euclid
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One reason I don't believe people who say chatbots are the future is that, after years and billions of dollars, advertising algorithms still can't understand that when I have *bought* a thing, that means I don't *need it anymore.*
June 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
One reason I don't believe people who say chatbots are the future is that, after years and billions of dollars, advertising algorithms still can't understand that when I have *bought* a thing, that means I don't *need it anymore.*
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its really unfortunate the "accidentally became important at work" tweet is the realest shit of all time
October 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
its really unfortunate the "accidentally became important at work" tweet is the realest shit of all time
fixed quantity wind hedge
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
fixed quantity wind hedge
not to downplay how bad datacenters are (real bad!) but it is a very very important confounding factor that 2020 had the lowest nat gas prices of any year they're evaluating
"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
not to downplay how bad datacenters are (real bad!) but it is a very very important confounding factor that 2020 had the lowest nat gas prices of any year they're evaluating
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the only kind of society that is going to be livable - and perhaps this is already irretrievably out of reach - is going to be one where consistent rules and some general baseline of truth exist and are agreed upon. if that's a pie in the sky fantasy then so is anything else worthwhile
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
the only kind of society that is going to be livable - and perhaps this is already irretrievably out of reach - is going to be one where consistent rules and some general baseline of truth exist and are agreed upon. if that's a pie in the sky fantasy then so is anything else worthwhile
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no damn ai chat bot could ever type "hi, please see attached, thanks!" into an email with the same endearing joie de vivre that i put into it every single time
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
no damn ai chat bot could ever type "hi, please see attached, thanks!" into an email with the same endearing joie de vivre that i put into it every single time
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they're adding new linkedin badges "curled up under desk" and "face down on cold floor"
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
they're adding new linkedin badges "curled up under desk" and "face down on cold floor"
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i'm making sunday sauce and i'm preemptively getting ahead of anyone who wants to say you can't make sunday sauce with fresh tomatoes: that's a skill issue
August 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i'm making sunday sauce and i'm preemptively getting ahead of anyone who wants to say you can't make sunday sauce with fresh tomatoes: that's a skill issue
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None of this AI shit would be happening if you all had posted this on Facebook like we told you to
August 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
None of this AI shit would be happening if you all had posted this on Facebook like we told you to
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Please visit Portland airport we have real trees in the airport
The Washington Post has ranked the top airports in the country:
1) Portland
2) Long Beach
3) Ronald Reagan Washington National
4) Minneapolis-Saint Paul
5) Seattle Paine Field
6) Rhode Island T.F. Green
7) Albuquerque
8) Indianapolis
9) Salt Lake City
10) Detroit Metro
1) Portland
2) Long Beach
3) Ronald Reagan Washington National
4) Minneapolis-Saint Paul
5) Seattle Paine Field
6) Rhode Island T.F. Green
7) Albuquerque
8) Indianapolis
9) Salt Lake City
10) Detroit Metro
June 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please visit Portland airport we have real trees in the airport
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i do actual Computing on my computers that require beefed up devices, so any time i have to use the kind of entry level dell laptop that make up the bulk of enterprise computers in this country i am left amazed that anyone gets anything done at all
June 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
i do actual Computing on my computers that require beefed up devices, so any time i have to use the kind of entry level dell laptop that make up the bulk of enterprise computers in this country i am left amazed that anyone gets anything done at all
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internet voice: you're wrong and stupid
email voice: sorry to flag, please let me know if i've overlooked something, but per the attached 3 primary sources and 2 previous communication chains,
email voice: sorry to flag, please let me know if i've overlooked something, but per the attached 3 primary sources and 2 previous communication chains,
May 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
internet voice: you're wrong and stupid
email voice: sorry to flag, please let me know if i've overlooked something, but per the attached 3 primary sources and 2 previous communication chains,
email voice: sorry to flag, please let me know if i've overlooked something, but per the attached 3 primary sources and 2 previous communication chains,
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coworkers hit different if they laugh at whatever you put in the part of a sentence where a joke would go
May 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
coworkers hit different if they laugh at whatever you put in the part of a sentence where a joke would go
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these are truly the days of hydroxyzine
April 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
these are truly the days of hydroxyzine
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my life would radically improve if i weren’t subjected to microsoft products..,. like my days would feel a 1000 x better
March 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
my life would radically improve if i weren’t subjected to microsoft products..,. like my days would feel a 1000 x better
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Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need
February 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Costco and Trader Joes are yin and yang. Together they form a harmonious balance. One sells big piles of normal food, the other sells small piles of weird food. These are the two food piles people need
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Earlier this month I went to Las Vegas and saw the bleak and lonely AI-managed world of the future at the Consumer Electronics Show. I wrote about that, and other possible futures, and a neat soft-serve machine I'd love to have in my home. defector.com/the-future-i...
