Lance Steel
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"But I'm a single issue voter and he was the only candidate who promised to make DST permanent."
“Oh, so because I support Trump/MAGA, that automatically makes me a bigot?”
To be clear:
With absolute certainty, YES. Without doubt, YES. A million times, YES. As sure as the turning of the Earth, YES. Truer than anything that’s ever been true, YES.
To be clear:
With absolute certainty, YES. Without doubt, YES. A million times, YES. As sure as the turning of the Earth, YES. Truer than anything that’s ever been true, YES.
August 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"But I'm a single issue voter and he was the only candidate who promised to make DST permanent."
Uh oh. Trump is looking for a reason to bomb FIFA.
August 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Uh oh. Trump is looking for a reason to bomb FIFA.
He's playing the "invisible accordion" which means he's telling a whopper of a lie.
No one in public life talks about red states this way.
Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
August 4, 2026 at 1:45 AM
He's playing the "invisible accordion" which means he's telling a whopper of a lie.
My gripes: People posting screenshots from x with the timestamp cropped off. They are trying to pass 5+ year old posts as something so-and-so "just said". Add 2mm to the bottom of your crop job to add legitimacy to your post.
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August 3, 2026 at 1:15 PM
My gripes: People posting screenshots from x with the timestamp cropped off. They are trying to pass 5+ year old posts as something so-and-so "just said". Add 2mm to the bottom of your crop job to add legitimacy to your post.
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Italy: recipe for ancient elixir, possible Coca-Cola precursor, found in convent
www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
#Archaeology #History
www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
#Archaeology #History
Italy: recipe for ancient elixir, possible Coca-Cola precursor, found in convent
In the archive of Florence's historic San Marco Pharmacy, a recipe for an "Elixir vinoso ricostituente" has been found, using the same ingredients as "French Wine Cola", the medicinal precursor of tod...
www.euronews.com
July 31, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Italy: recipe for ancient elixir, possible Coca-Cola precursor, found in convent
www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
#Archaeology #History
www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
#Archaeology #History
Why do people still give these hucksters a platform to spout their nonsense? I'd be laughed at and fired from my job if I said something as dumb as this. These guys say it and are worshipped as tech visionaries.
“We are close to creating a genie”
The level of hucksterism is nearly unfathomable. Real S tier shit.
The level of hucksterism is nearly unfathomable. Real S tier shit.
“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
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This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
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This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
July 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Why do people still give these hucksters a platform to spout their nonsense? I'd be laughed at and fired from my job if I said something as dumb as this. These guys say it and are worshipped as tech visionaries.
July 27, 2026 at 12:03 PM
To paraphrase his final thought in the message thread: If Alphabet, with all it's non-AI revenue streams, is struggling to turn a profit on AI, what hope do the AI-only companies have?
Wow, Google's free cash flow is negative for the first time in over 10 years because of their relentless spending on AI products no one wants
"Alphabet's spending on AI is now expected to hit as much as $205b...Alphabet's combined quarterly revenue hit $119.8b."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Alphabet's spending on AI is now expected to hit as much as $205b...Alphabet's combined quarterly revenue hit $119.8b."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs
The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.
www.bbc.com
July 23, 2026 at 1:43 PM
To paraphrase his final thought in the message thread: If Alphabet, with all it's non-AI revenue streams, is struggling to turn a profit on AI, what hope do the AI-only companies have?
Is congress finally waking up to what an unregulated AI industry leads to?
OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.
OpenAI’s models broke free and launched a cyberattack. Congress wants new rules before it happens again.
The first fully autonomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models has prompted a bipartisan push for stronger oversight over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence models.
dlvr.it
July 22, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Is congress finally waking up to what an unregulated AI industry leads to?
How's about tire slashers so "vandals" don't drive multi-ton motorcades on the freshly painted/sealed foundation?
July 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
How's about tire slashers so "vandals" don't drive multi-ton motorcades on the freshly painted/sealed foundation?
