The Cheesecake Factory is a restaurant chain. Its decor is intentionally over-the-top.

Saddam Hussein lived a very extravagant lifestyle, even by dictators’ standards, and famously built himself palaces so overfilled with gold and precious things that instead of looking luxurious they looked tacky and in horrible taste.

Obama joked that Trump’s White House looks like if Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory (Trump and MAGA took it about as well as you can imagine).

The brilliance of the joke is that, while being on the surface about interior design, Obama called Trump a narcissistic dictator getting rich by stealing from his own people. And clearly MAGAs choose to focus their response only on the Cheesecake part of the joke.

No, but I bet we could be charged for treason for speaking against Cheesecake Saddam

I was not disagreeing with you, I was just trying to be funny and summarize “ok”

k…

I think it might be true. Not in the sense that agents are so clever that they are hacking into online banking websites but in the sense that some people are so dumb they:

1. willingly give agents credentials to access their bank accounts (“it’s going to help me budget/figure out if I’m being overcharged by Netflix” or whatever else the AI-hype convinced them it’s a good idea to let an agent do for you)
2. or let agents run with full access to everything on their machines, including their “my_banking_codes.txt” file with their unencrypted passwords and the email/messaging apps where they receive the 2FA message to confirm their access

He said “for young kids”, never said they were his.

He has a legion of kids with several different women and does not live with them. He’s more likely to buy legos for his friend at the Epstein club than to do anything nice for his kids anyway.

“Geez, chill out, guys! I was just gossiping with the smart TV and the doorbell about Cindy flaunting her new, expensive RAM everywhere

• the coffee machine

Same! I got to the third paragraph of the article before understanding they were not planning to harass their customers (or at least not in new ways…)

except that those links are increasingly pointing to slop content anyway. Even scientific papers.

Firet sentence in the article

Social network MySpace is reportedly planning to make a comeback

No. Planning to make a comeback is not the same as making a comeback. You are making a comeback when lots of people are actually using your site.

Fun read! I think a closed fist with seven fingers would have been a better illustration tough…

if you’re far enough to the right apparently everyone looks like a Marxist. Even Hitler was a National Socialist (Socialist!)

I think that’s so type inference can work by just omitting the type, instead of having to use “var” or “auto” in front of the variable name

I think the EU are just trying to get some of the money quickly before Google spends all of it on AI

Not to be anti-AI, but… AI coding stats from a AI coding company are as trustworthy as studies from Marlboro on the health effects of smoking or from Volkswagen on car emissions.

I mean, it would still make more sense than SpaceX + xAI. Unlike a data center, a Tesla did actually go to space

There’s a financial bubble and a mental bubble. They are related and feed each other but they are not the same and might not blow up at the same time.

The Market, according to the article, isn’t losing its faith in AI as the Ultimate Technology (the mental bubble or “AI psychosis”). It’s just questioning its belief that one or two companies might be able to squeeze massive profits out of it (the financial bubble).

Investors thought one AI winner would emerge relatively quickly, a new SuperGoogle or HyperAmazon that would make all the money in the world by providing access to AI to every other company. The AI winner would then gleefully enshittify their product while making it more expensive over time, eventually turning huge profits (even including the Trillions of investment spent to get there).

Now, with multiple companies that are offering an almost equivalent product and are forced to compete on price while already bleeding billions every quarter, everyone might just run out of money before the winner is declared. Not a scenario many are willing to invest in.

But the idea that AI can do everyone’s job or give anyone 100x superpowers will still be out there. And all the CEOs and CTOs who thought they would look like thought leaders if they bet everything on AI will not easily change their minds all at once. They will still be easy marks for the next snake oil salesman, selling them a product based on cheap, less powerful models or whatever they can insist can still perform the 100x miracle at an actually bearable cost.

Some might actually be useful products, it’s just that if the mental bubble, overinflating what AI can do doesn’t blow, they can still be sold way above their actual worth.

they are hiring more, so they can reach their layoff targets

Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by [Musk’s] “High Demand” for more money

FTFY

He inhabits a 80-year-old, badly abused and decomposing body and he doesn’t care about anybody else including his own family. “Sustainable” is probably not what he’s going for at this point (if it ever was).