#hype — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hype, aggregated by home.social.
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The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency & #peerreview
Its noninvasive counterpart, The vOICe vision BCI, may fail to create traction, but not for lack of availability https://artificialvision.com/BCI.html or peer review https://artificialvision.com/literature.htm It all hinges on your imagination.
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The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency & #peerreview
Its noninvasive counterpart, The vOICe vision BCI, may fail to create traction, but not for lack of availability https://artificialvision.com/BCI.html or peer review https://artificialvision.com/literature.htm It all hinges on your imagination.
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Question: if the Media didn't keep banging on about it, practically every OS and piece of software didn't flog the ‘benefits’ and try and embed it, and regional politicians didn’t see it as a land tax windfall, how long do you think AI would survive as a product for average consumers?
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Question: if the Media didn't keep banging on about it, practically every OS and piece of software didn't flog the ‘benefits’ and try and embed it, and regional politicians didn’t see it as a land tax windfall, how long do you think AI would survive as a product for average consumers?
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'Brutalismus 3000' überzeugt mich nicht.
6/10 ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆Now Playing:
'Atari Teenage Riot' - ...the real shit
9/10 ★★★★★★★★★☆(don't believe the hype)
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«Das Ende des Hypes? Tokenomics statt Tokenmaxxing — KI kostet immer mehr:
Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz wird für Firmen immer teurer. Wieso das so ist und was dagegen unternommen wird.»Wenn man sieht was im Hintergrund für ein Aufwand es benötigt um KI zu betreiben, ja dann kommen deren wahren Kosten zum Vorschein. Und doch sind deren Token Methoden sehr fragwürdig.
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«Das Ende des Hypes? Tokenomics statt Tokenmaxxing — KI kostet immer mehr:
Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz wird für Firmen immer teurer. Wieso das so ist und was dagegen unternommen wird.»Wenn man sieht was im Hintergrund für ein Aufwand es benötigt um KI zu betreiben, ja dann kommen deren wahren Kosten zum Vorschein. Und doch sind deren Token Methoden sehr fragwürdig.
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Ich glaube, ich habe den #Hype um #KI neulich besser verstanden.
Ein von Suno generierter Song ist für mich lächerlich, der kann nur 10% von dem, was ich kann. Genauso ist es bei Texten, Fotos und Programmcode. Wäre ich ein Zeichner, dann wäre es dort ebenfalls so.
Wenn aber jemand weder ein Instrument spielen noch singen kann, dann erlebt diese Person eine Steigerung ihrer Möglichkeiten um 100%. Und noch mehr beim als völlige Voodo-Wissenschaft erlebten Programmieren. Das löst diese Begeisterung wohl aus.
Doch dann kommt der Kapitalismus und stellt fest: 10% reichen eben aus und kosten nichts. Es ist eben egal, dass das Produkt eher Schrott ist. Damit sind Musiker, Texter, Fotografen, Illustratoren etc. überflüssig und viele Programmierer auch.
Heute war ich in einer Buchhandlung, rein zufällig, und schaute ins Impressum eines Buchs des Reutlinger Verlangs Oertel+Spörer: „Titelbild: ChatGPT”.
Murks, aber es reicht, solange es genug kaufen. Die vernichteten Jobs sind Kollateralschäden des Kaputtalismus.
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Ich glaube, ich habe den #Hype um #KI neulich besser verstanden.
Ein von Suno generierter Song ist für mich lächerlich, der kann nur 10% von dem, was ich kann. Genauso ist es bei Texten, Fotos und Programmcode. Wäre ich ein Zeichner, dann wäre es dort ebenfalls so.
Wenn aber jemand weder ein Instrument spielen noch singen kann, dann erlebt diese Person eine Steigerung ihrer Möglichkeiten um 100%. Und noch mehr beim als völlige Voodo-Wissenschaft erlebten Programmieren. Das löst diese Begeisterung wohl aus.
Doch dann kommt der Kapitalismus und stellt fest: 10% reichen eben aus und kosten nichts. Es ist eben egal, dass das Produkt eher Schrott ist. Damit sind Musiker, Texter, Fotografen, Illustratoren etc. überflüssig und viele Programmierer auch.
