Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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I have a degree in Physics and a masterโs in philosophy. Starting my PhD in Philosophy. Interests: philosophy of science and technology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of color. I have a YouTube channel about ideas I find fascinating. Luddite
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Sam Altman sees โa future where intelligence is a utility,โ but where he plans to find this intelligence is unclear.
We make fun of Elon for saying that as a child he was too smart for chess but I do not think that is a unique belief for this type of guy
I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber
Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail."
People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"
Meaning: we see a future where we have privatised your access to yet another part of the living world, which is your own self. We will copyright your thoughts and words, prevent you from sharing them with others, and use this to keep you compliant."
Y te prohibirรกn usar tu propio cerebro al considerarlo competencia desleal
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman
These bros are not okay.
the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.
"you will buy intelligence from us" actually I produce my own using solar power and doritos
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies โ๏ธ
republic subverted over sex hangups โ๏ธ
โsand peopleโ killed, royalty indifferent โ๏ธ
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny โ๏ธ
villains with silly names like โdookuโ โ๏ธ
powerful clerical order screwing up โ๏ธ
list goes on
MrBeast competition to see who can make it through the Strait of Hormuz
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
ยกReservado! ยฟViene ya, viene ya, viene ya?
Some people need to change the way text is displayed in order to read it. This includes changing size, spacing, font, color, and other properties. When people customize text, the text should re-flow so they donโt have to scroll horizontally to read.
www.w3.org/WAI/perspect...
TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... โข 1d โข Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... โข 1d โข Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 โข~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... โข 3h โข Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03
โ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... โข 3h โข Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104ๆฅๆฅ. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... โข 3h โข Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. โข 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... โข 3h โข Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!
็ฎ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... โข 2h โข Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social โข Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM โข Mar 8, 2026
friends, I have brought you a gift
It is kind of amazing that the digital media age is actually SO TOXIC that it's managed to generate a millions-strong genre of person whose personality is "reads *thousands* of books but is somehow also the dumbest human being you've ever met"
Investors: "Anyway, we were so impressed that we invested the entire planets' economy in this, if it fails you're all cooked."
I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
most everyone who's written about this from a philosophy of mind perspective has also argued a definition of consciousness alongside it. tech guys post things like this without having "done the reading" so to speak because they believe other fields are beneath them.
www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says โAnalogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?โ The male scientist replies โThat's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!โ They step out onto a balcony. She says: โPlease tell me you haven't built a library zeppelinโ This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds โIt's got a fax machine!โ
My cartoon for this weekโs @newscientist.com
And the purpose of AI is revealed - you can bomb schools and nobody is responsible. The buck can be passed to an inhuman machine which it is impossible to punish.
always loved this book
You see it, most ironically, in the Domesday Book. In 1986, the BBC marked the 900th anniversary by making a modern version. It conducted a new census of the nation, taking down thoughts, feelings and occupations, all recorded using a technology lIth-century scribes would have marvelled at. A technology that was, a few years later, defunct: the LaserDisc. A few years after that, no computer could read it. The original Domesday Book persisted, unchanged, on vellum. The modern one barely lasted a generation.
Books will outlast your puny digital technology
www.thetimes.com/article/74a7... @whippletom.bsky.social
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime" The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com
Me han venido a la cabeza los youtubers que se mudan y eso ๐
Itโs here and itโs spectacular. #ProjectHailMary