they love to brag about it

Claiming that his products “changed the course of history by stopping terror attacks,” Mr. Karp said that Palantir had also “protected our men and women on the battlefield” and “taken the lives of our enemies, and I don’t think that’s something to be ashamed of.”

'it's all market forces pulling the levers here, we don't run the company at all.. in fact we will now proceed to fire ourselves due to irrelevancy'

it's certainly captivating

since we're talking dutch stuff here, any opinion on this?

the fake persona and CV was good comedy

longtermist techbro whisperer argues that's ok because it wouldn't lead to complete collapse:

One finds the same insouciant attitude about climate change in MacAskill’s recent book. For example, he notes that there is a lot of uncertainty about the impacts of extreme warming of 7 to 10 degrees Celsius but says “it’s hard to see how even this could lead directly to civilisational collapse.” MacAskill argues that although “climatic instability is generally bad for agriculture,” his “best guess” is that “even with fifteen degrees of warming, the heat would not pass lethal limits for crops in most regions,” and global agriculture would survive.

also from 2023:

"We barely have enough water and you're diverting even more for others to use," says Yang Kuanwei, a tomato farmer bemoaning government water policies in Taiwan's southern Tainan county, where chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, or TSMC, is building a state-of-the-art factory.

In 2021, an absence of seasonal typhoons left reservoirs so parched, chipmakers like TSMC were forced to truck in water to keep factories running.

For the third year in a row, rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies to not grow rice this season, because it uses scarce water that semiconductor plants nearby need.

"When there is no rain, things grow at the wrong time," says Zhang Meixue, head of one of the local farmer's associations in southern Tainan county, once one of the island's prime rice-growing areas. "Growing rice protects the local ecology by locking in moisture and keeping ground temperatures stable."

I think of junky/viral US products as 'americana' but yeah I suppose it should be formally classified as just another genre because they've claimed a default market dominance for a while now and everything else had to be labeled because it's not that default

'we'll coup who we want, I enjoy freedoms that grant me main character plot armor'

I could see those talking head TV economists say Gluteus Doodoo Poopoo with a straight face

The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an "unaligned" AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

yeah that OpenAI coup attempt was the AI true believers trying to stage a power grab and kick out the profit-first guys, as can be expected MS will always back the profit-first guys

ahh they are all so cool, top of the first image anthro and bird both have a nice quizzical vibe, also the colors..

'don't know about you all but I got the pre-order bundle so I'll be packing some fancy pants fish guns'

it's finding that text from various training data sources and putting it together, or maybe even copying it all from one source lol, that google 'AI is sentient actually' whistleblower had a religious background if I remember right, Ray Kurzweil says he just misses his dad and wants to recreate him through AI, there's a lot of spiritual/religious types that have these worship inclinations for AI, and then there are grifters like Sam Altman who just want to make money on any hype of the day, is in this group too

yeah.. 'great man' theory is still strongly embedded in western culture unfortunately, the media tries to convince viewers that meritocracy exists in the US so I am guessing he would say billionaires are entitled to their large fortunes because they're 'successful entrepreneurs', he would probably even defend lib billionaires lol

microtransactions in the tamagochi era, good thing we dodged that at least

slowdance fits too

RFK getting some late competition for takes, qanon had its nu-age crowd back in the day

nice, I wanted to get into posting some ancient history type art too but have been too lazy to delve into it properly there's some cool looking stuff out there

'Bezos doesn't post creepy corny AI pics so he's my favorite tech billionaire now'

Drej queen we have new coordinates

maybe once the libertarian rich guys trash the planet they want a rich person only escape hatch

edit: New Zealand bunker villa is not exotic enough

'regulatory overreach'

'Who's greedy? I'm not greedy.'

when the Drej fire the laser beam we can't forget about all the accounts but also the tech media's role in evangelizing the con, 'ooh ahh shifted the timeline again, time to repeat it all starry eyed', they helped build this up through the years

yeah.. I think conservatives see transhumanism as a liberal or globalist conspiracy that undermines religion, I'd assume libertarians are positive about it though

I'm not as familiar with the Star Citizen situation aside from the posts about it on here but it's also funny how those devs are the whales for such a long time now, and yeah Musk has been getting away with it for decades.. low priced electric cars, self driving cars, sentient AI, Mars colony, you name it, the techbros were the biggest marks for it as usual

always nice colors and the triangle shaped mouths are cute

this comes from the silly timeline right?

emergency beard wash needed!

this one is so relaxing to look at

striving to become a full-fledged dilly dally tanuki

chest full of treasure

chest full of treasure insects to make delicious snacks

italo-disco posting