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A24 Fans Mourn Its Death Following $75 Million Google AI Deal
A24's success was always its marketing scheme: make all the movies, advertise the good ones. Once people started having expectations about the upcoming releases it was doomed.
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A24 Fans Mourn Its Death Following $75 Million Google AI Deal
A24's success was always its marketing scheme: make all the movies, advertise the good ones. Once people started having expectations about the upcoming releases it was doomed.
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Merz backs plans to raise Germany’s retirement age to 70 in pension changes
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I mean, that would be ideal. But I was talking realistic. Better pensions would be available if people stopped voting against their interests. But we don't even have that, so a revolt against billionaires doesn't seem likely to me anytime soon.
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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast
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NTFS drives have an index built-in. It's not fit for search, but it comes with a journal and you can update a search index incrementally. That's what Voidtools Everything does. It's very fast and doesn't need a background index. (I assume modern Linux drive formats can do the same)
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A Microsoft researcher built a goat-powered LLM in Age of Empires II to prove it's not sentient
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For this proof to work, you'd have to prove that you can't. And we can simulate whole worm brains and fly brains, and they behave like real in simulated worlds, so you'd have to prove that there's something different about humans. This paper doesn't offer anything like that.
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says new multiplayer games are failing because players have no reason to leave their friend groups, touts Unreal Engine 6’s cross-game features as a solution
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Poster advertising the reopening of the Chat Noir Cabaret, Paris, France, 1896 AD
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It's a cabaret, there's many versions of this poster
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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast
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Why can't ripgrep? "Everything" search does this. https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/
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Merz backs plans to raise Germany’s retirement age to 70 in pension changes
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That would make it more expensive. That's not realistic, especially with aging populations. Retirement age should always have been life expectancy (like it was in the beginning). And should have been a fixed amount, dignified living, not to fund the life you've gotten used to. And on top of UBI, of course.
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Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
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AI would be overwhelmingly embraced if this was the case. Even a basic income program would have made it palpable.
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'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign
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Dot-com bubble took about 5 years before it burst, and that was crazier. Why would you think this one would pop quicker?
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'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign
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Nah, like a 5th of the market was tied up in dot com. Hundreds of start-ups that were all supposed to take over their sector. AI is not sustainable, but it's nothing like that.
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'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign
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I haven't heard this much bubble talk ever. It's not the same prediction made by the same people again this time. I don't even know anybody irl who likes vibecoding (myself included) who thinks this is sustainable.
Even the ones saying it before the Dot Com bubble didn't get it right because their doomerism made all predictions "end of the world" level.
I don't know what you're trying to say. People had bad takes about that bubble so all bubble scepticism is discredited? But it popped, which means all these investors had bad takes as well. So...
Nobody worth listening to thinks this bubble is going to be worse than the dotcom bubble. It's simply not that big to begin with. I guess there's some wishful thinking too, but what's the alternative to this investors-expected AI growth? Everything except the AI market crashes?
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The Grind
The pyramids were not built by slaves. They were built by farmers during downtime, they were treated well. Pharaohs were living gods, so building for them and getting paid for it mustn't have been that different from building a cathedral.
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A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
They said the same in Massachusetts and then didn't https://www.wonkette.com/p/massachusettss-millionaire-tax-still
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Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business
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The article isn't about the technology. This "experiment" is pure techbro fantasy.
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the real purpose of the ban is to curb the growing political awareness of young people
Hot take. Maybe people shouldn't be getting their political awareness from algorithmic sites. For every teen who learns Gaza etc there's 10 that learn about the Manosphere and how bad vaccines are.
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60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market
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40% of gamers: cause I didn't build it those years ago
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China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs
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But it only does 16x16 matrix inversion.
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How to tell Crows from Ravens
If you think it's a raven, it's a crow. If you think it's a cat, it's a raven.
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Two hours a night: Japan PM’s sleep schedule prompts concerns about work-life balance
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She platformed on this, they willingly voted for it.