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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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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't know who you are, but that's good news and I'm very happy for you!

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

Of course there is, it's called The Neymar Achievement

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

They went through the most boring and vague Powerpoint presentation, full of bullshit keywords, "augmentation" everywhere. I was dumber than before the meeting when it finally ended after the 2 hours of the most dreadful selling pitch I've ever heard. Uhg. Those dominoes can't fall soon enough.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I so wish I could send a clip with the last minute of this video to my boss. I was recently forced into a presentation meeting with some AI consultants (read "leeches") from a company I won't name that is supposed to teach us how to "use AI better" for coding.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Ed, I watched the dive in The Tech Report. What do you think of this? Maybe Microsoft is the shadow entity that absorbs some of those "net losses"?

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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 · 17/06/2026

Right, so those losses are on MSFTs balance sheets, but still losses produced by OpenAI.

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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This was for 2025, when presumably ALL subscriptions were subsidised. Why the sudden, astronomical price increase for tokens in 2026 though, if inference was profitable? To cover training expenses?

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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

That's what they would want investors to think, they filed for an IPO after all. But I'm sure there's big fuckery in those numbers.

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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

You know what this video is missing?

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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

Probably pitting AI agents against each other in Backgammon to make it to the top 10 of the AI spending billboard.

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

Wish that would happen. But class action lawsuit in the US, in these times, when corruption is sky high, against the wealthiest man on the planet? This shouldn't have happened in the first place, yet it did. Shows you how rigged the system already was.

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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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James Barris @314xel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"are very capable". Sure, if you can afford one. Then there's the energy bills you'll have to pay yourself. GenAI is intrinsically wasteful and inefficient, I don't think local LLMs will fix that. If data centers can't break even, I'm skeptical running local is going to be any better.

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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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