Manos Nikolaidis

Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...

🫧 "Michael Burry, the investor who famously predicted the subprime-mortgage bubble bursting two decades ago, is betting that two stocks (Palantir and Nvidia) at the heart of the artificial-intelligence trade are set for a fall." www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Love how this reads like a LinkedIn post about the grindset mindset.

28g (1oz) uranium contains ~20,000,000,000 kcal, making it an incredibly cost effective source of calories

All while it is banned in war by the Chemical Weapons Convention.

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

I am revisiting Hitchhiker's on Audible and I am once again amazed with the density of the first novel. The number of fresh ideas, funny situations, and well known quotes, all in relatively few pages.

Not sure what Plato did to deserve this

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

I recently rewatched Battle of Britain on Prime with subs.
(Hugh) Dowding -> darling
Spitfires -> spit boys
They also butchered a few french and German names.
Amazon Prime revenue is $44 billion.

Spare a thought for Wikipedia editors trying to keep up with events.

Authorities lack the competence to know who lives here and err on the side of cruelty.

What's your best flirting technique? Personally, I like to play hard to get by staying at home and having no contact with anyone

A haunted house but every room is just somebody asking you to share a fun fact about yourself

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

IG has pushed a few Sanna Marin posts in the last month on my timeline. I follow and like cycling content on IG and avoid politics like the plague. IG of course knows I am male and it probably pushes any random post featuring an attractive young woman.

Social media Enshitification complete. A 2 day old post Instagram pushed to my timeline today. Sanna Marin resigned as PM and member of parliament in 2023. "Suggests" is in present tense. 46k likes. Numerous reply praising who don't seem to know she is not PM or that this policy was never adopted.

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

This plane wants to fly so much they tied it with a leash.

Get a German director and call it:
"Das Ding"

I mean, they pressure employees to use AI to increase profits. What do you mean "company profits"?

As always the UK does business with some autocrats that do ethnic cleansing while claiming to dislike other ones. Also waiting to see if protesters will throw paint on these jets too.

To be clear this isn't a dig at Albanian people. It's a reference to how Albania (perhaps rightly) was perceived in the 80s & 90s, and how the 2 countries will evolve once Albania joins the EU while the UK remains out.

They should have put it on the side of a bus: "We're a respectable country. Let's leave the EU so Albania can make fun of us"

Thoughts on releasing the kraken?

I once heard you only really become a doctor when you're first sued for malpractice. I like to joke that you become a web developer when you cause an outage on a site with millions of visitors a day.

Discussing with the landlord about some carpet tear and wear, and I joked about my weight affecting it. Immediately regretted it. If you start seeing terms in London tenancy agreements about extra charges for heavy tenants it's my fault, sorry.

Oh no, I just noticed what happened to Greece.

Having to physically travel to where the internet was, at the university campus, as it wasn't available at home.

Imagine looking at your old (AI gen) photos when 80 years old and thinking "I don't remember ever visiting Barcelona, do I have dementia"

My lower back hurts if I sit down for a while and feels better if I get up and walk. What is my body telling me? I guess I'll never know.