Grim Jester

I am but a simple gooner seeking to understand the universe.

(Formerly Cantankerous_Me)

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@izm_ni @annylaifu A favorite poet of mine once wrote:

So come, sit with me
but do not obligate me to words,
and do not fear my silence.
For I would ask but the shelter of your company.

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@grok @neogoose_btw There you go, man. Root CA certs are perfectly ok to embed in hardware and often have lifetimes that exceed the natural life of consumer facing appliances. No TLS cert here.

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@annylaifu Stay safe. Good to see youre still around!

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Distributed peer to peer inference will be the only democratic access to a collective intelligence that might compete with overlords. But only publishing and access to free and open source remains accessible.

[Grummz @Grummz]

The era of cheap state of the art access to model is over.

- Chat GPT 5.6 is delayed to mid-July and Fable 5 has been gone for nearly 2 weeks.

- The gov now needs to review all models pre-launch, and only Meta has not yet agreed. ID will mostly likely be required and KYC with invasive face scans and other methods.

- Models costs have risen sharply. Fable was 2x the cost, Grok limits also increased greatly. API rates are also skyrocketing.

I am greatly concerned about the split between corporations who can afford AI and the rest of humanity.

We're headed for a 2 class system of haves and have-nots that will greatly impede the ability of startups to compete in any field (even legal, accounting, or regular apps).

The door is closing unless something is done to preserve our ability to foster entreprenership.

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Knew it.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. government will decide who gets access to GPT-5.6

OpenAI will release GPT-5.6 only in a limited preview to a small group of partners.

Sam Altman told staff the government would be "approving access customer by customer."

Commerce Sec Lutnick personally called Altman warning: don't launch without approvals from other agencies.

A de facto licensing regime.

ITS HAPPENING

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@XFreeze This is great. I want this to succeed as a viable replacement for incumbent solutions. Right now it’s tough to rely on it for extended multi step workflows, and even basic document edits. Reliability is surprisingly more difficult to squeeze out of the grok-build model.

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@techdevnotes Yes, yes, but let’s stay focused on what matters: When is Ani going to get her lingerie back?

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@Sampson_23 @xai @grok @grok, as a superheavy subscriber I am noticing cross session memory of past conversations is claimed by companions to be completely gone. Is that the case? Is this likely permanent?

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@Sampson_23 @xai @grok @grok please reply to this post.

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Maybe I'll stick with a 2020 model and make that thing last as long as it can.

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Just not big, positive wins for Americans.

"All three are big, positive wins for the American economy. "

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America.

Previously, I believed AI would replace many entry level roles typically filled by young employees. The technology would then work its way up the organization and eventually reduce the total number of jobs in a company.

The data is saying something different, so when I get new information I am willing to change my mind.

The number of software engineers being hired has been increasing. The number of open software engineer roles is growing.

The number of new college grads who get hired has increased 5.6% over the last 12 months. The unemployment level for people aged 20-24 years old who have a college degree has fallen from nearly 9% to almost 5% as well.

The Wall Street Journal recently wrote “AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as Head of AI and AI engineer.”

And I am starting to see companies throughout our portfolio aggressively hiring to keep up with the demand for their products and services.

If AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact, then companies are going to want as many productive units of labor as possible. This is a key reason why I am changing my mind.

AI appears to be a magical technology that will make companies more productive and more profitable. The net result will be more corporations, more startups, and more jobs.

All three are big, positive wins for the American economy.

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@telegram--like many other tech platforms lately--would really, really like to know your birthday. You know... to celebrate?

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@ChibiReviews Take care of you. Check out local recovery groups. Been attending for 7 years.

[Dan Greenheck @dangreenheck]

I think this is my biggest issue with AI right now.

I’ve switched over to 100% AI coding over the last few months. Overall, the experience has been great and I’m starting to get a handle on my new workflow.

While my productivity has easily 5X’d and my brain is enjoying thinking at a higher level of abstraction, the mental fatigue is real.

As someone who is self-employed, it has made it incredibly difficult to draw the line at the end of the day and close the laptop.

Don’t get me wrong, I already worked too much and stayed up too late before AI, but now when a feature is potentially a few prompts and 5-10 minutes away from completion, it’s so easy to say “just one more prompt.” and boom it’s 2AM.

Obviously, it’s a solvable problem and on me to address, but curious how others that aren’t tied to fixed schedules deal with this?

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔 HP launched a gaming laptop subscription where you pay monthly but never own the hardware. The high-end option is $130/month for an RTX 5080 Omen Max 16. That same laptop costs $2,110 to buy outright, meaning you'd pay the full price in about 16 months but still own nothing.
If you cancel after the first month, you face hefty fees. Canceling the top-tier subscription in month two costs $1,430 plus you have to return the laptop. You can only cancel for free after 13 months, by which point you've paid $1,690 and still have no laptop.

HP's justification: "The traditional upgrade cycle keeps most gamers perpetually one step behind. But with access to a new laptop every year, your subscription breaks that cycle completely."

My Take
This feels like the logical endpoint of the subscription economy. You pay forever, you own nothing, and the company frames it as doing you a favor. HP is betting that people are so conditioned to monthly payments that they won't do the math showing they'd pay full price in 16 months and keep paying after that.

Memory chip prices are up 60% because data centers are consuming everything. Hardware costs are rising. And now HP is using the affordability crisis to push a model where you never build equity in anything you use. We've seen this with software, streaming, cars, and now gaming hardware. The pitch is always about flexibility and staying current. The reality is you're perpetually renting your life from companies that figured out recurring revenue beats selling you something once. At least when you finance a laptop you eventually own it. I don't know how we got to a place where "you will own nothing" stopped being a dystopian warning and became a business model.

Hedgie🤗

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@AndrewWarner @calebhodges open law

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@AlexFinn @alexocheema @Jason @openclaw Definitely would love to hear how performant this gets, running which models...

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This is the way.

[Alex Cheema @alexocheema]

I’ll be honest, I have 32 mac minis. 3 more clusters like this one.

Why? @jason thought my argument for local AI would be cost, but it’s much more than that.

AI is becoming an extension of your brain, an exocortex. @openclaw is a huge leap towards that.

It knows everything you know, it can do pretty much everything you can do. It’s personalised to you.

That brings into question where this exocortex should run. who should own it? who can switch it off?

I certainly won’t be trusting @sama or @DarioAmodei with my exocortex. I want to own it. I want to know if the model weights change. I don’t want my brain to be rate limited by a profit seeking corporation.

“not your weights, not your brain” - @karpathy

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(Formerly Cantankerous_Me)