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NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

A broken, blue heart

With a broken Blue Bomber heart, I am no longer the voice of Mega Man.

I was asked to return for Mega Man: Dual Override, but only on the condition I work without the protections of a union contract.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

LMAO

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post by Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman.com‬) reads: Absolutely brilliant piece about the Left's TOTAL blindness on AI. Their dismissal of AI risks mirrors how climate deniers treat CO2. Will probably get a lot of nastiness for this on Bluesky, but I guess that's part of the same problem.

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions

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the generative images during the olympics opening ceremonies when the country is ostensibly showcasing its unique culture is so fucking bleak man

They had a budget of how many millions and they chose to make a montage of slop instead?

*taps the sign* here we go againnnn

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I hate AI and I hate you for using it. Full stop.

Personal politics based on which #fallout faction(s) from #fnv someone prefers:

Mr House: oligarchy 😑
Enclave: worse oligarchy 🤮
BoS: Jingoiss 🤢
NCR: liberal democracy 😒
GK: anarchist 👍
FoA: communist🫡
Free Vegas: libertarian 🤦
Free Vegas+NCR/GK/FoA: anarcho-communalist 🥹

Caesar’s Legion: Fascism🖕

I am once again begging everyone to remember, once the WGA and SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations begin, that *this* is how the trades we rely on operate

MY good friends Hannah and Kendall are in a rough spot rn and could really use any financial support your have to offer. They accrued a $450+ emergency vet bill for their sweet cat Rosemary RIGHT as rent’s coming due.

If you have a couple bucks to spare, please consider shooting them a Venmo!!

An image with the words Stand With Minnesota We will be closed StandWithMinnesota.com White text on black background with the shape of the state of Minnesota

In objection to the illicit actions of the current US administration, the occupation of Minnesota & and other parts of the US, Plus One Exp will be closed tomorrow.

Our site will be down
Our staff will be off but paid
Our potential sales for the day will be donated (link below)

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Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

Can do!

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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

My feed became suddenly inundated with a mix of Russian vlogs, teen hijinx, and fear mongering clickbait. It’s been ages since I saw a vid that my moots reposted

I thought performances in it were incredible, but I’m sick of the harmful tropes re: queer SA survivors and violence.

I feel like the movie took the fertile soil of its ideas, & planted a sort of ideological Bradford pear: aesthetic but unsubstantive, colonial in origin, and kinda just stinks

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

Throwback to when I got flak on TTRPG twitter for proposing that bigots weren’t welcome in the hobby, because then I was “just as bad as them”

Anyways Karl Popper, paradox of intolerance yada yada, Make nazis feel unwelcome and unsafe kthxbye

We’re not cooked. This isn’t over.

This regime ends up shitting itself to death and crying, going down in the annals of history as one of the most embarrassing and unnecessary periods in modern time.

AI labs have no path to profitability, and have to work out a way to keep raising money or dump themselves onto the public markets, and even then face the same problem of their services costing way more to provide than they bring in. AI startups have no path to profitability, and in many cases have no real way to reduce costs other than to switch model providers or sink their own money into training their own models, which will in turn be unprofitable. Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius, burdened by billions in debt, ballooning capital expenditures and negative margins must find a way to muddle through until either NVIDIA makes a magical profitable GPU, or model providers find ways to become profitable. To put it simply, everybody is sitting around waiting for somebody else to solve their problems. OpenAI and Anthropic are waiting for Amazon or Google or NVIDIA or Cerebras to invent that magical profitable GPU, and for venture capital (or private debt) to plug the holes in their business models. AI startups are sitting around waiting for OpenAI or Anthropic to make models that consumers will pay more for or that will cost less to run, and for venture capital to feed them the money to keep the hounds of Hell from dragging them into the ground. Neoclouds are waiting for NVIDIA to do something that makes GPUs profitable, and for debt or venture capital to keep them alive.

Even hyperscalers are sitting around waiting for somebody to wipe their ass. Crybaby loser and CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella complained this week at Davos that it AI was at “risk of becoming a speculative bubble” if it didn’t spread, per the FT, “spread beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies”: “For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread,” said Nadella. He noted that a “tell-tale sign of if it’s a bubble” would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors. Satya, that’s your job! You’re the one who’s meant to be spreading it! Yet even hyperscalers — who until recently funded expansion using cashflow, but have now turned to over a hundred billion dollars in debt — have their own time bomb waiting in the form of all those fucking GPUs. In the space of four years, these companies have gone from asset-light, high-cashflow money printers to cretinous, fiscally obese GPU holding firms, and while they might be profitable for now, each of them have added at least $90 billion in PP&E (Property, Plants and Equipment) in that time period, slowly breeding a depreciation parasite that sits on their income statements, slowly growing every quarter, eating away at net income, and their plan appears to be to buy more of the fucking things. To make matters worse, these services are incredibly expensive to run, unpopular with customers, and do not seem to be getting “better” in any way that can make up for what, in some cases, anywhere from $4.9 billion (Meta) to $13 billion (Microsoft) cuts to net income every single quarter for the next three to five years.

I’ll lay it out real simple: every time a hyperscaler buys a new GPU and installs it in a data center (this is a crucial distinction, it must be operational), said GPU begins “depreciating” on a cycle of five to six years, adding a depreciation cost to their earnings rather than an up-front cost. While there is nothing wrong with this, it is, in and of itself, a time bomb. Every hyperscaler keeps buying GPUs, and because those GPUs take anywhere from six to twelve months to install, depreciation never really comes down because of the constant cycle of new stuff entering the flow of cash. As this happens, AI services stubbornly refuse to generate a profit, meaning that these depreciation costs are burning a hole in these companies’ cashflows. Nevertheless, these companies continue to buy more GPUs and build (or lease) more data centers, which means that the depreciation cost is always growing, on top of the operating expense of running AI services, on top of all the other costs of running the company. It doesn’t matter if they’re buying GPUs from NVIDIA or building their own Silicon with Broadcom — these costs continue to balloon, and they exist regardless of whether the AI boom is real or not. As I’ve said in the past, hyperscalers are not making any profit on AI (or even that much revenue, not that they’re actually disclosing those numbers). While this isn’t a problem right now (as existing revenue streams like Meta’s ads division or Microsoft 365 continue to grow), the second that growth begins to stumble, the only guarantee that these companies have is that depreciation costs are going to continue to rise to meet them. And there are only two ways to get rid of that cost: sell the items in question, or wait for the end of a depreciation cycle, something which Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta all extended (in some cases multiple times) as a means of boosting their net revenue and hiding the ruinous cost of AI. Every single part of the AI bubble is operating on…

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CBS now redirects people to the Free Press to “Go Deeper” 🫠🫠🫠

If you need to vent, HMU

Remote work 2. Exact same people exact same problem

I’m hoping to move a lot more of my content here from TikTok, and sinceTareq’s brother Yahya is on IV antibiotics recovering from a gnarly leg wound infection, throwback to this cover

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I've written several AAA lore bibles, including one for an effin' MMO, long before llms even existed. If I can do it, there's no excuse for you

Seeking to have an earnest dialog about #canadasdragrace #rpdrcanada, regarding Van—

no shade to her drag, or even her win on the merits, but I personally find myself disliking her for her cruelty/callousness, esp. in confessional?

If you like her, can you explain why? feeling genuinely lost