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  • Brought to you by the same people that told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and now only read click bait headlines from Fox or Breitbart

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  • This honestly shouldn't be surprising. Tech is often untrusted at first.

    This caused the dot com bust and likely will fuel the AI bubble. New cool tech comes out and actually does cool stuff, people hate it, distrust it, don't want to use it, meanwhile others think it's the wave of the future and throw all their money at it.

    And there's one big problem with that, the last thing specifically.. they throw their money at something new before a market is ready to trust and adopt it, and they do so in an unsustainable way. Unsustainable investments cause bubbles. This is money that can't keep getting pumped into the tech, money that a lot of startups depend on.

    People didn't think you'd ever spend money on weird websites, trust credit cards to be entered online. So many groundbreaking ideas busted in the dot com bubble because they came too soon, not because they were bad ideas. WebVan was online groceries! Groundbreaking idea that was literally 30 years ahead of its time, and now they failed, but who does what they tried to do? Amazon, yes the little online marketplace for books Amazon, the quaint little site where you can buy books over http.

    The market needed credit card safety measures, needed PayPal, stripe, fraud detection and management, needed new technologies to build consumer trust. Eventually, we started using the internet to buy shit and it worked out.

    Wikipedia used to be untrusted. Anyone can put anything there! Now teachers rather see wikipedia than AI bullshit. Same phenomenon really. It'll take a while before the market adopts the tech and consumers trust it. Eventually they will, but not yet.

  • Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

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  • As someone who has never farmed, I don't understand why people think they'll retire through farming, arguably one of the most back breaking jobs with least pay to produce stuff that costs the least out of anything... And is due to become more and more difficult as climate change gets complex.

    This is not the type of manual labor you want to learn how to do and invest in as you're older?

    But yeah maybe managing some chickens and an herb farm, whatever that's not a big deal. I just would expect to only be supplementing what groceries you buy as a hobby, not homesteading. Don't get fucking acres of farmland that you won't know how to use... Grow some rosemary and thyme, maybe potatoes. Fuck even one fruit tree is a lot of work. Try that out first. Potatoes! Try stuff you can do with a balcony first. Maybe a goat if you're really wild.

    But these are hobbies, not retirement income.

  • TIL Botox is considered the deadliest known natural substance ever recorded in chemical literature

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  • JD Vance is watching his presidential ambitions go up in smoke | Vance is learning what everyone else already knew: Throwing away your principles to ingratiate yourself with Trump is ultimately a los…

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  • The funny thing is this was and still is his best chance at the presidency. If the fat pedo keels over, we get this fucking disgrace until 2028. And that year or two will be all he ever gets.

    He never had a chance, before or after Trump. It's funny because MAGA voters thought he was literally a liberal plot to undermine Trump when they announced he was the VP pick. LOL this loser was so fucking unloved from the start they started a literal conspiracy theory that he was a secret liberal plot to stop Trump from winning... So no, he's never had a chance.

    He's like Kevin Spacey from House of Cards where he would only become president through fuckery, except mostly the problematic parts with the live actor and couch fucking in drag as his worst kept dark secret. Also Kevin Spacey would never be so fucking awkward in a donut shop and cause a literal scandal.

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  • I remember someone gleefully laughing when a butterfly landed on her finger

  • Turns Out, There Really Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

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  • Shadow cabal and oligarchy aren't mutually exclusive. Seems to me the oligarchs are just the more obvious nodes of the shadow cabal web, the fuckers with the money and power that can go on TV and talk directly to senators.

    Go one step back away from the limelight and you get dudes like Cheney, Bannon, people who interact with all the obvious oligarchs but don't need to post on social media and don't need to stay relevant to constituents. And then people like Epstein, agents in the field gathering blackmail.

    Shit is pretty fucking crazy tbh.

  • Is Big Tech Facing Its “Big Tobacco Moment”? - Tech giants including Meta, Google, and Apple are facing increasing popular resentment and losing more and more major court battles.Yet their profits an…

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  • these are billionaires surrounded by yes men. Idiots like Elon Musk used to have smart PR but then their ego and narcissism took over and they built some weird cult of personality where if you disobey you lose your source of income, so they're surrounded by followers.

    I've been relatively close to a techie who became a CEO and it corrupts them. They think that shit lasts forever and start acting like how they think heartless money worshipping CEOs should act.

    People like Zuck don't realize that luck is half of what made them that big, that it's not genius level business maneuvers. They were just lucky entrepreneurs. When they put money where their mouth is, you get the Metaverse, the cyber truck, stupid shit driven by ego.

    Now that Facebook elders are dying off, they get "AI layoffs" which arent actually ai related, and courts that are no longer in favor of them.

  • The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org

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  • The irony of a post feeling too AI to read talking about AI having automated away some tasks...

    I feel like this is the side effect no one who uses AI to automate heavily is talking about. I use AI but I am extremely careful about how I use it and what it replaces, because I've seen it replace a task, then suddenly no one gives a fuck about that thing anymore and it basically just means people ignore it.

    This article... People used to care and read these things, but AI is great at language and can generate pages of content from a simple idea.

