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Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

25.02.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 5305 πŸ” 1936 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 69
Plato's The Cave

Plato's The Cave

I'm here you fuckaas bitch

01.03.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A yellow cow with a "fell for it again" as a face". The sun has a smug face. The two cups become a MAGA cap and a Soyjack meme face expressing dismay. The saw & ... stick... have eyeballs and a dismayed mouth. It is labeled "Cow Tools" following the classic Cow Tools cartoon of Gary Larson.

A yellow cow with a "fell for it again" as a face". The sun has a smug face. The two cups become a MAGA cap and a Soyjack meme face expressing dismay. The saw & ... stick... have eyeballs and a dismayed mouth. It is labeled "Cow Tools" following the classic Cow Tools cartoon of Gary Larson.

I don't think Fell for it Again Awards is active on here, but their best work:

28.10.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There is absolutely no reason for Sam Altman to say anything but he is currently digging the biggest hole possible, responding to all and sundry on Twitter. This is the worst possible statement he could have given!

01.03.2026 01:42 πŸ‘ 918 πŸ” 167 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 31
Sam Altman
@samaβ€’ 5m
Three general things from this AMA:
G...
1. There is more open debate than I thought ther ewould be, at least in this part of Twitter, about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power. I guess this is something people disagree on, but...! don't. This seems like an important area for more discussion.
2. I think the is a question behind a lot of the questions but I haven't seen quite articulated:
What happens if the government tries to nationalize OpenAl or other Al efforts? I obviously don't know; I have thought about it of course (it has seemed to me for a long time it might be be better if building AGI were a government project) but it doesn't seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important.
3. People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don't think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen.
Also, I am on the whole very grateful for the level of reasonable and good-faith engagement here.
It was not what I expected.

Sam Altman @samaβ€’ 5m Three general things from this AMA: G... 1. There is more open debate than I thought ther ewould be, at least in this part of Twitter, about whether we should prefer a democratically elected government or unelected private companies to have more power. I guess this is something people disagree on, but...! don't. This seems like an important area for more discussion. 2. I think the is a question behind a lot of the questions but I haven't seen quite articulated: What happens if the government tries to nationalize OpenAl or other Al efforts? I obviously don't know; I have thought about it of course (it has seemed to me for a long time it might be be better if building AGI were a government project) but it doesn't seem super likely on the current trajectory. That said, I do think a close partnership between governments and the companies building this technology is super important. 3. People take their safety (in the national security sense) more for granted than I realized, which I think is a good thing on balance but I don't think shows enough respect to the tremendous work it takes for that to happen. Also, I am on the whole very grateful for the level of reasonable and good-faith engagement here. It was not what I expected.

Sam Altman just - apropos of nothing - brought up the government nationalizing OpenAI. Multiple typos. Clammy Sammy’s having a big night of posting!

01.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 621 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 21

Fucking probably

01.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Sam Altman
@samaβ€’ 28m
Enforcing the SCR designation on Anthropic would be very bad for our industry and our country, and obviously their company.
We said to the DoW before and after. We said that part of the reason we were willing to do this quickly was in the hopes of de-esclation.
I feel competitive with Anthropic for sure, but successfully building safe superintelligence and widely sharing the benefits is way more important that any company competition. I believe they would do something to try to help us in the face of great injustice if we could.
We should all care very much about the precedent.
I saw in some other tweet that I must not be willing to criticize the DoW (it said something about sucking their dick too hard to be able to say anything critical, but | assume this was the intent).
To say it very clearly: I think this is a very bad decision from the DoW and I hope they reverse it. If we take heat for strongly criticizing it, so be it.
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Sam Altman @samaβ€’ 28m Enforcing the SCR designation on Anthropic would be very bad for our industry and our country, and obviously their company. We said to the DoW before and after. We said that part of the reason we were willing to do this quickly was in the hopes of de-esclation. I feel competitive with Anthropic for sure, but successfully building safe superintelligence and widely sharing the benefits is way more important that any company competition. I believe they would do something to try to help us in the face of great injustice if we could. We should all care very much about the precedent. I saw in some other tweet that I must not be willing to criticize the DoW (it said something about sucking their dick too hard to be able to say anything critical, but | assume this was the intent). To say it very clearly: I think this is a very bad decision from the DoW and I hope they reverse it. If we take heat for strongly criticizing it, so be it. β€’ 31 17 33 β€’ 256 Δ±ll 19K ..Β° +

