Can someone give the short version on what Ethan Klein did? I read the Wikipedia article but it paints everything in a broad brush, definitely feels like a story missing some key details.

yeah i actually just discovered this revival right before posting my comment. It’s really neat! Xfire and Discord are always linked in my mind, because i literally first installed Discord because my friends were moving over from Xfire. These days, Steam Chat can do almost everything that Xfire did, so there isn’t REALLY a reason for it to exist. But i love seein that ancient UI.

I suppose the next question is where will everyone go?

time to go back to Xfire, i guess.

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this has been shared and re-shared a lot ever since the Nov 2025 email release, but i will never stop upvoting it. Not until we see some real goddamn arrests for the many, many wealthy elites that are implicated by their association with Epstein.

It’ll never happen, until they make YT premium so prohibitively expensive that a majority of users no longer want to pay. If they’re smart, they’ll keep it at the current price until it starts losing money, because their effective monopoly is YouTube’S most valuable asset. Once they get any kind of decent competition, the whole house of cards tumbles.

And then she declined her staff’s suggestion to cancel the event, turned around, and finished the last 10 minutes of her speech. Absolute badass, I love Ilhan.

yep lol. Either this is a bribe scheme, or Dementia Don forgot his message.

Clarification: ICE’s recruitment campaign with Spotify ended. Doesn’t mean they won’t accept a new one if ICE comes knocking again.

Damn that’s some next level detective work. Thx for the details

Edit: God it just gets worse and worse. I just peeked at the website for his “EA DC” org and their board of directors literally includes an exec from Anthropic. This guy is literally taking money from the AI industry. This article is a complete joke.

Agreed 100%. I started doubting everything this writer was saying as soon as he started espousing the usefulness of Chatgpt.

I found the arguments about the environment convincing - he really does a great breakdown and comparison of other, individualist carbon emission sources and clearly explains why one person’s heavy Chatgpt usage is nothing compared to, say, using a laptop for an hour. I still hate Chatgpt and the rest for all the OTHER reasons that we all know by now, but on the environmental point, I felt this article was persuasive. Overly long, but persuasive.

Idk, maybe I’m a big idiot, but I have issues with the points made in this article. I will concede the point that individual Chatgpt use is not that big of a deal, environmentally speaking. If I can trust the numbers in this article, then it has successfully convinced me that I dont need to worry about the energy cost or emissions or water use of individual prompts.

The case I take issue with is the author’s point that LLMs are inherently useful. I don’t care if chatgpt is kind of just a better Google. I still hate every other thing about it. Using Chatgpt is clearly developing psychoses in some people, and even for people like this author that can use it responsibly, I think it’s just intellectually lazy. It encourages the user to abandon critical thinking and let the robot do it for you. What’s more, as a search tool, it’s destroying the internet. If no one ever goes to websites to read the info, why would people keep making websites with reliable information? Why should I even read this article? Why don’t I just have chat summarize it for me, and I never give this author any traffic or money? Then of course there is the plagiarism problem…

So idk. Maybe now I’ll stop harping on the environmental point. But I’m still going to avoid LLMs like the plague, because at their core I think they rob us of some of the finer points of a life well-lived. I’d rather spend my time poring through articles to understand the why and how of a question, rather than have a robot just spit the “what” out at me.

Edit: well I shared this elsewhere and someone pointed out that this dude is a self-avowed “Effective Altruist”, which boils down to “he’s a stooge for techbros and he probably takes a paycheck under the table to write these articles”. So…i no longer feel that I can trust the numbers in this article. I’m back to having heavy concerns about the environmental impact of AI.

Happy holidays my Beeple! Y’all made 2025 way more bearable 🎊

I don’t think it’s exactly “rubbing it in.” I think it’s appropriate for NBC to point out this small detail in the headline, as it is a neutral detail which nevertheless colors the incident in a more appropriate light. Just saying “car crash” would lead more people to believe he was t-boned or something (most people only read the headline), when the truth seems to be that he made a very dangerous decision which unfortunately led to his death and the death of his passenger. Hopefully more Ferrari owners get the message, and they remember Vince before they decide to gun it down Angeles Crest Highway.

Based on the rest of the story…it kind of seems like he was driving his Ferrari way too fast.

As anti-AI as I am, this is way less sensational than the headline makes it sound. They’re adding an AI mode that’s basically a built-in extension. Sounds easy to disable. I hate this shit, but you have to grant that Mozilla is a small company fighting for survival. They are probably just doing this to stay relevant (maybe they can get more money from google by being the default AI provider as well), and they may just as quickly drop this when the AI bubble finally pops. I am willing to forgive Mozilla for a little more than I forgive Microsoft, who has no real reason to push this AI hype other than trying to get more rich.

ehhhh get back to me in 14B years, i only believe REAL-WORLD metrics

fuck yeahhhhhh!!! This is huge, id may have relative independence but they exist under the Microsoft regime.

They should probably add Harada as a DLC final boss