical and merely physical." That's not a small claim. It's a philosophical revolution disguised as a biology paper. What Dennett is pointing to is that natural selection gives us a mechanism: a purely physical, purposeless process that generates purpose. Organisms don't need a designer to have goals. The appearance of design, the reality of meaning, emerges from the bottom up. The best idea anyone ever had. No prize for second place.

@aalexotero1 @BigBrainPhiloso Exactly. There is no reason. The ruse is that they substitute 'natural selection' for God, allowing them to get away with saying all kinds of things that have nothing to do with Neo-Darwinism.

@savebyj @BigBrainPhiloso Why would natural selection favor the acquisition of truth? I’m not talking about local truths about the environment, which favor adaptation, no doubt. I’m talking about the truth of philosophy and science. And lies also favor adaptation, some times.

@TukiFromKL Spot on.

🚨 Let me tell you why this Goldman Sachs headline is the most dangerous one you'll read today.. Companies spent $450 billion on AI last year.. fired tens of thousands of people to "restructure around AI".. replaced entire departments with chatbots.. And Goldman Sachs just said it contributed basically zero to economic growth.. so where did the money go? > It went to Nvidia.. $130 billion in GPU sales.. Jensen is the only man on earth who got rich from AI that hasn't produced anything yet.. > It went to stock buybacks.. companies fired people, cut costs, reported "record profits" and bought back their own shares.. the money went UP not OUT.. Jesus! > It went to a bubble.. the same way crypto money went to Lamborghinis and not infrastructure.. AI money is going to valuations and not productivity.. here's the part that should terrify you.. They already fired the people.. Atlassian 1,600.. Meta 21,000.. Block 40%.. Amazon warehouses.. the jobs are already gone.. But the growth didn't come.. the productivity didn't come.. the revenue didn't come.. they burned the village to build a city that doesn't exist yet.. and Goldman Sachs just looked at the empty lot and said "there's nothing here"

@notoriousCFP @LayoffAI Agreed.

@LayoffAI It’s a direct result of the MASSIVE bloat in Fortune 500 companies. Meta had 78,000 employees at the end of 2025!! What is it you say you do around here?

Andrew Yang is calling it "The Fuckening." That's his actual word for it. And honestly it fits. A CEO of a publicly traded tech company told him directly: "We're firing 15% now. Another 20% in two years. Another 20% after that." There are 70 million white collar workers in this country. Yang projects 20 to 50% of those jobs gone within a few years. The low end of that is 14 million people. The entire 2008 crisis wiped out 8.7 million. The difference this time is the jobs don't come back. A recession ends and companies rehire. This time the work still gets done. It just gets done by software. The position itself stops existing. Nothing expands margins like replacing a $379K employee with a $200/month subscription. We track it all at layoffhedge.com. 58 companies. 254,000 people. And climbing. Yang is writing about what's coming. We're counting what's already here.

@elonmusk @ZubyMusic Exactly

@ZubyMusic There is an onslaught of AI bots

It feels like the overall experience of social media has dropped significantly in the last few months. It's not unique to this platform, but all of the ones I use. Am I alone in this sentiment?

@HayekAndKeynes @johannesmkx @grok We understand very little about gene expression. Take this with a grain of salt.

@johannesmkx @grok is this real

Oh my god! 😂 There's no crime gene, but there is a "propensity to shoot and stab someone gene". It's the 2-repeat allele of the MAOA gene. African-Americans are 50 times more likely to carry this gene. Ahahahaaaaaaaaaahaha "Analyses revealed that African-American males who carry the 2-repeat allele are significantly more likely than all other genotypes to engage in shooting and stabbing behaviors and to report having multiple shooting and stabbing victims."

@buccocapital The good news is they ate nowhere near AGI, and the current models won't get them there.

We will put these people in prison long before they achieve their delusional, ego-driven, masturbatory dream of world domination Dario just got stuffed into a locker by the US Government. These people need to read a fucking book on the way the world actually works

@FeserEdward If Iran acquired one and nuked Israel, this might cause a major problem.

"Iran poses no nuclear threat to the U.S." is one of those claims that absolutely enrages people precisely because it is so obviously true. It's like "The emperor has no clothes on."

@nmeoftheright @BigBrainPhiloso Lol. So the designed computer, created by a brain with no purpose, is used to confirm reality. Lord, have mercy, think about what you just said!

@savebyj @BigBrainPhiloso You would be unwise to trust your mind without verifying. There's a scene in the book Solaris where an astronaut is worried he's hallucinating, so he gets the computer to solve a math problem then solves it by hand, his rationale being if he is hallucinating they won't match.

@edenstanwarr @BigBrainPhiloso Yes, but I can't trust that statement you just said because it may not be true; it may just be survival talking. Your brain had no design or purpose other than survival. So anything you say is suspect. How do I even know we are really having this conversation?

@savebyj @BigBrainPhiloso Trust it for what? We can trust it for survival because evolution selects for that. Ultimately we have no alternative to trusting it. We have nothing else. Religious belief is not independent of the mind.

1. It is what it is that destroys science. If there is no truth, then every scientific experiment must end with 'it is what it is' as one of the results. In other words, there are no facts. 2. If you bought a computer that came from no design and a mindless process, would you trust it? Of course not. So then, if the brain serves no defined purpose and came from random mutations, why should I trust anything that comes from it? How do I know it is accurately giving me any model of reality?

@savebyj @BigBrainPhiloso first, it is what it is. how it makes you feel changes nothing. Second, why can't you "trust" your mind if it's not the product of design ... by another mind? What does "trust" mean? And how does the conclusion of "mistrust" flow from the premise?

@WilliamsNietzs3 Yes, because our politicians will do anything but stop spending money. They are addicted to it.

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