Man, Machine, Self

Limit behavior would be the flat line at whatever the open/surviving proprietary line would move to, so arguably this is just that case again, too.

04.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mostly agree, but suspect something like this up-down could happen in a "AI industry pulls a movie-pass" scenario.

I imagine it like "SOTA makes v. serious strides over open models for 2+ years, but world events cause funding/budget/compute crunches that force shutdowns & inference curtailment".

04.02.2026 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Has anyone else noticed "flash-out" behavior of posts on X?

For some posts that are either platform negative or long-form outside of articles, when on desktop, if you load your profile page, you briefly see the posts, then they instantly flash out of view and are removed from the feed.

04.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe I'm too internet burned out, but even after aggressive "not interested" whack-a-mole, un-networked feeds all seem to end up resembling each other

Usually in a spiritual-if-not-literal "subway surfers rubber band ball-cutting listicle trailer slop "DAE remember ocarina of TIME??" kinda way.

04.02.2026 06:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mostly just expected it was gonna be "Certified Bangers (tm)"-style low-tier engagement bait

I didn't expect them to be as bad as they were and also blatantly violate their own "no politics" rule for the articles in the grand prize and I think 4/6 of the alternative winners

04.02.2026 04:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The back-breaking straw for me was the article contest winners.

They were the perfect blend of Elonic "btw I run spacex" culture war and government contractor special interest slop, and Nikitaeic "le influencer lifehack" slop.

Vast and trunkless legs of stone indeed...

04.02.2026 04:06 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 1