only from that article lol

J. Oliver Conroy’s Ziz piece is out. Not odious at a glance.

please don’t

I’ve read Masnick for over 20 years and he’s never learnt to write coherently. At least this one isn’t blaming Europe.

he started writing about this stuff and it struck a chord with people

sadly not directly

we now have a Reliable Source for Cremieux being Lasker, which we were previously only 99.999999% sure of

the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees

The Information’s Dealmaker newsletter is talking today about downrounds in AI venture funding

it’s been an ongoing exit scam

OpenAI buys services from a pile of Altman’s other portfolio companies

Text removed in Mozilla TOS update:

       {
           "@type": "Question",
           "name": "Does Firefox sell your personal data?",
           "acceptedAnswer": {
               "@type": "Answer",
               "text": "Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise. "
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here’s the diff

Ziz appears in court for bail hearing

looks like tomorrow’s Pivot

i am presuming his lawyers, and a special crypto bro pardon

yep that’s the stuff. they HINT HINTed what they wanted the LLM to do.

Wired: The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians (archive)

Evan Ratliff has apparently been tracking the Ziz cult since 2022 and when it blew up into mainstream news, he was ready

crayon either way

Has the study itself shown up?

EDIT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13295

that gives me questions about China

that’s tomorrow’s Pivot