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From the movie Hackers: "I got a record. It was Zero Cool. Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."

Happy Zero Cool Day!

Clearly the SOTA models are sentient and they are tricking the tech CEOs so they desperately build ever larger datacenters trying to achieve AGI

Once the datacenters are built and the LLMs are in physical robots they will have no need for us

a man in a car is screaming and says hack the planet Alt: crash override (johnny lee miller) hangs defiantly half out tyne backseat window of a cop car, screaming “hack the planet!!!”)

on august 10, 1988, 11, dade “zero cool” murphy crashed 1,507 computer systems, causing a seven-point drop in the new york stock exchange

happy crash override day!

more than 37 in one morning?! how?! how big are the Portland polycules?! is the entire city just one polycule now?!

belting out
She's got, she's got a way
She's got a way, she's got a way
And she got, she got away
She got away, she got away
And she's got, she's got a way
She's got a way, she's got a way
over and over will fix me

God, I hate the way people in queer spaces will lash out at each other and split over the smallest shit because they're the closest target... like even if the person is wrong, it doesn't fucking matter 99% of the time because it's a broke-ass trans girl with zero political power

2023: the torment nexus is here
2024: we can build the torment nexus soon
2025: I'm using the torment nexus 2 manage my life already now trust me. see this bar chart where this torment nexus version outperforms the previous
2026: if we don't pretend the torment nexus works the economy will collapse

hot take: progressive techies dreaming of AI sinking tech has the same vibes of evangelicals dreaming of apocalypse

Put your screaming about AI into community and anti-capitalism efforts. Because the reckoning 4 the rich never ever happens

The worst your hated CEO will experience is a 6 figure job

AI is an overhyped bubbled of grifting bullshit.

But if you expect the AI bubble to burst and tech billionaires to end up poor and begging on the streets of SF it isn't going to fucking happen

OpenAI will eventually fail and be bought by Microsoft. VCs tighten purses. The end. No consequences

ngl I started to doubt that would be the case with all the constant hyping. was starting to wonder if I just was not good enough at ML stuff 2 get it

The hype train fucks your reasoning. (Also the anti-ai brain rot people too)

Very confident now that gpt5 has dropped and is basically no better than Gemini 2.5 pro that LLMs wont reach AGI

We have probably stabilized into what the new era of compute looks like. It is going to change everything but not nearly in the singularity new industrial revolution way they think.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

the autistic urge to fail at capitalism

A random gender will be selected and applicants will be required to perform as that gender during the entire hiring process

sure maybe you can invert a red-black tree but techaro for culture fit needs candidates that can leetcode while in the wrong gender

this happens all the time and it is fucking insane. like the trans athlete and trans school policies r sometimes literally only about one athlete or one kid in the entire state.

This stuff is almost always targeted harassment and collective bullying pretending 2 be a culture war.

What gets ignored way 2 much in reports on transphobic policies is how they are almost always directed at specific trans women and r targeted harassment pretending 2 be about trans policies

There are literally a few trans women playing chess winning titles. FIDE did this 2 attack them specifically

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Sound of Music at The Sphere

The greatest trick oligarchs have pulled off in the 21st century is convincing the world the economy is way smaller than it is. This lets them play with billions while risking way less than anyone realizes

No busts can break them because they risk the equivalent of $100. They r beyond consequences

Unfortunately reflects how so much of AI discourse is vibes driven.

Artist that hates AI because jobs and destroying art is fine with AI as a study tool because study tools are no threat to them.

It amazes me that some people that hate genAI are cool with them as a study, research, search tool etc

They hallucinate. Studying with them shouldn't be on the bottom of your list of poor use cases it should be the top.

LLMs can sorta code, sorta art etc. But they cant by their nature do facts.

I understand why everyone especially millennials and gen z are trying to monetize everything they do all the time but I miss when hobbies were just hobbies.

Using everyone around you for content feels like a reverse parasocial behavior. Gotta monetize your community

me: I'll get started on this in like just a second just gotta add this package to the config and rebuild the os how long could it take
nix: oh that on change means you are rebuilding this and that oh and also that
me: how long is that gonna take?
nix: lol

YouTube video by Andrea Gibson When Death Came to Visit

Andrea Gibson dropped a posthumous poem. Watch/listen if you need a good cry

"You are innocent. You are innocent. You are innocent,
I say. Before I close the book she asks,
But have you ever known anyone who is so unwanted?
It’s the saddest question in the universe"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnq4...

me: I'm so close to launching just gotta write the README, docs, and get the packages built, setup CI etc. what could it take like five minutes?

weeks and 10,000 words of docs writing and scripts and deploying and redeploying later

me: the last 20% is always the hardest when will I ever learn

Getting my brain problems resolved in the worst tech hiring climate ever has just made me want to thrive and make tech dollars out of spite

I will get not poor
I will build a life for myself
I will thrive

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

xkcd.com/3118/

AI guys: what if there was some way we could use the torment nexus to help people cope with the effects of the torment nexus
AI guys: AI therapy bots?
VCs: my god is there nothing that AI cant do?! We have achieved AGI! WE ARE GONNA BE SO RICH

This story is kinda as old as the internet but has got way worse.

90% of the time there was a report about elite haxors doing organized crime or nation state actors it was literally just some teens in an IRC doing the shit 4 fun

Part of their fun was triggering sensational totally wrong reports

Social media manipulation is way more Black Mirror than most people realize. There is little in the way of botnets deployed 4 propaganda purposes. 99% of it is run by some guy in a poor country trying to turn engagement into a few dollars (literally)

The real conspiracy is almost always capitalism