I clicked the first referenced article just out of curiosity, and the guy is like ‘The Brits are pissed because of the erosion of their national identity and that’s understandable’!

Dude. You’re talking about the biggest colonial empire in history…yet people like you actually love to complain about migrants and praise those who do the same…? Self-awareness of a rainworm.

All of the Broligarchs (Zuck, Huang, Thiel, ‘The Mummy’ Ellison) are annoying and dangerous, but Altman sure has the most punchable face of all, for whatever reason.

I used to work for a humanitarian organisation, that is to say, I was overworked and underpayed. During my time there, I developed what I think is the perfect answer to pushy bosses who put you under time pressure to deliver:

Do you want the job done quickly ? Or do you want the job done well?

(Neutral tone, neutral facial expressions, average voice volume are a must)

I’ve changed jobs often ever since. To this day, no boss or client has chosen ‘quick’, questioned the veracity of my statement/question (this obviously means that you must, indeed, deliver quality) or had the nerve to answer ‘both’.

It’s != its.

Again: stock is property. Arguing that the only reason to invest in stocks is getting money out of it by selling later at a higher price would be like saying that people buy apartments/land/metals solely for future financial gain.

…and even if one doesn’t buy that argument, there’s the concept of hedging, which is far enough from the concept of speculation to consider it its opposite.

Not quite. A (common) stock is nothing more than a certificate of ownership of part of a company. In theory, the value of that capital should increase over time, plus you hopefully get dividends regularly. Again - it’s ownership, so that means that you could, in principle, hold that instrument ‘forever’ (just like you would, say, a piece of land), never planning to sell it back, and therefore not giving a single f*ck about its current or future price.

‘may’ ? That’s a good one. As if that wasn’t the plan all along.

These are not ‘investors’, but speculators.

You’re kind of missing the point here. Someone who considers himself a leader (even remotely) should be able to effortlessly start casual conversation (a long forgotten art by any metric) with people around him. Otherwise, he is just yet another corporate hoe getting paid for writing about and presenting subjects he knows nothing about.

Not on the same level of self-unawareness, but I once sat on an intercontinental flight with a dude beside me whose only (pre)occupation for 11 hours straight (!) was to write a keynote about leadership. Not once did he even look at me or the person sitting on his right side, let alone interact with us. I was like. Dude. TF would you ever know about leadership which is…you know…90% knowing how to actually interact with people ?

Fair enough, but do they need/want an ad blocker ?

Who the fucking fuck still uses stock Chrome in 2026, chrissakes.

You forgot about the civilised ones who use bidets.

hehehe

This would legit be the funniest thing ever if it wasn’t for…you know…the potential loss of life.

But I can’t express just how huge a betrayal it feels like to be told AI bullshit and then lied to about whether it was AI bullshit.

Couldn’t agree more. Though in her defence (and the defence of every person who has done the exact same thing to me for being AS-wary just like you), I don’t think lying about it is done in order to spite or anger. My personal, very unorthodox theory is that, at the end of the day, people do feel stupid/useless being constantly told every piece of mundane information by the AS, so they lie about it.

This Sacklpicker is the largest private donor of the IOF, so nothing he says or does surprises/outrages me.

This is getting out of hand. And I thought an AS ‘girlfriend’/‘boyfriend’ was bad enough.

‘Please leave Spotify’ full stop.

Can’t wait to short-sell the stuff!

Just noticed how much I missed mothposting. Please keep it coming!