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Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!) @kimsokol.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/06/2026
Goose value
0?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/06/2026
SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...
Internal mechanism
The True Source of Value
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Golden Egg factory inside the goose
What you see are the eggs
What produces them is the factory itself
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Shareholder Value = 3 eggs
Goose was not valued
Goose value
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Eggs do not lay eggs
3 → 74
Increase = 71
It was the goose that created value
74 - 3 = 71
Goose value
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
basically 3/4 of the tech industry is admitting they'd fail a much more consequential mass scale version of the shopping cart dilemma and when this bubble pops we're still expected to respect all those guys
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
i do not use the word "antisocial" lightly. replacing the social context necessary to keep these systems of trust functioning with a machine is, fundamentally, antisocial. a sign that you loathe having to communicate with peers, and are willing to strip the copper wire out of society to avoid it.
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
every time you find someone touting a "use case" it's always, *always*, a sign of antisocial resentment for everyone else forced to interact with it other developers, who need trusted info from humans, will not respect them outsourcing commits to an unreliable machine. but they don't care, do they?
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
cannot be overstated enough how the primary use case of large language models is for people who hate their jobs to not have to do their jobs
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
already seeing other sites doing "how to tell when a man is recording you!" style infographics and the "tell" is just the silhouette which the meta glasses share with every single thick frame rayban has oops!
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j @lowercase.name · 24/06/2026
the official explanation given for why the rayban branding was dropped is nonsense (trying to say it's about luxury pricing when the cheapest of these is still more than a pair of normal raybans) so i'm going with the more likely explanation of "they finally noticed the pr disaster in the distance"
“For us, it’s just about continuing to expand the choice that people have in the marketplace of what to pursue,” Bosworth said in a Q&A. “Reaching people isn’t just about even design or style, it’s also about the price point that you can reach. So, if you’re going to be wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarer, it’s the most popular style, and most frequently worn style of glasses in the world, and it’s iconic; you pay a premium for that.”
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
AI is forcing a wedge between those who see any given craft as a means to an end vs. those who have learned to enjoy and value the skillful execution of the craft itself
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 22/06/2026
I really think that unless something changes very soon active--effective--direct action that will stop data center build outs and functionality is inevitable.
Screenshot of news text from 404 article:

"They also called on the Township board to do everything in their power to stop it from even being built. “Put yourselves on the line. Those people will listen to you better than they will listen to us. Please put yourselves, your jobs, and your comfort on the line to stop this for us,” Ypsi resident Jane Wolf said. “Get creative. Tear up the road. Block the road. Break the law. Do whatever you need to do for us. You will be remembered better in history for the job that you did if you can get creative and really put yourselves out there.”
Jill Warren, the wife of a Methodist pastor, suggested residents brush up on the OSS’ Simple Sabotage Field Manual. “Simply slow things down bureaucratically," she said. “Make sure we block where we can. Use very slow agendas and response times and do, within your power, the work that you are entitled to do. For those who aren’t familiar with it, please look up the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and use it in your own lives of action as well [...] they may not care about us, but we care about us and we’re here and we’ll continue to be here and support the work that you’re doing on our behalf.”"
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j @lowercase.name · 22/06/2026
this has subsequently resulted in a modern boom of scams, because a scammer can give a late zoomer instructions and the likelihood they'll blindly follow the instructions without knowing what's going on is shockingly high if you saw that fake captcha from a day or two ago, you've seen an example
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j @lowercase.name · 22/06/2026
you can already see this with some kids who grew up on sites with (intentionally) terrible search functions like instagram, and to call them deeply incurious would be putting it politely if a guide or literal person does not tell them what to seek out, they are not physically capable of doing so
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j @lowercase.name · 21/06/2026
will admit it's really funny they're doing the tech/gaming company strat of providing a service that should be free, "initially for free" so they can charge an offensive amount after enough people are locked in
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j @lowercase.name · 20/06/2026
it's easy to make fun of them, but if you grew up exclusively on iphones and maybe a locked-down chromebook, you would've only known of walled gardens until that exact moment. you'd have no prior knowledge that downloading an application could be bad for you
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j @lowercase.name · 20/06/2026
to give you an idea here: a lot of late zoomers think using a game emulator is too complicated because you have to open a computer file they believe this to be such an arduous task that they'll get themselves hacked downloading and opening suspicious .exe files if it means skipping that step
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j @lowercase.name · 20/06/2026
like, these are several steps too many for your grandparents, who wouldn't know what that second step could possibly be telling them to do but lots of late zoomers only how to use laptops through *someone else* online telling them exactly what to do. a lot of them would fall for this!
