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\./ WARN[ing]: [if]; you had a hint that creative ownership was seriously fucked before; [then], container serialization at light speed probably won't be for yo[u] ! ?! .
⚠️ WARNING⚠️
Two AI companies turned up the text based watermarking technology they use on most paragraph long or longer text output!
There are even serial numbers tracked to you hidden in some simple text outputs.
My exclusive research you will find no place else.
I show you how to find it and remove it.
It’s a big deal.
Exclusive https://t.co/tcKeuiQyql article out soon.
\./ "Once ya vote on Twitter, X <> You'll never 'really' have voted anywhere else." ! !! .
I voted for this
\./ this isn't "journalism" <> psycho-babble analogy doesn't address any rigorous specifics of process; you can't have a known outcome and allow random inputs, period; continuing to participate is tantamount to insuring the thing remains broke ! !! .
There's a certain type who gets on my nerves. "We can't vote our way out of this." OK dude. What exactly are you doing? Nothing. They are doing nothing. They talk like macho men but it's all childish nihilism.
\./ currently: yo[u] actually; get paid for an [ad pair] that ur completely blind to, so reality says maybe ya really support that product, but maybe ya don't ;\\ . . .
You know how advertising works. If you are selling a product that no one really wants, you must create a need that only you can fill.
If you are selling deodorant to people who don’t really smell, you must convince them they smell, so you can sell them your “solution” of deodorant.
If you are selling control and the ripping away of people’s rights, you must convince those people they are so unhappy that they will want your “solution” of dominance.
Both sales pitches are lies. The first costs you money for an unnecessary product. The second steals your rights and the enjoyment of the life you’ve got.
Don’t believe the lies.
\./ i'll spare yo[u]: you can't have a third party; because, VOTING DOES NOT ACTUALLY WORK ! !! .
You can’t have a third party in America. Tucker, Elon, everyone else, this is why.
\./ not sure where she's been ;\\ ..
Anne Neuberger says technology is now the arena of national power:
"Technology moved from being a tool of diplomacy, of national power, to the arena of it."
"The supply chain for chips was not a technology issue as much as a foundational economic and national security issue."
"A software vulnerability is now not an IT issue. It can be a source of leverage, particularly if that vulnerability is in key parts of your power systems or your water systems."
"Deterrence is no longer just the size of a military."
"Those technologies today are not being built by governments, they're being built by the private sector, whether that's AI systems, whether that's autonomous systems, whether that's cyber defense systems."
@AnneNeuberger
\./ BiG: iF; trUe, . . .
Mark Zuckerberg is bankrupting a $22 billion startup because they refused to sell to him.
The company is Kalshi.
They run the largest prediction market in the US. Users bet real money on real-world outcomes.
Last year, prediction markets did $28 billion in monthly volume across the industry.
This month, they did $220 BILLION.
The sector literally 8x'd in a single year.
Bernstein now projects the entire prediction market industry will hit $1 TRILLION by 2030.
Zuckerberg saw the growth curve coming. Last year, when Kalshi was valued at only $2 billion, he sat down with founder and CEO Tarek Mansour to discuss buying the entire company.
Mansour said no.
Kalshi went on to raise at $11 billion in December. Then $22 billion in March. It is now pursuing a $40 billion round and openly weighing an IPO.
Zuckerberg's response:
He walked back to Meta headquarters, took every piece of information he learned in that meeting, and directed a small internal team to build a Kalshi clone from the ground up.
Meta's version is called Arena. It uses Llama to generate the questions. Every one of Meta's 3.5 billion daily users will get access.
And here's where the plan gets ruthless...
Meta is deliberately launching with play money. That single decision lets Zuckerberg dodge every gambling regulator on Earth while he trains billions of users to bet on prediction markets.
Meanwhile Kalshi is spending millions fighting state gambling laws, the CFTC, an Illinois sports tax, a Minnesota felony statute, and the Department of Justice.
Kalshi is the crash test dummy. Meta is the getaway driver.
The moment the regulatory war is settled, Zuckerberg flips the switch. Arena becomes a real-money market, and 3.5 billion users are already trained to use it. Kalshi's user base of a few million cannot compete.
This is the exact playbook Meta ran on Snapchat in 2016 when Instagram Stories launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on TikTok in 2020 when Reels launched. It is the exact playbook they ran on Twitter in 2023 when Threads launched.
The FTC took Meta to court over this pattern last year and called it "buy or bury." The judge sided with Meta. So the playbook is legally protected.
Tarek Mansour walked into a meeting with the most predatory copycat in tech history and gave him the entire pitch deck for the fastest growing product in Silicon Valley.
Six months later, Zuckerberg is executing on that intel while Mansour is stuck defending his company in courts across America.
Kalshi survived Zuckerberg's offer. But it probably will not survive Zuckerberg's clone.
Meta ended Q1 with $81 billion in cash. That is enough to buy every prediction market company on Earth six times over. Zuckerberg is choosing to STEAL them instead because he can, and because the courts already gave him permission.
The next 12 months will decide whether Kalshi becomes a $50 billion IPO or a cautionary tale about what happens when a founder says no to Meta.
What do you think?
