You Have Unlocked ‘Racist Lapel Pin’ feat. Molly White
For this week’s bonus, we speak with returning guest and friend of the show Molly White (@molly0xFFF) about the recent upswing in crypto prices and their resultant dumb hype. But also: meme coin generators, Truth Social, another crypto party that blinded people, Baron Trump Harkonnen, and a Verge review of a supposed ‘smartphone killer’ that manages to suck so much that not even the hardest core of tech futurists can defend it. It’s a $700 lapel pin and it’s also… racist?
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We need more devices that make you do a fucking HENSHIN! pose
“Hot racist AI pins in your area!”
The only inputs are you speaking out loud, and the only way it can show you images is by projecting it onto your hand? Nope. Too inconvenient to watch porn with. Never gonna catch on. Why do you think smartphone screens have gotten so big?
"Hoping AI will finally match up to their biggest ambitions." I remind you that their biggest ambitions are literal apotheosis, so... You know what, finding out they've been trying to do Arthur Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" would make perfect sense
It's the name tags from captain america 2
That start up created the Star Trek combadge
When you guys said it will be possible to kill people with shouting at the pin that means every assasin becomes the Dovahkiin, and as tradition they made a bow assasin character
The military industrial complex will fit you for a precision missile strike
Do we know if GPT has scraped the dark net yet? I wouldn't like the fbi agents pretending to be hitmen or the paedophiles to be left out.
Even the people who travel from meeting to meeting in cars can't use that thing properly, Marques Brownlee also reviewed it and mentioned it snagging on the seatbelt and the general bulk of it all being bad enough that on one of the review days he just didn't bother taking it out due to the faff of it all (and the fact that it isn't very good). Looks sick, but the execution just isn't there.
I know its the wrong November podcast but this sounds like a job for the Pennsylvania Secret Service
Anyone know the source for the early discussion on the need for exponentially more data for AI: it’s to win an ongoing argument with a friend and as we know, petty reasons are the best reasons.
Try Ed Zitron? He's spoken about it a lot.
New Manga/Anime title: "My racist lapel pin can be this hot."
This memecoin wave is so very very reminiscent of the exact same thing happening back in 2017 or whatever it was, up to and including someone making a nakedly scammy coin saying explicitly 'I'll take all of this money I get from the ICO and buy TVs' and still getting a whole bunch of money. Tens of thousands of dollars.
Gotta gate check your whistleblower. There’s no space in the overhead bins.
Patreon telling me I unlocked the racist lapel pin like a GTA achievement notification
It was a beautiful thing to see
I thought the racist lapel pin thing was going to be about the royal family
Racist lapel pin shocks owners of Chinese restaurant by ordering in a mocking Chinese accent
Racist Lapel Pin shocks owner of Racist Lapel Pin due to electrical short
We need another Butlerian Jihad. Yes, that might imply heavy dependance on a niche drug found in an inhospitable planet, a monopoly on space commerce and intrigue shenanigans, but such is life!
Better that Ned Ludd rides again.
Hallucinating with my hot, racist lapel pin.
"Hapsburg Speedrun?" That's my favorite block of Summer Genes Done Quick!
were riley and nova both perfectly describing the god emperor from warhammer 40k on purpose at 14:45 or was that just coincidence?
Given that there's an Ork mention later, safe money is on intentional.
Everyone says gold will be useless in the apocalypse but you can use it to cast musket balls
37:23 The other term I've heard for that is "greater fool" scheme, where you buy in on the hope that a greater fool will buy it from you.
Well It'll look nice next to my Kronstein Rosette
Yay! I love to be ultimately sanguine that solutions will emerge 🤗
Riley is the pod host who stepped up! Really excellent Lisan-al Trump work in Milo’s absence