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It is a total wild west here (i live in China). No escape from AI, literally everything is AI, from AI toilet paper to AI companions. No one has money or jobs and when this bubble bursts we are so cooked.

thenthenthenon Qwen Image 2.1

Within a few days this seems a total pivot from Xiaomi’s op RL dashboard and the praise of Chinese open model? What is the sentiment now?

thenthenthenon Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production

We already have several, see the Xiaomi SU7 lineup

thenthenthenon How did Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years? – Daniel Lemire's blog

Yes, i am sceptical of the claim in the article

thenthenthenon How did Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years? – Daniel Lemire's blog

Answer might be in the comments on the page: Apple has access to the best TSMC nodes.

thenthenthenon I think you should almost never use AI to write

LLM’s can be soooo derailing. Better ask a few friends to give feedback on your writing. Yes, it will take two weeks before you get any, but it is waaay more valuable than any LLM and absolutely worth the time (also gives you some fresh eyes ;) ). Dont forget to give them a gift, copy, credit.

thenthenthenon Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset

I would love to contribute, but i do not think it is a good idea to install and run this in China…enough said. Also i already know the outcome: network is fast, everything is blocked

thenthenthenon AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

You dont have borderless printers there? Scale to cover full page and go!

thenthenthenon AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

I wonder how these videos have ‘asian’ cultural values encoded in them. What models do they use? Trained on what? Etc.

thenthenthenon US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

Disputed by who?

“Operation Cyclone was one of the longest and most expensive covert CIA operations ever undertaken”[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

I also recommend the book “The Great War for Civilisation” by Robert Fisk

thenthenthenon Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

Mmm and autorun.inf, any dir with that file will automatically be scrutinised by any running agent on your system

thenthenthenon More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

Thanks for a new puzzle piece!

thenthenthenon More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

And why is Japan so obsessed with french things?

thenthenthenon More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

This. As well as aging population, plus bad economy, no one is making Children. They build an over capacity of kindergardens as well. These are all closing now and people losing their jobs, furthering the (real) sentiment of depression and keeping your wallets and your legs closed…so to say.

thenthenthenon Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain

“Diplodocus, Long Thought Extinct, turn up in Spain” yep same here

thenthenthenon The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning

You are not missing much (it is basically an advertisement), besides the somewhat intimidating mugshot of a German dude as the header image.

thenthenthenon I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

Thank you so much, what a great write up (did you submit it here?). Surprised you took any pictures to be honest. Some great observations! Those barred windows def look familiar. Correction:on a second look, these do not look like the typical chinese square tubing bars!

thenthenthenon US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

Ah so thats the reason behind the ‘datacenters in space’ headlines some time ago

thenthenthenon Giving up on smart rings

Was thinking about how many people willingly stuff lithium batteries in their ears, but have never read about an accident

thenthenthenon I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

The streets are littered with beetlenut in Shenzhen, especially Huaqiangbei. Also Chunking Mansion, HK (take the stairs). Would not recommend if you have elevated blood pressure.

thenthenthenon I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

Interesting, did you take pics? Most living quarters (小区）in China have electrical fences and most windows have been barred. Left over from the 80’s when crime was high. Nowadays the bars prevent pets and children from falling out of the window (plus the cage like construction allows for some extra storage space)

thenthenthenon Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

Not sure why the downvotes… my company solely survives on the connections and trust made over time. Real human connections, face to face. This in turn established a reputation.

thenthenthenon For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype

The doom is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

thenthenthenon For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype

Does a 3 month lockdown count? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-61023811

thenthenthenon For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype

I feel they will…. The economy is so shit, the robots mentioned a few posts up, are largely performative, just like AI. Its just about money. Everything is AI enabled now, from scales at the supermarkets to vending machines, but its 90% people behind a camera in a cheap remote location. In the past three years my salary halved every year. There are no jobs. Just speculation. This thing is gonna crash harder than the housing market.

Tangent: what happened to these staffless supermarkets of 10 years ago? I have never seen them again after .. covid.. weird!

thenthenthenon Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon

Projects like this pop up multiple times per year. Mostly one off student project, sometimes famous designers. Its such low hanging fruit that wont change anything. Better start teaching politics in art school?