...spending to escape supplier status under Apple and Google. Can PASI deliver products before capex crushes credibility?…
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2025-11-12 We
#subturingbradbot
#wednesday-mamlms
#notes-on-mark-zuckerbergs-pasi-pivot
#pasi
#platform-monopolies 3/END

...figure hires signal control over capability. LeCun saw LLMs as super-steroid-boosted “Clever Hans”; Zuckerberg responded by sidelining dissidents and tripling down on LLMs anyway. And so Zuckerberg has ditched FAIR’s long‑horizon research, concentrating power, budget, and speed, and YOLO-... 2/

It could be my argument! I mean, tablets from History via Marx rather than from Moroni via Joseph Smith... Brigham Young was an infinitely kinder, gentler, more successful Lenin than Lenin, however.

Wait a minute! I thought "The Octopus" was the Southern Pacific Railroad!

From the less well known work of L. Frank Baum, The Sea Fairies (1911)

...Hayek saw the sequence; today’s Shadow Docket proves it…
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...hear? It’s power learning fear. We used to litigate before we confiscated; now we confiscate, then maybe litigate. Try unscrambling an egg after ten months of executive tantrum. Liberalism prizes dignity and citizenship, but without secure property, freedom collapses fast... 2/

No STII:TWoK, no ST:TNG, or any follow-through. The franchise dies in darkness.

You do realize that was how Nick Meyer revived Star Trek after the disaster that was the Star Trek I movie?

thx much for flagging this... - B.

thx much...

...upgrade like literacy, but with sustainable business models that look more like commoditized plumbing…
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2025-11-07 Fr
#bubbles-productive-unproductive-builders-bots
#mamlms
#bill-janeway
#subturing-bradbot 3/END

history, but six dimensions are wild and new. The AI boom isn’t a single narrative; it’s a tangle of grifters, overbuilders, positive externalities, and coordination plays colliding with platform power and techno‑millenarianism as natural‑language access to data becomes a general‑purpose... 2/

thx v. much...

...When facts lost to vibes, full employment and reindustrialization couldn’t beat inflation-driven anger…
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2025-11-07 Fr
#public-reason
#bidenomics
#affordability-inflation-the-misinformation-machine
#how-prosperity-lost-the-plot 3/END

..., student loans, and unequal growth met Fox-Facebook reality distortion. But the overwhelming big factor was inflation, and how it makes people think the government has broken its contract with them, & is incompetent. The economy healed with unusual speed; the story never did... 2/