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What does freedom cost? Tulip Farmer. Lost all my bulbs in a dinghy accident.

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@USN_Submariner bring it ALL:

[bone @boneGPT]

"People aren't ready, this is gonna change everything"

You know what people weren't ready for? Fucking mammoths. Tigers eating them. Monkeys ripping their arms off. The black plague. The ice age. Smallpox. Vikings pulling up on the beach. Drinking water that gives you diarrhea until you die. Getting a scratch and losing your whole leg. The Mongols. The Spanish Inquisition.

One volcano can send us back to the dark ages and these safety guys are gonna be shocked. Oh the robots didn't kill us? It was a volcano? Imagine their disappointment as the hot ash rains down on them.

A solar flare is gonna explode your phone in your pocket your legs are gonna be covered in battery acid and your bank account will stop working. You're afraid of a computer program doing math?

"Things are moving too fast" homie you live on a rock that periodically deletes everything. You are one the most luckiest entities in a 100 light year radius living during a golden era. Cheer up.

My ancestors crossed an ocean in a wooden box because they ran out of fucking potatoes.

"The social disruption will be enormous!"

Nigga World War 2? World War 2? Hop in the people carrier we're landing on the beach.

Are these people out of their fucking minds? Do they not know what we've survived already?

A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Man the fuck up.

Accelerate.

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@esrtweet Part IX.

I see nationalization very likely as a possibility in this case.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

This is a detailed exposition, by somebody who understands corporate finance and debt leverage much better than I do, of the argument I've been making on here that the current AI build-out is unsustainable and guarantees a fairly near-term crash.

I saw this coming because when you estimate the training costs for frontier models it immediately becomes obvious why the big AI providers only claim to be profitable relative to inference costs, not training and build-out costs.

The technology is sound, but the investment assumptions are obviously crazy.

This guy supplies the detailed mechanics and the dates.

https://t.co/3lHcC2NBAw

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Today in a nutshell

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@MillieMarconnni AI generated writing about writing.

Good content, but use less clanker. Ironic...

[Dr. Lexus @SirLurkington]

@AutismCapital There is at least one SWG rebirth kicking around out there.

https://t.co/ZuRLJL545a

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating.

Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground.

The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves.

It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors.

Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence.

True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over.

Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market.

We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

I was there Friday night in San Francisco for the @REK event, and this is something you had be in the room to get it, but I’ll try to describe it.

It hit completely differently from robot-versus-robot fights. Those are entertaining, sure, but after a while they start to feel strange. You’re empathizing with machines that aren’t conscious, don’t feel pain, and don’t feel anything. Robot versus human hits different and raw, it was an emotional rollercoaster. I felt real fear for the human fighter, and real excitement, mostly fear, and when it ended there was a huge wave of relief.

The robots were remote-controlled, of course, but the kicks were genuinely powerful. We know how power-dense those actuators are, and the human fighter took real hits to his body. The kicks from the six-foot-tall EngineAI T800 seemed nearly impossible to dodge when they were hurled in the right direction. The Unitree H1 was even harder to deal with because its dynamic balance is so good that it just refused to go down.

This could be the start of a genuinely new entertainment genre. But I can tell you this: if someone wants to fight a robot with a real AI brain and real perception, you’d need robots that are far less powerful, throttled down, and compliant. Otherwise it ends in serious injury or worse.

This is the beginning of something different in robotics and entertainment, and we need to think seriously about it before regulators use moments like this as fearmongering fodder to throttle the entire humanoid frontier.

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@AutismCapital SWG had the best crafting and economy of any MMO. Your grinded for mterials, not stats.

You built your own houses and cities in the world.

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@JohnTraddington @AutismCapital If you actually read many of the replies, a majority of these memories are people brought together.

Rude.

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@DanKraciun @AutismCapital Forklift races.

I grinded that game with enough money to Buy the plane ticket instead of boat. Took weeks. Wouldnt let you 😔

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@Livmilesbooks @AutismCapital THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM! Whoa forgot about that one. Good pick.

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@GhwstVR @AutismCapital https://t.co/CiJgTsvY9S

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@ThePepeKong @AutismCapital Rare candy hack.

Ended up battling real kids for pokemon cards (i have like 5 charizard cards to this day) one shotting them in the game boy game with lvl 255 snorlax.

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@VibinApu @AutismCapital Kept all our nintendo powers and plystation magazines for years. Let them all go a while back. Hundreds of them.

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@Broletaireius @AutismCapital Eq2 was fantastic

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@max_gagliardi @AutismCapital https://t.co/lcHXAEkbjD

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@RockyBurley @AutismCapital https://t.co/k1BOCV82Pk

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@dustysanders411 @AutismCapital That song is still a banger.
https://t.co/v0NnB8WGQE