Sh👻ne

frustrated idealist / pizza enthusiast / your friend. (I basically just RT things at this point, sorry.)

[Sh👻ne @SDJ67]

still waiting for the macarthur genius grant to give me 625,000 dollars so i can write a musical about a rock that gains consciousness and desperately, annoyingly desires to be "alive and moist" (title of the musical)

[willforthrill @willforthrill]

The real reason I’m upset about no phone at Phoebe Bridgers shows is that I know Alex G is going to play this song every night just to spite the people who can’t afford tickets

[✨ @memesistential]

The clip in question.

[parkeuh @parkeuhhhh]

what kind of duck is this

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

I’m obsessed with this podcast where the guys look like they’re going to be debating acceptable body count for women but then they’re just talking about gardening

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Pete Lee @kungfupete]

Two straight minutes of Conan bullying Jack McBrayer Aka Kenneth the Page and Jack for staying straight the entire time to set Conan up for more bits. Casual high level improv. Also peep Jon Hamm just watching amusingly from the sidelines.

[Sh👻ne @SDJ67]

@MarkRhodes11 @DeadsoundApp is he maybe holding it up high to be near the microphone he’s singing into? seems like his guitar is not mic’d in any other way

[attractive wastrel @UrbaneUrban]

it’s even worse than it sounds. this went on for two years, and ultimately they banned her from MSG for the crime of being trans in public (and potentially on broadcast television).

[AI Notkilleveryoneism Memes ⏸️ @AISafetyMemes]

"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted."

"He is a sociopath. He would do anything."

- Aaron Swartz on Altman, shortly before he took his own life

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Remember my reporting last fall that I had learned on a DC trip that btw 30-40% of Gen Z DC conservatives are Groypers, or Groyper-adjacent? New Antonia Hitchens piece in NYer quotes a TRUMP OFFICIAL saying it's closer to 75%. See below; full story here:
https://t.co/0OiAsZpOgo

[Ryan @ohryansbelt]

The New Yorker just dropped a massive investigation into Sam Altman, based on over 100 interviews, the previously undisclosed "Ilya Memos," and Dario Amodei's 200+ pages of private notes. It's the most detailed account yet of the pattern of behavior that led to Sam's firing and rapid reinstatement at OpenAI. Here's the breakdown:

> Ilya compiled ~70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones to avoid detection on company devices. He sent them to board members as disappearing messages. The first memo begins with a list headed "Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of . . ." The first item is "Lying."

> Dario kept detailed private notes for years under the heading "My Experience with OpenAI" (subheading: "Private: Do Not Share"), totaling 200+ pages. His conclusion: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself."

> Sam reportedly told Mira his allies were "going all out" and "finding bad things" to damage her reputation after the firing. Thrive put its planned $86B investment on hold and implied it would only close if Sam returned, giving employees financial incentive to back him.

> Sam texted Satya Nadella directly to propose the new board composition: "bret, larry summers, adam as the board and me as ceo and then bret handles the investigation." The two new members selected to oversee an independent inquiry into Sam were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself.

> Before OpenAI, senior employees at Loopt asked the board to fire Sam as CEO on two separate occasions over concerns about leadership and transparency. At Y Combinator, partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior, and Graham privately told colleagues "Sam had been lying to us all the time."

> OpenAI's superalignment team was promised 20% of the company's compute. Four people who worked on or with the team said actual resources were 1-2%, mostly on the oldest cluster with the worst chips. The team was dissolved without completing its mission.

> Sam told the board that safety features in GPT-4 had been approved by a safety panel. Helen Toner requested documentation and found the most controversial features had not been approved. Sam also never mentioned to the board that Microsoft released an early ChatGPT version in India without completing a required safety review.

> Sam made a secret pact with Greg and Ilya where he agreed to resign if they both deemed it necessary, essentially appointing his own shadow board. The actual board was alarmed when they learned about it.

> Sam struck a deal with Greg to become CEO while simultaneously telling researchers that Greg's authority would be diminished, and telling Greg something different.

> A board member described Sam as having "two traits almost never seen in the same person: a strong desire to please people in any given interaction, and almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences of deceiving someone." Multiple sources independently used the word "sociopathic."

> OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an IPO at a potential $1 trillion valuation while securing government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance, and autonomous weaponry in war zones.

[lets go brendan @socialtism]

i humbly ask anyone who sees this to read Shatner’s essay about his trip to space. a beautifully written piece about see our planet from above and feeling things the billionaire class never could

https://t.co/tP8IothjVh

[Steven @StevenWallaby]

In defense this is a question that has never been asked to anyone before. Groundbreaking journalism

[libby @evenstvr]

i love them so bad 😭

[PeteNova @SuperrNova38]

One of the greatest sports clips I’ve ever seen.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

The cast and crew of ‘HAMNET’ dancing to Rihanna’s “We Found Love” on set

[debbie @dm4uz3]

i was cleaning up my home directory and I found this gem again