The Future Is Too Easy | Defector
LAS VEGAS — There is something unstable at the most basic level about any space with too much capitalism happening in it. The air is all wrong, there’s simultaneously too much in it and not enough of ...
defector.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Earlier this month I went to Las Vegas and saw the bleak and lonely AI-managed world of the future at the Consumer Electronics Show. I wrote about that, and other possible futures, and a neat soft-serve machine I'd love to have in my home. defector.com/the-future-i...
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This is the first legitimate good use case for generative AI: hurting other generative AI companies
The reveal of a new artificial intelligence assistant, DeepSeek, looks poised to wipe almost a trillion pounds in value off some of the world’s most expensive technology companies.
DeepSeek AI launch sees $1tn wiped off world’s biggest tech companies
Nvidia is the hardest-hit among American big tech related to artificial intelligence, while Samsung in Europe is down more than 20 per cent
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is the first legitimate good use case for generative AI: hurting other generative AI companies
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"Deepseek will scare the American government into investing more in AI" invest in what? To what end? Deepseek is open source, and I guarantee you there are already American and European companies planning their own version as Deepseek explained their entire process. This is the race to the bottom!
January 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Deepseek will scare the American government into investing more in AI" invest in what? To what end? Deepseek is open source, and I guarantee you there are already American and European companies planning their own version as Deepseek explained their entire process. This is the race to the bottom!
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Wrote about Las Vegas, the rise of gambling, CES, AI propaganda, and the exterminist future we are racing towards thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in...
Trapped in the Maw of a Stillborn God (Pt. 1)
Vegas as a laboratory for surveillance and social control, the explosion of gambling as a sign of a degenerate culture seized by despair, AI delusions at CES, and the future.
thetechbubble.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wrote about Las Vegas, the rise of gambling, CES, AI propaganda, and the exterminist future we are racing towards thetechbubble.substack.com/p/trapped-in...
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well, there isn't and you can't, especially when people who are struggling in spite of the supposedly great economy can connect with each other on the computer. is everyone just gonna keep bashing their head on the same brick wall forever or what
I wish there was a way to make people understand and genuinely, truly believe the objective reality that the single best job market in the last half- century for entry- level workers, young people, and bottom- quintile earners is the one we have right now, today.
Opportunity is in shorter supply than it was for us and our parents, the abilities to take advantage of it is not being as effectively taught, and technology is wrecking people.
We need to be focused on making things better for them. But we can't do that pretending they aren't in a world of hurt.
We need to be focused on making things better for them. But we can't do that pretending they aren't in a world of hurt.
January 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
well, there isn't and you can't, especially when people who are struggling in spite of the supposedly great economy can connect with each other on the computer. is everyone just gonna keep bashing their head on the same brick wall forever or what
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Man goes to doctor. Says his ass hurts. Says it's from sitting at computer all day. Says he sits until his ass hurts. Says he sits at computer during work and after work. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Sit at computer less. Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I love sitting at computer'
January 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Man goes to doctor. Says his ass hurts. Says it's from sitting at computer all day. Says he sits until his ass hurts. Says he sits at computer during work and after work. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Sit at computer less. Man bursts into tears. Says, 'But doctor…I love sitting at computer'