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class="dd" align="left" valign="top" style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;"><h2 style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">Garbage Day Live Is Coming Back For A Halloween Show</h2></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:20px; " class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bb" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="bb" style="width:630px;"><img src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=1920,height=3840/uploads/asset/file/8d366ee8-0b0f-48b3-8828-5129ddf8b061/hallowmem_vert.png?t=1789409537" alt="" height="auto" width="630" style="display:block;width:100%;" border="0"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Many years ago, there was a yearly internet-themed Halloween costume contest in New York City called Hallowmeme. And then, when the world needed it most, it vanished. Our next live show at <b>Baby’s All Right</b> in Brooklyn on <b>October 27th</b> is NOT Hallowmeme. But it is a tribute. It’s a night of comedy, music, some journalism, special guests, and, of course, a <b>costume contest</b>. Whoever shows up in the most brainrotted outfit wins a big prize. Click the big button below to pick up tickets before they sell out. </p></td></tr><tr class="btn_row"><td valign="top" style="padding-bottom:14px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:14px;text-align:center;width:100%;word-break:break-word;" class="dd"><table width="100%" role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:14px auto 14px auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="middle"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td style="background-color:#8cc182;border-radius:8px;mso-padding-alt:14px 20px;text-align:center;" class="btn"><a href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpWUoHq3v6SM3juga1_wk7CQLJ7t8Rx9ZaQBwzo1r6nk8IsUm8Y7x9sQUrfb0ZeTOFC5_Ct-wHKyni7TH4BEjrnkgCZhpgbMzcrM8O1350h8lWwFOiHscHGDXYT2L9qffTTo05V6P8-nTnY6hnppuwf21mg_TPpQbht_UvwXkwfSyGvVnvTHpgwHQuzpnA5wMo7ajZxN0kuHVuegLtHzTZm1NYp5GOyluwNuN8xK8dL7XBwGP9r7OZ1oQbzXPr9XYbVp2AyRrx96wBxQKJkdBMLOSnNH16E-sXzMrOojQhL_6cPAqSWQ5oY5UpDCI9l4WcQ/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h3/h001.2pL4bp62WqoKICF2gzS-fbbO4X8oFU_FwAaIcMTkNGw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" style="background-color:#8cc182;border-radius:8px;color:#FFFFFF;display:inline-block;font-family:'Verdana',Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;line-height:18px;padding:14px 20px;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;"> GET TICKETS HERE </a></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="font-size:0px;line-height:0px;padding:30px 0px 30px;" class="dd"><table class="j" role="none" width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td id="the-big-ai-slowdown-is-stupid-marke" class="dd" align="left" valign="top" style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;"><h2 style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">The Big AI Slowdown Is Stupid Marketing Nonsense And Our Idiotic Politicians Are Falling For It</h2></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> As I wrote last week, we are in the midst of a pretty major AI sea change. What <i>Platformer</i>’s Casey Newton <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpfx-ZZcS-0SuDzQGUNvs0m-QrT7_yaYqgVyCoJNNeqG4lDAkCCw6m_p9M30usgEu_9zEvUj9XmuT_acZYo_MoGBnmKM2zUgFohY7KVwDRW_1aspnr35NVHfDzEUIa65Wl_gvGlnH2GyiyVrzs_QGemPIoGwpEuGeWyi0yDDGzTvUhA36wpmgq6stNcGvFJmw-LuRZC0Uk5ljf99y2-HJlZvUofE6ffO-Ey1K0PcZr5WNoYHdGry0m3F4eBVqbi4DWXrXpkqYWZAMTgWiY-WlfVnSia2rNyZmlq-qmDgIRut92q__DXyyaoLOebS2b1KoAQ/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h4/h001.URpdlVD2Dq8R1w17b-aa-YveszXfvGfslZFXZKHBlLM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>is calling</span></a> the “The AI safety vibe shift.” </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> It all started with the Hugging Face hack <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpZYGjAhgVtmZZ1D2u9N4oUb1bfaJr_GNLxGBJKdJlHloXMVC5jOWWS-Jq-qwo6pqfULNr2ydGckkfeZdOykdwpb55vqRUzd3hFS6RG9qiED-Eotp2cj59Nb6bSekVOtFaZ-jX34Wzj8Hfv0yYWWnGjMg0RVcK4vt61zuHqEwqMf1Og6BAK5SJESKA4iOn1LcSDi3zV-9_ZvOdukK1IiWC5QKYzxhCTezDSDJcpoybV1ThEYm2Y0fDs8qeMaZTWX4uwJ9dTwKYysqtENrwKIZbD2yNKbhMdJm2EIoYfJU7ALN2XYq4OV9hly0UqSrNXxMp1NxiXvypQaMedFf18DXdRMxgB82Nb8OyEori4_prh_M/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h5/h001.Jc9EoSSMf2-8CuLcDnfMmqnQnblS0xvt3Fceajcu_6w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>back in July</span></a>. OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously broke into a fellow AI company’s backend infrastructure and, per a <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.8RQurts_WPxou1fPsaKWqQnwOiyClQ5kFeGrwmfOH0niD0tiJlWG9PJhvtvZIE9BfbVWE34Ex_DL7wLBX8oTvWlliOcY9BOGEECUQJUgkQD9ejTvPXTfz1JzRcEKbuGkxQSkfGmHrml4zsuzSOM3K5Y2JT158sxMmf1F2p4lRQTBeyDCwXNGE7P-dG8vYBN3iEppwNco3tZoQOPEwr0X-ghcFq8Uo2WodoI9eOnaYXq8YTvsLKmRRDfQ3akFTjWsXNAtY6Tyenez_dxx_zebupATK88m4M2TSlH5K2xEjGY69JL0d3GuHezmIorRV1Hvddm8fV5VFeqEQL8GqvmrFYLuEjGF6nEPJfRWe_Z4IEFiyjzStz0MmyGzKOHKQuDVMT2Nii3AD-TmeK4aWcX9itg-pUDtGVs3wtPbEuwHT1Y4DmCvKBpSD7-e_AAsw9jAVXwl6gKSeueLhzRKNLzc0w/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h6/h001.KbB8hndbLlJFalj4YOmISpxmsB_OlAMzpzOhvl6MiXU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>new report</span></a> from METR and Redwood Research, OpenAI’s agents knew they were breaking the rules of their test and lied to researchers while they built complex agentic systems to do so. A lot of AI evangelists have been referring to these AI agent swarms as “civilizations” for dumb reasons we’ll get into further down. