Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

A lot of AI artists are burning out lately. The tools became too easy, and competition exploded. I said this years ago: being early means nothing. Without vision or a story to tell, all you're left with is novelty. And novelty always fades.

This is an incredibly cool use of AI video. History lessons become much more interesting when you’re walking through a historic scene with a guide. The creator is doing a full series of these (chloe.vs.history on IG)

AI now teaches history on the spot this makes school feel like from stone age

Wild to think QAnon was dismissed as a completely insane conspiracy theory (even by me!) And it took us all these years, and citizens replacing journalists and the FBI, to finally find out there actually was an elite sex trafficking ring protected by the powerful. The system failed so badly, we all owe them an apology.

Black Indians that are hidden from the public

i follow AI adoption pretty closely, and i have never seen such a yawning inside/outside gap. people in SF are putting multi-agent claudeswarms in charge of their lives, consulting chatbots before every decision, wireheading to a degree only sci-fi writers dared to imagine. people elsewhere are still trying to get approval to use Copilot in Teams, if they're using AI at all. it's possible the early adopter bubble i'm in has always been this intense, but there seems to be a cultural takeoff happening in addition to the technical one. not ideal!

The Sigma Male idea is stupid, pseudoscientific and reveals the flexibility of the pick-up artist grift, telling clients that they're basically John Wick because they have commitment issues, but can also explain away their own failings to meet 'alpha' standards.1/?

Granted I was only 13 in 2014, but as far as I recall the idea that ‘only native British people should be able to hold public office’ was not in fact considered ‘innately sensible’.

Not long after World War II the West dissolved its empires and colonies and began sending colossal sums of taxpayer-funded aid to these former territories (despite have already made them far wealthier and more successful). The West opened its borders, a kind of reverse colonization, providing welfare and thus remittances, while extending to these newcomers and their families not only the full franchise but preferential legal and financial treatment over the native citizenry. The neoliberal experiment, at its core, has been a long self-punishment of the places and peoples that built the modern world.

My wife was as assimilated into British culture as you could be, just the slightest undefinable accent, but whenever any Brit found out she was Polish they'd start treating her differently. She learned to say she was from Sheffield (they have a weird accent even in the UK) so she'd get normal treatment. It was a completely different experience for her in America where she felt welcomed. The UK is a strange place like this: the most superficially politically correct and polite place on the planet but also secretly the most snooty and class-obsessed. But the bigger point is this: you can't blame people for leaving when your country when it has become a dystopian rape haven. My wife had a near miss in Birmingham with a Muslim who followed her home - fortunately she has fire in her and scared him off when he attempted to sexually assault her. Yet if she called this guy a pig online in your country today she'd risk being arrested. When your good immigrants are leaving it's a sign your country dropped the ball. Time for you guys to focus on the real problem - your government - and start fighting back.

what this site turned into: pakistanis, bangladeshis, indians, and nigerians posing as americans to sow discord for creator payouts are exposed. they are now saying this is racist. but of course america is not a race, and identifying fraud is a good thing actually.