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8·3 days agohis conclusions are a lot more complex than “none of these companies is profitable”
i have mixed feelings here. on the one hand, a lot of the article hinges on the suggestion that zitron is somehow concealing that he works with AI companies. i’ve listened to his podcast, i’ve read his articles, he is pretty up front about what his day job is and that he is a disappointed fanboy for tech. the dots are 1/1000th of an inch apart. it also devotes a remarkable amount of time to remarks from casey newton and the like, who have nothing to offer the world.
on the other hand, i do find it genuinely repulsive that he’ll work with a company like DoNotPay. it might be hackwork to suggest he’s concealing it, but I don’t like it, whether he’s open about it or not.
on the… third hand? when i’ve read his posts, i’ve found myself totally unable to evaluate his financial claims. the evidence always seems unimpeachable, i just do not know whether the conclusions he draws from that evidence make sense, so i never cite him. i think a more honest and interesting version of this article, one that went further than trying to insinuate he’s an ignorant fraud, would involve collaborating with someone with a lot of financial expertise and examining how rigorous his work actually is. but wired apparently wasn’t interested in trying to make that article happen
If these plugs are too much, please let me know: the second episode of our podcast on historical bigoted/misogynist texts is out now. “Woman, thy name is russia.”
https://bsky.app/profile/odiumsymposium.bsky.social/post/3m4cjzttdek2f
any of y’all watch a good movie or tv show lately? what was it
my laptop is a budget model from 2016 and it runs xfce smoothly and happily lol. i code on it and watch streams and play slay the spire and all the usual stuff. idk how the stylus changes things but the required specs for doing quite a lot with linux are negligible
if you’re familiar with the history of fascism, he might as well have just written “ART SHOULD BE FASCIST” over and over. for example, one of the tenets of fascism is the ‘cult of action for action’s sake,’ which you can see stamped all over this. and in the fascist conception, all institutions, including the art world, exist ultimately to preserve and extend their favored cultural values like vitality, creation, masculine strength, rejection of the outgroup, and identification with the nation
openai released their spyware browser and it is… not good
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
this reminded me of a superb article i’ve read recently on the topic. decided it deserved a thread
entire always means holomorphic on the whole complex plane
well, we’re doing the show with the presumption that we’re going to have five or six listeners. it’s still quite fun and exciting
well if some possibilities come up i hope we get to hear them
it’s so much fun! do you know what your topic might be?
the sneerpire is on the march
as an ezra klein hater since 2020 the past month or so has been victory lap after victory lap. and now, well
just repeating my reaction on bluesky here but “my AI partner died because of the updates” is a common complaint with ppl “dating” AI. altman absolutely knows who he’s targeting when he talks about restoring personality in erotic settings, and it’s people who are really not doing great
hi peeps! the first episode of the podcast i posted about last week is up now. it’s called odium symposium and it’s about historical misogynist or otherwise bigoted texts. i don’t know how long until i get to one of our favorites but its inevitable
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pilot-misogynist-141164947
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hi peeps! just put up the first episode of the podcast that i posted about in last week’s thread. it’s called odium symposium and it’s about historical misogynist or otherwise bigoted texts
the first episode is about stephen leacock:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pilot-misogynist-141164947
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i see. i misunderstood your previous post, thought you meant that “none of these companies is profitable” is essentially his only conclusion and that you considered it justifiable enough