Nvidia down ~8% this week, Palantir down ~10%

Maybe the needle really is shifting.

The guy that created the subreddit, Violentacrez, was also the “victim” of an expose by Gawker who found out his real life identity. Reddit tried protecting him by banning links to Gawker when the article came out.

I remember when this happened. Violentacrez himself showed up in one of the threads that didn’t get nuked and tried to defend himself. I remember his (heavily down-voted) comments all being surrounded by dozens and dozens of [deleted] comments — presumably people attacking him for being a pedo piece of shit.

I’d never heard of the guy before, but I was so disgusted by the story and by his attempts to justify himself that I went back through weeks of his old posts, down-voting everything.

The next day, I came back to a week-long temp ban from Reddit for vote manipulation. Fuckers.

he lauded Reddit as being “for humans by humans” and seemed to take a subtle dig at AI slop (the low-quality AI content clogging corners of the internet)

That’s pretty funny coming from the CEO of a platform that was already overrun by low-effort bots even before AI slop became a thing…

I always cringe a little bit when someone says a person has ‘become a parody of themselves’… but honestly, what else is there to say about Molyneaux?

Peter Molyneaux really has become a parody of Peter Molyneaux.

I’m 1000% sure Molyneaux is gonna try to use AI to develop as much of this new game as possible.

I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?

What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.

Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.

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To an extent, I think that’s already happening. ChatGPT5 released with a huge amount of hype, but when users started playing with it, it was incredibly underwhelming — and flat-out worse than 4 in many cases… all while burning though even more tokens than ever. Definitely seems like that capabilities of this technology have hit a plateau that won’t be solved with more training.

OpenAI optimistically believes it might start being profitable in 2029.

Which is absolutely buck wild when you consider they’ve already signed contacts to spend another trillion dollars over the next five years.

How the fuck is a company that has $5 billion in revenue today going to grow that revenue by at minimum $995 billion by 2029? There’s just no fucking way, man…

They ‘disappeared’ my hair

Oh, ‘time’ definitely disappeared his hair — just not the ‘Time’ he’s thinking of

Sucks to suck, AJ

Dang, you’re right… that was Cameron. My bad!

Whoa… did Epstein traffic pigs too??

Absolutely.

The article gives the impression that he was arrested and charged for shitting in public. The fact he shit on a dead possum didn’t contribute to his charges.

I’m simultaneously amazed by how expensive this shit has gotten and by how cheap it was in the first place…

I’d recommend diving into this for a more scientifically ‘thought out’ and optimistic extrapolation: https://www.orionsarm.com/

Man… if the Technopocolpyse is what you consider optimistic, I’d hate to find out what you consider pessimism!

The September that lasted 32 years…

Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.

Yeah, neutrino detectors don’t work like conventional telescopes because neutrinos don’t behave like light. Technically, neutrinos are actually a type of dark matter since they don’t participate in the electromagnetic interaction, and that makes them very hard to detect.

When a beam of light shines on your body, some of that light is absorbed as heat and a lot of it is reflected off of you. Neutrinos don’t do that. Tens of billions of neutrinos from the sun hit your body every second and just… don’t do anything. They pass straight through you with zero interaction whatsoever. Very, very rarely they’ll interact with something, and neutrino detectors are designed to both maximize the chances of such an interaction happening, and to make those interactions more easy to spot.

I’m not up to speed on all the technical details of JUNO in particular, but most neutrino detectors are searching for events that look something like this:

A neutrino enters the detection medium and directly collides with an electron. Enough energy is transferred into the electron that it is stripped free from its parent molecule and moves through the medium at very high speed. If it moves fast enough, it can even exceed the speed that light travels through the medium, creating something sort of like a sonic boom — only with light. We call this Cherenkov radiation. The scintillating properties of the medium boost this signal and photomultipliers at the perimeter of the detector gather this radiation so that the event can be reconstructed by computers.

The liquid is the detection media.

[Linear alkylbenzene] was identified as a promising liquid scintillator by the SNO+ neutrino detector due to its good optical transparency (≈20 m), high light yield, low amount of radioactive impurities, and its high flash point (140 °C) which makes safe handling easier. It is also available in large volumes at a relatively low cost at the SNO+ site. It is now used in several other neutrino detectors, such as the RENO and Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiments.The material performs well in deep underwater environments. One study suggested LAB as a suitable material to be employed in a Secret Neutrino Interactions Finder (SNIF), a type of antineutrino detector designed to detect the presence of nuclear reactors at distances of between 100 and 500 km.

Neutrino detectors are basically just huge scintillators (systems that absorb ionizing radiation and re-emit that energy as light). The liquid inside of JUNO (Linear alkylbenzene) has especially attractive scintillating properties.