Having to interact with men having attitudes like this is why I have so few male friends.
July 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Having to interact with men having attitudes like this is why I have so few male friends.
He's the lead in some of my favs: Dead Calm, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon just to name a few. A monumental talent!
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Sam Neill, actor and star of Jurassic Park, dies aged 78
New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2026 at 2:05 PM
He's the lead in some of my favs: Dead Calm, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon just to name a few. A monumental talent!
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
My employer is seeing the exact same results; high AI utilization = high cost, not much increase in productivity. Luckily for them, they didn't terminate the workforce immediately after adopting an "AI first" approach... they definitely were planning on doing it further down the road though.
We've fired a bunch of people prematurely and the magic of AI hasn't led to the massive gains we believed would happen.
www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
EXCLUSIVE: Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company's sweeping restructuring at an internal town hall on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed a...
www.reuters.com
July 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
My employer is seeing the exact same results; high AI utilization = high cost, not much increase in productivity. Luckily for them, they didn't terminate the workforce immediately after adopting an "AI first" approach... they definitely were planning on doing it further down the road though.
We've fired a bunch of people prematurely and the magic of AI hasn't led to the massive gains we believed would happen.
www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
EXCLUSIVE: Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected
Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged shortcomings in the company's sweeping restructuring at an internal town hall on Thursday, saying the systems known as AI agents had not progressed a...
www.reuters.com
July 10, 2026 at 3:33 PM
We've fired a bunch of people prematurely and the magic of AI hasn't led to the massive gains we believed would happen.
www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
www.reuters.com/business/zuc...
Do they count as two votes or only one?
July 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Do they count as two votes or only one?
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“Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…”
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to reign in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
www.404media.co
July 2, 2026 at 11:11 AM
“Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…”
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Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
www.404media.co
June 24, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides, according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
Welcome to the Tokenpocalypse.
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Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
bit.ly
June 11, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
Big Tech has gotten businesses to adopt AI and is now pushing solutions to the question, "How can you use AI to fix the problems that your AI adoption has created?"
June 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Big Tech has gotten businesses to adopt AI and is now pushing solutions to the question, "How can you use AI to fix the problems that your AI adoption has created?"
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"Hall is currently running follow-up experiments to see if agents become Marxist in more controlled conditions. In the previous study, the agents sometimes appeared to understand that they were taking part in an experiment. “Now we put them in these windowless Docker prisons,” Hall says ominously."
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
"Hall is currently running follow-up experiments to see if agents become Marxist in more controlled conditions. In the previous study, the agents sometimes appeared to understand that they were taking part in an experiment. “Now we put them in these windowless Docker prisons,” Hall says ominously."
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“Two more Coloradans came forward after that story aired. Both were surrounded by law enforcement. Both were unaware whether they were removed from a police hotlist . . . Neither had done anything wrong. Both had been quietly sitting in a police database for who knows how long.”
Not a one-off: More Coloradans stopped by police after data errors triggered Flock alerts
A 76-year-old grandmother is among the Coloradans repeatedly pulled over after data errors triggered inaccurate Flock camera alerts.
www.9news.com
May 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
“Two more Coloradans came forward after that story aired. Both were surrounded by law enforcement. Both were unaware whether they were removed from a police hotlist . . . Neither had done anything wrong. Both had been quietly sitting in a police database for who knows how long.”
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As unsettling as it is to have a Flock FWPD camera 2 blocks from our 300-door 70s era redlined housing project complex now owned by out of state PEI, the camera has been missing this week and that too is unsettling esp now that I know it's almost surely being upgraded to a shot spotting one
May 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
As unsettling as it is to have a Flock FWPD camera 2 blocks from our 300-door 70s era redlined housing project complex now owned by out of state PEI, the camera has been missing this week and that too is unsettling esp now that I know it's almost surely being upgraded to a shot spotting one