anachronist
@anachronist@midwest.social
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 5 days ago:
DeLoreans are way cooler than these cars. The cybertruck is a Pontiac Aztec designed by a toddler. It’s ugly from virtually every angle
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
You’re a parakeet in love with your mirror.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 week ago:
Lockups start expiring next month. They’ve still only floated less than 5% of the company! Buckle up buttercup.
- Comment on Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society 1 month ago:
I remember watching Bond movies as a kid and wondering “where did that evil supervillian get all these henchmen?” Turns out the answer all-along was “linkedin.”.
- Comment on SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says 1 month ago:
I think if you unpack the international and you’re in index you’re going to find yourself still heavily invested in AI (TSMC for instance).
I don’t have the option in my 401K to choose to invest in sectors. My only real options when it comes to equities are for instance, large cap vs mid cap. Mid-cap would exclude nVidia but I bet it’ll just end put putting me in even trashier AI stocks. As the bubble has heated up I’ve slowly been moving my retirement out of equities because there’s no real way for me to select “non-AI equities.” I’m down to about 20% equities now, down from 80% before I started messing with it.
- Comment on SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target, Morningstar says 1 month ago:
Look up how much of your 401K is in nvidia stock right now. It may surprise you.
- Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis 2 months ago:
Why not require a login to browse?
- Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis 2 months ago:
People started allowing scrapers because they needed to get in the search engine indexes to get traffic. But getting scraped being a win-win for the scraper and scrapee is long past. Now it’s completely parasitic. The search engines are even going out of their way to not send traffic to organic results.
I wonder if it’s time to start to create an un-indexable “shadow internet.” Block all scraping even the search engines. Maybe put up login walls. How will people find your website? We’ll have to go back to word of mouth, link rings, or the like.
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 2 months ago:
The Fox Family Instutitute for Poultry Studies determines that hen house doors should be left open
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings 3 months ago:
I don’t think AI is capable of this kind of human interaction:
- Comment on Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI 4 months ago:
Yeah and “fuckening” is clearly his attempt to bandwagon on “enshittification.”
“Oh so catchy phrases need swear words in them now, I’ll use the sweariest word and have the catchiest phrase!”
AI Doomerism is AI boosterism.
- Comment on Tesla Sales Down 55% in UK, 58% in Spain, 59% in Germany, 81% in Netherlands, 93% in Norway vs. 2024 5 months ago:
Lots of chuds in the UK…
- Comment on Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP 5 months ago:
Tomorrow’s headline: Google announces layoff of 1000 employees.
- Comment on Amazon plunges 9%, continues Big Tech's $1 trillion wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off 5 months ago:
Nature is healing
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Elon had similar PR until he fired them for not “keeping it real.”
- Comment on Engineer caused data loss by cleaning PCs with welding tools 6 months ago:
“It’s at 90 PSI and is 80 percent air, 15 percent water, and 5 percent oil,”
Something’s seriously wrong with the air system then, and it will contaminate all their work and compromise the welds. Water is a particularly pernicious contaminant in welding because it causes hydrogen in the weld that will make it brittle and crack.
Welding shops have to be CLEAN. There are some welding processes that can work ok with dirty metal (SMAW with some electrode types) but these only work on mild steel, and these processes really aren’t used in a shop or production setup, more for field work.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds 8 months ago:
really starts normalizing nazism
As we speak Dick Cheny is lying in state in front of all the “good liberals”
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds 8 months ago:
Imagine paying being so insecure that you spend billions of dollars for a robotic sycophant
- Comment on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board following release of Jeffrey Epstein emails 8 months ago:
But I was informed that Democrats were the good guys!
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 9 months ago:
LLMs can’t do most of those things and traffic analysis and other techniques already can but sometimes lack the data due to data sharing limitations.
You don’t need GPUs to do traffic analysis you just need more Five Eyes, TIA, room 641A stuff.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 10 months ago:
Theil is their leader. This is especially obvious with Elon. Elon is Theil’s dumb errand boy.
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 10 months ago:
Someone with more time than me could easily do an entertaining mashup of Kirk and Mussolini quotes
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 10 months ago:
I always thought i was left, but seeing how a lot of people on the left gleefully react to someone’s assasination makes me wonder if i’m actually left.
I don’t mourn Benito Mussolini’s passing, i never liked him. But i certainly don’t celebrate his murder either. Anyone who does should be put in a mental asylum as far as i’m concerned. They certainly have mental health problem
- Comment on Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value 11 months ago:
Google is doing/will be doing all this anyway, combined with a search, maps, youtube, email, etc monopoly.
- Comment on UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought 11 months ago:
“Boy Trump’s sure turning America into a mess, let’s check in on how some of the more civilized countries are doing.”
Oh.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 11 months ago:
It put Ogdenville and West Haverbrook on the map.
- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 11 months ago:
Literally no one ever claimed it had reasoning capabilities
Altman and similar grifters were and are absolutely making those claims but maybe we’re excusing them as obvious liars?
- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 11 months ago:
This is a great analogy
- Comment on Royal Fuckup 1 year ago:
Reading about this family just reminds me of this:
- Comment on Royal Fuckup 1 year ago:
Son of the Norwegian crown prince. You’ll be unsuprised to learn that he stands accused of many sexual assaults.