Jason Calacanis warns developers about Sam Altman and OpenAI:
“If I were any kind of developer, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI,
This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API,
Sam is an incredibly savvy person, and he wants every bit of revenue from the ecosystem.
He's gonna study how you're using the API, which he has the right to do.
Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business, which is: give people access to your tools, study them, and like the Borg, steal every innovation they create .
Exactly like Bill Gates did at Microsoft; they let people build Lotus 1-2-3, and then they did Microsoft Excel. They let people build a product called WordPerfect and WordStar, and then they built Microsoft Word."
BUT. thAt. heAd.
Incredible story.
Also, wassup with the shape of that guy’s head
“Oh Adam, it’s unseemly to ask such questions”
“No, it’s not. Wassup with his head!!”
\./ "price" <> 'cost' !??! . . .
So basically Alex Karp’s argument is that frontier AI labs profit three times: (1) they charge you for tokens, (2) they get access to your IP and business know-how, and (3) they eventually commoditize your competitive advantage. Instead, he says enterprises should pay Palantir to deploy open models and keep their own alpha
LOL I did not expect him to suddenly become an ally for open source even though it is of course very self-interested
\./ secret:
Most of life’s problems can be solved with baking soda and vinegar
\./ doink ;\\ .
Palantir CEO: "most AI companies are going to die - Anthropic and OpenAI give no value and take your IP" - so he announced a deal with Nvidia to build a new AI
Alex Karp just revealed which AI companies will survive and showed his current strategy
His words:
"AI is real but somehow it's not working - and we're not allowed to say it publicly because we'll look stupid"
"I've been telling them for six months - we're going to be nationalized - they say it can't happen in America"
"if you say AI let you fire two-thirds of your workforce - you might as well sign up for the Bernie Sanders manifesto"
he built Palantir with Peter Thiel from zero to $500 billion - the Pentagon, CIA and NATO use his software - now he's coming for OpenAI and Anthropic
bookmark & watch today ↓
\./ FACTS vs. wonderland ?!!? . . .
Legacy Media types are calling this Alex Karp interview a “crash-out” so that’s your first clue that he is actually saying something extremely insightful. He is articulating what real “AI safety” looks like in the enterprise.
Not abstract alignment research or certification by a government-run DMV for AI. Real AI safety for businesses is the ability to control their own data, model weights, and compute — so a frontier lab can’t hoover up their proprietary knowledge and turn it into their next product.
As Karp explains, technical customers want “control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their alpha. They want to know they own the means of production, and it’s not being transferred to someone else.”
Don’t think that can happen? Just look at Figma. According to The Information, Anthropic “blindsided” its then-business partner with the launch of Claude Design. Figma’s founder said Anthropic had not been “consistently honest” with them. Anthropic’s chief product officer had even served on Figma’s board until three days before the launch of Claude Design. Figma’s stock has fallen sharply this year while Anthropic’s valuation has surged.
This isn’t an isolated example. Anthropic has launched Claude Science, Claude Security, Claude Legal, and of course Claude Code — each expanding into categories previously served by companies building on top of their models. The pattern is consistent: watch where value is being created, then move in directly. Dominate the model layer, then use that position to capture the most lucrative verticals.
Dario has argued that open source models powerful enough to compete with Anthropic are “dangerous.” But dangerous to whom? Not to enterprises that want to retain control over their data and workflows. Dangerous to a business model that benefits from customers having few real alternatives at the model layer.
As Karp exposes, true enterprise safety isn’t trusting that a lab’s future roadmap won’t include your business. It’s retaining the ability to choose — at the model layer — who gets to see and use your alpha.
\./ development of [this] IS A 'specialized' SKILL:
The jobs of the future will require high adaptability and creativity, focusing on complex problem framing rather than repetitive execution or specialized skills
\./ it's not taxes paid by the super wealthy <> it's the ratio of tax paid to total period actual earnings !??! . . .
*in other news; most people still think they're fucking voting for the things that get passed.
The wealth tax is downstream of the left's culture of resentment. That's why it's myopic when Tech and VC's guys snoop around, and only want to fund "the fight against a wealth tax."
\./ humanly possible <wtAf> agentic only proof ?!!? . . .
\./ LET'S SEE THE STUDY: Folks Forget; We're in a time where anything can be proven possible with a little money and imagination despite actual proof !!!! . . .
Many people are saying.
\./ 'speculation' <> a future projection based on un-know-able grounds; ....
The current wave of AI technology will not lead to mass unemployment. In fact, its impact on the labor market should be minimal, consisting mostly of increasing demand for software engineers.
\./ TOLD YA: We've seen the free play thing strategy before; and, apparently learn[ed] NOthing ;\\ ..
AWS just quietly raised P5 capacity to $5.191 an accelerator-hour.
No announcement.
Just a new number.
I run an AI company. I felt this last quarter when our bill jumped.
I'm out of loyalty for any major cloud or AI provider.
They hook you, then charge whatever pays them most.
So I'm looking out for us now. Open source. Self-hosting. Colocation.
Everything is on the table.
@adamscrabble ^ do you think they purposefully fuck with the shape of his head; that's not what he looks like in person ;\\ . .
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