Reposted by petergrimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 7hThis is becoming an issue with every industry that's sort of low margin now, but it's way too fucking easy for one rich guy who made his money in a different medium to just set up shop and dominate industries that have lots of financial trouble completely, and the reactions are almost equally bad. 119911
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 18hthis was supposed to be one of the most straight-forwardly successful/profitable AI startups. everyone assumed "charge a monthly fee for digital fren" was a layup. boring, but definitely a thing you could make money at from the public. but, nope. 020
Reposted by peterMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Character.AI, which was valued at more than $1b in 2023, is bankrupt. CAI's founders once argued that they were building superintelligence. The startup went on to face wrongful death lawsuits, safety concerns, financial struggles, and user-hated platform changes: futurism.com/artificial-i... 14538168
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 20hI also saw "Digger." it sucked as AND I can't stop thinking about it. terrible experience, how do I wash this taste out of my mouth?? 000
Reposted by peterHunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust: 641562357
Reposted by peterPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21hIt was definitely very well done but did not really tell me anything I didn’t already know. And it makes me wonder who is it for? Are the people who *need* to see this going to see it? If they see it, will they do anything other than say “it’s all lies” 969213
Reposted by peterJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...404media.coCharacter.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't WorkCharacter.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say. 8051001932
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026someone inform the @edzitron.com haters. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comThreat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMFHigh valuations and debt put sector in danger, while fund also warns on government borrowing and cyber-attacks 010
Reposted by peterSlug 🐛 VTuber @vtuberloveslug.bsky.social · 12/10/2026what the fuck is happening fgjkfsdhg 26591072627
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026software is going to get worse and worse until people stop using it for anything important. 000
Reposted by peterBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The way you know the website "X" is thriving is that once a month someone writes an article about how great it's doing and begs everyone to go there 273329390
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 13/10/2026yeah, like, when this happened, my reaction was "fine, probably it was a suicide, but it's up to the government to prove it with a very thorough and transparent investigation into what happened" and lol we did NOT get that. at all. 020
Reposted by peterNash @radiodeadair.com · 12/10/2026Yes, my dastardly plan to make PCs so expensive that people will be willing to rent time on all the PCs that *I* have, thus meaning people won't own their own computers! Except me. Who has to pay for all the computers. And the bandwidth. And the power. Wait hold on my plan seems very stupid. 310421
Reposted by petermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again" 401903315
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026haha I saw the date and just did ballpark math in my head, nice. 010
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026lol it's been like 150yrs and Custer is still getting teabagged. 110
Reposted by peterRTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 12/10/2026#12deOctubre | El momento distendido antes del desfile de la Fiesta Nacional: varios militares bailan «Paquito el Chocolatero» al son de una charanga. 🎥 Rodrigo García Melero 1753
Reposted by peterAnton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 12/10/2026"Yandex Strikes Caused Russian Bot Activity To Drop By 50 Percent" Is FALSE. buff.ly/Pa7fvr8buff.lyRapid-response fact-check: "Yandex Strikes Caused Russian Bot Activity To Drop By 50 Percent" Is False | Joohn ChoeThis is going on viral on Facebook today and it's unfortunately wrong. Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia did not cut 419095
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I think the other thing this guy doesn't understand is I'm not looking for an infinite scroll of algorithmically-curated content. I want a reverse-chronological feed of the accounts I follow, and Bluesky and Mastodon are the only places to get that now. 020
Reposted by peterantibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/10/2026To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️ 32949481
Reposted by peterRaphael Wimmer @raphaelwimmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated. 16710292
Reposted by peterPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 12/10/2026i do not meaningfully care about this argument but my stance remains: i refuse to generate unpaid content for elon musk the child pornographer, and to model the behavior that lets elon's algorithm show me the optimal unpaid content he wants me to see. it's interesting that you want to do that though 41339153
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive" 😂 130
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026David Brooks is a Republican, who gives a shit what he thinks. 020
Reposted by peterJoseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S. 581412486
Reposted by peterAlina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏 26859181
Reposted by peterpork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 10/10/2026we gotta raise taxes. a lot. 21278182
Reposted by peterOlga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this 28335831648
Reposted by peterOmar Uddin @ouddin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It goes without saying, but the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids is motherfucking metal. 031
Reposted by peterAdam Conover @adamconover.net · 10/10/2026My new special "Big Divorce Energy" drops October 23 on Youtube! 116917
Reposted by peterAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works. 18810216
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Spanish election on Nov 29. so they are doing the whole "migrant caravan" thing. 010
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026fwiw, if Mamdani **doesn't** have that authority, he should say so. I think people deserve to know why the armed security forces won't obey the democratically-elected executive. 010
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026if only someone had the authority to tell the NYPD what to do... 100
Reposted by peterJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492780786
Reposted by peterBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek. 14459191124
Reposted by peterThe Onion @theonion.com · 27/04/2026DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment theonion.com/doj-to-bring-back-firi… 741204186
Reposted by peterThe Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/10/2026⚡️Update: Death toll from Russian glide bomb strike on Kramatorsk bus stop rises to 33. At least 18 others were injured in the Oct. 8 attack, prompting local authorities in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk to suspend all public transport.kyivindependent.comAt least 30 dead after Russian glide bomb strikes Kramatorsk bus stop"Russia comes to the Ukrainian land with death," Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said. 12185118
Reposted by peterryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/10/2026a small cohort of online loudmouths have been desperately rooting around from day 1 for some reason to direct the usual frenzy of denunciation at Zohran 51373
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"we'll just switch to open-weight models" lol lmao uh-huh. 010
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026even if it does "work", if you've ever looked at LLM-produced codebases you will know that they are not human-maintainable. so congratulations, Anthropic owns your codebase now, and they can charge you whatever they want. not a great business move imo but what do I know, I don't have an MBA. 120
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026get a few minutes into a conversation with anyone using LLMs to write code and they will eventually admit they have no idea what's going on in there. but hey, it "works"!! 👍 130
peter @peterkrupa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the only way LLMs make coding faster is if you don't review the code, which: 🙃 130