Zynga raised a bit over $800M, by then they had like 16 million daily active users.
OpenAI stands at $180B raised, more than 200 times as much. Who in their right mind thinks OpenAI will have over *three billion* daily active users? About 5.5-5.8 billion people use smartphones so every they would need to nab every second one of them.
Drupal core has added an AGENTS.md and it is not a total ban, not even close. They call it "harm reduction", even.
Incredibly insightful article on AI https://jasonpargin.substack.com/p/everyone-is-wrong-about-ai-except
Two very interesting and important section headers:
> “Robots are actually more alive than we are” is a core belief in our society
> We’re never going to space so AI is what we’re doing instead
It is really really great and explains so much. cc @davidgerard @pluralistic
RE: https://indieweb.social/@chrisoliver/116822384708101756
The "play has no limits" slogan is fantastic here.
Seriously, The Onion would be hard pressed to come up with something like this.
So @pluralistic have written "The world has moved on" https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/lapsarianism/
"Unnecessariat", the most brilliant essay I ever read explaining how Trump rose to presidency in 2016 says "the world has drifted away".
RE: https://toot.wales/@linguacelta/116600964539347661
This is what #drupal core should do, I advocated for it and some refused while most just let those refuse and troll the issue to death. It has been one of the main reasons I stopped contributing to that community. There are others, of course.
I braved the putrid stench of /r/conservative and even that rotten place considers the Iran deal a complete surrender.
McSweeney's AI Economics for Dummies is the best description I've ever read about this shit. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
"Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month. Alex makes a $10 billion profit this month; his ARR is $120 billion, and his profits are trending up at an infinite rate."
it gets better :D
This is the United States. Anyone who have ever been in the presence of a living cow knows it's full of shit -- it being the entire environment. You do not need 21th century science to know with raw milk you are literally drinking cow shit. And yet, people do it. Sure, they might never had the chance to breath in the aroma of a cow barn but then they listen to people who are also full of shit.
What's special about this toot is that this is from an AI maxx person. They would regularly come to my LLM criticism posts and attack, quote toot others to question their LLM criticism. And yet, even they know it's fucking horrible because when they posted a beautiful photo from nature they felt the need to add "no AI here".
Anthropic has trumpeted about how Mythos / Fable is too powerful until the criminally corrupt and incompetent US government actually believed this shit.
Apropos of nothing, let me repost this.
Print available at https://safelyendangered.com/products/lion-print
Not my work.
According to a recent UN report, ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year. Compare to data center equipment and infrastructure spending reached $290 billion in 2024.
Now we see the point of Starlink and the Twitter purchase: Musk can incite a race war and he can't be controlled.
Congratulations to #drupal core for going with the braindead symfony runtime pattern which no one can understand completely sweeping aside my concerns and ignoring my solution. Truly well done.
Like, what even is the code flow of this, how does the closure execute? Where does $context come from? Why any of this is done? It makes no sense and it has no purpose. But Symfony does it and Drupal people learned nothing and follow blind. In a few years will come the remorse and the refactor away.
KPMG survey: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of their AI costs, while 50% have some visibility and 22% have none or only see costs after billing (Wall Street Journal)
As per the ACLU, there are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
In April 2023, Equality Florida issued a travel advisory advising the LGBTQ community not to travel to Florida. Next month, a law was passed to allow discrimination among medical practicioners.
Yet the #drupal association put #drupalcon 2027 into Orlando, Florida -- without giving an adequate explanation on why they are either excluding the LGBTQ members of the community or putting them in danger.
I owe an apology to @davidgerard for being so skeptical about Linux on desktop. I installed CachyOS and it works. I have a HDMI 2.1 monitor and a USB soundcard on a KVM and switching back and forth works. I plugged in a Thunderbolt cable and Thunderbolt network just works. I ran Splendor, a simple Steam game and it just works. I still haven't configured a single thing. (Except some self inflicted IP trouble.)
Let me assure you: when I abandoned Linux ten years ago it. was. not. like. this.
As the critique of LLMs on an ethical basis can't be refuted LLM proponents simply declare ethics doesn't apply to it because it's just a tool etc. Or even that ethics doesn't even exist. I am seeing some of the best people I know advance this defense and it's saddening.