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

This is what a lifetime of never suffering a consequence does to a motherfucker

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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

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.

Small domino: being passive aggressive at a guy named Norbert

Big domino: resurgent fascism and widespread economic collapse in the 21st century

checks the news

Well shit