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What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Epilogue) - emptywheel Small Models, Gently Loved An AI Speculative Fiction (Go to Part five) (Let’s pick a time frame, say 30 years from now. We’re in the 2050s, and the AI companies that dominated the world three decades ...

Hey guys, I actually wrote some science fiction. It's a capstone to my AI series at Emptywheel, but it takes place in 30 years. COUNTS. emptywheel.net/2026/03/13/w...

Whatcha been up to

YOSHI WE TALKED ABOUT YOUR DRINKING

Yall have to stop showing me these videos. I mean, I keep watching them. But I cannot communicate how sick and violence they make me feel. It’s physical.

Anyway they hate us and want us to die just because it would be mildly amusing between cocaine bumps.

Hiiiiiiii

While fabricated, it's also got layers to it.

valid.

I mean, this is why they build pipelines. But that's expensive and takes a while.

This is fascinating, thank you

You mean "war fighting" of course, apparently we don't just call it fighting anyone.

Elon Musk seeks mistrial in Twitter lawsuit, citing ‘animosity’ in San Francisco Former Twitter shareholders sued Musk, alleging that he intentionally sought to drive down the company’s value before his October 2022 purchase of the company.

live your life in such a way that if you’re ever on trial you’re not so universally loathed that it’s impossible to find an unbiased jury

Yeah that's my next stop when the Mac dies. Even my kid is done with it all and moving to Linux and she's not a nerd. Raised by nerds though.

I absolutely hate autocorrect and I just want my squiggly line and a drop down selection menu at most. *Old man yells at cloud*

I'm talking about the church before Luther there.

I'm not... less gobsmacked by that 😬

It's just crazy because the whole cosmology is about him being Jewish. The pastors have to be keeping their congregations from reading the Bible at all. It's downright 13th century papal nonsense.

I... am gobsmacked. I knew they don't read the bible much, but that's like the whole thing. What are they reading?

🎶There are no ethical billionaires🎶

Fyi, I'm not leaving.

Wow that was fast. 😘

Bsky guy liking the dude who is going to make him rich.

This is going to age like milk. But hey, the team will get a payout and that's what really matters

Ah, they've met and he's one of the good VCs.

The CEO being a VC is just skipping ahead.

It's all speed run from here.

Bsky's new experiment - doing the same things that other social media companies have done, but hoping for a different outcome.

They didn't really have a choice, extractive capitalism followed by enshitification and selling data is the only path for a VC funded social media network.

Masto does this fine.

John Lennon doing that stupid walk

Walking away from Omelas like

I never predict things like yummy cake, except in the Portal sense.

I hate it when I predict something and it comes true.

Well this thread is... Sure something

(I have to vote by mail, I'm overseas)

If I understand it correctly, Trump won't let the country run until he takes my vote away?