The OpenAI Situation Is Insane...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69qAfrU-PTE&t=1056
> OpenAI is the beating heart of the AI boom, and its own numbers describe a company valued at $852 billion that loses roughly $1.22 for every dollar it earns,...
Even though son is still traveling, I went to help on an Eagle Scout’s project today. It’s good to support them and give back to the community.
I saw the legendary Cliff Stoll present at #Defcon today. Hands-down one of the best, most entertaining presentations I've ever seen. You had to see it in person to get the full 3D experience. He's a riot!
5h agoRE: https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/117044674855954398
This is horrifying.
I fucking hate #git. It's a bag of footguns waiting to mess up your code.
Just had a squashed commit on one branch duplicate commits when the feature branch rebased to the main branch. This thing needs a human-usable wrapper that performs basic functionality the right way without triggering any footguns.
Any sufficiently high-stakes prediction market is indistinguishable from an assassination market
In addition to all that, I would want to setup accounts with sufficient funds to go out to various charities and other community organizations regularly. I would want to do good with the wealth and improve the lives of those around me.
Now I do give to charities and organizations now, just much smaller amounts, cause I am not a millonaire or billionaire. Or thousandaire.
Anyway, that was this mornings random thought. Carry on....
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for their college if they want to go back to school, pay for family vacations, holiday bonuses, etc.
I would want folks in those professions that might actually enjoy some of that work that I don't. I would also like to have multiple people for each profession, because I want to make sure that if they are sick they can take that time to get better, fully paid of course. And I would also want them to be to take those vacations.
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a thread: 🧵Random thought post incoming.....
I was thinking what I would do if I had millions or billion of dollars. The first thing that I thought of would be that yes, I would absolutely hire people to clean and cook and whatnot. But I wouldn't pay the crap wages that I feel like they would normally get paid. I would pay them an amount that would let them and their families live a comfortable life, provide healthcare, actually good retirement benefits, college funds if they have kids, pay
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Interesting experience with Amazon. I ordered yoga pants from Amazon because they came in a long length. The pants I received were not what I ordered. When Amazon asked me to rate my experience I was censored after I submitted my comments. I was told I didn’t meet the community guidelines. Perhaps “Bad customer service.” triggered Amazon’s response. My question is did AI botch my order and react to my words?
As seen in #Albuquerque today
Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.
—Milan Kundera
Military jet low over downtown SF just now. Odd. Fleet Week isn't til October.
8/7/2026Wish me luck, I'm about to attempt to cook a hot dinner by grilling outside in the 100°F heat and cooking hot food in our kitchen with no air conditioning.
If I'm not back in an hour, send help.
#heatwave
8/7/2026But that's all over. The boomers have fucked up the U.S. economy and the world for everybody, and my kids will be the first generation of middle-class white people since WW2 to be worse off financially than their parents.
If the fucking boomers think the kids entering the job market now are going to get "more conservative" as they age, they're deluding themselves.
Politics are going to change for the better in the U.S. It's going to be painful to get there, but we're going to get there.
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8/7/2026I'm tired of the saying that people get more conservative as they get older.
Reality check: people get more conservative as they get more wealthy. The people saying "people get more conservative as they get older" are white people living in a privileged bubble in which, in the generations since WW2, people like them typically amassed more wealth as they aged.
#politics #economics #collapse #racism
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Make You Move — Dillon Francis (2026)
A Little Bit — Kaskade & Crankdat
Misbehave — K Motionz & jazza's dance party
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