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@dsquareddigest.bsky.social reminds me of your Unaccountability Machine

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Is this the new “no two countries that have McDonalds have gone to war” ?

A chart showing the price of bitcoin since Michael Saylor’s “sell a kidney” post

😬 Bitcoin price since Michael Saylor “sell a kidney” post

a lot of people think you need a lot of money to buy clothes. now you're right. ok. my bad.

No thanks

Law firms and media companies thinking they can submit to Trump without being publicly and completely humiliated be like

Streisand effect

this is what derisking private infrastructure looks like:

creditors assume they're lending to the sovereign,
financier owners siphon as much as possible out,
we get shit in the rivers.

He knows his audience. When people are struggling under cost of living crisis, any talk of reducing prices and that too through taxes is music to their ears.

Information is always a good thing.

El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (ANIA) is a new government agency for AI in El Salvador, operating directly under President Nayib Bukele. [YSKL, in Spanish] The “Law for the Promotion o…

El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals

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I've already read it and agree with essentially all of it. They also point out that the central thesis of the book is actually "we can do this, but we should do it slowly and carefully so we don't screw up, and it will probably take centuries and not look like sci-fi but more like Antarctica"

Highly recommend this 2024 book which just tells you in vivid detail using science how unlikely it is that we will be able to do it in near future or if ever. Hence the question in subtitle “should we settle space”

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This so frustrates me. The first priority of a University should be the students. It is my priority. But they remained grossly silent with Trump's bigoted attacks on the students. Only when their funding was affected did they say anything.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

if AGI is intelligence superior to human intelligence, we're testing the proposition you can achieve it by reducing the latter rather than raising the former.

That the self-appointed toughest journalist in Silicon Valley would rather lobby the White House rather than explain to Elon that violating labor law and trying to destroy the NRLB (not to mention ongoing securities, Autopilot, and environmental investigations) has consequences is the ENTIRE problem

Imagine: Trump Condos from the River to the Sea

JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that he wasn’t part of, sources confirmed Monday. “It can’t be a coincidence that they all keep looking down at their phones and chuckling at the same time,” […]

JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
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My fellow Americans, I have plan to restore this proud country to its former greatness: I'm gonna ask ChatGPT for some ideas on how to make things more efficient, and just, like, better, you know? I have a Pro account, by the way. Yeah, it's like $200 a month, but fixing America is worth that to me.

Chamath Palihapitiya, quote tweeting AOC: You are wrong. The five alarm fire will happen AFTER the WH reveals some of the waste, fraud and corruption this team uncovers. This will be Iran Contra on steroids. I'd buckle up. The AOC tweet: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez This is a five alarm fire. The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk…

It’s gonna be really funny when the White Nationalists that this guy calls his “besties” all turn on him, like they all turned on Vivek.

the fact that musk is running the exact playbook that destroyed twitter makes this extra funny

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UK AI plans

And in AI Sam’s case he wants you to believe he’s creating a society altering AGI because he wants to take your retinal scan and sell you a crypto shitcoin.

Cousin’s Husband Says First Word NORFOLK, VA—In what is being hailed as a huge milestone in the development of the man’s verbal skills, sources confirmed Tuesday that Mark Peterbaum, the husband of a local woman’s cousin, said his fi...

Cousin’s Husband Says First Word

THE WALMART EFFECT: “Low pay, low prices… 2 new research papers conclude Walmart makes places it operates in poorer… average household experienced a 6% decline in yearly income vs. other areas… Low-income, young, less-educated workers suffered most…” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...