Bryan Sim

Denis Villeneuve to direct new James Bond film The Dune, Arrival and Blade Runner 2049 director – and ‘die-hard Bond fan’ – will direct the next movie in the spy franchise with Amazon MGM Studios Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has announced. The Oscar-nominated Canadian filmmaker most recently directed the hugely successful blockbusters Dune and Dune: Part Two, as well as Arrival, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049 and Prisoners. Continue reading...

Denis Villeneuve to direct new James Bond film

Exclusive: Scale AI's Spam, Security Woes Plagued the Company While Serving Google How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain 'spammy behavior' from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini.

NEW: Internal Scale AI docs show how spammers infiltrated a major project for Google and flooded the platform with “gibberish” and answers generated by ChatGPT.

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Mamdani Surges Into Early Lead in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Early results showed Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani with an eight-point lead over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, with more than two thirds of voting machines reporting.

LATEST: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is leading the Democratic primary in the race to become mayor of New York City, holding an almost 8-point lead over former Governor Andrew Cuomo after the first round of ranked-choice voting

Democratic Primary Democratic Primary. Initial results. Candidate First round votes Votes First round vote share Pct. First round Final round votes Votes Final round vote share Pct. Final round Andrew M. Cuomo 0 +0.0% 0.0% Initial ranked-choice tallies expected next Tuesday. Zohran Mamdani 0 +0.0% 0.0 Brad Lander 0 +0.0% 0.0 Scott M. Stringer 0 +0.0% 0.0 Total reported 0

This is totally unprecedented, but the New York Times has reported that *nobody* has voted in the New York City Mayoral Primary Election. There will not be a mayor of New York ever again.

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

This isn't even satire really. This is so close to what he fucking said to justify it anyway.

Israel Vows to Stop Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla Reaching Gaza Israel won’t allow a flotilla of activists — including Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg — sailing toward the Gaza Strip to reach the coastal enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.

Israel won’t allow a flotilla of activists — including Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg — sailing toward the Gaza Strip to reach the coastal enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.

‘Advertising Doesn’t Work On Me,’ Says Chosen One Who Will Lead Humanity Out Of Dark Age Of Commercialism

‘Advertising Doesn’t Work On Me,’ Says Chosen One Who Will Lead Humanity Out Of Dark Age Of Commercialism
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"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Motor oil companies need to stop making their products look so delicious.

Pink Phony Club

City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again

City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again
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Hey what happened after December 1999?

Trump: Russia Must Be Allowed To Keep Fighting As Part Of Any Ceasefire Deal WASHINGTON—Growing increasingly frustrated by the protracted diplomatic talks, President Donald Trump asserted Thursday that Russia must be allowed to keep fighting as part of any ceasefire deal. “It’...

Trump: Russia Must Be Allowed To Keep Fighting As Part Of Any Ceasefire Deal

I am delighted that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from detention.

Expressing a political opinion about the war in Gaza is not a crime.

In the United States of America, you should not be put in a jail cell for exercising your First Amendment rights.

"AI isn't just a productivity tool. It's attempted Cognitive Outsourcing. Critical thought, ambiguity, creativity, all the beautiful things that probably define what being a human is, are all replaced by optimized, immediate answers."
- @kyla.bsky.social

Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind Of Crippling Debt PHILADELPHIA—Lamenting that she will spend the foreseeable future paying off her college expenses, local 23-year-old digital marketing assistant Ashley Orlinsky expressed concern Wednesday that her student loans will prevent her from ever owning an entirely different type of utterly crippling debt. “Realistically, it’ll take years or even decades to fully repay $50,000 of loans, which makes me worried that I’ll never qualify for a backbreaking mortgage on a house that I can in no way afford,” said Orlinsky, adding that with $350 in monthly student loan payments, she will likely struggle to even borrow money to purchase a new car that will destroy her credit rating and may one day be repossessed by the bank. “I have dreams of starting my own company at some point in the future, but I just don’t see how I’ll have the opportunity to be saddled for my entire adult life with a suffocating high-interest small business loan if my student debt is following me wherever I go. It’s awful.” Orlinsky was reportedly encouraged, however, after coming to the mistaken conclusion that she could just default on her student loans and have them discharged in a bankruptcy filing.

Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind Of Crippling Debt theonion.com/woman-w...

Pope Francis: “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets & financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or to any problems.”

Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’   WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy relationship.” “Communication is key in every strong marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea […]

“Communication is key in every strong marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea of withholding classified information from one’s spouse “toxic” and “unhealthy.” theonion.com/pete-he...

‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’

~ Pedro Pascal

In case it is apparent from my latest reposts. Meta should fucking burn to the ground and Zuckerberg should go down broke as hell. He is a fucking idiot who never had a good idea in his life.

if it turns out that, say, LLMs do not have any real business returns and haven’t this whole time and the whole thing was a huge overblown bubble that large chunks of the media and markets fell for, that would be a huge problem! If that’s the case I’m going to be insufferable

In its discussions with other companies, Meta primarily asked for money. It also sought servers or other resources that would offset the cost of training its models, according to two of the people briefed on the discussions. In return for their assistance, Meta discussed offering other companies promotion of their services alongside Llama—for example, a Meta executive might appear at a conference hosted by a consortium partner—or providing more insight into the training process for the model, one of those people said. It also offered assistance with creating a version of the open-source model for a company’s particular usage. But Meta didn’t want to offer ad credits or anything that would constitute a financial exchange, the person said. One problem Meta faces is that many of the companies it has pitched are already investing heavily in AI. That’s particularly the case for Microsoft, which has already committed more than $13 billion to ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Amazon, which has invested $8 billion in Anthropic and is developing its own AI models. That likely reduces their incentive to back Llama. Meta’s proposal spotlights the challenges the social network giant faces in developing Llama. Cloud firms can make money from their own AI model through sales of AI-powered cloud services. Microsoft and Google also charge for consumer access to their AI chatbots.

The near-term costs are daunting for all tech companies. Meta, for instance, expects to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion in capital expenditures this year, up about 60% from 2024, as it develops more AI data centers. That’s about one third of the revenue it is expected to generate this year, according to analyst estimates tracked by S&P Global Market Intelligence. While Microsoft, Google and Amazon are each spending similar amounts or more on capex, largely because of their adoption of AI, all three companies are bigger in revenue terms than Meta. To be sure, Meta has deeper pockets than most businesses. It had $49 billion in cash on its balance sheet as of Dec. 31, after taking into account debt. Last year it generated $91 billion in cash from its operations, money that goes toward capex, stock buybacks and dividends. Still, Meta’s ability to keep paying for AI while also meeting shareholder expectations for buybacks and dividends is likely to grow increasingly difficult in the coming years. There have been other signs the company has been looking for alternative ways to fund its AI development. Bloomberg recently reported that Apollo was in talks to lead a $35 billion debt financing by Meta for data centers.

I'm sorry this is my favourite story in tech for a while. Mark Zuckerberg went to Microsoft, Amazon and other big tech companies asking them to give him money to train their LLM without offering anything of any kind in return. They're absolutely cooked. Nobody believes in this shit anymore.

• Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon and others to pay for their expensive AI bullshit
• Damn this bullshit is expensive
• *Nobody* wants to pay for this bullshit

Wesleyan University president says Trump's antisemitism fight doesn't protect Jews Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.

Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.

Opinion | Trumponomics Is a Delusion Why an effort to reindustrialize America is likely to fail.

In NYT Opinion discussing (1) the viability of Trumponomics and (2) the increased warring among the MAGA populist, Wall Street conservative and tech futurist factions. We need an industrial revival in the US. But this isn't the way.

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Swap out Verstappen put Liam Lawson in again lmao

You are so right because Chinese manufacturing has fully embraced automation as a fundamental function of their manufacturing industry and America will never catch up. Especially not with human labor.

At least y'all have politicians that hold themselves accountable instead of gaslighting the public about how their human rights violations are necessary.