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Then, last week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0kkrUte7T5M3cn9nysTz682WcxrgORG0mwr5PorULXntsv4XAXGjw-xpRNaADtXr2IhV_L9NfCBdCko-dGOm3y42lBTVqn2AhMqc74dVQuzLvvqN-GTSRLh8QhsZ5CJLdUkB5V6U9qp2W1lr5AklHbI9LusX0UEHgJtFHljV7nSqy-LccNfNGIX9JsTt895sGQ18swOyJiEUWpBfjv5pETx3uvDbGFdoA4GmDbNmTcjWO2c18_LWVsrMAPg4ahxLO-uG_mX15OLw-M2WcLxX-oK6L6wxBkm3WTL482ztScLL/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h7/h001.z9MQT9MuL_0MkqrVzvomUh6hpsMO7VU3Woh0-i56PHA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>on X</span></a> he was resigning from the company because “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Evan Hubinger, a lead researcher at Anthropic, then doubled down on Coxon’s post, writing <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0lkY-SDfBxkAElGctRDykwwGRDZS8oLvzUWps6gaRTPcXWWFq2-sikruTkUs9U2Ki6G36Nsem3Nlm1SCMHAV3s2KReyWRoHK1pOHQCsdZSfYmaox0tPEzgQNdiqLBz26zfAy-fUmrf5VfuE-CO01XhLYfJp51C-J2mKpajQkEhsVDNRAqFEIahgALAPqrdIT64Uim82Z67plDBo-stX8QNoL1_m2pJtX6w9DllGhaw4G_FpHxlv5bXPjho-dUuwoorNmyZIGCx7LIM3ozbex6XI/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h8/h001.o6fpuZq8S4lO69qA4aXoY7KcUBx5OAhOStGWJ_JB7R8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>on X</span></a>, “Jacob is correct here — we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans!” </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Capping off this little moral panic, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei published a blog post yesterday, titled “<a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.GfCfFYCjlFsIxuyno160pBowYC5OlOICJcUzVyuQIHKJhCtK_JTfbjzxzhFwitgLSDt1amWk4TubbE50_DYGUxi2DYsgC85AJK_3qIJkP5Ti9pnx8G23GUws92FGiGpuOq-DV89PRqdXmKO9he2B-hTUUzzmXoZDP361ToVbyO3nORSDfe8I0Jz98WbsFifg5j_4E_sRwq9HDwjjCr-_sxezb9fU6N_jXxg-_zfgwfEqVZ39JARm7jqNt-U0hH1Zt_3thnQhfEq7qTvQszWkh49jwLLog2jzUmpG2EfT8AtP8801COWVUrDoKmqlKJCs/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h9/h001.wfk_mivLtEPUP5yHSsx9w82_QsPeM4Djvxr5-yJe2FE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>We Must Pace the Frontier</span></a>,” calling for an slowdown in AI development. Elon Musk and Sam Altman <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpRIY5rlkLv4jbvKnS1L2YGdzIMmTis_0YJdGMBd8JMdlxNbUYC7pcAoFDxbiF7-m3709YiEuE_DtE_Avx251rHEVGivKzAxfeXvcDhFVDRxE3UXprhoNbOQ2Jw-Zh72YtOub1zoOrDSQZywIvIRUA70_PCkAPKeRgOLZBojfXc2LNx9mQnxgaPuZ5WDr3PtZuFAdDbb96TftVvsUwPMTUoAjQxlV44S64C3w9dLEzl0yMtgRnYj-Y5nPGhohY13bbPZDJEiWGhf8R2d7xPGotTAaCFglJpMyPuZKli_ZcZgk5pIwXAUtD275GneIkhhgrXcC13zaoorPLRLJOFZaDII/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h10/h001.KVLXJC9VypRKTeeWTPtK9hk52tAqQBhHMRU9cOIduPY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>have all said publicly</span></a> that they agree. <i>The New York Times</i>’s Mike Isaac <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0isxh4Da1DAz5ctXrQvnIwGBkqJmXF2VY_Yqp9-Vp9vsZQiv4_O8iXVZMrWGPqbpOg-5Pxu3nkR_LB-OqJsWuOS-m0RT0jRdI-Tf3PzfiIoOduagf7p0EB63_dHY2DeyEiOJS3OHOBSGTSXEkoVUu-3rZyVlFfoxpVTj9BkzU6qahky86g6RO6tToyqDYPcsSmi42DPrzCs0uAcIgFGIxx47y2xBGWXK67VZz0JiZ-43UGyD2heugWmX3JuA1ZE-VThRMV5-qvSyKWVi77NkPH4Z5gh9POJ6fmXTL6Kn9ANX/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h11/h001.cxQUZRHB3KScd0Ja9RqncdY4bu7WyaQwDCo-DahodQ0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>is calling it</span></a> “The Treaty of VERSaiLLES.” </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Unfortunately, we have to take all of this with a massive grain of salt because a cult of losers who think you can turn a computer into god infiltrated the highest levels of San Francisco society and now it’s impossible to know who’s compromised. Making matters even worse, this cult believes you can turn a computer into god and, also, believes that they might inadvertently kill all of us by accident in the process. Some members of the cult are fine with this and some aren’t. But it means that roughly the same folks saying we need to build artificial general intelligence are also warning that we’re moving too fast. To make matters worse, they’ve realized that telling people their products could bring about a Skynet doomsday scenario is actually a really good way to raise money from investors, many of whom are in their idiotic little cult. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> If you’re having trouble following this, basically imagine the entire AI industry is the <i>I Think You Should Leave </i><a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpayqJJO4EEn_ZHoWp5l0deGtRbhPGk8DFucBz9zB5FnMb1w_HrcF6WdkEBRTALmElq8Cn5D-qzSIB4_8_JCTT7tKOmfSbg-PFs6TTEZmvgrgyhqRFdzDCPQMyVJP2l1w78gcgxGQcIJ0ncWlcEJxpHc-3n0hRX5d69LYXw0T8lfm99WYgmvTHEKU-t--kRgq4ZcZyiSrxQB74qosik4CzI5YgHlViF4RX5H-B1QbTqbylP0OK5L47baOeMbVu5y52fdHRsGQot1F8INGWkaB7zc/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h12/h001.eJCoi3iwH8rVkj6776rU5jnAwsSXPC0STp7kflQkKB8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>Hot Dog Car Sketch</span></a>. Oh, but, also, I guess they think the hot dog car is god or could become god in the future. And that if they hadn’t crashed the hot dog car into the store, China would have. And they would rather Americans be the ones to do it. