Lieut Dan

I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, aka Mormon, ask me why.

[Handlebar, bike roguelike @handlebardev]

going with this art direction - what do you think? #indiedev #gamedev

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire

If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands

Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

[Brad Lynch @SadlyItsBradley]

No. Fucking. Way.

This is amazing

[Lieut Dan @TehYellowDart]

@Deck_Ready Came from your latest video.

Nice place bro

[Lieut Dan @TehYellowDart]

Greater love hath no man. https://t.co/X6i9N70pGv

[Lieut Dan @TehYellowDart]

@qwestjon @Ch_JesusChrist Instead of going for one hour on Easter, we will be joining with more than 20,000,000 other Christians from around the world listening to living Apostles and Jesus Christ's holy Prophet, President Dallin H. Oaks, who receives direct revelation, among other disciples of Christ.

[George Noble @gnoble79]

OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME

I've watched companies implode for decades.

This one has all the warning signs.

OpenAI declared "Code Red" in December.

Altman sent an internal memo telling employees to drop everything because Google's Gemini 3 is eating their lunch. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff publicly ditched ChatGPT for Gemini after using it for two hours.

ChatGPT traffic fell in November. Second month-over-month decline of 2025. Meanwhile Gemini jumped to 650 million monthly active users.

The company that was supposed to build AGI can't keep its chatbot competitive.

But the real story is the money...

OpenAI lost $12 BILLION in a single quarter according to Microsoft's own fiscal disclosures.

Deutsche Bank estimates $143 billion in cumulative negative cash flow before the company turns profitable.

Their analysts put it bluntly: "No startup in history has operated with losses on anything approaching this scale."

They're burning $15 million per day on Sora alone.

$5 billion annually to generate copyright-infringing memes.

Even Sora's lead engineer admitted the "economics are currently completely unsustainable."

Here's the big math problem nobody wants to discuss:

It's going to cost 5x the energy and money to make these models 2x better.

The low-hanging fruit is gone.

Every incremental improvement now requires exponentially more compute, more data centers, more power.

Reports suggest OpenAI's large training runs in 2025 failed to produce models better than prior versions.

GPT-5 launched to widespread disappointment. Users called it "underwhelming" and "horrible." OpenAI had to restore GPT-4o within 24 hours because users preferred the old model.

Altman had promised GPT-5 would make GPT-4 feel "mildly embarrassing." Instead, users complained it was worse at basic math and geography.

They've released GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2 since.

Same complaints each time: too corporate, too safe, robotic, boring.

The talent exodus makes this even worse:

CTO Mira Murati. Gone.
Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew. Gone.
Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever. Gone.
President Greg Brockman. Gone.

Half the AI safety team departed. Multiple executives reportedly cited "psychological abuse" under Altman's leadership.

And now Elon Musk is suing for up to $134 billion.

A federal judge just ruled the case goes to jury trial in April. There's "plenty of evidence" that OpenAI's leaders promised to maintain the nonprofit structure that Musk funded.

Musk provided $38 million in early funding based on those assurances. Now he wants his share of the $500 billion valuation.

OpenAI called it "harassment." But the judge disagreed.

Here's what I think happens next:

The AI hype cycle is peaking.

The diminishing returns are becoming impossible to hide.

Competitors are catching up.

The lawsuits are piling up.

OpenAI needs to generate $200 billion in annual revenue by 2030 to justify their projections.

That's 15x growth in five years while costs keep exploding.

Even Sam Altman admitted investors are "overexcited" about AI.

His exact words: "Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money."

If I were running an AI startup with good traction right now, I'd be looking for an exit. Sell into the hype before the music stops.

My positioning:

I'm not touching OpenAI-adjacent plays at these valuations. The risk profile is astronomical.

If you're exposed to the Magnificent 7 through AI infrastructure bets, consider trimming. The gap between promised revolution and delivered reality has never been wider.

The smart money is rotating into sectors where valuations actually reflect fundamentals.

Small and mid-caps are trading near decade lows relative to Big Tech while earnings growth is only marginally lower.

Markets can price risk. But they can't price chaos.

And OpenAI is chaos dressed up in a $500 billion valuation.

[Dallin H. Oaks @OaksDallinH]

It was a special privilege for my wife Kristen and me to be in Burley, Idaho today as I officiated in the dedication of the Burley Idaho Temple.

We are living in a glorious season of temple building. This temple is our 212th dedicated temple worldwide. More than 150 other temples are in design or under construction.

Temples are essential to our Heavenly Father’s plan for His children. In these houses of the Lord, we are taught the most important things we can learn and do in mortality.

The scriptures speak of perilous times, when men’s hearts will fail them. They also speak of worthy disciples escaping these things, of their standing in holy places, and not being moved. Surely the times ahead will call for us to remember our temple covenants and to rely on the blessings promised to us.

I rejoice with you in the dedication of this Burley Temple.

The temple is the House of the Lord, a House built for the sacred work of the Lord God of Israel, our Savior and our Redeemer, to prepare us for exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God.

[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints @Ch_JesusChrist]

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled to Southern Utah for the interment of their fellow Apostle and President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, President Jeffrey R. Holland, in his beloved hometown of St. George, Utah, on January 1, 2026.

Despite the rain, hundreds of people honored the Church leader by lining the route to the cemetery, which included the St. George Temple and other landmarks meaningful to President Holland and his family.

Some 250 missionaries from the Utah St. George Mission gathered in front of the St. George temple and sang “Amazing Grace” as the hearse and procession passed them. Mission President Nels Thorderson, said, “Our Missionaries just love [President Holland] so dearly and love this opportunity to pay some respect to him and his family, as well as to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Learn more on Church Newsroom.

https://t.co/2caGu37mBu

[Alexandra Semenova @alexandraandnyc]

wealth managers putting your money in an index fund

[D. Todd Christofferson @ChristoffDTodd]

Jesus’ condescension, His willingness to live in this fallen world and show us the meaning of His gospel in day-to-day life, is truly an act of genuine love.