Heute war ich in einer Buchhandlung, rein zufällig, und schaute ins Impressum eines Buchs des Reutlinger Verlangs Oertel+Spörer: „Titelbild: ChatGPT”.
Murks, aber es reicht, solange es genug kaufen. Die vernichteten Jobs sind Kollateralschäden des Kaputtalismus.
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Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Beyond the #Hype: Unpacking the Latest Features of #JDK' with Jayashree S Kumar
#Java's evolution comes with a lot of names — Project #Loom #AOT Panama, Records, Vector #API #Leyden — and it's easy to feel …
Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/10SpfNU4D94
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Our next #JCON2026 session is live: 'Beyond the #Hype: Unpacking the Latest Features of #JDK' with Jayashree S Kumar
#Java's evolution comes with a lot of names — Project #Loom #AOT Panama, Records, Vector #API #Leyden — and it's easy to feel …
Grab your coffee and hit play: https://youtu.be/10SpfNU4D94
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Magic Farm (2025)
WIE IST DAS NACHTLEBEN IN DER PAMPA? -
Magic Farm (2025)
WIE IST DAS NACHTLEBEN IN DER PAMPA? -
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my month in hell
note: this was written and published o n my old blog, originally on 7/7/2023 I never have and never will be big on social media. I don't really have that look, that joke hit rate, that charisma. But I finally found a comfy little section to live in. Until it was burned down. For the second time. On January 25th, I thought I had met the man of my dreams--on Tumblr of all places. From that day until May 31st, we talked each and every day. We said we didn't have time for an LTR thing right […] -
my month in hell
note: this was written and published o n my old blog, originally on 7/7/2023 I never have and never will be big on social media. I don't really have that look, that joke hit rate, that charisma. But I finally found a comfy little section to live in. Until it was burned down. For the second time. On January 25th, I thought I had met the man of my dreams--on Tumblr of all places. From that day until May 31st, we talked each and every day. We said we didn't have time for an LTR thing right […] -
🎉 Oh joy, another #benchmark #analysis for the most #overhyped #AI model since #deep #learning was declared "the future" in 2015! 🚀 Witness the dazzling display of meaningless numbers and jargon as we all pretend to care about the #price per #token, because that's what really matters when you're already drowning in #buzzwords. 🤡
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-sonnet-5 #hype #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 Oh joy, another #benchmark #analysis for the most #overhyped #AI model since #deep #learning was declared "the future" in 2015! 🚀 Witness the dazzling display of meaningless numbers and jargon as we all pretend to care about the #price per #token, because that's what really matters when you're already drowning in #buzzwords. 🤡
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-sonnet-5 #hype #HackerNews #ngated -
A frightening combination of a lack of evidence for safety or efficacy of specific peptides in human applications and a hype generated by Social Media.
Nature Podcast webpage: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02063-w
Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/nature/e/6a3e9ee3a3fa978237762adb/media.mp3
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A frightening combination of a lack of evidence for safety or efficacy of specific peptides in human applications and a hype generated by Social Media.
Nature Podcast webpage: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02063-w
Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/nature/e/6a3e9ee3a3fa978237762adb/media.mp3
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(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals. #BCI #hype
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(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals. #BCI #hype
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An Incomplete Look at Cantor Fitzgerald’s Rigetti Trades and Some Reconsideration of the Commerce-Cantor Connection
Right around the time Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was taking a 10 percent equity stake in Intel for the US government, Cantor Fitzgerald —the firm Lutnick ran for 34 years, and which is now run by his sons — was building an enormous position in the chipmaker. That much is clear from the SEC filings I discussed in a previous post on Trump’s Intel trades.
From the quarterly reports filed with the SEC, it’s impossible to say whether Cantor built its position before the government announced the Intel deal, or in response to it. That remains an open question and a key one. It would also be helpful to know whether this was an isolated incident, a mere coincidence, or part of a pattern. Are there other Cantor trades of public companies in which the government has taken a stake that work like Intel? Are there other trades that point to a Cantor-Commerce connection?
