I’m just not going to waste my time with curve pointers who want to die on the hill of NeW sCaLiNG pArAdIgM. They are just too deep in the kool-aid at this point.

The singularity is near worn-out at this point.

LLMs are seven or eight bipartite graphs in a trench coat. Is your brain seven neurons thick, because that would explain a few things.

Very practical no notes

What if we made a human centipede with a homeopathic quantity of human in it?

Don’t make me tap the sign:

no gods, no kings

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Springer started off awful, and now many decades later it’s pure garbage. All those times in between? Also pretty bad.

Ed Zitron on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lsukqwhjvk26

Haven’t seen a newsletter of mine hit the top 20 on Hackernews and then get flag banned faster, feels like it barely made it 20 minutes before it was descended upon by guys who would drink Sam Altman’s bathwater

Also funny: the hn thread doesn’t appear on their search.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424456

Instead of a diet coke button you get an ayahuasca button

lol

It’s got what plants crave, so I’m told

Rob Liefeld vibes

There should be a word for this!

Yeah, its nuts. They’d have to be resident, pay land taxes, and make improvements for 7 years here. They don’t even mow the grass, the owner does.

these idiots made me feel sympathy for a landlord. I might never recover.

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As an aside, it’s fun to imagine the similar sort of brain damage a chatbot would cause Fox Mulder.

The bullshit engine has convinced my dirtbag sib-in-law that they can claim squatter’s rights on (and take ownership of) the house that they aren’t paying rent to live in.

They’ve been there a year.

They’re gonna be homeless before this is over and I can’t get them to see reason. I feel totally helpless, real big Cassandra vibes. LLMs are sooooo unhealthy for assholes.

Concurring with everyone else that this is a 10/10 read. This article lays out a very reasonable theory that explains why tech maniacs are the way that they are.

Woke: pile driving AI advocates

Bespoke: pounding prediction market peddlers

Apparently Jan Marsalek worked for the GRU. Trashfuture is going to feast:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wirecard-fugitive-jan-marsalek-financial-fraudster-russian-spymaster-2025-03-07/

Is it praxis when you put theory into inaction?

Something you said got me thinking:

I don’t think I’ve heard of a story that does the deeper elements of storytelling without doing the basics of English writing.

Narrative predated literacy by quite a lot, so I could see that working! Conversely, ai slop is unsettling because it is literate without narrative.