OpenAI is still stealing everyone else's lunch. They claim they're only using other peoples data to train the model. But that's being very economical with the truth.

‘In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” around the early 2010s. He argues that the negative effects of this “great rewiring of childhood” will continue to worsen without the adoption of several norms and a more hands-on approach to regulating social media platforms.’

You will own nothing, be happy and live in 15-minute cities under the benevolent rule of the World Economic Forum (WEF)

Surveillance Society – Panopticon In The Age Of Digital Media (Donna Susan Mathew), Part 1

“The social technologies we see in use today are fundamentally panoptical – the architecture of participation is inherently an architecture of surveillance.” – Joshua-Michéle Ross

“Here you can read how to report your device as lost / stolen on IMEI.info BLACKLIST.”

"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology.

perplexity.ai: “Both targon and baddreamer express strong skepticism about OpenAI’s reported $300 billion to $500 billion valuation, and their concerns align with many expert analyses as of 2025: the sky-high valuation is driven by investor hype, future expectations, and massive capital inflows from firms like Microsoft and SoftBank, more than by current profits or asset values.

While OpenAI is reporting extraordinary revenue growth ($12–$13 billion projected for 2025), it is also burning unprecedented amounts of cash — about $8 billion annually — and there is ongoing debate about whether practical, profitable enterprise AI applications justify such lofty valuations yet.”

perplexity.ai: “OpenAI is currently valued at around $300 billion to $500 billion, with rapidly growing revenues estimated to reach $13 billion annually in 2025, driven largely by widespread adoption of ChatGPT and enterprise AI services. The company is a dominant player in the AI space, attracting massive investment from major companies like Microsoft, SoftBank, and others.”

The hidden infrastructure risk that could derail America’s energy transition

“On May 15, 2025, federal investigators disclosed that undocumented "ghost" communication modules were embedded in some Chinese-manufactured solar inverters. China produces about 70 percent of the world's inverters, according to the International Energy Agency.”

“Multiply that share across the millions of distributed energy resources (DERs) the United States will deploy this decade and you have a network whose endpoints outnumber today's central-station assets by orders of magnitude.”

> This is what happens ... when you put powerful technology in the hands of idiots

So Idiocracy was a documentary :|

Mandiant, previously known as FireEye, was the cybersecurity company that provided services to Equifax prior to the 2017 data breach, which exposed the personal records of about 147.9 million people. There was even a case study featuring Equifax on the Mandiant website, highlighting their cybersecurity partnership. Curiously enough, that case study has since disappeared down the memory hole.

Disney used hire on in Europe as they couldn't find any American workers not on drugs :o
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future assassin: “Not into psyches but have done acid when I was younger and prefer to do 250mg of MDMA/MDA for fun but a few years back did some experimenting with shooms. I'd take about .5g and wait about 45min when I start to feel a tiny weed like buzz then take another .5g. You don't trip but get a weed like high with out the lethargic feel of weed and no munches. Next two days after where super relaxing and way less anxiety.”

“Only issue is you build up tolerance fast so I'd just stuck to Saturday nights for a nice relaxing sunday and fist day at work on Monday. I do get a similar experience with MDMA when doing about 75/100mg but that's not as fun as being blasted on 250mg+ but the hanger last a few days especially with MDA.”

It's déjà vu all over again. They tried psychedelics back in the 1960s. They all went mental from getting high on their own supply. Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ken Kesey and Terence McKenna. Who went on a mission and never came back /s

The Yapese economy operated on a system that almost prefigured the architecture of a modern AI chatbot: massive stone disks called rai stones, painstakingly quarried on distant islands and transported home via monumental canoe journeys, served as Yap's store of value.

Yet these stones’ worth was not inherent, but algorithmically assigned by a kind of proto-blockchain of collective memory, with their ownership and transaction records cryptographically secured in the oral consensus of the island’s entire social network.

The tiny island with human-sized money

> When they fired Mr. Eich I ended my support for Firefox, 32-bit or otherwise, and you should too.

Brendan Eich who got cancelled in 2014 for supporting California's Proposition 8 in 2008.