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New comment by xvxvx in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

xvxvx — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:25:16 +0000

At college, one professor gave us a list of books we needed for class. All expensive, of course. Used copies were non-existent. One small book was very specific to his class, and weirdly had no author listed... unless you read the receipt. The author was the professor who recommended it. Self published too, and carried at the college bookstore. Total scam.

New comment by xvxvx in "The AI Bubble – No One's Happy"

xvxvx — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:33:46 +0000

It’s a scam. Economies are built on such things. Wealth being manipulated from the many to the few. Do it on such a large scale that it becomes something that world governments need to prop up.

This scam had a very clear tell right from the start: it’s not artificial intelligence.

New comment by xvxvx in "Donald Trump and sons to be 'forever' exempt from tax audits"

xvxvx — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:03:59 +0000

*past tax returns

Clickbait headline.

New comment by xvxvx in "El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died"

xvxvx — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:01:42 +0000

There’s been so much climate alarmism since Al Gore decided to pivot to ‘hero of humanity’ that it barely registers for me now. I still have frozen rice and beans from covid. Hope they’re still good.

New comment by xvxvx in "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"

xvxvx — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:22:12 +0000

I grabbed a lifetime pass for $99 many years ago and have certainly gotten my moneys worth. Hopefully they will keep honoring existing passes.

New comment by xvxvx in "The missing men of the American marriage market"

xvxvx — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:18:33 +0000

Women will just need to adjust and lower their standards like men have done since the dawn of time.

New comment by xvxvx in "Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages"

xvxvx — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:40:57 +0000

Soon, people will scramble to remove all mention of AI from their work experience and LinkedIn posts, as it will become toxic.

New comment by xvxvx in "Ask HN: Company is rapidly cutting AI tool spend how to prep team?"

xvxvx — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:24:36 +0000

My own company hired a young goon of a man to spearhead their AI initiative. Lots of smiles and arrogance from him. Fast forward 2 months and reality has hit. Weekly meetings asking for feedback draw blank stares as employees explain that Claude can’t do shit to help their workload. This kid is starting to sweat. I bet he’ll be gone by the summer. Hilarious.

New comment by xvxvx in "The first AI Bulk Upscaling tool for filmmakers and creator pipelines"

xvxvx — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:21:16 +0000

Looks like another clear example of the ‘before’ image being a downscaled version of the ‘after’ image as opposed to an actual upscale. See it all the time with AI offerings.

New comment by xvxvx in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

xvxvx — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:05:49 +0000

Americans aren’t in favor of being driven into unemployment and poverty? How dare they!

Companies have their relationship with people, specifically employees, backwards. What percentage of companies out there are truly needed? What percentage solely exist because people have some surplus money to play with?

No one needs Microsoft or Google products. No one needs overpriced Apple crap. AI means jack shit to almost 100% of Americans. Streaming services are one bad day away from ruin. We’ve seen what piracy can do. Now we have faster, better internet. Food delivery services RIP. I buy so little from Amazon these days that I’m questioning the $15 per month value of Prime.

I hope we see society correct course and go back to how it was in the 90’s, before everything went to shit. No social media. No smart phones. Going out more. Less digital noise. Physical media from physical stores. The list goes on…

New comment by xvxvx in "Amazon's Alexa+ Now Produces AI-Generated 'Podcasts'"

xvxvx — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:51:12 +0000

Do people still doubt the dead internet theory? Almost no one I know uses social media anymore. We, collectively, seem to have disengaged from this weird society that has popped up in the past 20 years. I don’t follow the news. I don’t know what movies are coming out or if my favorite bands have new music in the works. My phone is largely useless, aside from streaming music in my car, maps, the camera, and messaging.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that most of the internet traffic today is just bots talking to one another. Humans have logged off.

New comment by xvxvx in "Emergence of Wasp Dope in Rural Appalachian Kentucky"

xvxvx — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:43:09 +0000

This can be applied to most drugs, but what maniac figured out that electrifying wasp spray to create crystals would give a high?

I somewhat recall a similar story on how meth was being made used car battery acid.

New comment by xvxvx in "Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel"

xvxvx — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:13:28 +0000

Final nail in the coffin for anyone wishing to wean themselves off smartphones.

New comment by xvxvx in "[deleted]"

xvxvx — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:39:36 +0000

Imagine writing and publishing an article like that and not using the word ‘racism’ even once.

New comment by xvxvx in "Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations"

xvxvx — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:09:46 +0000

‘The hackers responsible have exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online and unprotected by passwords’

‘Cybersecurity researchers have been warning about internet-facing ATGs for over a decade. In 2015, security firm Trend Micro put mock ATG systems online to see what kind of hackers would target them. A pro-Iran group was quick to surface.’

‘A 2021 report from Sky News cited internal documents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that singled out ATGs as a potential target for a disruptive cyberattack on gas stations.’

So these are deliberately being left open to attack then. Americans love nothing more than seeing news footage of lines of cars trying to refuel, and the government would use it as a reason to invade Iran.

New comment by xvxvx in "DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds"

xvxvx — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:01:37 +0000

‘Tracking models suggest the collapse of USAID may have already caused 762,000 preventable deaths, of which 500,000 are children, and the cuts could lead to more than nine million preventable deaths by 2030, according to a study published in February 2026.’

Half a million preventable child deaths. That’s Elon’s legacy.

New comment by xvxvx in "The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, and CTOs Are Going to Pay It Twice"

xvxvx — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:17:35 +0000

I sincerely hope many, if not most, of these companies go under due to their gambling on AI at the expense of their workforce.

I also look forward to Storage Wars: Data Centers with people buying a thousand unused hard drives for $10. Then the inevitable ‘we flipped this data center and made condos’ show on HGTV.

New comment by xvxvx in "House Republicans Vote to Dilute Gas as Prices Rise Above $4.50"

xvxvx — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:33:57 +0000

RIP the air quality in hot cities this summer.

New comment by xvxvx in "Twitter user posts a real Monet and says it's AI"

xvxvx — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:46:56 +0000

I visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam many years ago and seeing the actual painting, with its depth and heavy use of thick paint, was very interesting. The physical painting is impressive. JPGs of it on my phone, not so much. AI-generated art will never be of that level.

New comment by xvxvx in "What happened to the car designed for women, by women?"

xvxvx — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:02:44 +0000

‘Only about 5% of the members of the Society of Automotive Engineers — that’s 1,500 out of 28,000 — identify as women.’

‘Identify’. So there may be zero women.