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The Future is Stupid
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A man filled with the gladness of living. Ecosocialist and Luddite.

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The smug "yes there's a bubble but this is as it should be" makes me so mad

The rich are burning through trillions of dollars to make AI garbage, knowing that probably half of that money will disappear in the crash

Meanwhile 700 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty

Obscene!

#fuckai
In comments echoing those made by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan in 1996, warning of "irrational exuberance" in the market during the dotcom boom and well ahead of that market crashing in 2000, Mr Pichai said the industry can "overshoot" in investment cycles like this. "We can look back at the internet right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the internet was profound," he said. "I expect AI to be the same. So I think it's both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this."
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
Yet more proof that @garbageday.email is a must-read to understand the current state of the world, as we drown in an algorithmic swirl of information, spectacle, spin, and shit
Epstein’s emails and texts are also a who’s who of far-right personalities. Aside from Bannon, The Telegraph reported Epstein was in contact with someone in the inner circle of notorious white nationalist British soccer hooligan Tommy Robinson. And in 2018, days after Trump associates Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort were both found guilty of financial crimes, Epstein mused in a text to an unknown recipient that he could reach out to Fox News’ Sean Hannity to stage an “intervention.” He also spent the summer of 2018 texting with an unknown recipient about putting pressure on then-Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner, writing, “Is there any way you can mediate the difference with Jared? He is s0000 outclassed by you, it’s like child abuse.” Getting any of this out to the public meaningfully, though, has been difficult. Publications around the world are racing to report out what they can from the House Oversight Committee’s data dump, but “news,” as we used to think of it, no longer exists within the barriers of an article and is now experienced almost entirely as fragments shared by whatever accounts happen to go viral on whatever app you happen to have open as that news is breaking. And only one of these fragments has been able to climb the attention economy to the top of digital platforms and even Saturday Night Live. And, of course, it’s the rumor Trump was photographed giving oral sex to Clinton.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
Strongly considering printing 1,000 A3 copies of this incredible short essay and plastering them all over my city

#noai #fuckai #resist

"I Am an AI Hater" by Anthony Moser

🔗 anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave. And to what end? In a kind of nihilistic symmetry, their dream of the perfect slave machine drains the life of those who use it as well as those who turn the gears. What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
My brother in Christ, you are using a computer and I assume a coal-fired power station to steal other people's work, and you're seriously getting mad at someone using the same prompt you use ?!
An AI bro with seemingly zero self awareness whining on X about someone using a prompt he thinks he created, calling it "passing off someone else's work as your own"
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
The really sick parts of the Epstein emails - the misogyny, the plans to discredit his victims, the winks and nods, the men rushing to his or Andrew's defense, the tasteless jokes...

... this is what Zuckerberg calls "masculine energy"; these are Musk's "high T males"
Jeffrey, I was prepared to vote against Trump for all the right reasons but I'm so disgusted by the outrage over "grab them by the pussy" that I may give him my sympathy vote. I'm sure Bill C said things, too. Andres
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
Same energy
A still from the TV show "Community", showing actor Ken Jeong as Ben Chang. A subtitle reads "stapler". This refers to the plot of episode 3, season 3. In that episode, the audience can hear the internal monologue of Chang, who has deluded himself into believing he is a detective, as he connects many random items to unconnected events of which he himself is the actual cause.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
Same energy
A still from the TV show "Community", showing actor Ken Jeong as Ben Chang. A subtitle reads "stapler". This refers to the plot of episode 3, season 3. In that episode, the audience can hear the internal monologue of Chang, who has deluded himself into believing he is a detective, as he connects many random items to unconnected events of which he himself is the actual cause.
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true
November 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
Tech really fucks some people in the brain
In our conversation, Skrenta downplayed the importance of any particular newspaper or magazine. He told me that The Atlantic is not a crucial part of the internet. “Whatever you’re saying, other people are saying too, on other sites,” he said. Throughout our conversation, Skrenta gave the impression of having little respect for (or understanding of) how original reporting works. Skrenta did, however, express tremendous reverence for Common Crawl’s archive. He sees it as a record of our civilization’s achievements. He told me he wants to “put it on a crystal cube and stick it on the moon,” so that “if the Earth blows up,” aliens might be able to reconstruct our history. “The Economist and The Atlantic will not be on that cube,” he told me. “Your article will not be on that cube. This article.”
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
stupidfuture.bsky.social
Positives: your Cybertruck can carry little toys and baubles to hand out to kids when you go camping

Negatives: you can't see out the windshield to know if any of those kids are currently in the path of your Cybertruck

www.wired.com/story/owning...
How do you feel about it now? Oh, I love it. Now, everything else to me—and I'm not talking down on anybody else's stuff, I still love a lot of other vehicles out there—but everything else, to me, those soft lines and everything, it all kind of blends together. And the Cybertruck obviously stands out. I mean, we take the trailer out a lot, and I can go to a campground and there's 50 kids that come out: “Cybertruck, Cybertruck, Cybertruck.” I carry little toys inside the frunk so I can pass them out and give them to kids, and they love it. It's a lot of fun. Anything you don’t like about it? I can't really see the front out of the windshield because it’s so long.
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM