Tootfinder

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's unpaired AWS-3 licenses for $2.6B in stock, after EchoStar sold WS-4 and H-block licenses to SpaceX for $17B in September (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#unkürzbar
https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2025/10/berlin-soziale-traeger-haushaltsplan-pinel-schoeneberg.html…

ich werde mir auch so einen schriftzug übers klo häng
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/weisses-haus-donald-trump-tuerschmuck-gold-reaktion-li.3335208

LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming.
But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty.
That’s why this shit only resonates with executives and capital owners. “Get things done with fewer people and expenses” is at least an actual pitch. “Get things done faster for yourself” isn’t.
The individual angle really works for things you already were trying to avoid doing because you’re either disinterested or don’t have enough time to do things right.
“Avoid your work” as a value proposition doesn’t work when you’re dealing with intellectual labor rather than commodities. Not large scale, not long term.
Sorry for the rant, I saw some Notion ads on the subway and got irritated 😅
#AI #llm #LLMs

Supreme Court to hear major test of presidential power over Trump's firing of FTC commissioner (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-v-slaughter-ftc-commissioner-firing-humphreys-executor/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p22#a251207p22

The EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…

"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"

Last Words of an Ego on Death Row
Hello.I don’t know who you are. But I hope we meet in the next pages—across whichever dimension I had to cross to embody these feelings.This is not a book. It is not a journal.It is the autopsy of an ego and the birth certificate of the woman I am today.It carries the blueprints I bled for: how to build something from nothing, how to love yourself when the mirror is a battlefield, how to decode the nature of existence and drag purpose out of the dark.But more than all of that—this is my b…

OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/792638/sora-provides-bet…

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self
After a week of video slop, OpenAI is putting guardrails in place over how your AI double is used on Sora. 

Sources: Johny Srouji, Apple's chip chief, told Tim Cook that he is seriously considering leaving in the near future; Apple is mulling offering him the CTO role (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20