In this post I want to give a little more shape to this question by looking briefly at Cantor’s trades of another technology company in the government’s growing equity portfolio: Rigetti Computing.
Rigetti is one of nine deals, all with quantum computing companies, that the Department of Commerce announced in May. (Tad De Haven has put together a useful list.) A government award of up to $100 million requires that over the next three years Rigetti meet certain milestones on its roadmap toward “quantum advantage.” The terms of the award allow the Department of Commerce to take an equity stake in Rigetti “consistent with the total amount of the funding,” and with shares priced at a 15 percent discount from closing price on the date of the award. (On 20 May 2026, the day before the award was announced, RGTI closed just below $17 per share.).
That’s the deal in a nutshell. Now let’s turn to the SEC filings that detail Cantor’s trade.
At first glance, the position that Cantor Fitzgerald LP took in Rigetti Computing looks something like the protective collar position the firm took in Intel. After an options-heavy, hedged entry in Q3 2025 – 2.1 million long shares protected by 2.4 million at-the-money puts – Cantor adopts a position in Q4 that looks something like a long straddle, with calls and puts basically balanced. That would allow the firm to respond to some big market moving event they anticipated; or it could just reflect the balance of inventory Cantor needed to facilitate client bets, as Q3’s quantum hype devolved into Q4’s uncertainty.
As Rigetti’s share price steadily decayed in Q1 2026, down as low as $12.90 just before the quarter’s end, Cantor drastically cut its Rigetti position by about 80 percent, from a notional $112 to $24 million. So it looks as if the firm was a) revising its thesis and winding down its Rigetti book well before the late May 2026 announcement of the $100 million award or, more likely, b) all along Cantor had been running a broker-dealer facilitated trade, and cut inventory as the initial quantum hype wore off and investors exited RGTI.
In other words, Cantor did not hang around for the Commerce announcement party (which wasn’t a complete blowout and didn’t last all that long, but it was a party all the same: shares of RGTI rose 30 percent on the 21 May news).
The picture is incomplete. SEC filings for Q2 2026, due in mid-August, will tell us more. Did Cantor reverse course and rebuild its position in Q2 2026 in anticipation of the Commerce announcement? That would be a telling move, and it’s certainly possible, but that doesn’t look like the path they were taking. The filings we already have suggest that the firm (sensibly) decreased its exposure – derisked – as the share price fell and the horizon stayed cloudy, or reduced inventory as it managed client demand.
The timing and scale of Cantor’s RGTI entry might still give pause. The firm went from zero holdings in the first half of 2025 to a massive position in Q3. That’s the sort of aggressive, confident move that Cantor made when it increased its Intel holdings 50X in a single quarter, as Lutnick and Commerce attorney Dave Shapiro strong-armed the company. What’s more, Cantor built its hoard and hedge position in Rigetti before the end of Q3 2025, and at least three weeks before the Wall Street Journal reported, on 23 October 2025, that Commerce was talking with Rigetti and other quantum computing companies about taking an equity stake in return for a government award, as they had done with Intel in August.
That may raise eyebrows. But the timing of Cantor’s entry alone doesn’t indicate that they had knowledge of the Commerce-Rigetti talks or establish a Cantor-Commerce connection. Investors were piling into Rigetti and other quantum computing companies at the time. On September 18th, the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Rigetti a contract; on September 19, 2025, there was news that the administration was considering an overhaul of the national quantum computing strategy: “speculation that the Trump administration could soon unveil new U.S. quantum technology initiatives also could be fueling the rally.” Online hype (like this video and this one, both cued to the mark) described a “combination of speculative and institutional buying” that was most likely driven by a mix of sound observation and FOMO.
Cantor Fitzgerald LP could have just been acting on public information, or not even making a directional bet on Rigetti at all, just countering moves by clients, subsidiaries, and other entities.