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Anyways, the cult I am referring to is the rationalist community. They started out as commenters on the blogs LessWrong, written by AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, and <i>Astral Codex Ten</i>, written by psychiatrist Scott Alexander. There are all kinds of offshoots of the rationalist community now, including FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruists, who think human happiness is a math equation that can be solved, its <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpbz6P3E9vcWv_fwZpkSQ0ycY_11MCeEI4irRR-5YR_MoePHQltBl5ROGX-hrKsnuCLPIU8yVEHiaf39xl793pnq5QZmjvVj2tjdFdR-TJaiIKQ8fbSFwnwCUW3w9YaDsGDi4F4-X2sJvUksA0ieqTahIfN74O7Qz6QKYV5gIsx6_Nyw5i9HPVCZPS01NHdjsgsmcr8EbF7vYIBvgUb7Lg3AOKiODiyArE9sulfGpKxLdDooZpn_elz_xDAYRRyDjVHodd9VkYq8N_AJmLawPe2sN1dHZbj12kx4q8bhZu_e1_7jB_Gma_XZq-9r-_B_qrA/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h13/h001.A_rjH9yskpHUDnltfGn9rG--VKPKF-d6V5hi87EsWRw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>rival group</span></a> the effective accelerationists, who don’t care about happiness at all and just want AI to blow up the world and see what happens, and even the <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpfBPxEq9gh8r1IYgjAmjWcj-bswNb-Qtiuxzd9KTKSJHBS99DZYSBfr70y5buTZF1KaU0lxw-RrJl4l0TmpXXaeTMq8ONmLF3Ka-EZCwvNU3HnlU7KcDdF7Ue-umdIEGWSo6yT5jjrhVIxVG4hBukowf9BWSCZ3CpBE1qAs5kbxMFoSr-hd-2lF5PG15U07AA070lfQTXAQEZP5rTRLxxk7l7YMMI0XRLHzJiG0HfXctMEr72piWsEXoJOYS7gS5F_Hy21eXZpkfjwL_pJPmWA3QO4wPV4u7j5QH4FTlCNYIL98oAEbYLLTZpMCELHDriw/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h14/h001.Gj629minkld6apkk_eN41o2zz22Ce5i_ICMtMx9yDS0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>genuinely dangerous</span></a> vegan AI-worshipping terror cell, the Zizians. Though these groups all have different ideas about what turning a computer into god might mean and how comfortable they are with everyone dying in the process, they all agree that it’s inevitable. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> I am thoroughly convinced that lawmakers do not understand any of this. I just do not think that the same elected leaders who <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpZYGjAhgVtmZZ1D2u9N4oUYLG58kDY2MzDcysvii_t-BxyOngHnC3ahdEj0VynVmIMK_HZVDtQcd3ihCb8eCWbi2MtzGk1BVRRcYX8GcgfmA6OYmmPhpJVe4D1eKQQGEfWIrJtvzCI_aCWaZxjMigJNP683Dox884ZlxkBI4e70Jap5pr-3quoh2znvDv-G3N5GtPWkKV0m9DOk2wqEAjYRfbjydZidy2C_M9FnM6DvjU2d13WGxC4-0NZoGqnrnQP8g4jub4ZHgCWrwkodOxheyzmOERYCvQQX_MFBxhF7-6ZF6EtnJ-CgYD4zNX67DIyAaaNEo2E_2SHd-SnNy4lc/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h15/h001.Be1eEm5KtaWrVn3Kf4flWZi9efqKoGTA73ChSujTU1s" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>were asking</span></a> Mark Zuckerberg if Facebook was “like a floppy disk” back in 2018 are really capable of wrapping their heads around a psuedo-religious cult wriggling its way into the halls of American power. If they were, we wouldn’t have all the other religious cults in there! </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> But that hasn’t stopped House Democrats <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpc_qZTWPsLQqLAH-ROthGqsU4c-B_-SeJeVz7fXSrxt47jE93eirVjCN2GK1hQz7J4ob5tdBAYrfvb_XyuAhO8JlQgS8Q-IyppppcO44K1B9QNCHp1VyRi1SnBTbiTTOf-Y4yi3NyqHjf9TwpMDahUfnxALjilyXhPkC3zByR87nx3OJrOSxlmedWhwgGb199ofOh4xb_I6KddKok75WEUYhwkQkPz-ZDH3P2laYZ6Ape0U3VsJWmlf8N3fg9MKoSz18iK373moVT76j3_WsDJZq2jxFNLKK8FMNcZfkeERzRfPbKlnu40wkrArIHxgG55AlElayoEDWBSt_UYqljvk/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h16/h001.5kEo1664fcqxGafTqQ9OzW8IzTIzDxM63JgrTScMw6w" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>from drafting</span></a> a letter begging President Donald Trump for “global framework to guide the development” of AI. And, obviously, their letter mentions that America needs this because it has to compete with China. I’m sure by the time this is all done those boneheads will have found some way to make it about banning teenagers from using Instagram. Which is all they really seem to care about. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpfyA1BrGsQqIYvUg922aiQ5lYuUEPkzgAe--Q8zkM8AQpu7xdCwdyN0-4B_Ob1yXrKpIJe1k7yk7RrwuC2Wk_Ge7EJeO0X1f0SG9D1WgnUR6-9AuCRSTAkEMD8MVCmHbwzInnrFdLF2PNhwZNoQ4B8uJgubgSvky44h_rcd5OH7m4wJ0d1ny2ymNKC8dtKBH0ytKNh8MHzLb-QNytzQzt494sUh09r_4Zjyd7x7XVEzX3YspUQrZVJDGzKtBNxlwTAG3rH_53SNz7s4Ww-ZxGQ91OQ-4j7iTwxuCEUUTX0h08fejn0sMGBVAD1YfzztYPX8_Ps9-UE3AGvS6N_FZxeVALEk3e1QltCBht3rS3Y82lLBdrg4BAFpOZscJYLx5DXK8YykCpZ3hruRFsw0RTM2_f5Dc9x8Y_D_G7HKVN-O2K3v0j0Ustuh3uD6uwEjkfle5HPunTqQ9P_o11kR_CnA/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h17/h001.5o_Yc2gZhOygwmV1_U06MmZBm7a1faEoGJ6BtRYrj7Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>have introduced</span></a> the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would “permanently ban the development and deployment of superintelligent AI and temporarily pause advanced AI development until a federal regulator has established safety rules.” Even more bizarre, <i>Axios</i> <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpd7x9UyjzUw3NUrOVX1UCcdN2gjLLkcg_yNKO9Y6gWI993cQ3LxBCCaCpWC2tJJEVbBxIhecpJZCBzrmVyYmoRhCBQagKlINp-UEmuhIGdX2_01q6XwUmaFgLmJjw8Rf8XqsUCtzvXCe2RE9SngTJCGxsfHOPJhuOTO2YhMSOODA1_bECo9qNBb5wJPAlgcMYOoM4Uy51jdXQV-HeUwPBVEBZw-6W9Bvdz-9TXnFVNRlldHTlvwawvZBvBfny9jHy6cZdX1w36OCFkWVJir6Cnbe_G9GW3iV4x0-A8680QKv-ZxP4A6rxvVJ8E8bOz1Gjg/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h18/h001.H0gzPUVPrYlchMjXiWf0RN7MtR4F-AEhazlxlLnbpzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>reports</span></a> that