Chris Rebert

OpenAI is washed

This chart shows the key risk to the AI trade, and it's missing from the latest revenue announcements. The AI boom is fundamentally driven by a top 1% of companies that drive 80% of spend. Within that top 1%, 80% are venture-backed.

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

Unlike previous No Kings protests, which focused on the Trump administration’s policies, criticizing the U.S.- led war in Iran and the detainments, arrests and deportation of immigrants, Saturday’s event emphasized the importance of v…

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

Chat, is this man real? youtu.be/i_npi6xRKf0

The sheer cosmic irony of the portfolio rebalancing spreadsheet calculating that I need to sell 404 shares of an Internet company stock...

The benchmarkpocalypse: danluu.com/benchpocalyp...

The first part of OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, JEP 401 (Value Objects), has been integrated into JDK 28 as a preview feature and is now available in the early-access builds. More information: openjdk.org/projects/val... #JDK28 #OpenJDK #Java

Look closely. Do you see it? This is not the same man.

Well, that's certainly a novel approach to resisting AI vibecoding www.youtube.com/shorts/ySmux...

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

“men need a positive model of masculinity to follow!” skill issue tbh. women make up femininity as we go and then argue with each other about whether random aspects are bad. there are a hundred schools of femininity and all of them allow you to steal your brothers jeans bc they have real pockets

Day Counter xkcd.com/3228/

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

This is what solidarity looks like. #NoKings

With over eighty acting credits across his career, no one would ever accuse Back to the Future’s James Tolkan of being a slacker.

No wars of aggression. No terrorizing our communities or yours. No tyrants, no conquests, no kings. Please join us on March 28 for the world-historic day of protest that this moment demands: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels. The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources. It’s time for accountability.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

hahaha holy fuck they're making support tickets now

I've gone nuclear and now I'm blocking X-Mailer: Zendesk Mailer

ten years ago today no one clapped

Ponzi as a service? What a world we live in.

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

Last-minute gig idea! A knock-off VHS that looks a bit like a classic Disney cartoon:

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

Throwback to the Xmas when I spoofed mobile game ads too accurately, and no one clicked on the video.

From now until the end of the year, you can get Logic for Programmers $10 off! Use the code `hannukah-presents` or just click this link: leanpub.com/logic/c/hann...

An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information. Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

not the crossover i expected to see on my timeline today

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.