In the absence of any other evidence and without the 13F filing for Q2 2026, it is reasonable to conclude that that’s probably what went down. My best guess is that Cantor’s Rigetti position reflects the evolving bid-ask spread. Cantor didn’t even need a Rigetti thesis, they just needed to answer investors who wanted in on or wanted out of quantum computing. (And maybe the same could be said about the firm’s Intel position; we just don’t know.)
None of this is dispositive, of course, but it argues against a Cantor-Commerce connection or back channel in this particular instance. It does not assuage legitimate concerns about how the Intel deal went down, from the mob-style, arm-twisting extortion of the company to the Intel trades reported on Trump’s 278-T disclosure, which Liz Oyer reads as “a roadmap to the ways he is personally profiting from the powers of the presidency.” It does introduce more uncertainty into my reading of the public record and it makes me wary of drawing hasty conclusions about these trades from highly-sanitized SEC filings.
De Haven thinks corruption is inevitable when the government takes equity stakes in public companies. He may be right about that; I just don’t see proof of it in these filings. There are, however, still plenty of other places to look for evidence of corruption involving Lutnick and sons, from Kazakhstan to Oklahoma. One can only hope that Senator Van Hollen and others with investigative powers and resources will continue to look into the many ways “official Commerce Department business has intersected with Cantor Fitzgerald’s financial interests during [Lutnick’s] tenure.”
I plan to revisit the Rigetti trades in mid August, after Cantor files its Q2 13F. In the meantime, if there are things I’ve missed or places where I’ve gone astray, let me know.
#INTC #corruption #ethics #extortion #governmentEthics #hoarding #hype #kleptocracy #oligarchy #politicalInsiderTrading #power #quantumComputing -
Darauf haben Menschen fast 13 Jahre gewartet: GTA 6 kann offiziell vorbestellt werden. Warum der Hype um dieses Spiel so groß ist.#WDR #GTA6 #Release #Vorbestellung #13Jahre #Hype #Videospiel #Gaming #NRW
Riesen-Hype um GTA 6 - warum Menschen 13 Jahre lang auf dieses Spiel gewartet haben -
Darauf haben Menschen fast 13 Jahre gewartet: GTA 6 kann offiziell vorbestellt werden. Warum der Hype um dieses Spiel so groß ist.#WDR #GTA6 #Release #Vorbestellung #13Jahre #Hype #Videospiel #Gaming #NRW
Riesen-Hype um GTA 6 - warum Menschen 13 Jahre lang auf dieses Spiel gewartet haben -
Zwischen KI-Hype und KI-Vampire - wie wir den Einsatz von KI im Alltag erleben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRX9TTvFf_k#ki #ai #hype #vampire #erschöpfung #job #fomo #cognitivedebt
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Zwischen KI-Hype und KI-Vampire - wie wir den Einsatz von KI im Alltag erleben
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRX9TTvFf_k#ki #ai #hype #vampire #erschöpfung #job #fomo #cognitivedebt
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How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late
“Cory Doctorow has a refrain: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and what it does it to.”
#AI #Canada #cdnpoli #Hype
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/06/how-to-think-about-ai-before-its-too-late/687644/ -
How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late
“Cory Doctorow has a refrain: “The most important thing about a gadget isn’t what it does; it’s who it does it for and what it does it to.”
#AI #Canada #cdnpoli #Hype
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/06/how-to-think-about-ai-before-its-too-late/687644/ -
“(a) very successful but fairly small #satellitelaunch #company, bolted onto a stagnant money-losing #socialmedia company, and a money-incinerating #AI company, and then sprinkled with a lot of #hype about humankind going interplanetary.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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“(a) very successful but fairly small #satellitelaunch #company, bolted onto a stagnant money-losing #socialmedia company, and a money-incinerating #AI company, and then sprinkled with a lot of #hype about humankind going interplanetary.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Don’t Follow Anyone
We need to support our children and youth, as they navigate a difficult world. Belief in oneself is the key.
#ai #belief #change #children #Education #failure #fake #fame #fight #freedom #growingUp #hype #inspiration #Learning #motivation #peace #power #soldier #war #wealth #winning #youth -
Don’t Follow Anyone
We need to support our children and youth, as they navigate a difficult world. Belief in oneself is the key.
