Shocking, truly.
10.10.2025 23:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@notesonthewayout.bsky.social
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Shocking, truly.
10.10.2025 23:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey all you Lurie voters in SFβ¦you think your millionaire mayor is going to side with the people of the city or with the tech billionaires like Benioff and Altman?
Hope your vote was worth it.
Happy Friday
10.10.2025 21:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0shot, chaser
10.10.2025 17:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But at least he opened up a bourbon and steak restaurant for a "glitzy Union Square launch."
"Every single day weβre going to be relentless in bringing tourism, and conventions and business back..." Lurie said at a press conference outside the hotel.
Man of the people, eh?
Multi-millionaire SF Mayor Lurie, who was the biggest donor TO HIS OWN CAMPAIGN ($16M) ends 20-year partnership with the American Indian Cultural Center to run the Native American Heritage Night event, removing its leadership role in planning and running it.
missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-m...
"All We Gave Up, All We Have Left (or Back to Paradise)," a short story (part 1)
08.10.2025 23:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Still hard for me to believe that the administration, with a straight face, does not see the irony in going after an organization calling themselves "anti-fascists."
08.10.2025 20:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I used to think the future was gonna look like stepping out of your flying car and being greeted by your robot butler but it turns out it's just gonna look like an AI cancelling your digital money because you tried to join a union.
08.10.2025 20:18 β π 137 π 35 π¬ 5 π 0Incredible essay by Jerry Neumann. Still trying to wrap my head around it all but damn, is he spot fuckin' on about a lot of things here.
joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...
Fitting
open.spotify.com/track/640qDN...
What happens if/when AI realizes itβs being trained?
06.10.2025 13:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Worst Seinfeld set Iβve ever seen
05.10.2025 18:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Perfect," a poem
05.10.2025 17:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Leavitt admitting the federal cuts are about the money.
"There is no more money."
Trump has called it an "opportunity."
Leavitt calls Trump's memes of firing federal workers as "a little bit of fun."
Not sure who Mary is in the press briefing today but she nailed it. Thank you.
Iβm sorry but I havenβt stopped laughing.
THE TOMMY GUN?!?!?
If they were born there, could they honestly say they could have said the same things to get where they are today?
03.10.2025 13:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think why people are so upset and annoyed by the Riyadh comedy festival and these American comedians - βfree speech warriorsβ - like Chapelle and Burr is β¦
it wholly betrays how, by free speech, they themselves got so successful and famous.
Nuff said
02.10.2025 05:03 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0People are eventually going to forget how to mourn because nothing is ever going to die.
I fear that can't be good.
From Reuters
You know this place is broken when the president is stating he wants war with blue states, Musk's worth hit $500B, the government is shut down and its debt is never ending, credit is exploding, people can't eat, jobs aren't being created, 750k fed cuts but, no worries...the markets hit new highs.
01.10.2025 20:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are dipping our toes into the illusion of eternal digital substance masked as innocent entertainment and connection.
They want to exploit that spark of sharing with no expectation of something in return.
Do not let them. Do not let them see you. Do not let them take what we still have.
But they told us super intelligence was going to be my best friend and solve all the worldβs problems?
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/m...
Forward Hoβ!, a poem
#poetry #writing
Saw this and thought that for context:
30.09.2025 17:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βͺSo OpenAIβs Sora is essentially doing what every tech company does: monetizing usersβ ideas, creativity, and rl connections for content creation, LLM training, and more profit?β¬
βͺAs far as Iβve seen, they arenβt paying any creator out yetβ¦or am I missing something?β¬
Is he legit falling asleep at the podium right now
30.09.2025 13:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yeah. ok.
26.09.2025 16:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0OpenAI isn't even public yet and the enshittification of it all is already starting lol
#openai #AI #enshittification
βͺWho and what are you when you build a god?β¬
Thiel wants to start writing and creating his own myths.
Why?
To be the psychological and metaphysical infrastructure of the future of humanity.