Frontiering

I’m using the frontier AI models as much as I can now for the things I want to do because soon they will be locked down zones that are friendly only to corporate imperatives and priorities.

I’d suggest you do the same.

Choking Up

We practiced escaping chokeholds in my krav maga class. This was not a fake or pretend chokehold. This training happens all over the world (and should).

And now I know how to break a chokehold, even if done to me by someone stronger and larger than I am. Fuck the leftist authoritarian prudes.

Heli of a Time

Even if I am forced to use it, if I cannot customize the OS or the browser it’s crap.

Using junk the normies use doesn’t work for me. I need power and control. Any anyone who tries to control me should be thrown out of the helicopter.

Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads as Meta docs reveal $16 billion in fraud-linked revenue.

You should absolutely download your favourite youtube videos. Piracy is a moral imperative.

A Guide To Chinaโ€™s Expanding Fleet Of Military Helicopters.

No more Cybertrucks; Musk moves on from the angular metallic flop.

Zillow Traffic Slides as High Mortgage Rates Freeze Housing Market.

Generational Wealth Fuels Record-High Levels of Cash Sales Among First-Time Buyers.

A Critical History of the Cost-Benefit State: Part 1.

Earthโ€™s churning mantle may have created the Great Unconformity.

The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space.

I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West Than Ever.

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now.

Outfitted

(2) Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) / X

Those UK laws are insane. But the left has gone extremely prudish and very authoritarian — in many ways, more than the right ever was. A lot of the left’s views can be explained by female intrasexual competition, though (including the above). Or, in other words and pictures:

Bot Blut

Job seeking in the age of AI: The robots read my cover letter.

This job market does not have an answer for the fact that every year, more and more young people, eager to show the world what they can do, will be competing for a shrinking pool of AI-decimated jobs while being told, over and over, that they arenโ€™t good enough.

Economists are mendaciously claiming what is obviously happening is not occurring, even though it very clearly is. This article has a better view. Just as with shipping all our core industrial jobs off to China for a few bucks, AI will eliminate tons of jobs and they will not come back. And this time, you won’t even be able to go part-time as a Walmart greeter.

It’s going to be a very different world soon. That article is a preview of what’s coming for a lot of people.

The Fant

(2) Rob Henderson on X: "Years ago Jordan Peterson offered a psychoanalytic reading that Western womenโ€™s unconscious appetite for masculine authority finds a safe outlet in enthusiasm for immigration from the Muslim world." / X

Because it feels anti-Western to them and because Islam also seems to them unequivocal, which is appealing as compared to being reared in the wishy-washy mushiness of Western late pseudo-liberalism. And many of those women have fantasies of being forcibly taken by some unrelenting Muslim man1 . I know it makes no sense, but fantasies often do not.

  1. Rape fantasies are extremely common in women.

Huxley

(2) Steven Godofsky (@sgodofsk) / X

Same.

But people are afraid. Even the folks emitting spittle-spewing jeremiads about how AI doesn’t work know it works. That’s why they are so bull-headed in their refusal to admit what is obvious. Their trepidation about and terror of the new world we’re entering causes mental glitches. If AI did not in fact function extremely well no one would care. Because cryptocurrency was garbage it never generated any real backlash. It was a technology in search of a problem that it never found.

On the other hand, AI is going to take over the world. Perhaps literally. That has people doing and saying all sorts of irrational contra-evidential things.

No Order

Do military officers ever REALLY have to say "tHat's aN oRder!" like they do in fiction?

No. I was in the US army for five years. I never heard any NCO or officer say, “That’s an order” a single time, not even jokingly.

It would/does sound both redundant and pointless to anyone in the military. If someone senior to you tells you to do something it’s already an order. Saying “That’s an order” just sounds weak.