Watched this hour-long interview with the Snapchat CEO.
Realized that Zuck is obsessed with that dude.
Snapchat does stories, IG does stories.
Snapchat changes its name to Snap to branch out into wearables, so does Facebook.
Snap releases smart glasses. Meta has Raybands.
Snap does AR, Meta does AR.
I think Zuck is obsessed with the fact that he wasn’t able to buy Snapchat back in the day. Lol amazing.
Compelling video:How to beat Trump, don’t believe him
OpenAI partners with U.S. National Laboratories on scientific research
It will also involve work on nuclear weapons, “focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide,” the company wrote. Some OpenAI researchers with security clearances will consult on the project.
Just months ago, OpenAI had a pledge not to use its technology for military purposes. OpenAI quietly removed that pledge back in September.
Yes, you can live without Big Tech. If data is the new oil, then I’m here to help you go electric.
Been looking for a resource like this!
The scramble to back up CDC.gov:
An employee working for an agency funded by federal grants working in HIV care told Garbage Day that their manager said the CDC website is expected to come down “in its entirety” and “to save what they might need.”
Watch: Timnit Gebru interview on Deepseek, AI, and why American companies insist on building the largest models.
After a week-long surge, Bluesky hits 30 million users.
this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!
— Bluesky ([@bsky.app](http://bsky.app)) Jan 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Tesla’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Report Sharp Drop in Profit - The New York Times
The company, which is led by Elon Musk, said it made a profit of $2.3 billion during the last three months of 2024. That was a decline compared with $7.9 billion a year earlier, but 2023’s profit included a one-time tax benefit of $5.9 billion.
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on Project Gutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks.
Here’s the direct link to the guide. It’s a fun read.
My Feeds (OPML). Enjoy!
Edit: Here are two more feeds of mine from my bookmarking app. Whenever I save an article or a website, it will show up in these two feeds.
Just copy/paste the links to your reader app:
No one wakes up thinking “gee I hope China saves us from US Predatory Capitalism(tm)”
We got here because everything is a scam, grift, trap, monopolized, private equitized, or venture capitalized. And the people we elect to save us can’t agree on anything except protecting their own pockets.
California’s AG Tells AI Companies Practically Everything They’re Doing Might Be Illegal:
Notably, AI has been used to mislead consumers, to create new forms of disinformation and propaganda, and to discriminate against certain groups of people. Now, the California Attorney General’s office has issued a legal memo emphasizing the fact that all of that stuff is probably illegal.
I’m sure these companies will agree, respectfully close down, and try their hand at something else.
Great resource: HTML for People
The Age of Cloud Capital - Persuasion:
No, the truly historic disruption was to automate capital’s power to command people outside the factory, the shop or the office—to turn all of us, cloud proles and everyone else, into cloud serfs in the direct (unremunerated) service of cloud capital, unmediated by any market.
Apple using the retro rainbow logo in an Apple Music playlist. They’re so militant about their branding, have they used that logo inside of three decades? Kinda cool.
For two decades, Silicon Valley’s strategy has been to subsidize massive losses in order to obliterate the market and become a monopoly i.e. Amazon, Uber, etc.
Now, China is doing the exact same thing with every market, and the US cannot do anything about it because regulating this type of strategy would necessarily also target US tech companies, making them slightly less powerful.
The American people, particularly the working class who’ve been exploited the most by big tech, couldn’t care less because they’ve been completely excluded from the wealth generated over the past twenty+ years. So to them, the cheap, direct-to-consumer products and digital tools coming from China is a welcomed financial releif.
And now i understand the quote “The last thing a capitalist will sell you is the rope to hang him with.”
White House in talks to have Oracle, US investors take over TikTok, NPR reports | Reuters
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app’s global operations, National Public Radio reported on Saturday.
Global?
I need new music.
What song do you have on repeat right now? If I get enough replies I’ll make a playlist of them all.
For me, I can’t stop listening to Letting Go by Angie McMahon because I’m a sad boy who likes sad music. If you like this song, here’s a playlist (Apple Music) I made.
How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI | WIRED:
DeepSeek’s latest model is so efficient that it required one-tenth the computing power of Meta’s comparable Llama 3.1 model to train, according to the research institution Epoch AI.
So then why is Meta spending $80 billion in GPUs and data centers for 2025? Could it be that AI is a fucking scam?
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end | TechCrunch
Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on CapEx in 2025, primarily on data centers and growing the company’s AI development teams. That projected range is around double the $35 billion-$40 billion Meta spent on CapEx last year.
Meta is pivoting to cloud infrastructure services.
Apple customers used to be able to email tim@apple.com. Sometimes, Tim Cook would even respond.
Today I emailed him, as I’ve done several times in his tenure. This time though, my email got kicked back. Apple deleted that address.
I wonder why?
If the Hank Green made a promise to leave Meta platforms over six months, or however long it would take, people would follow.
Take back your attention.
— Hank Green ([@hankgreen.bsky.social](http://hankgreen.bsky.social)) Jan 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
NBC apparently edits out Elon Musk’s Nazi salute when publishing his “full” inauguration speech.
well this is fucked: i was just looking on youtube for a version of the musk nazi salute and came across this version from nbc chicago that edited it out.
— Marisa Kabas ([@marisakabas.bsky.social](http://marisakabas.bsky.social)) Jan 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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