barry

Social media, itself, is a joke. Laser eyes are too bearish.

[barry @VeryBarry]

@NickJFuentes It’s nice that you caught up on the anti Israel wave being a psyop. Now how much longer before you realize flipping people to dem for this midterm was the dumbest gamble of your life.

[barry @VeryBarry]

Persia is far stronger than American minds are allowed to comprehend. This is not a good thing. Persia has always been a problem causer.

[David Reaboi @davereaboi]

This is literally the argument I make in my book—and the one I’ve made publicly for the last two years. Wild.

[Ebe Ne Zer @benzor_couture]

Women get the ick when they realize they can't manipulate you.

[barry @VeryBarry]

@unusual_whales Valve’s still at double this, even with the new “corrected” valve number. Lmao

[barry @VeryBarry]

@EricLDaugh This is ganna sound stupid to anyone that doesn’t over read into details….the blue tie is very telling.

[BLACK DUMPLING™ @BlackDumpling]

He's right though. The guy just doesn't get it. But that's because it's a cheat. It's a scam. You're being played. The purpose of a thing is what it does.

And the purpose of this entire meme was for adult women to hurt young men. To punish them.

But how could we possibly know?

Consider the response meme: "Would you rather tell a woman how you feel or a tree?"

And this was devastating. That's why, as a meme, it was killed almost immediately.

Whereas the number of men who were violent towards women is vanishingly small, the number of men who interact with women is constant. Everywhere. All the time.

And those men do not trust those women. At all.

Further, unlike the bear meme, which was really just performative cruelty, these men were speaking candidly about how they really felt.

Did any of the women who read that meme listen? Hell, how often did they even respond to it? Or, did they do exactly what the meme said they'd do... dismiss it. Mock it. Shame it. Ridicule it.

Well, we all saw how that played out.

Conversely, I can't think of a single woman that had her teeth knocked out because of the bear meme.

The bear meme assigned guilt (notice how the guy always looks like a very specific kinda guy, also not accidental) and through that guilt shame.

It's meant to hurt.

And that's what so few of the men who respond to this meme get. They think the meme is an arguable scenario, that a discussion can be had, when that was never the intention to begin with. The belief that discussion was an option to begin with was part of the trap itself. It sucks you in and demands you convince someone that hates you that you're worthy based on standards you could never possibly live up to.

Which is why it was pushed as hard as it was.

If a woman posts this meme understand she's doing it for the express purpose of being cruel in a manner that gives her plausible deniability. Nothing more, nothing less.

It certainly isn't about empathy.

[barry @VeryBarry]

Yuuuuuuup

[Specter @DemonFramed]

It’s already happening.

80% of the male population could potentially end up never finding a wife or reproducing.

We’re heading toward an extinction level birth rate collapse, and most people are still in denial about it.

[tree @treeonchain]

a man afraid of looking foolish will eventually look back and realize fear made a fool of him anyway

[barry @VeryBarry]

So you’re saying they’re incompetent and all the screaming on X was pretty much telling yall how exactly to fix it. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Joey Gilkey @JoeyGilkey]

Update #2 (after meeting with the @bot @spacexai engineering team):

- Team is great. They care a ton. They owned it.
- They admitted that it was almost entirely from pulling Opus 5.5 out. Which is now back as of this AM.
- Learned a little bit about the context-compaction process with Grok 4.7-summarize which is not a public model. Plays a role in routing config and the summary we get back.
- Grok 5.0 should be insane next level (just as an aside point)
- I am somewhat surmising on why stuff went so poorly over the weekend but a lot of it has to do with not just pulling Opus 5.5 out but when they did that a known problem (and was on cursor as well) showed up which is when you switch the model mid task (which would’ve happened by removing our 5.5) it cannot remember the context and even of what it can gather its truncated (likely do to 4.7-summarize compacting). So in our case what likely happened was we had a lot of stuff mid flight that was likely pulling on opus 5.5 heavy, then it got pulled, routed to different model, forgot the context, and turned incredibly dumb. We laughed when I showed them a project that was mid flight in a doc. The first half of the doc was intelligently designed, formatted, etc. and the second half of the doc was a wall of seemingly incoherent, non formatted text. Again, I’m surmising but I think it was dumber model with all context removed
- I won’t say much here but Elons comment on it being “unsustainably high relative to revenue” was a much larger chess move. Won’t say much past that. Not my place. But he’s definitely playing a much larger chess match than just “Grok bot isn’t sustainable”.
- The problems we all experienced should be fixed and I do not think they want to go back to what they experienced over the weekend with the hit it took.
- They are very much focused on the enterprise use case for grok bot in the future

All in all, how’s this impact my decision making moving forward with the enterprise contract we have:
- Honestly still weighing the decision vs just using team plan. Working through some terms
- the reason to move forward is pretty simple. Unlimited users (so not paying per seat but for usage), access to forward deployed team and engineers for support and circumstances like I just experienced, very granular governing and guardrails for the org. That’s it

Impressed with the team overall and I think the main benefit to staying vs moving to open source (for a company like mine vs being a solo/small company) is trusting their ability to ship and keep building plus keep it maintained.

Shoutout to @ASankarraman for jumping in to help and to the @spacexai, @bot, and @elonmusk teams

[Joseph Boot @DrJoeBoot]

“Not everything can be resolved through kindness which is why angels carry swords not flowers”

- C. S. Lewis

[barry @VeryBarry]

@KaiSchwemmer Term limits will only allow the lobbyists to control our country better. It isn’t the fix all solution you think it is.

[barry @VeryBarry]

@tim_cook Rip apple. Türkiye is compromised.

[Alice @RationalBlonde]

I'm begging Jensen Huang to reconcile with his wife. we cannot afford another billionaire ex-wife entering her "I'm going to fix society by funding its most annoying people" era

[barry @VeryBarry]

@shaunmmaguire I’m pretty sure that’s what some of these video games are doing when they make everyone comfortable to say the N word or anything else compromising, all by saying “we aren’t moderating voice chat”

[Janne Hägglund @Janne_HG]

@Devon_Eriksen_ "In the book 1984, which many women will be unfamiliar with because it doesn't contain any werewolf rape,"

[FreeMarketJD 🇺🇸 @FreeMarketJD]

@Devon_Eriksen_

[barry @VeryBarry]

🤣

[Fav @favwontmiss]

Now that Millennials are getting into office we should focus on the critical issues, like requiring logging trucks to have a closed back.

[barry @VeryBarry]

🤣

[barry @VeryBarry]

This guy could be an American citizen that just voted in the midterms.

[JOSΞPH 🌳 @CupOJoseph]

I taught it to sing Wonderwall

Chimera looks up pronunciations in CMUdict, falls back to letter-to-sound rules, and turns the resulting sounds into timed gestures that it can reuse for each lyric.

The future is now

[barry @VeryBarry]

@oecolamp We’ve been in a gender war our entire lives.