That’s just defending itself.

Uranium. Right? We have the best uranium. We have so much of it, you wouldn’t believe it. People say, ‘Sir, what are you doing with all that uranium?’ I say, we’re making supersoldiers. The best supersoldiers.

Now, the radical left - they’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s dangerous, you can’t expose people to radiation.’ Wrong. I’ve seen the movie. You know the one? With the guy? He gets the radiation and then, bam! He’s unbeatable. He’s got the strength, the speed. The skin. Very tough skin. They say my skin is very tough, by the way.

But the lying media, they hear ‘uranium’ and they panic. They say, ‘Trump wants to give our troops cancer.’ I’m not going to give them cancer. My uncle - a very smart man, very smart - he told me all about uranium. He told me about nuclear power. Beautiful big towers. I want to give them power. Tremendous power. We’re going to have soldiers who can lift a tank over their heads. I’ve seen the schematics. They’re beautiful schematics. I said to the generals, ‘Why aren’t we doing this?’ They said, ‘Sir, the Geneva Convention…’ I said, ‘Forget the Convention. We’re making a new one. The Trump Convention.’ It’s going to be much better, with much more winning.

1. leave us alone
2. leave us alone
3. pay us back for the shit you broke
4. seriously, leave all of us alone
5. we got a taste of the money firehose and we want more

It’s remarkable that they unflinchingly applied the platform capture model. Come roaring out the gates with a disruptor, severely underpriced so as to get a userbase and strangle out the competition, then enshittify to recover the lost revenue and enjoy the market domination.

But that only works if you’re disrupting an existing market! Sora isn’t a TikTok killer. Sora can’t make cooking videos or parenting advice videos or skits or reaction videos or short-form drama or travel vlogs or anything that people value watching. All it does is let you make slop of Charlie Kirk boxing Darth Vader at a traffic stop. An app where every user has unlimited access to the slop generator is an app where nobody watches anyone else’s content and just custom generates their own, tailored to their specific lack of taste. You cut out the actually skilled content creators by the fundamental nature of the app.

It’s the same issue as that music AI slop app, Suno. The users only listen to the slop they generate for themselves. They’re not creating music inspired by their role models or their artistic vision. They’re not even listening to each other’s slop. The entire generative slop ecosystem, all of it, is the pinnacle of alienation from others. It strongly rewards isolation and its inherent, sycophantic addictivity makes users spiral in further and further. And if it made money that would be something, but every generative slop project and company is massively, unfathomably net-negative!

Fucks sake, there isn’t even a reason to start a company in the LLM world because the only product is utterly interchangeable slop generators, fine-tuned to specific tasks. Cursor was the biggest name in LLM coding, but they source their LLM through Anthropic. And then Anthropic releases Claude Code and cranks up the billing to try and drown Cursor. No LLM product is distinguishable from any other in a way that prevents the model owners from taking the idea and launching it themselves. And the whole time everyone involved is losing money.

Deep Rock Galactic is a co-op horde shooter with impeccable class-based gameplay and wide weapon and environment variety. You play a dwarf in the caves of an alien planet, blowing away the local giant bugs while you plunder minerals. Playable solo, in friend lobbies, or with public randoms, and it has bar none the best community of any online game I’ve ever played.

Elden Ring is the first and only game to scratch the Itch of exploring game worlds when I was a child. Intensely immersive and fascinating. The combat requires reading a manual to know how to put together a build until you know what you’re doing and the plot is barely present, but the horizon never stops opening up a new vista.

Esoteric Ebb is the first real Disco-like. Set in a medieval fantasy world (with deep deep world building), you’re a cleric investigating a tea shop explosion. Instead of the many personalities of Disco in your head, you have your six ability scores. It also, and this is important, doesn’t give a fuck about D&D mechanics and is a distillation of the experience of playing a really fun campaign. It’s like if Terry Pratchett’s Guards, Guards was a video game

Nah there’s probably some arpanet guy enjoying his tech-free retirement in the woods who keeps having nightmares about oscilloscopes and vacuum tubes

Costs OpenAI about $5 per 15 seconds of video generated

Most of openAI’s deals are just announcements of intentions to proceed to negotiations of investments of up to $X and have no substance

Not really. He’s spent millions building a large foster care village facility, he’s donated a fuckton of money to an Armenian genocide charity, and he’s described Trump as a clown who was nevertheless less dangerous than Dick Cheney (during his first term). He’s also shared a story about how he once met Trump and Trump seemed to think he was actually Bruce Wayne

An SCP that’s the cognitohazardous effect of becoming a huge loser because Musk just radiates loser particles

Yeah he’s nothing if not committed to the bit

Can’t believe we’ve got heliocentrists on this web zone, can’t believe what the world has come to smh

Probably Cities since it’s more grounded but the two systems are highly compatible and one could just yoink the interesting parts of each

Businesses don’t work that way. The whole reason SaaS and cloud computing exploded is because businesses would rather pay a premium now to not own liability later. It’s why business warranties and service level agreements and all that shit exist in the first place.

Costs are also amortized. If a wheel costs 20 coins and must be replaced every year, and a banded wheel costs 80 coins but lasts six years, then it makes more sense to buy the banded wheel. Similarly, a wheel failing means you lose the revenue the cart would earn you until you replace it, so a wheel that fails less often improves your expected profit.

Not that every business acts that way. Sometimes budget might limit options, sometimes decision-makers may decide the risk is worth it for the savings (they only drive on paved roads or some other particular set of conditions improve the calculus). Some business owners (many!) are irrational or stupid.

Yeah they don’t know any of that, they think Xi Jinping is the sole and absolute wielder of all power in China which he uses to brutally oppress his people and worse, American corporations

Is this goddamn clown man still on the whole “milk = white supremacy” thing

It’s not a fash book but it is a neoliberal “wowie economics huh!” book that tries to thread the needle of material conditions around individual responsibility. If, for instance, a minority population is poor because of redlining, the solution is obviously providing scholarship programs to high achiever students so they can then open businesses in those areas and gentrify tax revenues higher.

We’ve already locked in bad effects from climate change but this slows the rate of acceleration. Carbon emissions of bombs are also a drop in the bucket compared to 20% of the entire world’s consumption so it’s a massive win.

Yeah RFK needs to know the best places to immerse his leathery hide next