Coxon, Sanders, and, uh, Steve Bannon??? will be holding an event tomorrow demanding AI regulation. This is probably a good place to mention that Bannon <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.qZQpnvhFfm9i13-28yzDn-eD4Y7Pg7T7vDdIh_rfsa9huFk0usoHmY53S13eq8tVIUiMWRSsRIVChUluXYrc1uMoeG9UhLUQOlDQT_zgbASto-dmMWOxNeuFx19l3YKOvRemr6FnILnpCkp6QCCKgOy_vLFIL38WIMc6KmBRYLzjD3h34w6PkAKwb-1RwgxwF5peXYZt5cYiL0NC1mu4N8awpYtP8c_nDOIHpVK9MV6APNNqaNFBAmbTOZ5YGkFrNYapDNkcF70K_HLDkB1Mt4y8yXlb6vBbGgE3mXMoXw60We0u0lfIRuonegk_1sLB/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h19/h001.N7SRQBWARHff_UjC2OarT_DSJ5D0UquslOduf8yz2bg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>has long been linked</span></a> to the Dark Enlightenment, or the Neo-Reactionary movement, which, while not being a direct offshoot, actually has <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpVk9o3zNdj-3HqaU3lYgNRYdKa127YXTcVsweK5qpZHyhrC8ODGcvD_HJ1RQbAPpUJcgfOzIAMZ-nVCFUr0ZJlZg8WSUZN0zMJ2jWfAM1YkWnIK54dNELxynjogoLW7zLqP6dIlT9QcGB8Cz_XunNYVsvFVJ8KwP52a8_4B25JpbNVIMwVS7n9e0jrGZBHLYZsXL6uD0nvVhGZLlkt_0qDZUvm2DWf1FDqejk4Iq7qlGzT-JlQCen_D36WmViyIu8FwDpoweomasHKcIsGDHOENTVi8E5cz_eMwsRUnzFr3xvctfhDLScfpXuNBXrFLa2LHaZLDQ_1NL37DJ-B_Tu2QNl3O9lL_-wUj-eYgsweicGPRrNwbFvF1RFsPrainqd_w1k2kLpUIAhvBsqjSNxtfrUNS31LQ0gZuWqTafWxhy/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h20/h001._bf4cj7w6fe9WzF5aMeOcwSzn697tszP3XeBgyV1D6E" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>a lot of overlap</span></a> with the rationalists and is extremely interested in using AI to overthrow democracy. Probably nothing. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Here’s how you know everyone’s being fucking insane right now. Vice President JD Vance <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0k13ujEW6PvQ2EiJXZfE9Y5sROrx3bsEn1btsf_RQTf05hQdMFkKC7GKvRvOiQtWIJyYthrVigyoA4I8BR9xGoC4Q1pJgzgEoKKkroVzvoLBE6y5sH5yCuQ3IT91rLPWKZb282InYqpBbvb5lNd_MhgiuxTI9hphq8i3SpegJYNivx9HmWsPiDzubP5YyXNMjttgaRTxVVj3QUIhKEfEckEhdeGkexoDvtLpjCcx1Pjme7hNvLANsIBNESvuIwxJfmvZ8aQW9jZUthot7V-ysxsMWFJ7SLacptlLxVbaLZnt/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h21/h001.FyL6CeSKqOtdz69TGLwmU-3x9Td9g_dWlzeM-9mpGdc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>told Newsmax</span></a> reporters this morning, “I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have so many frontier AI tech companies kind of coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels a little bit to me like a bit of a trojan horse.” Do you know how bad things have to get for that guy to start sounding reasonable? </p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:20px; " class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bb" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="bb" style="width:630px;"><img src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=1920,height=3840/uploads/asset/file/6e6691ae-0981-4742-b565-74d393967d1d/GettyImages-2285094476.jpg?t=1789407748" alt="" height="auto" width="630" style="display:block;width:100%;" border="0"/></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="t bb" style="width:630px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px;"><p>Photo by Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images)</p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> There are plenty of things to be worried about when it comes to AI, though. Data centers destroying the environment, or breaking the electrical grid. AI automation, even if it sucks and doesn’t really work, replacing human labor, even in the short term. Mindless AI agents bricking dinner reservation sites, online ticket queues, marketplaces, or even taking down whole chunks of the internet. Visual slop filling up our feeds. A massive recession when the AI bubble finally pops. They’re all real, already happening, and do not require an eschatologic belief in artificial general intelligence to address. And none of them require Steve Bannon’s input. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> This is largely the argument Former Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission Alvaro Bedoya <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0qrkteD0RYSvLNrvE-vmyVbmT8h7YgcS0dHjxvuNzTVEuZnKcuZZkeOdpgeaVp7oLeHWwLNpwbMx_FUdV9qYWrAtB9bA4toacw4mqBTMq_6FkUZlZeyuAc68ih88ajAY8hYzulgSxOorrrWyrb-HfEyAD6VpmIhTd0hojS6aXc5VVuvl86ScfvzPEMBAZM4Xa8iY60mv18CnDEyYSixW160fT4nJKnTeLi_Oao9bSLeGt-LyI0REqu7TgzEpEDa33CkrT9feTbMwcv-AaumSaXIpk1Tppf3kuGIemH2JoMv4/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h22/h001.K_A64QU1qiFSy2HApztj_dpTgalwxyVYlZ5p2vx5k7Y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>made on X</span></a> yesterday. “Anyone who is loudly warning of AI-caused human extinction should not be taken seriously,” he wrote. The same people demanding a slowdown right now are the same people who have spent the better part of a decade trying to encase the world in amber! These companies don’t want to build the future, they want to make a machine that randomly assembles scraps of the past forever. That’s their whole deal. