xenomor
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- Comment on Musk's Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9 billion valuation, Semafor reports 2 weeks ago:
I’m not an expert, but I’ve been observing investment behavior for a while now. I’ve watched VC behavior, and the behavior of retail investors on the stock market. I’ve watched analysts, owned some stocks and worked with investor relations for a technology company, and I’ve participated in an IPO. I’ve also listened to executives talk about ‘valuations’ behind the scenes. Over time, I’ve become convinced that there is no real “market” operating the way that most people who advocate for the benefits of market dynamics define it. It’s not allocating capital based on anything related to merit and it isn’t efficient in any real way. These valuations are largely arbitrary and manipulated by a choreography of marketing, fraud, and the continuously nurtured delusions that some parts of the market (like journalists and analysts) are objective, and that the majority of normal investors are actually able to make informed decisions. In short, I have no confidence that Neuralink is actually worth that much. But, in the end, almost no one cares and almost no one participating in these “markets” has any interest in the supposed benefits to society that markets bring. That is why society keeps getting worse the longer it is being shaped by the parlor game that is our economy economy.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 2 weeks ago:
There’s an obvious reason. It’s a fucking Tesla.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 3 weeks ago:
I regret that I have no duolingo account that I can cancel.
- Comment on President Donald Trump will have dinner with the top 220 holders of the TRUMP memecoin on May 22. 1 month ago:
Good, get all these losers into one place. Just saying’.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
I don’t know who he is, but fuck this guy. That’s all.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 2 months ago:
I’m old enough to remember when Elon released “the twitter files” in an attempt to demonstrate how the federal government supposedly exerted egregious pressure on private media in violation of first amendment right.
- Comment on 'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. 2 months ago:
Didn’t he already do this same sort of fuckery with Solar City and Tesla?
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
I stopped smoking. I’ve moved on to cigars.
- Comment on Donald Trump’s crypto project netted $350mn from presidential memecoin 2 months ago:
Peanut farm.
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 3 months ago:
Alexis Ohanian is an untrustworthy piece of shit because he’s a crypto scam promoter.
- Comment on Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg 3 months ago:
Not sure why any developer who isn’t a self loathing masochist would work for these clowns ever again. Rose was an immature bitch who threw his own dev team under the bus when Digg 4 bombed. Somehow I doubt that years of fattening up while marinating in venture capital and crypto wealth have matured that fucker in any meaningful way.
- Comment on DOGE Reportedly Cuts FDA Employees Investigating Neuralink 3 months ago:
I think that this company needs to be burned to the ground.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Well, this thing isn’t going to just enshitify itself, now is it.
There was a time when Apple was able to infuse some level of class into its products relative to competitors. I suppose they were able to do that because their growth was driven by exciting products. With their now listless and moribund product strategy, they have to cash in the equity they built up in customer experience to fund shareholder value.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 4 months ago:
Let me get this straight. This is the “free speech absolutist” doing this, right?
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 months ago:
A couple weeks ago I drove past a Tesla dealership in Northern California. They must have had a dozen of these dumpsters lined up out front.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 5 months ago:
This is some legit dystopian shit right here. I almost wish I hadn’t abandoned these platforms years ago, so that I could take this opportunity to do it. I hope that more people wake up to the insidious nature of this company and these services.
- Comment on Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations 5 months ago:
Keep this in mind as you listen to them claim that privacy is built right into ‘Apple Intelligence’. The profile that is being built as that system learns about you will probably grow to be the largest potential privacy threat that has ever been introduced to these devices and ecosystem. Keep that shit off your phone.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 6 months ago:
If you encounter one of these, absolutely don’t pet it. Instead, kick it. Run over it. Perhaps, light that little robot fucker on fire. But definitely don’t pet it.
- Comment on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims 8 months ago: