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David Gerard, dgerard@awful.systems
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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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well that shows it’s aligned to the flourishing of humanity
yeah this is the bad one. The good one is Ghost In The Machine.
including Sam
So MS claims, that they don’t have ad deals for this!
a Mickey Mouse camera, obviously
yesterdays’ news just in, no we won’t
Covered one attempt already!
https://awful.systems/post/7387786
Trouble is the sort of investment that’s uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep
and somehow I’m declared enemy #1
Not as far as I know.
I did the Spanish-from-English course, which I understand was the best course on Duolingo, from start to finish over 2 years. I also skimmed the English-from-Spanish course.
I got good enough to pick my way slowly through Salvadoran newspaper articles, which is basically what I wanted. (This also teaches me more words.) I need to ping my Spanish-speaking friends to teach me how to fucking speak it though, Duolingo didn’t teach me shit.
(The tabloid newspapers are easy. The pompous newspapers write in a fancy tone which ~nobody in .sv uses. I really wanna read El Faro in Spanish, but it writes in high-level sarcastic and pissed-off. Still a subscriber tho. Guess I gotta git gud!)
.sv Twitter was easy, cos it turns out shitposting is the universal human tongue.
I understand Spanish-from-English in particular has decayed badly in the AI era. Apparently it randomly started teaching someone “vosotros” which was never previously introduced. Pretty sure it still doesn’t teach “vos”, which is annoying (.sv uses vos).
Its main advantage was that I did it at all - the gamification tickled my brain just right - and I did in fact learn anything from it.
I was a paying customer, but my subscription finished a few months after the AI memo, so adios.
Buttcoinit’s very easy to say in 2026 that crypto was dumb
it was also very easy to say in 2011 that crypto was dumb
except that it’s all stolen code. whether it’s a copyright violation, well that’s call your lawyer
the AI bubble, the private credit bubble (this one), the Wall St Bitcoin thing, etc. are all about writing down a big number with a $ in front on thin justification, then borrowing against it
this runs into issues tomorrrow. but not today!
I also didn’t say it’s a good hedge. It’ll stay uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to, when it’ll crash in lockstep.
the rationalists are still not over thiel getting sick of them
i actually spoke to someone in greece who tried tracking this story to its roots, and is pretty sure it didn’t actually happen, but identified places it could have happened, so it seems to have been written by someone who’d been to exarcheia
Apparently it works in binary.
The Stoller piece is instructive - he’s wrong, but it’s a perfect example of the resentment and the reasons for the resentment.
the second, I think. I’m actually surprised we have no smoking guns on vibe coding in production at MS. Or even one guy saying “hell yeah we totally did.”
OpenAI IPO proceeds — even as CFO says the company is ‘not ready’ (pivot-to-ai.com)
SpaceX makes bankers buy Grok
Associated Press dumps journalists for AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
‘Resistance is futile’ — AP senior manager
well that shows it’s aligned to the flourishing of humanity
Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market (pivot-to-ai.com)
meanwhile, SpaceX lines up its IPO
yeah this is the bad one. The good one is Ghost In The Machine.
Microsoft AI reshuffle: Mustafa Suleyman goes AI doomsday crank (pivot-to-ai.com)
not to worry, Copilot’s ‘for entertainment purposes only’
including Sam
jonny’s thread is sheer awesome
Claude Code codebase is leaked (pivot-to-ai.com)
Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’
So MS claims, that they don’t have ad deals for this!
GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests (pivot-to-ai.com)
Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’
OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that? (pivot-to-ai.com)
By not guaranteeing it in any way
The AI bubble and the global polycrisis (pivot-to-ai.com)
Everything is screwed. But how screwed?
BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke (pivot-to-ai.com)
go slop, go flop
a Mickey Mouse camera, obviously
OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off (pivot-to-ai.com)
pivoting from video
yesterdays’ news just in, no we won’t
Covered one attempt already!
https://awful.systems/post/7387786
Trouble is the sort of investment that’s uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep
Walmart dumps OpenAI at the checkout (pivot-to-ai.com)
the customers? not so convinced
Layoffs don’t boost the share price — they drop it (pivot-to-ai.com)
‘Restructuring’ gets a 7% hit, ‘AI’ only a 2% hit