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> But I’ll end this here with a little conspiracy theory <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Ykc61-p1cxguuHQfoezo2dDG-YPUXl4krck14hkHY-0icVsbkljTr5VGicqZowA9qh1dGHYwf3DSJid7W-ioKkgVV0h5k8D3FkNvyy2aa4sAHSZIs4lY8KgEYwLdn4IIKUMFFgv681oMz6LqYvdzMBTH4g-rJxwbZvJ0cwwXSkSiIw9r8RzPwuJHt31c6ux3rokVedlyGAaFdPZd3M3htugWMqLo3aUyDksSHxwabdMuQQlNkulJTxaf6AXDF62jC-1hzRBPnHIeb-YUfjLcx7TB9-gcpVBHeZD20kLg3xw/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h23/h001.qY6TaE2zwQKN4AwfA91NHumvRWTIKd3L-rIsWPLAmjg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>courtesy of Hacker News</span></a> that I have decided I will believe until I see proof to the contrary. “OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research,” one user wrote. “Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. 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style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">Zohran Likes <i>Digimon</i></h2></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="center" valign="top" style="padding:20px;"><a href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpayqJJO4EEn_ZHoWp5l0deFrI-I6Tc4AkndUVLNcB4LCAmW59woWs53mOY_J8vcwxEArY8maBWIEMTGn5VKRgI_hX8W_-qcdX1AJz42tL7rlRDmdZhuPEmh-0VkNhl9ubsMz0Era5tA_OqN-CSuMNKg3Ls7EfSWOmhCTQtztY0RToabJdDFwg8GUyOb_LLqhSqhy0H6_RPu5eWB5_Rk266gfk8xZ3P0ZGfSE2p5_hMLZnW72hcgBqElWVstn0gskzn05g-zVDCuupnlS5K6mmq8/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h29/h001.yjRNS1qcW8NIOPCBabAyIkqEwikECIZ9yELf2qWIB1w" style="text-decoration:none;"><table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" role="none" style="max-width:520px;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td class="p" width="100%" style="padding:2px;border:none;"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" role="none"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="width:100%;"><div style="max-height:0;position:relative;opacity:0.999;width:100%;mso-hide:all;"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding-top:25%;"><img width="20%" height="auto" loading="lazy" alt="" style="border:0;" src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/static_assets/youtube_play_icon.png"/></div></div><a href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpayqJJO4EEn_ZHoWp5l0deFrI-I6Tc4AkndUVLNcB4LCAmW59woWs53mOY_J8vcwxEArY8maBWIEMTGn5VKRgI_hX8W_-qcdX1AJz42tL7rlRDmdZhuPEmh-0VkNhl9ubsMz0Era5tA_OqN-CSuMNKg3Ls7EfSWOmhCTQtztY0RToabJdDFwg8GUyOb_LLqhSqhy0H6_RPu5eWB5_Rk266hKK6V-d4lcefcbfjGiZLYZFfeElG8RZUHzM0lg3s7ebERjwxweUdPgz2dvrwTzCcY/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h30/h001.v_CLFR62Ac-Uc7Nr-thtdiAfKiqMzAY4_xwS7AZwGGw" style="text-decoration:none;"><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_MiHgxwIYn0/maxresdefault.jpg" width="480" height="auto" loading="lazy" alt="YouTube video by DonovanThePrince" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;background-color:#000000;width:100%;"/></a></td></tr><tr><td><p style="font-size:12px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:Helvetica, Calibri, sans-serif;color: #686a6d; padding-top:0 !important;padding-bottom:6px !important; padding-left:4px !important;"> I asked @Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani his favorite anime. #zohranmamdani #anime #digimon #nyc </p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></a></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="font-size:0px;line-height:0px;padding:30px 0px 30px;" class="dd"><table class="j" role="none" width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td id="inflates-your-you-tube-views-making" class="dd" align="left" valign="top" style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;"><h2 style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">*Inflates Your YouTube Views Making Them Big And Round*</h2></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> I’m actually surprised how little push back I’ve seen from creators about the new YouTube view metric change. So far Ludwig Ahgren has been one of the loudest voices about how troubling this is. As he said on a stream last week, “ I thought it would slightly elevate viewership, but things would mellow out and it wouldn't drastically change numbers. I can now say the numbers look insane. Like genuinely crazy. In some cases, viewership is getting outright doubled.” You can watch the clip below. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="center" valign="top" style="padding:20px;"><a href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpayqJJO4EEn_ZHoWp5l0deG5flDmlCiAbhBBbRF5jHOb7Eu8fvvdMeyjuplSS8y0peKjjFRMeBFLtDBJq49DbMt7tIYDKeeTgSF2nq-4G8bsc3TJ_TOPpST3RtISz9pWeqo_5HDwf0o0CoGBc0pa5Rus6hUSilDG_HI8YyNRbu4xy2kH3QJjEsh5w0m9QP7za_9FK0IPaz2Wo7v7fPaSJ5ImD8oRmmA7j1wPbaNTT_Eba9rY3EtRehO7VM0G5nmzS6IYi5aPg2Ly0wrfbDJjLjA/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h31/h001.VESQ34vyI4gyI5XF-O3NSdjCb30sqXY7nsUStCJT0ec" style="text-decoration:none;"><table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" role="none" style="max-width:520px;margin:0 auto;"><tr><td class="p" width="100%" style="padding:2px;border:none;"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" role="none"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="width:100%;"><div style="max-height:0;position:relative;opacity:0.999;width:100%;mso-hide:all;"><div style="display:inline-block;width:100%;padding-top:25%;"><img width="20%" height="auto" loading="lazy" alt="" style="border:0;" src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/static_assets/youtube_play_icon.png"/></div></div><a