Always surprised by music critics/industry types using their data as an indication of artist popularity. It has been generations since real music fans moved to a combination of piracy and directly supporting new artists with merch, vinyl and live shows. I suspect most spotify listeners aren’t music fans. It is just something they have on as the background soundtrack to their bland consumerist lives.
It is fucking amazing that people managing huge funds are prepared to throw money at complete fuckwits like this guy or that dumbarse Theranos lizard woman. If you have money clearly all you need to do is spout bullshit and roll a dice and you make more until you don’t.
What I don’t understand is why the fuck we elect people who suck up to these cunts. Like we have total control of who we vote for. And we still vote for door mats. What’s with that?
In general people have no fucking idea or just don’t want to know.
You can lay out the evidence of all the ways cigarettes will kill a person and a huge number of people will go ahead and smoke anyway. We are not an entirely rational species.
People have a massive capacity for self delusion. Even then a lot of people who accept the truth of living under corporate and government mass surveillance think the risks are acceptable or won’t be abused or are unavoidable in modern life. They are wrong but I can understand how their delusion brings them comfort.
Some of them are AI slop. But also people are extremely impressionable and ready to sign up to a cause and there is a bit of a cult forming around machine learning applications. There are weirdos ready to marry, serve and worship their delusions. Its not without precedent.
That creepy guy from school. The one who SA’ed your friend. He has all your personal, family and business secrets now. But he pinky promises he won’t use it against you. Oh, you thought it was some altruistic super intelligence in a “cloud” that is there to help you. No, dude, thats Jesus, if you are into that stuff. This is just just another creep spying through your curtains. Always has been.
Linus hasn’t programmed much for years. He is a manager. I imagine lots of managers are seduced by vibe coding. Programming can be a real slog and takes so much time. Why walk when you can drive?
The problem isn’t with Linus losing his skills but sustainability of the entire FOSS space. I don’t think many young programmers are ever going to learn the lessons Linus did as a young person and those lessons are still very relevant for low level code working closely with hardware. When the pre-LLM programmers age out I think we are going to be treading water for years with LLM regurgitating variations on the same old human code without much direction or innovation.
It is arguably a different situation for something like webdev which is mostly paint by numbers or enterprise software that is solving the same problems over and over.
But apparently not smarter than CEOs or these con artists would all fuck off.