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“Gypsies” are a race of people. “Junkies” and homeless people are, at an individual level, not.

Homeless people and drug addicts may well be victims of circumstance or victims of society depending on your point view - or even victims of their own choices or actions - but there’s a difference between saying “this race of people is problematic” and “this class of people is problematic”.

I don’t use YouTube much so I had no idea anything like this existed! Thank you.

Ugh. All you haters have no vision. Pretty sure you have missed the non-GAAP upside of this bike where the PRS of this cohort of ELSCs is booked and multiplied forward as ICFRS which means each bike sale is worth a future two cars, a cybertruck, a power wall, a personal levitation suit, and the revenue contributed from the children’s children’s indentured servitude in the mines of Mars.

[0] Potentialized Recurring Spend [1] Early life-stage customers [2] Infinitely Continuing Future Revenue Streams

This is awful awful writing.

> Deutsche Bank, for example, hailed SpaceX as “the apex of civilizational ambition, oftentimes expressed in steel and fire, bending the arc of history”.

This is pitiful. Not least because it is execrable writing. It’s 50 Shades Of Grey applied to investment advice.

Yes, I imagine in six months or so this will be far better.

No, that’s not the fault of the audience.

Yes, I know what the music is. The videos are awful. I meant that watching them is an equivalent experience to listening to music generated by Suno.

These are awful. It’s like Suno music. Seems convincing if you half listen. As soon as you pay attention you notice all the cracks.

As someone who has marketed music, shot music videos, directed music videos, cut music videos together from stock footage: you don’t need auteurs.

You did back when MTV made songs big.

No one actually pays attention to the details of music videos any more. It’s visual chewing gum at best. The reality is that now, if you have something half decent, nice colours, nice lighting and a wee bit of a story, no one is going to care.

The only other route is a huge budget spectacular - but you only get the huge budgets if you label lends you the money to make a huge budget video because they think it will increase the amount of money they make - while extending the amount of time it takes you to recoup.

Ultimately, now, it is just another social media asset, so promo videos are built with that in mind.

None of these would cut it.

Claude’s excessive wordiness getting in the way of actual information is a huge problem. It completely garbles things a lot of the time now. It’s like it’s trying too hard to impress by using ten words where it could use three. I assume they’ve upped the weight of Reddit posts or something in an attempt to make it sound more authentic, with the result that it often sounds like a stupid person’s idea of a clever person.

Interesting. To me it reeks of AI, and the first major tell was the first paragraph, at which point I stopped reading.

> No human had. The crying had been synthesised from a fragment of audio, and the daughter she thought she was rescuing existed only as a pattern of numbers in someone else's machine.

> Let's imagine for a second that the whole AI craze doesn't exist, but you still would want to real-time note-taker, what would you do? Indeed, you bring a literal third person to the table. That will just be sitting there, listening in on your conversation and writing everything down.

That's what secretaries were, and this happened in pretty much every significant business meeting for a long long time.

That’s fine if you have one near to you, don’t have mobility issues that make it hard to visit or accessibility issues that make book print hard to read. And it stocks the kinds of books you want to read. Without being all woke about it, indie book stores can be great if you like reading the sorts of books your particular local flavour of indie book stores stocks.

A lot of authors are not technical people and/or are busy writing. There isn’t a simple system with a large audience of potential book purchasers that makes it easy for authors to sell their books because Amazon became that place but now wants to irritate its users by mangling the kindle.

Authors’ wages are paid by people buying their books.

I’m not sure that’s true. Onlyfans did $7.6 billion in 2025. The digital side of the adult industry looks like it’s worth something like $100 billion. Obviously the market is scattered across a whole load of participants, but it’s entirely plausible that Grok could either take a meaningful chunk of that or indeed create an entirely new adult revenue category based exactly on offering things that people apparently want but skirt the edges of legality.

That’s pretty disgusting to my mind, but I guess Elon needs to sustain his valuation somehow.

The article in question is now the second result I see in Google in a private browser when I search for "Callum Negus-Fancey"

Charles Negus-Fancey is Callum Negus-Fancey’s father. Charles Negus-Fancey’s father was Edwin Fancey, a British film producer and distributor.

>“This is the honest write-up”

Is an “honest” write-up about negative things bots do still honest when it’s written by a bot?

I wasn’t making any comment on whether cars should be hackable or not, simply that saying “people with Civics are never targets of three letter agencies” is a little silly.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic/satirical or not. If you are, fine.

But if you’re not - why would someone driving a civic not be a target of an intelligence agency? It’s one of the most common cars about there, so if you want to fade into the background it’s a perfect car. Also, lots of otherwise “normal” people - scientists, engineers, journalists, lawyers - likely drive Honda civics.

A spying device hidden in the car may be found. Something installed directly within the car’s firmware is somewhat less likely to be found.

How do gyms lose money on heavy users? A heavy gym user isn’t really costing the gym anything extra as far as I can see.

Because a large proportion of the money flows out the door. Most of their revenue is pass-through revenue, due to the sports teams and concert promoters (and by extension musicians) they sell tickets for. Ticketing works as a high volume low margin business.

You need to deduct at least 70% (or more) from their topline to get a true picture of the company’s revenue vs revenue that walks straight out the door.

A number of people in this thread arguing with me in a remarkably personal way apparently care quite a lot. And I guess you must care at least a little bit given you’ve made the effort to comment.

I thought you were just moaning generally… But in which case I take it back - your moan was perhaps somewhat justified. Posting about maybe less so :)

I’m really not sure what you mean. Did you actually read the article? There is nothing in there that confirms this is a fossil. One moment the author says “I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell” and the next minute they treat it as though it is a fossil but their analysis shows that the shell the piece of rock most resembles is from a completely different geological period.

And then the author takes a massive leap from “I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell” to doing an analysis that treats it as though it actually is a fossil.

And that analysis finds out that the shell the assumed fossil most resembles is completely out of period.

No it doesn’t. It says “ I found a fully solid rock that eerily resembles a seashell”.

I don’t understand this comment. It might be a pop-culture reference that has gone over my head.

But I think (I think?!) you might have misinterpreted ny comment, because I’m saying “yes, I Dunning-Kruger myself regularly with AI! BUT then I wake up from the psychosis and realise what an idiot I am and go back to my normal life”.

AI makes everyone think they are brilliant. The skill is recognising when you’re just another idiot.