another day, another small step toward consolidation and conglomeration
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Why is this happening? Well, because a bunch of investors think they can make a bunch of money off an incestuous, illegal pumping scheme. What’s the scheme? Well, it’s basically what tech investors do every 5 years or whatever, but…
this was also exactly what happened with crypto and NFTs
POV: ur my friend at a party and im explaining why i hate "AI" so much
So. It really comes down to a few things, right? Number one for me is the “economy”. Quotes intentional.
antirez’s post is almost entirely about how AI lets you build more, and i’m honestly so tired of that take. it’s rooted in capitalist bullshit that demands we produce and produce and produce. more, more, MORE. i don’t care about building more. i care about building better
extremely sad to hear that the dilbert guy finally lost his long internal struggle with pathological racism
Scott Adams, Audacious Creator of the ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68
His chronicle of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.
an HD-2D remake of Chrono Trigger would single-handedly save Square Enix
Shareholder denounces Square Enix's 'sluggish' revenue and profit
3D Investment Partners, a major shareholder of Square Enix, issued a 112-page presentation criticizing the company's 'sluggish' revenue and profit margins.
The FBI said on social media that it is investigating the shooting but it appeared it later deleted its posted on X.
great, feeling very safe
US Border agents shoot, wound two people in Portland, city officials say
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.Portland p
Nvidia et al. dumping $20B into a literal CSAM generator is, tbqh, exactly what i had on my 2026 bingo card
Elon Musk’s xAI announces it has raised $20bn amid backlash over Grok deepfakes
AI company’s chatbot faces criticism over its generation of sexualized, nonconsensual images of women and girls
i had to look this up myself because i almost couldn’t believe it. ICE didn’t exist until after 9/11 and is just one more facet of this country whose entire existence is rooted in racism. we have NEVER needed ICE.
Peng, the Dark Souls of People (@pengautomata.bsky.social)
If you saw Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters or played Ocarina of Time on release, you were alive for an America without ICE. We didn't need it then, we don't need it now, and you already know what a world without them looked like.
yeah, nah. in fact, i hereby dub you “slop” as well. Slopya Nadella.
Microsoft CEO Says People Need To 'Get Beyond' Calling It AI Slop
CEO Satya Nadella says people 'need to get beyond' the gen AI slop debate
i strongly believe this too. the american exceptionalism we’ve all been raised with, being told we’re all special and unique, all it’s done is breed a mass delusion that we as individuals are all more important than our communities and people as a collective. we prioritize ourselves over all others.
they’re going to want to kill him for this but he’s so right, individualism as an ideology needs to end
the source for these findings is deeply funny
AI vs human code gen report: AI code creates 1.7x more issues
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
livid
AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.
it’s been a very interesting couple of months
FireHydrant to be Acquired by Freshworks
Accelerating the Future of Service Operations, Incident Management and Reliability
i guess the constitution is just a “longstanding principle”
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko https://n.pr/48E1oko
he literally reformed and renamed the entire company around this. in a sane world, the board would fire him
Meta’s Zuckerberg Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg is expected to meaningfully cut resources for building the so-called metaverse, an effort that he once framed as the future of the company and the reason for changing its name from Facebook Inc.
this article may be about academia, but a lot of it applies very broadly and it really hits:
We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice.
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
quite literally the opposite of what everyone’s been asking for but ok lol
“I would say that there's every evidence that we will be more productive and yet still be busier because we have so many ideas,” Jensen Huang said.
how late stage does this make us? surely we must be nearing the end now
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too. https://stereogum.com/2481091/grimes-djing-immortality-influencers-shroom-trip-with-special-guest-mr-beast/news
one single developer really just dropped a type system for Ruby with ergonomics that look FAR better than Sorbet. absolutely wild.
GitHub - low-rb/low_type: Elegant types in Ruby
Elegant types in Ruby. Contribute to low-rb/low_type development by creating an account on GitHub.
every day this bubble gets more disastrous
AI Startup Cursor Raises Funds at $29.3 Billion Valuation
Cursor, an artificial intelligence coding startup, has raised $2.3 billion in funding at a $29.3 billion valuation, roughly tripling its value in a matter of months.
