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I cut YouTube out of my life at the end of July and don't miss it.

While most bullish outlooks are premised on economic reacceleration, it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom. First, AI hyperscaler free-cash-flow growth has turned negative. Second, price competition in the "monopoly-feeder businesses” seems to be accelerating. Finally, recent deal-making smacks of speculation and vendor-financing strategies of old.

https://www.morganstanley.com/pub/content/dam/mscampaign/wealth-management/wmir-assets/gic-weekly.pdf

A new longread about FTX:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy-sullivan-cromwell-fraud/

sealAIon

If a race of aliens with an IQ of 300 came to Earth

Oh noes, the aliens scored a meaningless number on the eugenicist bullshit scale, whatever shall we do

Next you'll be telling me that the aliens can file their TPS reports in under 12 parsecs

It's practically a proverb that you don't ask a scientist to explain how a "psychic" is pulling off their con, because scientists are accustomed to fair play; you call a magician.

The Wikipedia editors are on it.

The sound a vibe coder makes while edging to Ani

(This is also what all their other words mean)

I got bored and flipped to the replies. The first was this by "TERFs 'r' us":

Excellent overview!

This is transhumanism.

This is going to destroy humanity, @elonmusk.

Put the breaks on!

I hate transhumanism because it's eugenics for 1990s Wired magazine.

You hate it because it has "trans" in the name.

We are not the same.

Let's be honest: These are exactly the sort of people who will stick their dicks into the Torment Nexus.

Is your ring even swole, bro

The AI industry is getting sneered by the dictionary.

Or perhaps it is bleen

Gort is Klaatu barada nikhto?

Elon Musk announces "Grokipedia", which is exactly what it sounds like.

for article in wikipedia: grok.is_this_true(article)

The Gizmodo story mentions that he retweeted Larry Sanger, but it doesn't dive into the rabbit hole of just how much of a kook Sanger is and how badly his would-be Wikipedia competitors have failed.

Maybe next he can get an LLM to automate his apologetics for genocide.

He could call it Vibonism.

Zitron was a major dick to a friend of mine who was having technical troubles with reading his newsletter.

And he needs an editor.

Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI.

On top of everything else, "the father of quantum computing" is such lazy writing. People were thinking about it before Deutsch, going back at least to Paul Benioff in 1979. Charlie Bennett and Giles Brassard's proposal for quantum key distribution predates Deutsch's quantum Turing machine... No one person should be called "the father of" a subject that had so many crucial contributors in such a short period of time.

Also, chalk up another win for the "billionaires want you to think they are physicists" hypothesis. It's perhaps not as dependable as pedocon theory, but it's putting in a strong showing.

🎶 I would sire a gross of kids / and I would sire a whole gross more / just to be the man who dropped full two gross kids in baskets at your door 🎶

This is the first time that I have viscerally rejected reading the epigrammatic quotes at the top of a TV Tropes page. Like, it's TV Tropes, and I just closed the tab. Dear sweet and crunchy lord.