going to keep “4 epistillion percent” in my back pocket from now on

zencastr. it’s the new episode processing that hasn’t been functioning. had some contact with support, didn’t help, currently in the process of getting them to redirect our RSS

https://www.patreon.com/OdiumSymposium/posts/24-dolphin-of-169474003

New Odium Symposium episode, “The Dolphin Fucking Elders of Atlantis”. We talk about new age crystal healing pioneer Frank Alper and his channeled lectures on Atlantis, Lemuria, Anti-Atlantis, crystals, and the future of humanity.

If you listen anywhere besides Patreon or Spotify, the episode is delayed. Our hosting service went “LLM based” (?) as I recounted previously and then just stopped working. We’re switching hosts and will have the episode up as soon as possible.

sartre proven more right every day

👍

i first became aware of srinivasan because he was running an extremely funny bitcoin scam. it was a $400 computer, the crypto mining platform of the future, a veritable font of wealth, and when people got it it was a raspberry pi with some shielding incorrectly attached, so that if you touched it wrong you shorted it and bricked the device. it mined a few cents a year and sent something like half of that to a16z

i also first became aware that noah smith was going to lose his mind when he cited srinivasan approvingly on twitter, i drew his attention to this, and he replied ‘no i just asked balaji about this and he said he’s cool, that it wasn’t a scam and also that he was actually put in charge of it to make it not a scam’

happy kirkiversary to all who celebrate

“being around ai is like this” i… ok

when you’re really good at convincing people to like ai

theophite is known for this post which i think is most of how he got a following

to him being a rabid racist: there was a palestinian guy posting on bsky asking for donations at one of the worst points of the genocide and theophite took it upon himself to start acting as a one man misinfo shop about him, screenshotting his posts and coming up with unjustified theories about how he was ai generated, represented some sinister force, etc. eventually the guy was proven to be completely authentic, theophite kept going and idk what happened after that because i blocked him. the whole thing was obsessive and overtly about hostility to poor and brown people

i read a bit about that. i couldn’t find quotes from the site employees saying they were trying to be wikipedia, so i didn’t mention it because id have had to digress. but almost everyone who talked about the launch mentioned their weirdass card system for linking other articles, and that it was wikipedia like. and all the descriptions sounded AWFUL, like it would just be throwing useless rotating shit at you all the time

not a cult btw