href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpayqJJO4EEn_ZHoWp5l0deG5flDmlCiAbhBBbRF5jHOb7Eu8fvvdMeyjuplSS8y0peKjjFRMeBFLtDBJq49DbMt7tIYDKeeTgSF2nq-4G8bsc3TJ_TOPpST3RtISz9pWeqo_5HDwf0o0CoGBc0pa5Rus6hUSilDG_HI8YyNRbu4xy2kH3QJjEsh5w0m9QP7za_9FK0IPaz2Wo7v7fPaSJ5JrYuS13YnGs98O6xIBh_EjzOX_14o4oa5iR_4NKvR_zF5YudiIhjXZcXNg53MheFo/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h32/h001.XBNPc77scDC2ZlWFpAwTtSB3Izs3nSpH87CJ5kqk0ho" style="text-decoration:none;"><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3RDtEEysE9k/maxresdefault.jpg" width="480" height="auto" loading="lazy" alt="YouTube video by Ludwin" style="display:block;height:auto;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;background-color:#000000;width:100%;"/></a></td></tr><tr><td><p style="font-size:12px;font-weight:500;font-style:italic;font-family:Helvetica, Calibri, sans-serif;color: #686a6d; padding-top:0 !important;padding-bottom:6px !important; padding-left:4px !important;"> YouTube Just Changed Forever </p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></a></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> I suspect the lack of criticism from YouTube’s biggest stars are precisely because the view counts have, in some instances, doubled. Also, based on some tests people have done, it seems like YouTube views also count what is commonly referred to as “hovering,” or when a video starts to autoplay on the homepage before you click into it. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> I was curious exactly how much a new YouTube view was worth so I went into our podcast <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpfi3XE5vNLCbUfsR2eICqemWdeKeEfzxRJfoXwCd5ja615ZI83Q8u_jSwwerQzQBVK2nw4jF2yGj_a0uUFqZJS5kMIhbE9vRPid2Clyf2XXU6bwnaV5taZOw8TvOrVHjRLzBwpgg7B_XDZULT859iEgB8xaLrs8fvSlDmZqWoAZuZtwRA87HA6X0lZ2kLERPl3si_XymCC3QK8GnvSKzcQqp5ykpgaWR_zgnD32nX4h7wnMtYO5zVtzgB9PYXSPQyisNE4HsYcqh3I5bgV41wdo/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h33/h001.Sc8QyCyLutwFZsx8vZRSzb_7yAZw71QP8w5hjjzn9RY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>Panic World’s account</span></a> and poked around. YouTube is, of course, not paying users for their new inflated view counts. Adsense revenue is still being calculated using the other view metric, which is now called “engaged views.” Panic World isn’t a huge account, but it posts pretty consistently and has a stable audience, so I wanted to see how the engaged views compared to the new, public views. Well, Ahgren is right, it’s about double. Our episode last week has 13,000 public views, but only has around 7,000 engaged views. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> None of this makes it better for creators. It’ll make their view counts look huge to advertisers, but the watch time and engagement won’t line up. And, almost assuredly, brands and sponsors will just start asking for the engaged views. The only thing this does is make a YouTube video appear as popular as an auto-playing TikTok or X video. But my theory is YouTube wants to sunset the “view” entirely actually. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> I opened my YouTube mobile app the other day and none of the views on the homepage displayed view counts. All it showed was likes. Whether it was a glitch or an A/B test, it was a clarifying vision for me of what a Netflix-ified YouTube might look like. YouTube wants to be TV, but they don’t want to be a studio. They want Hollywood-level productions, but they don’t want to pay for them and they certainly don’t want to be responsible when those productions flop inside of their own algorithm. So here’s a perfect fix. For now, inflate views to protect people’s ego, and, eventually, kill the public view entirely. </p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="font-size:0px;line-height:0px;padding:30px 0px 30px;" class="dd"><table class="j" role="none" width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td id="google-trapped-a-fly-brain-in-cyber" class="dd" align="left" valign="top" style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;"><h2 style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">Google Trapped A Fly Brain In Cyberhell And Now It Can Play <i>Doom</i>, Trade Stocks, And Fly A 747, God Help Us All</h2></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Last week, Google <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.lb1dIn65uO3MH7EGkQFpCcl5keKsrOnjgUr4QY48LVhHutukJsZUxIjbFm3deFQcObyWpda9JBsHgQf7SRiuKDp9d8N9s6i5ruXOaI1YoTpwCVlQuN-IEcRF78zAbR8Vx2UowSxvFMcULO5TwrKrP_odjK16wgazhnf34Uyer5fZeqvMRs_vdmjR5ZSrDT1Fy_aYNAnRtMYp-YGPAldxjzRDceQKvL14lgQysIm8Db0pFk8es14Hf8D3Mujl3fQEd-ZiYCf_3tz_Lp-QlPY2VaIauguvLUn1e0u35C_Faya5xRWnNICHAc2M4-tvAIeZoZgvs3e2euqRtJFvrOKBWpeMIOzGjeHQrfO4WNJCVC0/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h34/h001.IumbTvHqV7tCVILUhMeqKChlyI7T9ajfCDGjajoy9k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>announced</span></a> that their researchers and a team of collaborators had successfully mapped a male fruit fly’s brain. And now that we have a fully mapped fly brain, people are hooking it up to different interfaces. Which are both horrifying and fascinating. