Ronald Luncheon, Da King of da Restaurant

[Ronald Luncheon, Da King of da Restaurant @RonLuncheon]

no feeling quite as electric as the click of the celebrity comparison

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

"you better not be chewing khat again"

me:

[taoki @justalexoki]

can't believe i spent my whole life becoming Good At Computer only for Computer to become Better At Computer

[Giuseppe Guarriello @gu47351]

@alex_prompter @EaarthNet As long as our public libraries are available ( online ? ), they can keep their tokenised/metered AIs to themselves!

As @kenchengcomedy puts it:

“AI will never be able to write like me”…

“We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat AI”…

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

The Soviet Union famously was a nation of universal spying as mass control, everyone spying on everyone. Big important Russian books have been written about it, and we've all heard about 1984 and so forth. What we are experiencing now and going into the future is the American attempt at mass control, and it's their international politics since 1945 applied from a macro to a micro scale. The American foreign policy is control by bribery, that's why every war is the Cia funding one side and the government funding the other side. Every country on earth is taking American bribes, and this is what has stabilised the world for 80 years. The future is mass control by universal micro bribery. The trick is the actual bribe is a pittance, but make it gamefied and competitive, so everyone FEELS like they are just one good roll away from "making it out if the permanent underclass (tm)", and they will keep playing along

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

https://t.co/HIl0miyoN0

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

[Guy @nosilverv]

everything is like this

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

If you know the phrase "permanent underclass" you are in the permanent underclass. Relax and take a deep breath. You are not competing, you just have an anxiety disorder

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

If you want the world to pat you on your head and admit you were right all along, then you are still conceptualising yourself as the inferior party and craving the validation of the thing you simultaneously want to deem lesser than you. You have a problem: the same object (people, individuals, "society", your super ego) cannot simultaneously be the source of validation and the object you humiliate to earn that validation. If one is true the other is ruined. Best case you turn schizo. Try the other way

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

Be kind and try to help the people who are losing their minds over their revelations of things you knew 5 or 10 years ago, that will in turn also help you move past your own feelings of resentment for being ridiculed and called a social outcast, for believing it then when it wasn't public knowledge. If you just want revenge and schadenfreude and self pity for it, then you can do that too, but it's kind of stupid. There is healing in helping others with things you have unfairly endured. You have to choose which one you want more, revenge and getting even with the universe, or, redemption

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

Generally for most people, if you're just starting out, it's better to practice choosing things, practice the action of choosing in this moment, than it is to make am ever more elegant plan (for choosing). It's a muscle not an intellectual excersise

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

When changing your life, it's better to say "what am I doing different today, right now", and not "well I commit to doing this tomorrow and this on Tuesday and this on Wednesday" and so on. Plans are also good as long as you remember that plans are not pre-emptive choices, they are planning to make a choice. You are not planning on doing x y and z next week, you are planning on choosing to. And when the day comes choosing will feel just as difficult or easy as this moment, planning to choose will not make it any easier. On the day you still have to say: "here's what I am doing different today, right now"

[franzi ₊˚⊹ 𐂯 @Killdeerrr]

just to remind you all discord in the UK already does this and within 2 months of the system being in place, the company in charge of the system was hacked and thousands of ID's were leaked. They lie about deleting the photos you send.

[Rosie Memos @almostjingo]

Well that’s an awkward way of finding out that RING cameras are remotely controlled and have facial recognition.

[saka_1 @saka_1c]

@zachglabman they'll just use them to find lost dogs probably

[AntiKakocracy 💜🤍💚🟥 @AntiKakocracy]

@daddynohara @Kiwipally They might not realise, but they're following the "Simple Sabotage Field Manual", published in 1944 by the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS).

[hiroshi @daddynohara]

> be me, applied scientist at amazon
> spend 6 months building ML model that actually works
> ready to ship
> manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?"
> show him 37 pages of technical documentation
> "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?"
> model literally convinces customers to buy more stuff they don't need
> "okay but are you thinking Big Enough?"
> mfw I am literally increasing sales
> okay lets ship it
> PM says there's not enough Disagree and Commit
> we need to disagree about something
> team spends 2 hours debating whether the config file should be YAML or JSON
> engineering insists on XML "for backwards compatibility"
> what backwards compatibility, this is a new service
> doesn't matter, we disagree and commit to XML
> finally get approval to deploy
> "make sure you're frugal with the compute costs"
> model runs on a potato, costs $2/month
> finance still wants a cost breakdown
> write 6-pager about why we need $2/month
> include bar raiser in the review
> bar raiser asks "but can we do it for $1.50? we need to be Frugal"
> spend another month optimizing to hit $1.50
> ready to deploy again
> VP decides we need to "Invent and Simplify"
> requests we rebuild the entire thing using a new framework
> framework doesn't exist yet
> "show some Ownership and build it yourself"
> 3 months later, framework is half done
> org restructure happens
> new manager says this doesn't align with team goals anymore
> project cancelled
> model never ships
> manager gets promoted to L8 for "successfully reallocating resources"
> team celebrates with 6-pager retrospective about what we learned
> mfw we delivered on all 16 leadership principles
> mfw we delivered nothing else
> amazon.jpg

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS