It was adorable seeing a koala in the yard this morning but pretty soon I'm going to have to try to get to sleep with that thing growling outside my bedroom window all night. For those who've never lived around them, they make hideous noises at night.

From Tom Luongo's latest piece in Zero Hedge. He's talking about oil and stocks here but it seems equally relevant to Bitcoin given it's reputation for volitility.

I just watched a clip of some 12 year-old futurist pontificating about how AI is going to completely change the world. It was the same techno-utopian bullshit we've been hearing for the past half a century but what really struck me was how completely ignorant he was of history. When he spoke of the past it was clear he didn't have the slightest idea of what he was talking about - it was just a bunch of vague trivia he'd picked up via cultural osmosis. He knows nothing of what came before and to him it's all obsolete now anyway. People like that frighten me.

Once again, Amethyst's auto-translate provides some of the best content on here.

"The chatbot, created by OpenAI, said Turley had made sexually suggestive comments and attempted to touch a student while on a class trip to Alaska, citing a March 2018 article in The Washington Post as the source of the information. The problem: No such article existed." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/

Are badges still a thing or was that just a moment of irrational exuberance?

#progstr

I love this film clip because it reminds me of my teenage years and how uncomfortable it was to dress like a member of the Jesus & Mary Chain in the middle of summer in Australia.

I will not be dissuaded by your general indifference.

Literally a week earlier, using the same stock image.

No shit?

So how much did Elon make?

Can you even have intelligence in the absence of an embodied consciousness connected to the world via the senses? I don't know the answer to that, but I'm pretty sure the kind of nerds building this phoney AI shit wouldn't even understand the question.

I like RFK Jnr, I agree with him on many issues, and I wish him all the best, but I'm not sure I can listen to him talk for a four-year presidential term.

Yes, "wild theories" are whirling when the simple truth is The Experts don't know what's killing everyone and, for some reason, they don't care.