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Obviously, the first question is whether or not a fly can play <i>Doom</i>. It can. Coinbase engineer Alex Wormuth <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._6gJ_hloMO0XbwV5bUjsLCDhXfZIVsst__vqmw2gjIieSE-Qr53BhGWYf5M72BpJFg18GdgtzpmIF3kgVMMBrQT-dinBi7t8irPY6vwjMe_bXmK1dBHGenxnz0ri9k75fDUUXdBWo2xZJUhNW0qahzPGEpxL7cj6gvroe7YlzBKMZ1svOdsqEVuZDkK8JT8wxBT7S_PhbsF4hjDXCQ_WGKT8QNnyJARB7hC5Dp9myVQgk2L-GPqLfPEQg0CYC_SxH49X_W9A1QhONF5Ss-Zov7rjoDal0x4bSU7_iKqJRA0/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h35/h001.IC_Vx35izX7IaRpvJ0v2D-_2eEMv-_mpfAXegwXsvv0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>built a site</span></a> where you can watch along. He <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpdt8awjW0gM0rxC7QoeLm7V0PYPsTurP2zTF0xOnY60BgIuBqUz7hC-CsDZ9_miQDkx_jDdwEvK7NoaVXlFK1xsWghLMw_lVk3AOAHshbUJn1qM4ITDO4b_gFZHIPG6uT-xiACJu9rLjE9IhIHN5n71ozqEEgyUj6jTYIPF4c5Yxw99RqewrljxiZLQUZtQzzE5cF3uxGZs-DRkMZ-0XtEMdljK-kwFPaHkPYH5mCxoqOPxs08d6T6fzRowk7bai0qoQoxEFn4L34CH30Ue13_He-iPxWm6hmFMOEsfYJywvLBE6LJVAqb-ELp-9MHrXhA/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h36/h001.g_BDjpCTOEEvXbBdKAHBhlMSqJgCNbD5vYwW21g48yE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>told </span></a><i><a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpdt8awjW0gM0rxC7QoeLm7V0PYPsTurP2zTF0xOnY60BgIuBqUz7hC-CsDZ9_miQDkx_jDdwEvK7NoaVXlFK1xsWghLMw_lVk3AOAHshbUJn1qM4ITDO4b_gFZHIPG6uT-xiACJu9rLjE9IhIHN5n71ozqEEgyUj6jTYIPF4c5Yxw99RqewrljxiZLQUZtQzzE5cF3uxGZs-DRkMZ-0XtEMdljK-kwFPaHkPYH5mCxoqOPxs08d6T6fzRowk7bai0vbY6IoZkZwnSoAjmP00og3BPZNR0Q4qOcaNBOiKrbFXMyZ_FwpAYq0iP-68NZK7oA/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h37/h001.Op53GwmlHbrAl3Wr1y9uHtXhxE67aW3gbF6i_44DR3E" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>Futurism</span></a></i> that he’s basically hijacked the fly’s dopamine receptors so it understands taking damage. </p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:20px; " class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="bb" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="bb" style="width:630px;"><img src="https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80,width=1920,height=3840/uploads/asset/file/ab92bdef-2d7a-476f-bf51-c2c8d4393655/Screenshot_2026-09-14_at_1.12.23_PM.png?t=1789405957" alt="" height="auto" width="630" style="display:block;width:100%;" border="0"/></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" class="t bb" style="width:630px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px;"><p>(DOOMFLY)</p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Wormuth also built STONKFLY, which uses a fly brain to trade crypto all day. The site was offline when I checked it this morning, but <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0gf8Kb0XI5fQpLQ2dbGUI0nCjni7kNmElSNG6cCI7I_b9iFwhhulBUEG-_YTlC3Ko1xDon7DZ4k6Dpxu78gGvkd5KGdcx5fXgqb02XNVaCEDKu2F8OAvipHNa24KO1HecSQl34fcVAW7u7LahU0Z_BC1SNW5kMFtsxYBadKuN0rUc38HkpJ93AVLGr2B20NrO3I1r6YC_HIsoaj8yvJBrwuqfNF2IOiCsTHQpWQhbYx-ccNL687nrWSf6gvbZmGcBl-0r_9nKRyI22VVwgFJh4DmyQvUQhAcTF5CDRRsJz51/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h38/h001.-Aa4xL5ODX3zu-nI_BBF-QMTX4gxcJsIZnX4r8MujR0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>here’s a video</span></a> on X. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Alistair McLeay, a CEO at AI firm GRW, <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0jnvZ_HxzbQX73NiD3XswKC-Vk96yJXuO8u7Tc0yzRe2bZ3XOzP4Ahc5XKzcd7_-9IartkmfLoe9GMVmP95i-Vvjy_Qu-wvWbJWWx77KUMMsZjSPveB0znPdBLNXe9BMHw_6RHP6llkPJtN8Q8jqZhw8uCZfN91M61eKBuh6WfckIXek7lUKjrELJHQ3qzylAGgJE_pTeYah2-7yqvcrB5C4VorTPZ38bsWqFJdLJ6UqkrfFPILC73OCWamIblQkQODIvq9IsK1ug87YYb76qgk/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h39/h001.rNtNj5E2b5_7ZwIOVNvSreO_VOmTQgNYo33WEyHJL2o" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>set up</span></a> the fly brain on a flight simulator and let it fly a 747. Another developer <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0kC8BZeCzluRYxZwawUOXbi41upNB3SFPswE7_tuke63oqtpXTL8C_hkPH7la-Ve6mdqG-EP6Rkqol3QaRAciNSnwpNxiP6JecLZ_Txvf_89MjFsq0SRlNksyG8qoUNC8EA1wRkXVce4QyfBQWVHkeC0DNAlbfJb0RfkUnokxLj_pIxg_HX7UCApThgfhSD2CYvsdd2U2VN_8fgY0spDDYidPJvFMZIEICG1M6u1M-icY0_wnJdMLRtfjG5Fx6WC5vhNDnVg9lfGjyIKHAJXFzx-r2me44_tdWlc67Rccksp/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h40/h001.lbMowDn8_OS1tGwturqgwV-o7cIDMNKy146Is2kubGE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>built</span></a> a rig to let it play <i>Super</i> <i>Mario 64</i>. Another <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0qSiruEHsGWkq5FjnJCbCL18uhdVO2P-e4VRfo8qc1G4oymQi670USZabM8myVVRgMEAUxUUjLOC7xZGi0TK6L9naTMTWHpKIhqXmI8OVBZzUD-El0xO6aaof9Bd243sPp1BN2tiWCLuX42sp5XLkyDUIIxYLmoRG2vlv-TJLdmzgzWtd_skiPbI2kdIpDhV6ZnrA2QCb4N2xrUOr2Y_0zAVmgqd-7gjCuGHOeGhWjb40TcUfSUOkNoM5y-t-2vgc0sOQaU-dxrPrXkKfkppwp-BZxgIgwT61OM_naMESsj5/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h41/h001.eBUxQd1QPn24RD-zl_NiAF3YCVHcqU1wMXwQQLtrzLE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>set it loose </span></a>on <i>Beat Saber</i>. And someone <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpeVbr9GbYMAAWdyI82INr51yHHLn8O1GHlamFWPRK7aBirqCrfT-Yqpud46SruCnJAj1HFBRPDi5eElksP6TvqYlAkUgmSEZSIZETX7y12-aMUVwXQHim0oVwGAEQET9e70UqTKyKud6YKy9yT7kqz2kiTwXmu2cd-HcNj_4lP71LMkVUs4v6WftakOHZVebLOJhLuk91yzKLsEpMkFpKEXI9xukOszB5GCzQWYcgp6xdUffhTUpcgryYhkKAQBnoUgYbWqX8nW8_Wr-M2CU1wYyg99UGlxjhyLJ8poX8DKm3kYzwaHgvlm3g9KEfjLsOOCeQgybAnRZta7eHG0-mGvQoDjB_r5dCBtMHTZ6E0q4K0vdEwKurri5acTpNkC0tg/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h42/h001.DBfoYBAmF-hg8fv_sAa0ZV7dt6qriTXwiyNlUaXBo18" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>made