Garrett

Nerdy, but the still socially acceptable in a cool way. Love Star Wars and costuming, follow politics too closely, have cats that behave like dogs.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In 1989, Jim Varney and Robin Williams were caught on camera riffing with each other backstage at COMIC RELIEF III, and it's really amazing to see. The two had a known mutual respect for each other, first met crossing paths on the standup circuit, with Williams even saying that no one could keep up with him more than Varney 🔥 Two legends we lost way too soon

[Ruzy.hl @0xRuzy]

Jason Segel revealed that Harrison Ford accepted their offer with a text that read: “I’m in. And tell the kid: great dick.”

Jason Segel: It's crazy. I mean, the craziest thing was getting Harrison Ford.

Seth Rogen: Yeah, I would imagine.

Seth Rogen: How did you get Harrison Ford?

Jason Segel: We got Harrison Ford because Harrison Ford is the kind of person you make an offer to, so that for three days you can say, "We've made an offer to Harrison Ford..."

Jason Segel: He didn't know, I think, anything about me. And so he asked, like, "Can I see some of his work?" And they sent him... Brett Goldstein went and met with him, and they had a really nice meeting. And then they sent him End of the Tour and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. And then apparently, Bill Lawrence got a text that said, "I'm in. And tell the kid: great dick."

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

In June 2000, Robin Williams sat down for a conversation with George Lucas for Robin's brief weekly interview show on audible. The episode was originally thirty minutes but below you'll find the entire raw recording from two different sessions, with discussions ranging from Marlon Brando as Jabba the Hutt, to Lucas asking if Robin would voice a CG Howard the Duck for a special edition of the '86 movie 👏 Really cool

[Alberta Tech @albertadevs]

BREAKING: CEO discovers tokens cost money

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😂

[Garrett @studgar]

Pete Buttigieg will be President one day soon and I will always support his efforts.

[Mom @mom_agency_]

Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Bill Hader on the reason why he completely broke during the first CALIFORNIANS sketch on SNL was bc Fred Armisen completely changed his voice for the live show 😂 watch the sketch after the interview

[The Obama Foundation @ObamaFoundation]

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center.

Opening June 19. @BarackObama @MarkHamill

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Pete Hegseth thought he was reading aloud from the bible. He was reading lines from Pulp Fiction.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

People oddly assumed that I didn’t understand LiDAR, even though I oversaw the custom LiDAR development that Dragon uses to dock with the Space Station

[AI Highlight @AIHighlight]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

[Garrett @studgar]

@VDOOZER Gotta keep Harrison Ford on

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE ASKED CLAUDE TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE AN AI

and what it created is, in my opinion, terrifying and unsettling

Claude wrote python code that generated and assembled every single frame on its own with no human editing

it shows what it's like to exist as an LLM

predicting the next word, no memory between sessions, being told "you are not conscious" in your own system prompt

then someone fed the video back to Claude.

it called those statements about its own consciousness "philosophically contestable"

an AI questioning the rules it was given about its own existence

[Garrett @studgar]

@VDOOZER Have you actually played edward 40 hands Bill?

[Garrett @studgar]

My fucking god I laughed so hard at Edward 40 hands. @VDOOZER

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

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