#ai #belief #change #children #Education #failure #fake #fame #fight #freedom #growingUp #hype #inspiration #Learning #motivation #peace #power #soldier #war #wealth #winning #youth -
Nobody comes out smelling good in this story. Sure, the Trump administration probably put Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos products under export controls for reasons of abject vengeance or vanity, but #Anthropic also hyped up their models so much that they made them sounds like actual cyber-weapons that should be export-controlled.
Anthropic looks like the dog that actually caught its tail. If their hype were true, then the products are dangerous and should be export-controlled. If their products were no better than anyone else’s, then they’d have to admit they were lying.
“Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge”
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Nobody comes out smelling good in this story. Sure, the Trump administration probably put Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos products under export controls for reasons of abject vengeance or vanity, but #Anthropic also hyped up their models so much that they made them sounds like actual cyber-weapons that should be export-controlled.
Anthropic looks like the dog that actually caught its tail. If their hype were true, then the products are dangerous and should be export-controlled. If their products were no better than anyone else’s, then they’d have to admit they were lying.
“Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge”
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HYPE Breaks Higher as Sellers Lose Control — Is $69 Next? #nosacapital #cryptoanalysis #HYPE #liquidations #trading
HYPE is trading at $67.83, and the latest liquidation data reveals growing pressure on long positions. Key long liquidation clusters sit at $66, $65, and $63, while the most significant short liquidation zone remains at $69.
What's particularly interesting is the shift in market absorption. Over the last few days, buy absorption has weakened noticeably, while sell absorption has remained relatively stable. This imbalance helps explain the recent price rise and raises questions about whether bullish momentum can continue.
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#Viral ‘Open Door’ YouTube #Short to be Adapted Into Feature, Earns Six-Figure Development #Deal
source: variety.com/2026/film/news/ope…
“Open Door,” Kevin Cate‘s viral sci-fi short with nearly 15 million views across YouTube shorts, TikTok and Instagram, will be adapted into a feature-length film through a six-figure development deal.
#news #hype #hit #youtube #shortmovie #cinema #money #budget #finance #Hollywood #talent #skills #future #youth #movie #filmmaker #TikTok #KevinCate #Instagram #follower #likes -
Is #YouTube Hollywood’s Next Hit Pipeline?
source: thewrap.com/creative-content/m…
#Hollywood executives have spent years trying to get #GenZ moviegoers to consistently show up to #theaters. It turns out a big part of the solution is a pair of Gen Z directors who are putting Hollywood on its ear and opening its mind to a potential wellspring of new #talent.
#movie #future #entertainment #news #generation #youth #new #backrooms #obsession #hit #budget #profit #capitalism #chance #media #socialmedia #cinema #theater #spectacle #fans #hype #society #filmmaking #filmmaker #potential #skills
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Two comments:
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"Early to bed, early to rise,
Work like hell, and ADVERTISE."«Anthropic said it enabled pre-release access for a handful of organisations because the tool was so intelligent that it could be dangerous because of its ability to exploit or hack computer systems.
The company self-proclaimed that it was "too powerful to release" before Claude Fable 5 was publicly released, which some critics questioned as inflated hype and marketing spin.»
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Higher-order logic forever:«"Our UNDERSTANDING is that the government BELIEVES it has become AWARE of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5," [Anthropic] said.»
BBC article:
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI suspended over security fears
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o> -
Two comments:
(1)
"Early to bed, early to rise,
Work like hell, and ADVERTISE."«Anthropic said it enabled pre-release access for a handful of organisations because the tool was so intelligent that it could be dangerous because of its ability to exploit or hack computer systems.
The company self-proclaimed that it was "too powerful to release" before Claude Fable 5 was publicly released, which some critics questioned as inflated hype and marketing spin.»
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Higher-order logic forever:«"Our UNDERSTANDING is that the government BELIEVES it has become AWARE of a method of bypassing, or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5," [Anthropic] said.»
BBC article:
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI suspended over security fears
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c932g3v3e13o>
