This genuinely looks like once of those realistic masks
This genuinely looks like once of those realistic masks
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Also, she didn’t know how to work her email or BlackBerry so she just gave me the passwords, had me print every message out and write all the responses. I remember Hillary’s personal Gmail, emails with Lloyd Blankfein, presents I had to drop off at Jimmy Fallon’s home, it was wild
I worked for a lobbyist in college. She basically just went to events non-stop, bought gifts for people, summered in the Hamptons
This is so scary
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
You have a dog brain if you're falling for Gavin Newsom 's schtick
The Internet Age idk
That’s such an ugly animation holy shit
Yes, I think it’s very dangerous and reveals you don’t understand how AI works.
Go back to your chubby anime retweets, this is an adult conversation and there won’t be any thick drawings of young girls to keep your interest dweeb.
No, I’m frustrated by a career in software engineering as a subject matter expert where I got talked over by dumb confident guys with no expertise.
Just a typical white guy that likes sci-fi thinking there’s going to be a ghost in the machine and that his opinion matters on anything.
No, the hostility is perfectly warranted. You have no expertise to be saying a computer could be sentient but felt comfortable making a prediction anyway. You shouldn’t.
Ah I see you’re a writer/film critic that likes sci-fi. Leave the software theorizing to engineers.
You’re on the spectrum of stupidity here then. A computer is never going to be sentient.
The Beatles made good music and Taylor doesn’t, hope that helps
dozens of users worldwide
Personally as a trans man I’ve only ever been grouped in with women by transphobes. Maybe this is something you see on the Internet but it isn’t real life.
Pretty sure they lost it and abandoned decorum after a black man was elected
Also hating Parli is so funny. Unlike you, I actually had to think on my feet and for myself instead of talking about the same topic for an entire year or prepping in advance.
For someone who tries so hard to sound smart, you really like listening to dumb people!
Doesn’t mean you’re able to recognize good argumentation obviously! Also bragging about travel debate in college is hysterical, yeah I was captain of NYU’s parliamentary debate team, won tournaments and picked the people who “travel”. Maybe that’s why I know Hasan is a himbo hack!
Hasan going “damn dude this is crazy” for ten minutes educates you? We’re doomed
I think your simple answer is incomplete. This is class war.
Viewing things entirely through the lens of “hater” might be the issue here. There’s value to substantive critique that isn’t all ego-driven like Ed. My DMs reveal he’ll credit other people in private while continuing to make himself the center of attention. Have a nice one!
I’d recommend this thread to get an idea of Zitron’s expertise level: bsky.app/profile/davi...
I just wish he was more curious and funneled that anger into more productive anti-capitalist arguments. And stopped pretending he’s the only one talking about this/ claiming credit for himself. People like @timnitgebru.bsky.social and other women in tech especially have been on this for a while.
It doesn’t matter if AI ever works. It gives these oligarchs a black box to point to that justifies all their job cuts that really just shunt the labor costs overseas. Capitalism doesn’t demand immediate profitability, it demands opaque monopoly and LLMs are excellent at enabling that.
Arguing that LLMs will never be profitable ignores how platform capitalism works. When he argues that Amazon and Google aren’t making money off this stuff yet, he ignores where most of their money actually comes from and sells a vision of imminent collapse that *is not going to happen*
He has no coherent critique though. He has a lot of righteous anger, sure, but he also has done PR work for crypto and AI companies so I find it all rather shallow and opportunistic. I know his anger may feel therapeutic but the weak argumentation leaves his AI critiques easy to dismiss.
@parismarx.com and @techwontsave.us are my personal favorites right now!
You people really fall for a PR hack telling you exactly what you want to hear. This guy didn’t even know what the fucking context window was until this week and he’s considered an AI expert? Please, we need better critics than this.
Then you don’t actually care about good AI critique because Ed is the worst critic around.
Here’s another: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Your instincts are correct!
He does not. He has no technical background, only PR. He is fundamentally incurious about the very topic he writes on.
[universal feature of every API product that has ever existed] are a bad sign. I cackled
Trump is about to let private equity billionaires loot 70 million Americans’ 401k accounts. This could be history’s largest wealth transfer from workers to billionaires. And it will barely be one day of headlines. www.levernews.com/your-401-k-i...
Her talking with Claude was so scary. When it kept calling her the Oracle and then she revealed that she heard voices and talks directly to God like oh 🥹
He is exactly like every tech billionaire. That’s the scarier thing. Every modern technology we take for granted now is at risk of catastrophic failure because of overconfident men like this that can’t imagine real consequences ever affecting them.
Managers the whole way down
Like this guy is sadistic beyond belief, he looks at millions of people dying without new cancer treatments and mRNA vaccines and thinks “good”
His ex-wife commits suicide under suspicious circumstances, he fights the family to have her buried in Massachusetts and then moves her body to an unmarked grave
Every sentence under Personal Life on RFK Jr’s Wikipedia is crazier than the last and I feel like there’s no way we’ve talked enough about that
In the middle of a cemetery screaming at the software engineers to keep digging lol
Elon claiming the Big Balls carjacking happened with more than the number of people that could fit in a car (12) is hysterical. Yes, they steal your car and then leave 8 guys behind. Very smart sir.
