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smoothtown@sm00thtown·
The greatest scene in all film
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unusual_whales@unusual_whales·
Switzerland may be about to cap its population at 10 million, per Bloomberg
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smoothtown@sm00thtown·
Now, every tangible movement by power, any cultural shift, down to a look, a breath, a tweet, is for the sole purpose of market manipulation - the unpoliced hijacking of trillions in a system we are all held captive by and yet have zero recourse to correct
unusual_whales@unusual_whales

BREAKING: Look at this. $DELL just won a five-year $9.7 billion Pentagon software agreement for the US military. But Trump also bought $DELL. He bought multiple times since February 10th, up to more than $5,000,000. On May 8th, he said: "Go out and buy a Dell." Unusual.

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James Talarico@jamestalarico·
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
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ettingermentum@ettingermentum·
If you put the brain of the average Republican primary voter in a shark it would drown
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smoothtown@sm00thtown·
@PaulSkallas jazz was my gateway and it’s an excellent one because it’s easy to surf from album to album and across labels to find what/who you like, with an extremely high floor for quality. You could know nothing but pickup something with the Blue Note stamp and its going to be meaningful
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smoothtown@sm00thtown·
@DKThomp Demand numbers less meaningful when the bulk of compute is chihuahua-faced ai chatbots asking if you want MORE MAS SAUCE on your gordita combo
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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
We're getting another round of THE AI BUBBLE IS POPPING stories, with the news about Uber/Microsoft pulling back on AI subscriptions bc their agent costs went crazy. Maybe. But, per below, GPU rental prices are still up 2x from where they were four months ago. It doesn't seem like demand is slowing down, at all. When, eg, NYC hotel prices are twice as high as they were last year, you shouldn't believe people telling you that nobody is going to NYC anymore. Maybe someone smarter than me can correct me on this logic, but if the price for accessing AI compute is skyrocketing, that's because demand is still significantly outrunning supply, which sounds to me like the opposite of the beginning of the end of a bubble.
Anjney Midha@AnjneyMidha

apparently not everyone is aware of this, so sharing it here since jan 2026, GPU rental prices are up 2x+ we are living through the covid of compute, and all the toilet paper is gone stay safe out there researchers

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smoothtown@sm00thtown·
@MattZeitlin for my part, as long as I breathe, the proselytizing of Cal Tjader’s early Fantasy work will continue
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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin·
feels like the "jazz guy" will be basically extinct within a generation (even if the music itself persists)
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Sonny Rollins@sonnyrollins·
My wishes for the planet in 2024: No killing. No killing. Don't kill anyone, anywhere, for any reason. –S.R.
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Alex Prompter
Alex Prompter@alex_prompter·
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
Vivek Sen@Vivek4real_

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

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Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex·
We must, then, avoid the “Babel syndrome,” namely the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance. This is the risk of dehumanization: building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means.
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Sonny Rollins@sonnyrollins·
It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 conta.cc/4wFIDrM
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