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Moraa Unredacted @omoraa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don’t make legends out of them by calling them the Cornell 7. Call them what they are: the Cornell rapists.

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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Democracy indicators in the US are at their lowest in 50 years says the new annual report from the Global State of Democracy, IDEA. Globally, democracy has declined for a 11th straight year. And conflicts are at their highest since 1946. Read the report. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Democracy indicators in US at lowest levels for 50 years, data shows

Trump administration undermining rule of law at home and worldwide, according to intergovernmental report

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 08/07/2026

I think AAA games are so focused on realistic graphics because it's the only thing the idiot businessmen who don't play games that are in charge can look at and understand.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026

TRUMP: Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It is difficult. There are lots of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m sorry, but this video of Belgium’s squad mocking Trump in their locker room after demolishing the USMNT is hilarious.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This wombat deserves The Neymar Prize for dramatism 😂

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The French editorial cartoonist known as Truant cuts to the chase: The U.S. wannabe emperor has no clothes.

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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Meanwhile, over on X... "Facts Are Stubborn Things." — John Adams #TrumpSurrenders

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Lol. I'm sure there's no inference costs hidden in the R&D or Marketing expenses. And let's just forget about the $17.87 billion in costs via that “net loss attributable to noncontrolling members capital” and another $3.95 billion via a “net loss attributable to redeemable noncontrolling interests.”

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Oh my. This is a huge leak. OpenAI is leaking more than anyone thought. What was their IPO valuation again?

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J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh

Alt: J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm sorry, I'm not from the US. But, is that the White House in the back?!

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My question is, what THE FUCK are Meta employees and developers doing with billions-worth of AI spending? Because their "products" suck more than ever.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

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Hegelian vs. Predator @telemark.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We have reached the "oligarchs are ripping the wiring and copper pipes out of the building" stage of capitalism

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026

Can’t believe you only have to kill 700,000 Africans to make a trillion dollars

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Verge headline: The world's first trillionaire is a killer
by TC Sottek

Image of Elon Musk doing a "fascist salute" in the form of an oil painting on a wall

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Coming back with an update: dead cat bouncing. Where have I seen this before? Oh! That's right! Crypto pump-and-dump schemes 😂

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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026

"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"

Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/06/2026

"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme

With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Soo OpenAI stock is worth shit as collateral. Good to know there is at least *some* sanity in the market.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

coda: Using AI to write is very funny. Would you use a $400 million ASML EUV microchip-etching machine to sign a birthday card to a friend? Directionally, this is the same as using AI to write.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/06/2026

Both Claude Code and OpenClaw's televangelists are saying that their users must start using "loops" instead of "prompts" to burn more tokens. This is a transparent attempt to push users to spend more on tokens at a time when the companies are desperate. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-slowing-down/

In a mysterious confluence of events, both Claude Code chief Boris Cherny and OpenAI-owned OpenClaw televangelist Peter Steinberger have both said that their users need to be “designing loops for their agents,” meaning “creating ways to make their agents burn a bunch of tokens doing stuff,” I imagine as part of the ongoing campaign by both Anthropic and OpenAI to make people spend lots of money on tokens to keep their enterprises afloat.

I expect that “loops” will become the next thing that journalists pick up on and start oinking about. To be clear, “loops” already exist, in that you can make an LLM decide to keep taking actions whether or not a user prompts it for as long as you’d like. Whether the output works at the end isn’t Peter or Boris’ problem, as both of them are allowed to burn anywhere from $130,000 to $1.3 million a month in tokens. As I’ve argued before (though referring to subsidized subscriptions):

Think of it like this: if you’re using an AI subscription with rate limits but no actual costs, any mistakes a model makes — such as getting stuck in a loop or just doing the wrong thing — can be dismissed as the troubled nature of early-stage technology, because the “cost” was $20, $100, or $200 for the entire month. Anthropic, OpenAI and every other AI company deliberately obfuscated these costs because they knew that the second a user actually had to pay for the fuckups of an AI model they’d scream like they were being stung to death by bees.
To be clear, this is both OpenAI and Anthropic’s representative stooges actively suggesting that you “shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore,” instead letting LLMs that hallucinate the more they “reason” (IE: make plans for themselves, which is how agents work) do as much reasoning as possible without user input.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

That's what a nazi paper would write.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Oh boy, the copium is through the roof! AGI 😂

From /r/GithubCopilot: "Deepseek funder is not seeking an IPO before AGI. It will keep on building cheap open source AI for everyone . according to yesterday Bloomberg report."