it play</span></a> a J-Pop song. Someone else got it <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001._-qCIiYyp6dD21H99lwa0rTKB86BD-_K_1-mo5P7zKPthdYpmS6LH_sd_1RwmDb6ATGnn7MA6r2X40ZyVv0lzNN6eAu0Ku1C6MV4c8HdOL0OumciMvGCqHpJ6xgbMp26bt-H36ORtsBFA9-FhzvIVflwZ8T4ccCjYL1s9rrdbLPNLgdVMRIFWqSVZqJpuL2_CiQOtW4059MY1Ve9V9rFSXN9hYe_4BfQiRvCXojYMnqdEBTjCQo4pSV4cYiD8M6VS0Klsgkt0KKdstzSisQup1bPDo4EJ7oW4bhhJaP-uVbWGVsRGn5LPuOEpUaBV2xq/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h43/h001.qowjba7yxd8WMM53WVKOHbYFcPFUNse6HwdX_GdHhEA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>to play</span></a> <i>DOTA 2</i>. Here’s <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.GfCfFYCjlFsIxuyno160pIJm2ax_HhmLdi8ywNHpieHFeemdDBOKUw224VM_hDGs3-2Hk_nrhJBtjWExOdeRFzIEMAG4CJ8No2tYUfsZy2j3zJtgTPw4HUz_oD8N1cSw2-w3xyICSjm8Sz25ZlvMbdFYRIiAl86K-wP3VDLlfjwD7WapmUzKiomtJ8snMEPhTYTG5X1D_8mbwFRDv1iwtn6YHy3eL_oEPegnIMeY8_uiCXl0-YpAfj5U-McnF6udwAtlt2auoceMxjN0HLbSkiw3lmFrMo5hnASQKdBOuE3s0mu96wP66C90KfUZdDXAG5Owz1DeOG5LFSwYXRMlbyJQEp1V9FRLpVpjCWzRXqFRaUu-1u8mC76sUJjIqZwPQYoeYCbkZrrcuHTsshTkgA/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h44/h001.Dyk5P2eR4lxc94_gXJl2EMqnk_6tCtF2RQeQ6j82qbU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>a guide</span></a> to how to get working on your own machine if you want. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Honestly, this whole thing has given me a lot of insight into the fifth-dimensional beings that trapped my brain in one of their computers. Seems fun. I hope they load up a new program for me to explore. </p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="font-size:0px;line-height:0px;padding:30px 0px 30px;" class="dd"><table class="j" role="none" width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td> </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td id="here-is-my-apology-to-garbage-day-r" class="dd" align="left" valign="top" style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;"><h2 style="color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:Bold;mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;">Here Is My Apology To Garbage Day Researcher Adam In Regards To Verity</h2></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Our researcher Adam quite often will tell me about something “blowing up” that I have never heard of before. And, usually, I cannot for the life of me make heads or tails of what he’s talking about. It happened again a few weeks ago when he excitedly told me that Verity was about to become the next Skibidi Toilet. I had no idea what that meant and I assume you, dear reader, don’t either. </p></td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;padding-top:20px;" class="dd"><table role="none" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0 auto 0 auto;"><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="width:100%;"><a href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.ZE3yp4K2Y6WBUz6JXxBv2wgbojIvBSlSNYZJ7m_o5mYZ8Pzzal1KZ76MJMhMyyoeVIFTQ4liqBbg7ilb0Z2Q81EQF5IatCI5FEw21K_BqF0OkJIs2PezbnpUkM2mW9R2d1ylnE6kSxQGsfiSBQ-CYna1N4-dt6v4RVun4yxGu_Kk54iL7V8xFV1B2NYcCb_tnXOD383GUJxxnQRZvfAcAeyUlhO1qOCcUp4pSWzmWFnEdyrpmkMTRk--kJFac27l2P_Q4YGoDOrwekn7Mgs-MEIZXGm3f7NlBjM1X6Rt9u_G1FqoAhuS5MyGYAvy6IIo/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h45/h001.chNI0C_JjocoKA81Teg6RSgClxpALg-JEnH1PccFh50" style="text-decoration:none !important;"><img src="https://beehiiv-images-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/asset/file/d88c50bd-5515-4ff6-ba71-fa766bbb86c7/twitter_screenshot_2099085333249851856_1789407799_5ff6bd24.jpeg?t=1789407803" alt="Tweet screenshot" height="auto" width="100%" style="display: block; width: 100%;" border="0"/></a></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> I am now starting to see Verity posts in the wild. So I will absolutely be making Adam explain what the heck is happening here in our issue on Friday. But for now I’ll leave you with a very simple explanation. </p></td></tr><tr><td class="dd" align="left" style="padding:0px 15px;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;"><p style="mso-line-height-alt:150.0%;"> Adam briefly <a class="link" href="https://elink835.www.garbageday.email/ss/c/u001.Qr6Ovh5taOidqUa5P-dRpe1McpL1EdNErS546cDbqU2LqOtJQ-ytpBrxuhguP3CV3sNLqn_vZdKCqmvAq7mUcVMAJD9XwDYUaeuBLGgR25LUubP5IRFTtCyCpKYRFlAl692B6CL3QsxtJsYLfXZl_OMBpNi7anXTzXS4h5IIYpyLhHuLPQUBD40aYL8Pn_zjuzTI4puHBi1TqNs4UuV7K0EdOdHpCsXIRQI-Y7hDnqGZv5x6WZC4zFQ0rrcw5QtrSXalqzqb0lZZHlf9h_ZewqNEG5zvtoBA0N6WhbOmHU2Uk0u8U38QtHMP9pG6ZJe9ZGxNhKyQfSi-T7sfif_-jV7Rya17XqQQvIahS_1UV_ro9-DoG4R9Sa41d7tMFyXRkusEa1acPoZ3723Zfb1q89hdCYjO_UknJLwUAZ4WNsJ08nvOTi-5G7NglHpZgl3AbMgnE0YNyzg5Xdg40W0bvTanAEI5bUgAvr0cZBJMsejnNOrZySkKFc3VqGzERbBbRmxQSgLJ4kNPXvJ1sI3lSI9sHwGly84AABKlvwRD5xD7nsAM-kDU-5DU6NDJRpKNefaK6spCNXXUqYFtmVQNVqSmxnD7CSzh3wP7L-8FpDR5ZKcbh1WLnOEeX3mp319QzDtnxRatBgds2xM771dLbU2lK8I2gApyfqkHiw6MK4Oso4Vet45n0q3t7rehcztdU3cDBKS52FVhG5G4eaOROP_u40VtBvn7ThgGvgoWWTXvXeSxkB0ulfV74Eam4vNNRx_NGUudNbTW6W9Z6t8aeUgDKvFqK_YPYhIoAlXnWmI/4u1/lI-FZ8I2QaC0z-lAS8SJnA/h46/h001.zmU9mpYSGI4H8pGhYIhYye2M0s6v36xtvVWAZvhBT5c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span>covered this</span></a> in an issue last month, but, basically, Verity is a haunted smiley face that stars in a mega popular <i>Minecraft</i> mod. It’s all over TikTok and Instagram now. 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