Nvidia down ~8% this week, Palantir down ~10%

Maybe the needle really is shifting.

Is anyone else having a really hard time understanding the space this picture was taken in? WTF is this room… I’m not even sure if I’m looking at a wall or a floor

The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out.

I remember when this happened. Violentacrez himself showed up in one of the threads that didn’t get nuked and tried to defend himself. I remember his (heavily down-voted) comments all being surrounded by dozens and dozens of [deleted] comments — presumably people attacking him for being a pedo piece of shit.

I’d never heard of the guy before, but I was so disgusted by the story and by his attempts to justify himself that I went back through weeks of his old posts, down-voting everything.

The next day, I came back to a week-long temp ban from Reddit for vote manipulation. Fuckers.

he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet)

That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…

I can’t eat half of the ingredients anymore, but damn, this used to be a favorite.

Instead of rice or lentils, I’d mix in some orzo and let that cook right in the soup. Heaven.

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People will use her age and the fact that she has only held office as a house rep. to claim she’s too inexperienced to become president.

Anyone who makes this claim after watching Donald Fucking Trump get elected president is full of shit.

Damn, it’s crazy how aggressively Incels always tell on themselves…

Turn and walk away. Never negotiate with terrorists!

To an extent, I think that’s already happening. ChatGPT5 released with a huge amount of hype, but when users started playing with it, it was incredibly underwhelming — and flat-out worse than 4 in many cases… all while burning though even more tokens than ever. Definitely seems like that capabilities of this technology have hit a plateau that won’t be solved with more training.

OpenAI optimistically believes it might start being profitable in 2029.

Which is absolutely buck wild when you consider they’ve already signed contacts to spend another trillion dollars over the next five years.

How the fuck is a company that has $5 billion in revenue today going to grow that revenue by at minimum $995 billion by 2029? There’s just no fucking way, man…

Absolutely. And even if you don’t care that your cat is out there making kittens, it’s important to know that un-neutered males are much more likely to get into fights with other cats. A lot of the nastiest feline diseases spread through fighting, and fights result in injuries that can easily become infected. It’s not unheard of for males to lose eyes (or even whole limbs) to completely avoidable infections.

So neuter your damn cats. It has the potential to extend their lives significantly, and promotes a healthier cat population in general.

Absolutely.

Trump is pre, peri and post-criminal.

I’d recommend diving into this for a more scientifically ‘thought out’ and optimistic extrapolation: https://www.orionsarm.com/

Man… if the Technopocolpyse is what you consider optimistic, I’d hate to find out what you consider pessimism!

Because it is. Fuck off, Wendy’s.

The support of viewers like you

People who are overly concerned with their level of intelligence, especially when that concern is measured relative to other people’s intelligence.

In other words, if you spend a lot of time anxious about whether or not you’re the smartest person in the room, then you’re not the smartest person in the room.

The September that lasted 32 years…

Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.

Yeah, neutrino detectors don’t work like conventional telescopes because neutrinos don’t behave like light. Technically, neutrinos are actually a type of dark matter since they don’t participate in the electromagnetic interaction, and that makes them very hard to detect.

When a beam of light shines on your body, some of that light is absorbed as heat and a lot of it is reflected off of you. Neutrinos don’t do that. Tens of billions of neutrinos from the sun hit your body every second and just… don’t do anything. They pass straight through you with zero interaction whatsoever. Very, very rarely they’ll interact with something, and neutrino detectors are designed to both maximize the chances of such an interaction happening, and to make those interactions more easy to spot.

I’m not up to speed on all the technical details of JUNO in particular, but most neutrino detectors are searching for events that look something like this:

A neutrino enters the detection medium and directly collides with an electron. Enough energy is transferred into the electron that it is stripped free from its parent molecule and moves through the medium at very high speed. If it moves fast enough, it can even exceed the speed that light travels through the medium, creating something sort of like a sonic boom — only with light. We call this Cherenkov radiation. The scintillating properties of the medium boost this signal and photomultipliers at the perimeter of the detector gather this radiation so that the event can be reconstructed by computers.