    And now I don't give a fuck about your idea and I'm not going to read your post and probably never visit your site. It's not because I don't like it, I just don't care about your content anymore because it provides no fucking intellectual nourishment. It's like eating cardboard. I don't know if any human even cares about these sentences, but I know I stopped caring as soon as I realized there was a few too many EM dashes and a bit too much AI flow to the writing.

    You don't automate the task. You make people stop caring that it was being done in the first place, kill someone's team by automating what they do, then make your customer experience worse by destroying a task people used to care about.

    It's the automation of enshittification. It speeds up the process 100 fold. That isn't a fucking good thing, and people will start to realize that in 5 years when no one is reading their articles anymore.

  • I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner

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  • Confident that it's bad to not confident because with any medical device you need years to see the impact... That's just a dude being rational.

    I feel like the MJ dudes just asked chatgpt, "come up with the next groundbreaking medical breakthrough device" and it spat that out and they're running with it. Could be a hallucination, could be having cheap weekly full body ultrascans helps. Could be AI just tells rich people they have a fatty liver for $100 a pop

  • The Democratic Base Is Angry. Is the party paying attention?

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  • While I do think we know there's some truth to all that, it's clear voting matters otherwise the Republican party wouldn't be trying to rig it every fucking chance they get, and the DNC wouldn't have been going so apeshit over Bernie in 2016. He threatened the establishment and they had to attack their own constituents and call them Bernie bros to get things back "on track".

    It's not so black and white. There's Democrat politicians who range from zero to one as controlled opposition, and as supporters of the establishment and the status quo. People are more complex than that. They have their own goals and some of them did not join politics just to make a buck, and some of them are just plain cowards or are too far separated from their constituents to realize what they want because they're just surrounded by rich powerful fucks who don't buy groceries.

  • Meta CTO reports employee morale is near historic lows, prompting leadership to propose boosting workplace snack budgets

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  • Chatgpt, how can I create the grandest pizza morale boosting party without spending money?

  • JD Vance went on the view and got absolutely torn to shreds by middle-aged women

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  • Trump says it’s ‘back to dropping bombs’ if he doesn’t like final Iran deal

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  • It can take decades, and in this case we've been watching it for a while saying "wow this is bad, Eisenhower/Nixon/Reagan/BushJr/Trump is the symptom of a bigger problem" and shit keeps getting bad and corruption wins over and over for decades.

    In the future there will possibly be historians saying, "this marks the collapse of the American Empire", and I honestly can't say whether they'll draw that line in the past, present, or future. It depends on a lot. We live in grey area times.

  • low kcal mealspo

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  • Tahini? Are you trying to destroy this man with flavor?

  • I’ve tried so many times to lighten my tech bag, but the second I take sometime out I end up needing it the next day

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  • Also stretching. Or yoga, but stretching is easy.

    Literally the thing that is best for all this shit is just stretching your muscles. I stretch every night before I sleep and I'm over 40, not feeling weird back pain that late 20 years olds complain about.

    People act like you hit a certain age and your whole body starts to ache and you sleep worse. No, that's the sum of bad choices. Shit, I made bad choices but then I made good ones and now I'm fine.

  • Life in your 30s

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  • Work means surviving. You either have the energy for it or you're fucked.

    "Training" can be a fancy way of saying you are very focused on one aspect of athleticism for your health, and you'll discover that you have more energy for other things if you maintain your health and exercise. At first you feel like you don't have the energy for it, then you do it, then you have the energy for that and more.

    Also many sleep way better after getting healthier, so it builds upon itself even more. Some people struggle with sleep apnea and shit like that, and one reason is the tongue holds a lot of fat. Lose weight and you sleep better. Sleep better and it's easier to lose weight and have energy to do other stuff. It's the opposite of a downward spiral.

  • Class of AI Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled

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  • Are you not using AI at all? I still think this is a bubble about to burst, but also, they each do have actual groundbreaking products. Doesn't mean I believe Altman or OpenAI will necessarily be around in 15 years, but in my opinion they're more of a WebVan than they are anything.

    They are conning people by selling the lie that they are replacing the working class, that I agree with. But they still have something that will stick around, even if it ends up being less loud in our lives. The bubble will burst, but it won't disappear.

  • Johnson Says California Election Fraud Is So Bad It Can’t Be Proven

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  • I don't think they're falling for it as much as using it as an excuse. It's a "we must win at any cost" mindset, believing some enemy ideology won over half the nation and they might as well cheat, because they see drag queens on TV so the liberal media brainwashing the nation is the way they're being cheated.

    In any case that's the lie conservative voters are being sold, that this new age ideology and "woke mind virus" is winning and now they have to do anything to stop it. I doubt Johnson believes it as much as is a huge fucking gaping pussy that is falling in line to stay relevant politically.

    Conservative politicians are like the dude working at the register who steals money from it, then tells the boss the other guy is stealing from the register. Then when anyone blames him, they can say "I said it first".

  • Multiple Pentagon floors locked down, evacuated due to ‘hazardous materials incident’

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  • China shit his pants