aum:
Advertising and recruitment activities, dubbed the “Aum Salvation plan”, included claims of […] realizing life goals by improving intelligence and positive thinking, and concentrating on what was important at the expense of leisure.
this is in common with both our very good friends and scientology, but i think happy science is much stupider and more in line with srinivasan’s network states, in that it has/is an explicitly far-right political organization built in from day one
dude has a post named “from 0 to 1 clients in 48h” where someone calls him out for already claiming to have 17 customers, so it’s reasonable to assume that this guy is full of shit either way
then again, there’s plenty of clueless, could be real, because welcome to current year, where everything is fake, satire is dead and reuters puts the onion out of the business
Couple of days ago iirc contract for oil (or gas?) transit expired, and neither Ukraine or russia wanted to extend it. Neither also wanted to go to arbitrage court, and that’s why contract was allowed to expire and wasn’t broken when hostilities started
that or some kind of bait
it’s like this shitty tiktok ai spam that 404media wrote long time ago except there’s no secret discord media ideas channel or grift, they’re just deceiving themselves (is that decentralization?)
can’t wait for 3h long video dissecting every last bit of it that will get released in a year from now
why any of these spammers think that anyone should spend watching their videos more time than it took them to make it? perun makes 1 video, 1h long per week and it’s like half time job for him
you’d think so, until outsourcing to turkish subcontractor happens
there’s a couple of people on lemmy believing that immortality magic tech is real
well maybe not, i hope for the worst for them https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/09/open-ai-chat-gpt5-energy-use
i think it’s possible that’s a cost cutting measure on part of openai
every time i read what he writes i feel dumber from the contact
“i’m employed, what does it mean?” is common on r/shitposting when some obscure online/weeb thing surfaces. probably in a dozen of other places also
you say STEM, but you seem to mean almost exclusively computer touchers, already mentioned biologists or variety of engineers won’t likely have these problems (i’m not gonna be excessively smug about this because my field will destroy you physically while still being STEM and not particularly glorious)
also it’s not a complete jobocalypse, there’s still 93% employed fresh CS grads, they might have comparatively shittier jobs, but it’s not a disaster (unless picture is actually much bleaker in that that unemployment is, say, concentrated in last 2 years of graduates, but still even in this case it’s maybe 10%, 12% tops for the worst affected). unless you mean their unlimited libertarian flavoured greed coming through it, then yeah, it’s pretty funny
even then, there’s gonna be a funny rebound when these all genai companies implode, partially maybe not in top earner countries, but places like eastern europe or india will fill that openai-sized crater pretty handily, if that mythical outsourcing to ai happened in the first place, that is
he predates for iq points
continuing from the last weeks thread https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-high-costs-and-thin-margins-threatening-ai-coding-startups/
ed zitron must feel so vindicated rn https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-high-costs-and-thin-margins-threatening-ai-coding-startups/
not even a couple of small rocks? smh
par of the course for him, i guess, look up akon city
it’s just something that attracts grifters to russia ig
aum recruited a lot of people, and also failed at some things that would be presumably easier to do safely than what they did
otoh they were also straight up delusional about what they could achieve, including toying with the idea of manufacturing nukes, military gas lasers, and getting and launching Proton rocket. (not exactly grounded for a group of people who couldn’t make AK-74s)
they were also more media savvy in that they didn’t pollute info space with their ideas only using blog posts, they
had entire radio stationrented time from a major radio station within russia, broadcasting both within freshly former soviet union and into japan from vladivostok (which was much bigger deal in 90s than today)