Huang's Huang claims another!

Look guys we're all just going to have to be OK with sending our prompts to centralized, closed-weight models Look guys we're all just going to have to be OK with massive data centers in our backyards Look guys we're all just going to have to take turns fucking Jensen Huang so the economy doesn't blow up

"AI" is a valuable tool, when used in the right context for the right purpose. "AIism" is a mental disease / mass delusion "AIism" is Proton CEO Andy Yen berating his employees for "loser thinking" because they're worried about a little thing called "security"... "AIism" is nobody questioning Jensen Huang staffing the company with his own offspring, getting entrapped by a Chinese honeypot, and using his Trump cronies to make the investigation go away.... "AIism" is fascist drug addict Elon Musk claiming that somehow chatbots are going to create a post-scarcity society and everyone just laps it up.... And finally "AIism" is all the 20-something Hoodie Rats scurrying up and down the hills of SF clocking in their 9-9-6s, terrified of being consigned to "permanent underclass" status because they either (a) are deluded enough to believe The Machine God is Nigh, or (b) they know the scam's going to collapse at any moment and they're gettin' that green while they can.

This regime has corrupted everything it touches, why would AI be any different? AIism is Trumpism https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/business/economy/nvidia-megaspeed-investigation-huang.html

Check out the video: scientists getting manhandled for handing out leaflets at a conference while a brass band plays NoLa jazz in the background. Crazy story https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/science/american-diabetes-association-turmoil.html

couldn't keep it in the pants 😬 View quoted note →

A bit late to this train but 'You Can See Everything' is a masterpiece of documentary film making. See it on the big screen (if you still can) to take in all of Holmes' "Resting Clown Face" as you ponder the meaning of Truth and Untruth

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To-do on #amethyst desktop: "Post" button inactivate after clicked -- currently allows to be pressed multiple times ANY keyboard navigation pls

It's hard not to associate the past 2 years of rapid AI growth with the similarly ascendant power (and now downfall) of MAGA...

get rrrrrrrready for Republicans to pretend to be Libertarians again... like a bad boyfriend, they'll show up knocking on the door, "hey baby c'mon I didn't mean all that stuff about tariffs and the War and the masked men on the street... Trump made me say it!" #midterms

Annoying how difficult it is to find (artist) accreditation for Fedora GNOME desktop backgrounds... Some of them I really like and would like to know more about who made them to see their other works, etc.

@Vitor Pamplona trying to upgrade #amethyst desktop from 1.20 to 1.21 and getting some issues -- I downloaded and installed Orchard, but it doesn't seem to "see" 1.20. Clicking "install" from Orchard gives some generic error that can't be copy pasted. Trying to right-click on the existing amethyst application in GNOME and select "app information" opens the app store, which used to show a page that could at least let me uninstall, but now just says "that app not found" or something equally unhelpful. what to do?

My favorite #pico8 game: "Into Ruins" this should be a playable nApp on current version of #amethyst ! 😁

As a Proton (paying) user I've been following the most recent drama and trying to be careful in discernment about it.... Andy Yen seems to have had some real "bad boss" energy in the leaked comments, and he's sort of owned up to that. On the other hand there is a very real and kinda dumb reflexive anti-AI stance among a certain culture in the FOSS / privacy tech space (just hop over to Mastodon to see that in action). I imagine a big chunk of Proton's workforce is sympathetic to this perspective.

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Proton’s AI manifesto for software engineering | Proton

How will Proton navigate the AI transition? Read the internal memo by Proton CTO Bart Butler.

This whole thing is supes disappointing. I've been in the process of migrating to Proton for more things in my digital life and now it comes out that Andy Yen is a total turd towards his team. View quoted note →

RIP. 😞 The iconic Professor X, and of course the best Captain ever to helm the Enterprise. Stewart brought both gravitas and humanity to every character he inhabited. View quoted note →

VisionQuest is really good so far, one of the best things Marvel has done recently. To the subject of this article, I do enjoy a bit of subtle retconning about Tony Stark... A character who, when initially introduced in the 00s was compared, in a favorable light, to Elon Musk... And if his AI technology wasn't actually invented by him but bought "off the shelf" so to speak, that seems to make the comparison all the better... View quoted note →