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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 08:14:41 JST Paul Cantrell

   RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116721268073951834

   THIS

   “Our new product is too dangerous to release” is always marketing. Always always.

   If it’s an AI vendor, then always always always.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 08:28:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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     It’s useful (but difficult!) to remember that we live in a bizarro world where the way companies generate profit for the people who run them is not actually by creating useful things, or by acquiring customers, or even by making revenues exceed costs…

     …but rather by getting the people who have large amounts of investment money to be irrationally excited for a longer period of time than it takes to cash out.

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     Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪 (dacig@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 01:50:45 JST Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪

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     • JackMex

     @JackMexa4 @inthehands You'd think the extremely expensive degrees would buy you some finance wizzardry, when it only buys you access to the other moneyed guys.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 01:50:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • JackMex

     @dacig @JackMexa4
     The upper-ranked Ivies definitely function this way for the oligarch class, regardless of the quality of the education they may or may not provide.

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     JackMex (jackmexa4@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 01:50:46 JST JackMex

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     @inthehands

     Just like a street con

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     JackMex (jackmexa4@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 02:57:31 JST JackMex

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     • Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪

     @inthehands @dacig

     They are not smarter than the rest of us either, not even after attending those best schools. (Gosh what one of the really brilliant Black or Latino kids would do with such an education!) But anyway, some folks in the moneyed class are pretty dim, and most of them are so extremely selfish that they’re evil.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 02:57:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • JackMex

     @JackMexa4 @dacig
     Harvard is an…interesting case study in that respect: there’s a traunche of students (double-digit percentage) there whose families are poor and they’re going on a full ride — some of them the very Black and Latino students you’re thinking of. There’s also a traunche (double-digit percentage) whose parents aren’t just rich, but have more money than anyone you’ll ever meet in your life — not the 1%, but the 0.01%. Last I saw the stats, the school actually has kind of a U-shaped family income curve.

     It’s an open question who’s pulling one over on whom: Are the nepo babies just a funding machine to educate the disadvantaged? Or are the scholarship students window dressing for a oligarchic hedge fund dressed up as a school? You can make both cases.

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     David, a Bostonian in Tokyo. (djl@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jun-2026 05:19:29 JST David, a Bostonian in Tokyo.

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     @inthehands

     Germany may have just thrown a Stilson wrench into this system, at least for our AI bro buddies:

     https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-google-liable-for-hallucinations

     I see this as potentially very good news.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jun-2026 04:37:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Others are echoing these thoughts, and not just random Mastodon people who are just a foot with an eyeball on top:
     https://mastodon.social/@frankreiff/116738668700468025