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[Richard “Beebo” Russell @proverbs_14_23]

I once sold a truck to a guy who called and agreed to pay full price as long as I brought it to the airport within the hour. It was incredibly sus, but my truck had been for sale for months, and I had grown desperate. So I went. It only got weirder.

The moment I arrive he hops in the drivers seat for a test drive, and a run to the bank to get the money to buy it. He’s a freakishly large porcine fellow, adorned head to toe in dirty work clothes. He looked like Hagrid if he were an alcoholic with a the world’s most unionized construction job.

We get to chatting on the drive. Work, life, conspiratorial ramblings, Donald Trump, Pakis. The usual, if you know this type of guy.

I come to learn he needed to buy my truck to get home. He had bought a one way plane ticket to come buy a different one, but had been ghosted by the seller when he landed. He was stranded at an airport on the other side of the country with no other plan.

So I thought, “well maybe I know the guy who ghosted him. Let me see if I can help.” I asked to see his phone to read his FB Marketplace message with the seller.

He had been talking to some guy with Broken English and a vaguely middle eastern sounding name for several days now. The guy was selling an incredibly desirable truck for 30% below market. A virtually impossible deal. The vehicular equivalent of a horny singles in your area add on a porn site.

He turned to me and said “y’know, his listing says the truck is about an hour from here, maybe I should go look for him.”

I said “bro I’m looking at his profile, he has this same truck listed in every city in North America. The plate in the photos isn’t even from our state. This truck is spammed hundreds of times across marketplace.”

To which he replied, “yeah I thought that was weird. I think it’s a glitch.”

“No it’s not a glitch… you didn’t send him money did you?” I asked, fearing the answer.

“Yeah I sent him a money, otherwise he was gonna sell it to another guy.”

I winced. “how much?”

“Five thousand bucks.”

“……okay.”

“Well let’s look him up, we have his name.” He replies confidently.

“Look him up where?” I ask.

“Facebook”

“I’m looking at his Facebook. It’s not real.”

Just then we arrive at the bank, he parks my 2500HD in the handicap spot at a 45 degree angle. I say maybe we should pick a different spot, he tells me he isn’t picky.

We set up the wire transfer, he makes a disparaging remark about brown people to the teller. She frowns, she is brown. The money luckily still gets sent. And he takes off in the truck.

Hours later he calls me from the middle of nowhere. He had decided to fuck with the aftermarket tuner while driving and bricked it. He was stranded.

I don’t think all you xitter users realize just how difficult the modern world already is for an 85IQ person to navigate.

With 53% of youtube shorts views now coming from AI content, these people are about to be thrust into a completely incomprehensible dream realm forever.

[Leo Purrson🦁🔮 @PurrsonVT]

My brother was about to send 3000 dollars to someone on Facebook marketplace for a Delorean and when I said “yeah that’s obviously a scam don’t do that” both my brother, my father, and my mother got fucking VITRIOLICLY mad at me, like insanely fuck ass mad, that I would suggest that. 20 minutes later “yeah that was a scam” my brother apologized my mom and dad didn’t. It was so odd, none of them are idiots, but they were fully willing to believe that some random grandma in the middle of nowhere was selling a vehicle worth over 100 grand for 3K because it didn’t have the title or some shit

[‏ً @justjargons]

I love how basically every study shows that students do better with less homework and workers perform better with more vacation days and shorter shifts, yet we do the exact opposite because of outdated, guilt-driven “work is suffering” values and toxic hustle culture.

[Strawbærry Narwhal ‽↙↙↙ @unvarnishedvoid]

Every day this headline is proven correct

[ziegfield 🐕💨 @mziegfield]

it's really interesting to see the "you're gonna get left behind/you're the only one not using it" crowd immediately shift to "that's not real" in the replies of this tweet the moment they're provided with actual data instead of speculation

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

While everyone is still thinking about rocket thrusters on road vehicles… does anyone remember Bosch demonstrating a cold gas thruster that would kick in if it sensed the bike was losing grip during a turn?

[Guillem Garcia @ggs4ns]

I hear a lot of arguments about how this isn't their priority. Nah, I don't buy it.

AI labs love to brag about how claude writes a C compiler from scratch. Rewrites bun in rust. Chatgpt solves math.

