I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

In late 1906, Rasputin began acting as a faith healer for Nicholas’ and Alexandra’s only son, Alexei Nikolaevich, who suffered from haemophilia. He was a divisive figure at court, seen by some Russians as a mystic, visionary, and prophet, and by others as a religious charlatan.

The extent of Rasputin’s power reached an all-time high in 1915, when Nicholas left Saint Petersburg to oversee the Imperial Russian Army as it was engaged in the First World War. In his absence, Rasputin and Alexandra consolidated their influence across the Russian Empire. However, as Russian military defeats mounted on the Eastern Front, both figures became increasingly unpopular. In the early morning of 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916, Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conservative Russian noblemen who opposed his influence over the imperial family.

Historians often suggest that Rasputin’s scandalous and sinister reputation helped discredit the Tsarist government, thus precipitating the overthrow of the House of Romanov shortly after his assassination. Accounts of his life and influence were often based on common rumors; he remains a mysterious and captivating figure in popular culture.[1]

Finance people are honestly so willfully stupid and blinded by their beliefs about economics, the writing has been on the wall for awhile now for AI.

I don’t need Nintendo DRM in my dog, that is a dormg and those are nowhere near as nice.

Eeeew no just thinking about going to the airport gives me a headache, that looks so calm.

Finger guns are my only weakness, you knew that! - I gasp as I fall to the ground clutching my wounds

Wait damn’t where did I leave volume 1 again!

I consider my upvotes/downvotes as a chain of authenticity that demonstrates as conclusively as possible I am a real person paying attention who desires the things I say.

I don’t horny on main, but honestly who the hell cares it is 2026.

shrugs

I just think the threadiverse needs to be more upfront and clear to new users that votes are inherently public.

Oh believe me I have also seen precarious tall stacks of rocks that manage to stay standing for much longer than you would expect. Usually it is because they are surrounded by a forest of other much more solid formations of rocks or the ground is solid and well suited to support a base stone.

Sometimes though I see someone waving to me smugly from atop a precarious stack of rocks amidst a sea of other precarious stacks of rocks and I chuckle to myself and wave back condescendingly… and then feel guilty about the ugliness of pre-emptive disaster tourism.

There was a time when tech talent would uproot their lives for the US because it offered collaboration, publishing, company-building and a big conference circuit. Now they run a gauntlet at the border, where even a green card or citizenship does not guarantee they will not be hassled.

Thus it can be seen how when industries aren’t mitigated in their self defeating behavior by unions, the associated job market and domestic industry can be driven to collapse and there will be zero ability to slow the process down once it begins spiralling.

Unions, even if you are a super smart techbro who understands EVERYTHING about the world better than other people because you understand computers… you still need Unions or else the company you are working for will inveitably blow itself up and leave nothing but a crater behind.

yes but gestures at spaceship it is org mode tho!

org mode and pandoc :P

Thank you, I vote yes!

Best latte milk

You ever think about the fact that if we put our minds together and made funny clips of excited baby goats set to actually good classic rock go viral as a meme we could essentially disappear Kid Rock from search engines?

We could call the meme Kid Rock 2 and whenever anyone brings up Kid Rock 1 just mercilessly shit on it and say Kid Rock 2 is far better and Kid Rock 1 isn’t worth watching.

How do you get all the candy into the baseball bat tho?

No thanks, I prefer human DJs and you should too, they are better.

If you have executive function disorder and the point of ads is to wrestle your attention isn’t that in a small granular way preying upon disability?

As a martian it is easier to appear human and blend in by discussing politics while I prepare the invasion conditions for earthlings to have their brains harvested. Not sure why everyone else does though.

Find the answer on reddit, post here in another form. Rinse repeat.

this is how WW3 starts isn’t it