GRAND RIVER, MN - Residents Rally Against New Dada Center
"No one knows what the hell it is. It's not Modernist. It's not Brutalist. It's always making weird noises."
"We don't want our children growing up in an environment full of semiotic deconstruction. Who asked for this?"
"The horses were packed into echoing metal trailers and trucked 1,800 miles east to the pens of a hard-luck livestock trader in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.
A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustangs and quickly drove off into the night.
From there the mustangs disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trader won’t say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter."
#wildhorses #horsegirls #mustangs
What an anemic interpretation of "creating value for others". On that list would be people like Jonas Salk, Harper Lee, Martha Graham, Ms. Kurtz who teaches 3rd grade, and Tony who's volunteered at the soup kitchen for 20 years.
Jeff Bezos: "I've created $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people."
"Somebody needs to make a list where they rank people by how much wealth they've created for other people."
While talking about his net worth, he floated an idea that flips the whole concept of a "rich list" on its head.
He did the math live, right there on stage.
"Amazon's market cap is 2.3 trillion today. I own about 200 billion of it."
"So if you take 2.3 trillion and subtract out the piece I kept for myself, then I've created something like $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people."
That's not a typo. Trillion, with a T and it's not even his money.
"That should put me pretty high on some kind of list."
He didn't stop at himself, either. He immediately named who else deserves a spot at the top.
"People like Jensen, Nvidia, he's going to be very high on that list."
"That would be a pretty cool list. Somebody should do that list."
@SonnyBunch It makes me think of the countdown episode of How I Met Your Mother. The countdown is totally irrelevant, but it's a game someone chose to put in which makes it a dialogue when I choose to engage. Even if there's a game in an AI piece, there's no dialogue
The anti-data center moment is probably astroturfed by OpenAI and Anthropic because they know there isn't enough money to support what they've already started trying to build
@HPluckrose Rule of thumb I've had is (generally speaking) whoever issues the ultimatum wears the blame.
"Test or else" can't be mad if else is chosen.
@lymanstoneky I have to bite my tongue from responding, "if I wanted to know what Aristotle thought, I'd be talking with him. I want to know what you think"