And every single time, either the task is super verifiable with lots of human made tests, or there's controversy about leaked chats to openai.

If they could spin up an agent swarm to rewrite chatgpt desktop in rust and raylib (for example) we would be hearing for months about that. And I would be very happy! I love using fast software.
And look, you would be the first AI lab to do it! Perfect marketing, sells itself.

Why can't they spend at least 10min to kick off that swarm?

Either they have tried already and failed so miserably that we have heard nothing, or worse, they really believe electron can deliver the highest quality product.

You can't tell me a company that wrote how they stopped triggering 6900 react hooks on keypress has solved engineering. I don't believe you.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The usefulness of Amazon’s 6-page memo has been nuked by AI-generated text (employees sit in meetings suspecting text is AI and tune out).

Suspicious memos tagged as AI;DR (AI, didn’t read).

[michael @mchlhess]

should I be offended by this

[Long Now Foundation @longnow]

Nearly every phone and computer on Earth relies on one plain-text file to know what time it is.

When a country changes its clocks with a few weeks’ notice, or Morocco pauses daylight saving for Ramadan, someone has to update that file. Since 02005, that someone has been Paul Eggert, a computer science professor at UCLA, who does it as a volunteer. 

Take a look at this great data visualization to see the full story: 
https://t.co/EwDtGZXF4o

[Alastair Thomson @FinanceDirCFO]

One of the many reasons AI agents are over-hyped.

AI cos have got so used to invading other people's territory to steal their intellectual property, it never occurred to these "geniuses" that banks, online merchants and airlines might block their access.

Hysterically funny!

[404oops @oops4041555]

the whole thing is a sham.

we have tools that can replace adobe products and they're better than adobe products, but the thing that makes adobe - well - adobe can't be replicated with claude and codex.

things like proprietary licensed tech, brand recognition and such are part of why people immediately pick adobe.
you have other options like affinity, davinci, and more, but people don't pick that. they know of photoshop.

this is what artcraft doesn't understand.

[SoCuul @SoVeryCuul]

It's quite sad seeing all the high-quality first-party apple developer tools we've lost.

Older programs used to have so much work and care put into them that none of the newer ones will ever seem to get.

Reality Composer Pro seems to be the exception, but it's not even native.

[keenan @keenan_main]

Brother in law used chat gpt to book my niece’s birthday party and we showed up today and there’s no party

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

Probably one of the best comments this month

[deadalnix @deadalnix]

> it is very very likely that fable is better than you in every branch of software

It is faster than me. It is cheaper than me. It knows way more trick than I do. It also indeed knows every codebase that is out there.

But for some reason, it's dogshit at actual engineering. Tries to cheat its way through problems instead of fixing them constantly. Completely fails to produce sensible abstractions. The test suite it produces are both enormous and somehow misses the behavior you care about while being tightly coupled to the implementation.

I wish it could do these things for me, but it can't today, and doesn't show much signs of improving.

I think people saying this are either doing it for the views, or because they are the ones who produced the mountain of shit software we ase dealing with are are indeed worse than fable in every way.

Not something I'd brag about.

[barbie★ @rarestbarbie]

cell phones aren’t druglike, they’re carlike. even if you consciously want to opt out, you can’t, because everyone expects you to have and use one to interact with society. i cannot even use the laundry machines in my building without being forced to use the laundry app.

[Guillem Garcia @ggs4ns]

why software engineers have this low self esteem?

It's very easy to disprove this. Look at AI lab engineering outputs! They hire top talent, and have unlimited tokens + unreleased powerful models.

Can you see impressive software built by them? By impressive I mean:

- low RAM / cpu usage
- good UI UX
- no blatant bugs
- minimal downtime
- obviously no electron

... why isn't this obvious?

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

I keep saying it: Doug Ford has about 15 scandals that, on their own would’ve brought down any other government. And yet, no updates on any of these investigations. When is the Ford government gonna be held accountable for literally anything?

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Agree to disagree. But let's chat timeline. If Musk actually sells this car with the rear thrusters in 2028 ill buy and publically give away $10k worth of your epic ModRetro Gameboys.

If Musk *does not* sell this car in 2028. (He won't) then you buy and give away $10k worth of my Paradox Wheelchairs.

Easy money. (for me).