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j @lowercase.name · 20/06/2026
i'm very fascinated by more recent developments in these malware attempts there's such a huge boom in late zoomers who didn't get a real laptop/pc until very recently, and i've noticed a *lot* of tricks, this included, designed to prey on them not knowing the usual quirks of a desktop experience
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
"but they'd look so ugly, and then everyone would notice them" correct! that's the idea
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
i am dead serious when i say this: put fluorescent, reflective orange on these and i would say this is the exact way i want all smart glasses to be regulated to look like
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
but you can't do that, can you? and we both know exactly why you can't, don't we
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
if you want to "prove" that people want a.i. you give them one opt-in prompt, with a clearly labeled option that lets them choose not to. no random sparkle emojis on the ui to accidentally click on. no "reminders". no dark patterns. and the moment they say no, that prompt doesn't appear again
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
also, firefox updates routinely un-flip the kill switch, without your consent, so that mozilla can try pushing a.i. garbage on you again, something people regularly complain about this makes any numbers mozilla provides inherently untrustworthy
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
just one more [data center/lane] bro you've gotta trust me bro it'll fix everything
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j @lowercase.name · 18/06/2026
this is an excellent comparison, in that cars are really terrible at their purported main purpose compared to other alternatives, scales poorly to mass-use, and would only last if modern infrastructure effectively forces you to use one against your will
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j @lowercase.name · 17/06/2026
like, yeah, that's literally true! they've got a point! i wholeheartedly agree you should make sure to tell every single court of law in all of america that the guardrails don't exist
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j @lowercase.name · 17/06/2026
in a timeline where the government wasn't just doing this to arbitrarily punish a company that did something they didn't like, trying to make the legal argument that *all* large language models are like this, and *none of them* have stable guardrails, would've had some very funny consequences
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j @lowercase.name · 17/06/2026
feels like we've thrown away so many social contracts in the name of this garbage, so quickly, that we forgot that humans often go to events to listen to and socialize with other people
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j @lowercase.name · 17/06/2026
i've gone to multiple workshops and presentations in recent months where it is *really* obvious when a.i. was used, and you could visibly see the moment each individual person in the crowd realized it was, one-by-one, until the entire group is mentally checked out
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j @lowercase.name · 17/06/2026
no true value. entirely fake numbers. it is attached to nothing, and the real world does not affect it. but if enough people yell loud enough into the computer, a sufficient number of suckers can be tricked into believing they, too, can yell loud enough into the computer, and strike it rich
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j @lowercase.name · 17/06/2026
a lot of the current moment can simply be described by everything in the economy having turned into a sort of bitcoin
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the idle witch @eeyikes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is the actual public sentiment around AI. Every corporate survey I’ve encountered is careful to ask “how we can help you use AI” instead of “how do you honestly feel about AI” for precisely this reason.
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
some of you have an allergic reaction to calling obvious lies out because someone might think you don't care about hypothetical children that the government also does not care about and if you would like to retain any basic sense of self-preservation, you'll get that out of your system asap
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
yeah it's weird that we've already had a above-13 age gate on most of the internet, and now that someone sharpie'd over the 13 with a 16 we have to pretend this necessitates a new surveillance state but unfortunately we need a few more months of social media discourse to draw the line on this one
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
there's no one *no one* *not one single soul* proposing this idea who does not, explicitly, want the real identity of the people they don't like online there is no second goal for them. if they get to ruin at least one stranger's life, the law would work as intended
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
as a general rule, whenever this idea is proposed, you should assume - the one proposing it knows it won't accomplish anything healthy - they are very well aware that doing so provably enables harassment on others - they want it because *they want to do the harassing*
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
"surely *this* time they've fixed the part where every piece of data placed inside a model must be honest, factual and well-intended", says a.i. user, about to get punked for the 500000th time
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
every once in a while someone remembers that large language models can't differentiate data and instructions, and then everyone is shocked, and then 3-6 months later someone else remembers that large language models can't differentiate data and instructions, and then everyone is shocked, and then---
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
if there is a terrible street in a major urban part of vancouver, there's a 99% likelihood that it's solely to appease people who are spiritually (and occasionally literally) american
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
everyone who lives here will agree to this, and we'll get a test project reaffirming that it's a good idea, and then 10 of the least pleasant people you'll ever meet will get it scrapped because they are not capable of imagining a world where they have to leave their f150 to experience joy
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
this started long before 2020 but the pandemic giving parents 24/7 access to their kid (even as it was really obvious how constantly interrupting their kids' school days was bad for them) gave a certain kind of helicopter parent an addictive level of power they've refused to let go of
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
one thing i think bluesky users (being old enough to have deeply tech-incompetent parents) struggle to understand is how phones/computers, in 2026, are mostly a tool of surveillance to let parents spy on their kids all day the era of the internet being a place for independence died a while ago
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
remember when facebook artificially inflated the viewcount of its videos and everyone obviously knew this was the case (you'd have videos with >1m views but very few comments, indicating a "view" didn't involve much interacting) but every media company decided to lose billions on humoring it anyways
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j @lowercase.name · 16/06/2026
microsoft has realized that people who play games hate a.i. and everything it stands for, and they're already stripping the copper wire off of all the other actually-successful things so they can fund more a.i. that doesn't make money, so this is just a two birds one stone situation
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j @lowercase.name · 15/06/2026
the only possible way this doesn't immediately make sense is if you don't think energy waste counts when you're burning gas in furnaces. that's it. if every furnace in america had to run on the power grid, it would be fried every single day it got below 40F
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j @lowercase.name · 15/06/2026
this is up there with the fact that dishwashers are better for the environment than handwashing, in terms of being very obviously true if you think about it for more than 5 seconds, but for some reason every single person you'll ever meet will be very hostile to the possibility
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j @lowercase.name · 15/06/2026
which to be clear, does indicate a problem where these are designed to hook those whose senses are already dulled by the modern internet's sensory overloads, and are thus cognitively fatal to everyone else to solve that requires actual regulation; these laws are just meant to farm surveillance data
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