… these days:a) you get what you deserveb) you need your head read Musk weighed in on Trump’s comments on social media Saturday, writing: “Zelensky has gone too far.” https://newrepublic.com/post/216600/ukraine-loses-starlink-access-musk-zelenskiy-too-far This has way more to do with the fact that Musk’s twitter trumpet had a muffler jammed down the throat just as he was trying…
… and attack one another: “Yesterday’s OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us,” Ethereum researcher Justin Drake tweeted this week. “They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen.” https://futurism.com/future-society/crypto-gurus-concerned-ai-crack-wallets I’ll put aside the general wiffiness of OpenAI and…
Anglo-futurism is only an aesthetic cover-up for a bleak amoral future.
… is because you behave, talk, post, dress and proudly cut your hair like one. So man, if a duck quacks, walks and preens like a duck – probably a duck.
Great kiwi, Peter Thiel expressing his sadness about Argentina (his new home) losing the World Cup:
I’ve long maintained the current crop of assholes are too far over their skies… gravity is starting to have an impact. Jesse Welles nails it: All the masks are offAnd they’re getting lazy
I don’t mean to malign the entire U.S. press for its SpaceX IPO coverage. The Verge had the courage to publish a story openly (and correctly) calling Musk a killer. Smaller independent outlets generally did all of the heavy lifting when it comes to, you know, telling people the truth. The whole purpose of journalism. But pretty broadly the U.S. establishment press…
“Like most bad ideas,” wrote Mitchell Duran for Yahoo Finance, “Enhanced Games was born from a mix of grievance and the belief that, with the right amount of tech, financing, and new-age, untested science, any human being can transcend any and all natural limitations.” Tech and money sure do make a lot of damn winners in this…
Blairs treatment as some sort of left-wing voice has mystified me. Even the Wicked Witch of the West saw through him: In 2002, twelve years after Margaret Thatcher left office, she was asked at a dinner what was her greatest achievement. Thatcher replied: “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced our opponents to change their minds.”…