Bookmarks tagged and dystopia

"A former Google engineer and the founder of stealth AI startup Extropic, is behind the Twitter account leading the “effective accelerationism” movement sweeping Silicon Valley."

Video from Derision Cult’s latest album

This creepy looking device - like a crab strapped to your forehead - is supposedly able to induce lucid dreams.

Talks about how the model Mistral released A) has no moderation features to prevent it spewing horrible stuff and B) was released as a Torrent so it can never be effectively updated or removed from the internet.

"Long term I suspect we all need 2FA for humans."

"Luxury brands use crocodile leather for their pricey products. For Indigenous Australians, that creates an opportunity."

“I’ve decided to take a different approach, and fight them in a different arena, inspired by the principles of asymmetric warfare. The one thing in our contract the DC lawyers can’t contest, or reinterpret to their own benefit, is that I am the sole owner of the intellectual property. I can sell it or give it away to whomever I want.”

This is a wild story about a club where people take their terriers out in DC to hunt rats behind restaurants.