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Phil Stevens :tinoflag: profile picture
Phil Stevens :tinoflag:
@Phil Stevens :tinoflag:

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Vintage 319 ppm CO2
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Musician since the beginning, oddball, techie luddite, biochar entrepreneur/evangelist, MMT proponent, deep green, outspoken, cantankerous af neurodivergent.

Life goal: to see billionaires go extinct.

Tolerance is a social contract.

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Recent Notes

Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: · 4d
Can someone point me at a decent refutation of this claim that Anthropic will be/was profitable in its latest quarter? The narrative I generally see is that AI firms are burning money at an eye-wateri...
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@nprofile1q... It has to be some next-level creative accounting. There are some really sketchy talking points out there right now, e.g. "they're profitable on inference" (nope, and training costs don't magically disappear one-and-done wise) or "token-based billing will bring revenues up to support costs" (BWAAHAHAHA YOU ARE KILLING ME EVERY TIME THEY RAISE COSTS THEY WILL ABSOLUTELY LOSE MORE CUSTOMERS).

I'm sure Ed Zitron has cogent observations on this one.
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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: · 4d
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq0e9sa2pk946q9nydj8qqtpyrd36e7zmqfdv34c45fsqngth0avnqmxvvev aquick search on the #EdZitron hashtag yields exactly what you predict*. Watch starting @4 mins if you want a soundbite, or if you've time watch all 12 minutes, I enjoyed it. *So good i...
Phil Stevens :tinoflag: · 4d
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq3ygvzh88nl5023d7fe62jqjfezfnz3zcwjlk8nc7nr9crvuf09ass27ef2 BTW, this has been a game changer for support costs: "Oh, that was a bug in Me v3.5. You need to get 4.0."
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Luxon and Co thought that by giving property speculators a multi-billion dollar gift from the public sector that they could start this carnival ride up again. That was their only hope of engineering economic growth: yet another housing bubble adding illusory liquidity to the "haves" while saddling the rest of us with higher costs.