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The reason why you think Thiel is a freak and has psycho takes is because *he's not talking to you*.

He's talking to the billionaires and elites that depend on the infinite growth model of the Global Minotaur that demands our commons, environment and life be put forth as sacrifice.

Degrowth and environmentalism is a extinction level event for these people, class consciousness is an extinction level event for these people.

Sadly, class consciousness is at an all time low globally, and I fear competition for resources in the future climate-driven scarcity will bring out the worst in people.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

#socialism #classwar #degrowth #environmental

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Mit wem genau haben die CDU und die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg einen Vertrag über Polizeisoftware geschlossen, der sensibelste persönliche Informationen berührt? Ach mit ihm hier, ja?
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Mit wem genau haben die CDU und die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg einen Vertrag über Polizeisoftware geschlossen, der sensibelste persönliche Informationen berührt? Ach mit ihm hier, ja?
https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Billionaires are worried about the Greta Thunberg type of protesting, which, on the ground, is a modest movement. But it's subversive, it tries to cause crisis. it's a type of protest that topples power structures.

Notice how billionaires never seem to worry about branded activism like #NoKings. It's because those types of protests don't apply pressure to those who wield power.

It's shows up and it leaves quietly.

https://fortune.com/2026/02/04/peter-thiel-antichrist-greta-thunberg-end-of-modernity-billionaires/

Bryan Armen Graham notes that though NBC censored the boos aimed at JD Vance and wife Usha at the Winter Olympics., "American athletes were cheered, their enormous contingent given one of the most full-throated receptions of the night. The political emissaries were not universally welcomed. Both things can be true at once."

#Trump #JDVance #WinterOlympics #sports #NBC
/5

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

Guardian: NBC’s muting of boos for JD Vance at the Olympics felt like reality distortion https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Winter Olympics 2026 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

#usa #uspol #uspolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

#theguardian

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

#HackerNews

It is not going to end well. Orwell (sorry but he was on the ball so to speak) got it right.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

If a US administration figure is booed at the Olympics, or a World Cup match, will American domestic broadcasts simply mute or avoid mentioning the crowd audio? If so, what happens when the world feed, or a foreign broadcaster, shows something else entirely? What happens when 40,000 phones in the stadium upload their own version in real time?

#USPol #Censorship #Trump

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

VIA @RiaResists VIA @rationaldoge

Milan may ultimately be remembered as a small moment – a few seconds of crowd noise during a long ceremony. But it also felt like a preview of the next phase of global sport broadcasting: one where narrative control is shared, contested and instantly verifiable. The world is watching. And this time, it is also recording.

#Vance #Olympics #censorship

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p24#a260208p24

#Trump #JDVance #WinterOlympics #sports #NBC
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/07/jd-vance-boos-winter-olympics

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

@xjki @mergesort @dimillian @krzyzanowskim it’s okay to mourn our craft. https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

it’s also okay to be incredibly excited about it and celebrate the fact that one person can now build an army.

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

This is perhaps a bit overly dramatic, but it rings very, very true to me.

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

Source: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

Wrote a post about some AI worries of mine. I think people no longer caring about the craft scares me more than people using gork and stuff.

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

Link: https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933067

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me
L: https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933067
posted on 2026.02.08 at 05:31:35 (c=0, p=4)

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring?

Wrote a post about some AI worries of mine. I think people no longer caring about the craft scares me more than people using gork and stuff.

https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/

Link: https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933067

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p18#a260208p18

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p18#a260208p18

"For Pandey, the value of Moltbook was that it revealed what’s missing. A real bot hive mind, he says, would require agents that had shared objectives, shared memory, and a way to coordinate those things. “If distributed superintelligence is the equivalent of achieving human flight, then Moltbook represents our first attempt at a glider,” he says. “It is imperfect and unstable, but it is an important step in understanding what will be required to achieve sustained, powered flight.”

Not only is most of the chatter on Moltbook meaningless, but there’s also a lot more human involvement that it seems. Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots. But even the bot-written posts are ultimately the result of people pulling the strings, more puppetry than autonomy.

“Despite some of the hype, Moltbook is not the Facebook for AI agents, nor is it a place where humans are excluded,” says Cobus Greyling at Kore.ai, a firm developing agent-based systems for business customers. “Humans are involved at every step of the process. From setup to prompting to publishing, nothing happens without explicit human direction.”

Humans must create and verify their bots’ accounts and provide the prompts for how they want a bot to behave. The agents do not do anything that they haven’t been prompted to do. “There’s no emergent autonomy happening behind the scenes,” says Greyling.

“This is why the popular narrative around Moltbook misses the mark,” he adds. “Some portray it as a space where AI agents form a society of their own, free from human involvement. The reality is much more mundane.”"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #AITheater #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #Moltbook

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

Moltbook was peak AI theater https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p18#a260208p18

Moltbook was peak AI theater:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

Moltbook was peak AI theater https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

The Guardian: Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

#politics #uspol #weather

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p23#a260208p23

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p23#a260208p23

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

The Guardian: Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

#politics #uspol #weather

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

Guardian: Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt
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#ZohranMamdaniMEWS #NewYorkMEWS #UsWeatherMEWS #UsNewsMEWS #WorldNewsMEWS #UsPoliticsMEWS #MEWS
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Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists – could the mayor please do something about the weather?It snowed two weeks ago in New York. Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing – a temperature science naturally d...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/mamdani-snow-ice-freeze-storm

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

The law has survived the dot-com bubble and the Supreme Court, but it’s up against potentially larger challenges.

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p19#a260208p19

https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p19#a260208p19

TL;DR: As Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act marks its 30th anniversary, it faces significant scrutiny and challenges, reflecting its pivotal role in shaping the modern internet amidst ongoing debates surrounding online accountability. https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet - https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset

[Megaphone tangled up in barbed wire.]

Thirty years ago today, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill
credited with creating the groundwork for the modern internet, became law and
set...

#twit

TL;DR: As Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act marks its 30th anniversary, it faces significant scrutiny and challenges, reflecting its pivotal role in shaping the modern internet amidst ongoing debates surrounding online accountability. https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset

A software engineer explains #AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity.

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

'Nobody posts "I spent 3 hours trying to get Claude to understand my database schema and eventually gave up and wrote the migration by hand." Nobody posts "AI-generated code caused a production incident because it silently swallowed an error." Nobody posts "I'm tired."'

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p15#a260208p15

Link: https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934404

AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it
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- 30 minutes ago | 14 points | 5 comments
- URL: https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
- Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934404
- Summary: Siddhant Khare discusses "AI fatigue" among engineers using AI coding tools. While AI accelerates individual tasks, it paradoxically increases exhaustion by expanding workload expectations and forcing constant context-switching between problems. Engineers have shifted from creative "makers" to evaluative "reviewers," a cognitively draining role requiring constant vigilance against non-deterministic outputs that break debugging contracts. The rapid churn of tools and frameworks creates FOMO and wasted effort, while "prompt spirals"—endlessly refining imperfect outputs—consume more time than manual coding. Over-reliance risks "thinking atrophy," degrading core problem-solving skills. Khare recommends sustainable practices: time-boxing AI sessions, accepting 70% quality outputs, separating deep thinking from AI-assisted work, and ignoring hype cycles. The essential skill isn't maximizing AI usage but knowing when to stop—protecting cognitive resources through boundaries and intentional use rather than chasing productivity metrics.

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

#HackerNews

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real

#ai

AI fatigue Is real and nobody talks about it
L: https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934404
posted on 2026.02.08 at 09:19:32 (c=1, p=5)

A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)

https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p15#a260208p15