bryyyyguy.bsky.social
The musings of an Ohio-based Professional Spreadsheet Jockey.
Also interested in video games, music production, and photography.
Writing at https://pullinglevers.site/
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I really want to know how this interview happened at all. Does Dave have PR flacks out trying to burnish his image?
On top of being a misogynist cesspool, a huge part of their current business is promoting gambling.
Why should anyone want to know what this man thinks.
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Those first three albums have so many bangers.
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Depends on how small we are talking, but the crimes rates in those "small towns" is often waaaay worse than cities they are so scared of.
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“Associate Professor of economics and business Subbu Kumarappan said students enjoyed AI projects, but told him they did not always feel like the work was really theirs…”
At least some students appear to get it. The rest of that article is depressing platitudes from admin
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Just like many hobbies, PC gaming specifically “can” be a very expensive hobby if you go chasing max performance. My 3070 was expensive at the time I built my current machine, but it still runs anything I’m interested more than capably.
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Synthesizers are another super expensive one. That said, for PC gaming specifically if you start chasing max performance then you can end up dropping thousands. Consoles are way more cost effective comparatively.
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As always, publishing contrarian drivel like this is a choice and the Atlantic/NYT opinion sections continue to do it. Don’t give them money.
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At least the NYT byline might include that this author is a defense wonk for AEI. The Atlantic can’t even be bothered other than a very brief line at the bottom that 99% of people won’t see.
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The writer works for the American Enterprise Institute and specifically covers defense. That gives most of the game away, but you’re right that The Atlantic still picks who to publish.
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Also available in podcast form. A frequently horrific bit of essential listening.
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It’s so interesting because I’ve seen interviews where he seems well reasoned and informed but then the blinders immediately go on when it comes to tech, and in a way that should be in tension with other things I’ve seen him say. Can’t decide if it’s extreme naïveté or cynical political positioning.
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Ro Khanna?
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A lot of the tech oligarchs have made comments implying (in some cases quite explicitly) they think most people outside their wealth strata are NPCs and do not matter whatsoever. Simulation theory absolutely rotting brains.
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For all the "AI safety" discourse, none of these tech ghouls seem to be reckoning with the idea that consumer spending is the bedrock of the economy. Every job destroyed is less money likely circulating. All the supposed "value" of these companies would get eroded by their own work.
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And with the proliferation of highly competitive travel/prep leagues, parents wanting to make up for their own sporting failures see them as the missing link. “If I had elite travel baseball I could have gotten a scholarship or gone pro” etc etc Uncle Rico etc.
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Also a Manhattan Institute guy
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Sadly we don’t have as easy a mechanism as the UK did when they told Truss and her budget to kick rocks.
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To your point, no one is currently being charged an appropriate usage rate for these tools and hundreds of billions have been invested in compute that doesn’t seem to have any economies of scale.
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I realize that logic doesn’t apply to these dufuses but how would what he’s claiming even work? Twitch is just giving Hasan subs? Why would they do that?
*scream into my hands*
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Let one million “contributors” bloom
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I texted this to a friend who said “Just buy Substack and cut out the middleman Jeff!”
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“Anything that doesn’t benefit me personally is pork.” - Elon, probably.
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Wallet Inspector dot App
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In the meantime
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And you'd think that math should be fairly obvious, but no, we live in hell.
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I will never stop sharing this article whenever Elon and Mars comes up.
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Gestapo LARPing as operators
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He also looks like a completely different person in this ad from last year.
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I'm genuinely curious how they shot that commercial because the whole thing has an uncanny valley quality to it.
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Series E, for Extremely Desperate