There should be a wealth cap at enough for a comfortable retirement. If I gave a specific number, you'd haggle with me, but $N million for some single digit N. No one needs more than that. It doesn't incentivize any useful behavior to let people accumulate more power than that.
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
“I think I’m going to run for office” - my grandfather with advanced dementia, still with exceptional comedic timing
I was looking forward to this picture becoming nationally relevant again though
I’d like to interrogate the machinery that produces and maintains these myths, not just the demographics of who benefits. Reducing it to “white mediocrity” reframes it as an identity critique rather than ideological/systemic. That limits the scope of the conversation in my opinion, but I get it.
I’m talking about both the Bulkwark and society/systems. My god, how hard it must be to live in those brains.
No, I’m talking about America. Pretty standard fare to use “we” in that instance. You (both?) are far too self-important
Wait is this literally two people behind a single account? Sorry, you’re just sidetracking this conversation into complete irrelevance. What I said was clear. If you don’t think society reveres these tech boys, you’re just too busy navel gazing. Your various identity labels are irrelevant.
…this is common knowledge, wtf did you think the dollar was
Royal we, society, are you able to think on that level or are we so deeply individual now that’s impossible?
It’s my least favorite Lana Del Ray song
🎯🎯🎯
This is a very familiar feeling as someone that worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley for too long. Honestly, all these men fail right up the ladder. And Zuck has such a controlling share of Facebook still that no one can even demand his resignation. Bleak stuff.
Yes, well put
I hope my AI avatar remembers to have a spring savings event
This is also very personal to me because I worked at the Census Bureau building data systems for tracking HIV/AIDS in developing nations with PEPFAR funding only to see that all dismantled by little piglets like this. Infuriating!
He wasn’t targeted. That makes him sound like a victim. He CHOSE his ethics and what matters to him morally. He CHOSE to work for DOGE and idolize Musk.
I knew some people that dropped out of college and took that Thiel deal. They were all raging narcissists that overestimated their own expertise at every corner. He’d be in good company!
Sounds like they’ll be fishing around in our retirement accounts
Have you looked at any tech publication lately? Seen who raises VC money? Yes we are still mythologizing these boys. Next.
We are also mythologizing his brilliance because he fits the mold of the singular boy genius tech stereotype. We need to stop and question that too.
Yes I think in dialogue and ChatGPT helps me have a conversation with myself sometimes. Apparently that makes me the Antichrist LOL
I’ll also say, financialized capitalism has trained a new class of speculators to LOVE playing in the equities market. Maybe we could use that on the left politically to convince these people they’d love getting dividends from nationalized companies or something.
If corporations want bailouts, we should start nationalizing them. Unironically pro-sovereign wealth fund for this purpose. We could have nationalized an airline or two during COVID!
The boomer urge to have a 30 year old grifter man read you headlines and give them thousands of dollars a month on Patreon for it
Exactly the kind of guy that’s moved into the East Village in the last 5 years post COVID
How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn
Absolutely. This new generation of startups is even more terrifying than the last.
One of the consequences of giving the police military weapons is it normalizes seeing heavily armed people in the streets
Technically that is the men’s division in most sports already. For example I was able to play on the boy’s team as a girl in high school no problems
I’m with you but isn’t this the same computer that made all these podcasting poster careers viable
It’s not just this one guy. It’s all wealthy investor men, sorry.
what is it about the male psyche that makes it believe it has discovered god in the computer
Could you lower the bar anymore? What meaningful change has he fought for in congress? Nothing. Except voting yes on the GENIUS act because he really just cares about his crypto donors
There are still constituents of his locked in concentration camps and being kidnapped daily. Maybe take a page from Brad Lander and fucking do something about it.
If he really cared, he could be fighting more than this. This is exactly what I expect from an establishment democrat. And an account like yours!
What consultant did you pay six figures to come up with this nauseating ad campaign
Rich people are satisfied with their insider trading thus far, Trump is a big liability and they’d like him off the balance sheet. It all started dropping when he credibly threatened Jerome Powell’s job
Not at all. AI would really struggle to generate all that text on the inner sleeve and the handwritten text.
maybe financialization
lol classic behavior I’d expect from you
This is a perfect representation of what our community is like right now. Keep talking over us, we know why you do it
I am female. I don’t identify as male. You can’t tell me what my identity or sex or gender is anymore than I could tell you yours. That’s completely inappropriate.
I’m trans masc and this is how I personally relate to sex and gender as well. I believe what makes me trans is that I am female on testosterone with top surgery. My gender leans masculine but idk I just tried to align my body with what feels most comfortable
No I’m doing fabrication and you’re just rude!
I have my own creative studio, I’m good 🙂 that’s why I’m telling you it’s expensive. Sorry.
Nope, they are right. This stuff all requires expensive machinery minus the painting but even that…time is a luxury
No wonder you like Big Bang Theory, you’re okay spending time in this boring back and forth. Bro, get blocked 😂
You’re definitely closer on the political compass to Trump than me hahahahaha
I will not be explained to by a Big Bang Enjoyer, that’s for sure
I promise you, media critique is okay and Big Bang Theory is bottom of the barrel. Going to bat for them is VERY funny.
If you think the Big Bang Theory is funny, it’s time for some self reflection