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Musk's "Starlink", Bezos' "Prometheus", Amodei's "Anthropic"... Those names are intentional, to sound "futuristic" and create an impression of relevancy. Here I thought cool sounding names were reserved for an actually cool, technological future. Instead we get *this* bullshit of a reality.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Imagine if scientists marketed nuclear fusion as if it was profitable, but for that you had to turn a blind eye to the fact that output energy is still lower than input energy. But hey, every year is a new record for how much power it produced! Jump in or you're a loser! That's GenAI's "economics".

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is what infuriates me: so much investment money wasted in chasing a magic dragon, that otherwise could have gone to technology that would be beneficial and actually helpful for humanity, and still be profitable. But no, scammy companies want to make *obscene* money, not just mere "profits".

GitHub Copilot let people burn thousands of dollars on a $39-a-month subscription as a means of expressing growth. I absolutely, 100% believe that both OpenAI and Anthropic are doing the same, and that neither of them has some magical way of making inference cheap enough to justify letting people burn thousands of dollars on a $100-a-month or $200-a-month subscription. To give them the benefit of the doubt is to empower them to continue to raise money by conning their investors and the general public, and to continue perpetuating an era of software that runs contrary to what makes technology good.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"Hey, so I know you don't like AI much, but I took the liberty of asking ChatGPT how to solve your problem, so you take this and basically work's 90% done, right? Just push to production." This is how PMs now think about engineers.

If a journalist gets curious, an LLM can make a good-enough impression of somebody writing software to fool somebody who doesn’t really know what they’re doing, and if you prompt it again and again and again, it can get something functional out the door. This is all it takes for somebody — a reporter or an executive — to extrapolate that because they were able to do something (even though the LLM did it), a subject-matter expert would be able to do even more.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/05/2026

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.” - Theodore Roosevelt Fuck them billionaires.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I have my own simple benchmark about tech products. If Mark Cuban peddles it, then it's trash and won't succceed. It *will* bring short term profit for investors (stock go up), but they don't care or trust in the product to survive in the future. It was NFTs not so long ago, now it's GenAI.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Out of touch is an understatement. Last graph shows that an average human outperforms the top AI model by 6 times when running a vending machine. Do tell us more about running grocery stores with AI, Mark.

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Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs

We're releasing Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark for measuring AI model performance on running a business over long time horizons. Models are tasked with running a simulated vending machine business over ...

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foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social @foghornleghorn1357.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My wife wondered why I was whispering. I told her that I didn't want Mark Zuckerberg to hear me. I laughed She laughed. Siri laughed, Alexa laughed, and the Tesla laughed.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And you wonder why anyone would pay for a search engine like Kagi. Well, I like to pay with money instead of personal data and get an actually useful service in return.

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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Elon Musk: Watch me take a trademark that achieved the Holy Grail of branding by ascending to verb form, and replace it with a single letter which can't even grammatically become a verb. Google: That's not just innovative --- it's transformative! If you want me to hold your beer, let me know!

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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Y'all, we need to talk about AI risks. It's not the "scary future" stuff you usually hear in the media. Here are some CURRENT AI threats (🧵): It's not AI's technical capabilities in the lab, it's what people are trying to do with AI in the real world *despite* it's limited capabilities. (1/n)

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Funny, but the problem here is Musk is no Maximus no matter how much he wants it. Commodus suits him perfectly though. Whiny loser always wondering why people don't like him.

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