As you celebrate Christmas this year, I invite you to reflect on the mortal life and mission of Jesus Christ—and His condescension to save you.

[Lieut Dan @TehYellowDart]

@thegameawards I can't view your stupid site on my Foldable screen without closing it? You're sooo dumb

[legit gaming leaks @gaming_leaker]

Valve and Nintendo will collaborate on “absolutely nothing” later today.

There will be “no details, whatsoever” announced because, as my source puts it, “They literally aren't doing anything together. Stop messaging me.”

It remains to be seen what - if anything - this collaboration is about.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I was a trans progressive. Not quite a communist. More of a stancil-style technocratic prog. I saw firsthand how transition failed to improve the lives of any of my trans friends. They were all mentally ill messes, before and after. Including me. The MtFs I knew did not seem psychologically feminine in any way. And generally, I was often frustrated by the lack of pragmatism of progressives. I shared their stated goals, but thought they were extremely illogical about how they went about trying to achieve them. They would choose moral posturing over efficacy every time. Several times, when I pointed this out, I was told this was a “fascist mindset”. Trying to do things effectively was fascist to them. They thought moral purity was all you need.

I took mushrooms on New Year’s Eve, 2022, and it all came crashing down. I sat in a dark room and the cracks in my worldview widened until it all fell apart. I realized that this attitude, this allergy to rigorous thinking and aversion to necessary trade-offs, this prioritizing of seeming virtuous over tangible results, would destroy civilization if left unchecked.

By the time I came down, I considered myself a terf despite still being trans. And I started reading everything I’d been told not to. I read J. K. Rowling’s open letter and agreed with every word. I read “The Case for Colonialism” by @BruceDGilley and works by Niall Ferguson and realized that the wealth of the West was created by our ability to innovate, not stolen. Indeed, that wealth, built from knowledge, was what enabled colonialism in the first place. I read the Bell Curve and dove into the hereditarian literature. I have enough math background that I could meaningfully understand the arguments and counterarguments, and the former seemed much stronger than the latter. More than that, it felt like hereditarians were actually trying to understand the world, while the anti-hereds were trying to obscure it. They did not feel like truth-seekers, and would frequently mix moral outrage into their technical critiques in a way that struck me as deeply suspicious and anti-scientific.

Over several months of intense study, I reversed my position on most major policy issues. But the deeper change was philosophical, even spiritual. I fully accepted the necessary imperfection of the world, that progress is only possible via sacrifice, that we can only advance as a society if we can tolerate some people losing, that trying to eliminate all pain and loss would end up causing far more. Inequality is not inherently bad, and indeed is a necessary condition for the growth of knowledge at every scale of existence, from biology to economics. Evolution, whether biological or memetic or economic, is the only mechanism in existence that can produce order from chaos, structure from noise, beauty from nothingness. And evolution requires that weaker organisms, weaker ideas, weaker companies, and weaker nations be allowed to fail. Trying to prevent this stops the great engine of creation and leads to decay.

“To the precise extent that we are spared, even for a moment, we degenerate”

This strikes most as cold and cruel. But it is the nature of reality, and it is not clear it could be otherwise even in principle. If my aesthetics were not aligned with it, then my aesthetics, rather than the structure of existence, were what was wrong. I learned to see the beauty in creative destruction. I glimpsed a vision of God. And it changed my life. I detransitioned, started posting, got a job (via X), fell in love (via X). Now some of the most important people in the world read the words I write. I feel a deep and abiding sense of gratitude. And, after years of severe depression, I am excited to be alive.

[Lieut Dan @TehYellowDart]

@Alladdin1983 I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

I went to UVU where Charlie Kirk was assassinated when I was in college.

Charlie is a huge hero of mine.

That book they gave you will change your life for the better in ways you never imagined. I know it.

[CPU Duke @duke_cpu]

It’s #Intel‘s first 8bit #microprocessor!
This week, I finally worked on the kind donation of the awesome #computermuseum called ENTER Technikwelt in Solothurn, Switzerland. The request was to make die shots of the famous INTEL i8008 from 1972 made in 10 micron PMOS…
(1/n)

[CPU Duke @duke_cpu]

It’s the 8008, the first #8bit CPU of #Intel…
I stitched 216 individual #microscopy pictures to get this high resolution canvas of the die from 1971.
(8/n)

[Jeffrey R. Holland @HollandJeffreyR]

Over the front door of every temple in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—written on a plaque in gold-leaf letters—is the culminating evidence indicating that the temple is completed and has been dedicated.

It is the simple and beautiful dual statement that we have all seen and heard often—“House of the Lord, Holiness to the Lord.” The noise this world generates is often internal, distracting, pulling at our minds. It can be incessant and demanding, destructive of our spirits.

How wonderful to have “holiness” be the watchword of our day at the newly dedicated Grand Junction Colorado Temple—and houses of the Lord across the globe—where we make covenants from our service that counter the distractions and destruction of the world.

Regular temple activity is a wonderful way to bring holiness outside it, into our associations in our daily places of employment and activity, giving everyone from children, youth, and adults the blessings of peace, revelations, cleanliness, prayer, and honesty.

[Dallin H. Oaks @OaksDallinH]

To our young friends, please know that you have a Heavenly Father who loves you. He’s provided a plan for you.

[Ronald A. Rasband @RonaldARasband]

The growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is happening right before our eyes.

More than numbers, the spirit of the gathering is bringing souls to Jesus Christ and His gospel.