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Sam Altman’s β€œThe Aristocrats”

01.03.2026 01:55 πŸ‘ 550 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 6

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

28.02.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 23559 πŸ” 5962 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 66

I work in a deeply unserious industry.

27.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot from LinkedIn messaging.

Sender: "Hey there! I'm working with two ex-Chime founding team members on a new app backed by Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z. They're looking for someone with Ruby experience just like you for their next engineering hire.
Worth a quick chat?"

Recipient: "The Jack Dorsey that just laid off 40% of Block because he thinks the lying plagiarism machines can do all the work instead? I think I'm good."

A screenshot from LinkedIn messaging. Sender: "Hey there! I'm working with two ex-Chime founding team members on a new app backed by Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z. They're looking for someone with Ruby experience just like you for their next engineering hire. Worth a quick chat?" Recipient: "The Jack Dorsey that just laid off 40% of Block because he thinks the lying plagiarism machines can do all the work instead? I think I'm good."

27.02.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president

27.02.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 2714 πŸ” 442 πŸ’¬ 61 πŸ“Œ 23
A photo of a small rechargeable hair trimmer. Two printed labels have been applied to it:

CAT ASS HAIR TRIMMER

DO NOT USE

A photo of a small rechargeable hair trimmer. Two printed labels have been applied to it: CAT ASS HAIR TRIMMER DO NOT USE

Finally a use for my label maker

24.02.2026 02:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype β€” it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

19.02.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 4573 πŸ” 1619 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 208
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18.02.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 5977 πŸ” 2132 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 47

When this ai bubble pops it’s going to really fucking pop.
And the longer we go without the bubble popping the worse it’s going to be.

17.02.2026 22:06 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.

17.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 5236 πŸ” 1446 πŸ’¬ 127 πŸ“Œ 36
Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them?

Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

17.02.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 15779 πŸ” 3949 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 70

John Darnielle has done more good for podcasters than Ted Kaczynski. Full stop.

16.02.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

what's the difference between jelly and jam? I'll still be your friend if you take me to see a jelly band

10.02.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 158 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 17926 πŸ” 5443 πŸ’¬ 245 πŸ“Œ 257

Watching the halftime show has made me consider my position on puerto rican enfranchisement and statehood, i previously supported it but i now think that only puerto ricans should be allowed to vote in us elections

i don’t know what the result of that would be but it’s good to shake things up

10.02.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 413 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 0

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. β€œYou must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

09.02.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 4862 πŸ” 1097 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 16

Hey any other successful widely adopted technologies needed wall to wall Superbowl advertising begging people to use it years after consumer products were introduced?

09.02.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

09.02.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 4730 πŸ” 632 πŸ’¬ 100 πŸ“Œ 35

i don’t care too much about football anymore but one has to know that a patriots win makes both jesse signal AND benjamin netanyahu happy. so i’ll be carrying that with me today

08.02.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 396 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Yikes! Unfollowing now. I just knew about him from his inexperienced off-the-cuff fascist governing style & his scapegoating of the marginalized, i had no idea he was in the epstein files😬

07.02.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Just Because I Hung Out in the Cannibal King’s Murder Basement, It Does Not Make Me a Murderous Cannibal β€œIf I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epste...

"I hardly knew the Cannibal King. I am very busy, working on very important projects, like robots, space exploration, and AI-generated pornography. Besides, I don’t need someone to help me abduct, kill, cook, and eat people. I could easily do that on my own if I really wanted to."

07.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 560 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2