oh yeah, i would let David Attenborough live in my attic any day of the week.

man we programmers can be so naive sometimes

it’s not like the astronauts are in any danger

i read the original on weibo and he appears to be (to me at least) fully serious. tried to invoke nationalistic pride as well

it’s funnier than thu. there is a Chinese mobile app also getting review bombed because its logo resembles astro bot.

it’s like two bears fighting for the right to eat me alive 🥲

pretty sure enemy of my enemy is still my enemy

he was an important informant in an OpenAI lawsuit

waking up early is a capitalist propaganda

it was released by a somewhat credible source and most aligned with the bits and pieces already released by the media. of course it could still be fabrication, but i’d say it’s relatively safe to think it’s real. hopefully i don’t make fool out of myself…

well that would tell him the conference starts at 8am or something. based on that he could guesstimate maybe the CEO will arrive 1~2 hours before. but to narrow it down to 5 minutes? i think he would need something more.

not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created…

interesting that he mentions social engineering in the manifesto. makes me think he lured the CEO somehow and that’s why he knew exactly when the target would be there. he waited for like 5 minutes before the CEO showed up, that was unrealistically precise if all you had was public information.

fair

have a look at this guy’s twitter: https://x.com/pepmangione?lang=en

if you check out his twitter, seems to be your typical toxically masculine techbro… kinda disappointing

surely the best possible outcome is all CEOs learn their lesson and everybody lives happily ever after?

well you posed an outlandish scenario as your worst case, yet used a pretty moderate one as your best possible case. i think there is some bias there.

kinda wondered why chlorophyll and chloroform have the same root, it’s not like there’s chlorine in chlorophyll.

turns out chloro- means yellowish green. TIL.

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