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Oakland Techno Serf 1d ago

Molotov cocktails are just the technological reality now. You can adapt your workflows to them or get left behind.

At my company every employee has to use at least one per day. It’s a vibrant and competitive field full of potential.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail-house-headquarters-rcna273694

OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail

San Francisco police early Friday arrested a person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman's home and made threats outside the AI giant's San Francisco headquarters, the company said in a statement."Thankfully, no one was hurt," OpenAI said.

NBC News

kessler herd immunity 1d ago

@aesthr i mean, that openai whistleblower's house was targeted with a suicide, so who can say. i think this was a self-inflicted molotov cocktail

eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)1d ago

@aesthr A sticky bomb?

food in training 1d ago

@aesthr oh my gooood, sam altman's house?? Oh no!!!!! Which one?

*gasp*

thepoliticalcat 1d ago

@taq @aesthr All of them, Katie?

Ah, well. Even if Altman were inside the only significant downside is the resulting air pollution.

Captain of the SS El Faro 1d ago

@EthicalProfessor @aesthr we all have to make sacrifices in this new and vibrant business paradigm, even the air

Я⊛ḶḶ model ☭1d ago

@bangskij @EthicalProfessor @aesthr

even the emperor penguin chicks

@saltywizard @bangskij @aesthr

<expletive deleted>

Mitch Rose 1d ago

Obviously a false flag operation

Cedric Rossi 1d ago

@aesthr at MY company, employees are judged on how many they can prepare and throw each day! There’s no getting back anyway, once they are lit, you have to throw them.

@aesthr No use playing the blame game now, it's too late, the cocktail has already been thrown.

craignicol 1d ago

@aesthr @mercuryjohn 2 data points isn't a trend, but there's something about devaluing humans that makes me feel there'll be more

https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/116375545030879725

@craignicol @aesthr @mercuryjohn What is "an alarm" in this context? I know it's a measurement of the severity, but... what is "1 alarm"? What is this quantifying?

Crovanian 1d ago

@hellomiakoda did someone mention quantifying? Oh boy, I can’t wait for someone to financialise the concept of being concerned, turning degrees of alarm into gambling. Yay!

@hellomiakoda @craignicol @aesthr @mercuryjohn The exact meaning varies between regions, but an “alarm” is a measure of response size. Each is usually ~4 engines, ~2 ladder trucks, and 3-5 people each.

Two-alarm is ~8 engines and ~5 ladder trucks, plus a bunch of support staff (rehab unit to help firefighters cool down and hydrate, safety chief, tactical support, communications unit, etc.).

Three alarm adds another 4 engines, 2 ladders, and some more specialized support staff.

Four alarm adds another 4 and 2, plus planning specialists.

Five alarm adds another 4 and 2. This is 30-35 total trucks and ~130 firefighters plus support staff.

@bob_zim @craignicol @aesthr @mercuryjohn Thank you!

@hellomiakoda @bob_zim @craignicol @aesthr @mercuryjohn

that is a bit bigger than my city's response, each alarm here is an emergency response/ambulance and one pump truck

Violet Madder 19h ago

@TeflonTrout @hellomiakoda @bob_zim @craignicol @aesthr @mercuryjohn

I think 1 alarm generally means 1 fire station alerted to send help. How much each has on habd and decides to send varies.

@violetmadder @TeflonTrout @hellomiakoda @craignicol @aesthr @mercuryjohn That’s a common explanation, but it’s usually a bit incorrect. Stations have extremely variable sizes. Some of the bigger ones in growing suburbs could handle a two-alarm response solo (and may have the necessary support staff in the station). Lots of stations (especially in dense cities, where ground-level space is at a premium) have one or two engines and a single ladder truck, so four or five such stations might respond to a two-alarm.

Ultimately, though, the point is “alarms” is a linear-ish scale of response size which isn’t well-standardized between areas.

@aesthr A Molotov cocktail won’t burn down your house; someone using a Molotov cocktail will burn down your house

Jeff Atwood 1d ago

@aesthr target MISANTHROPIC. PLEASE. Channel this anger at the correct targets. No one is pure but that company, I wish I could tell you everything I know. https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116382336335802856

Jeff Atwood (@[email protected])

@[email protected] here's another example. I have dozens, but can't talk about all of them. https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/

Infosec Exchange

MacCruiskeen 1d ago

@codinghorror @aesthr Surely there's enough Molotov Cocktails for everyone.

Tor Iver Wilhelmsen 20h ago

@maccruiskeen @codinghorror @aesthr Molotov cocktails? At these gas prices?

Gas is expensive because we're not using it properly.

@maccruiskeen @codinghorror @aesthr

Martijn Vos 1d ago

@codinghorror @aesthr

Are you saying Anthropic is worse than OpenAI and the others? My impression was that they were the least bad of the bunch. But that CISO is undeniably a piece of shit. Did I just fall for their better PR?

Class Wario 1d ago

@aesthr hallucination

Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓1d ago

@aesthr They broke rule 1: if you’re going to take a shot at the king, don’t miss.

Christo. London, England 1d ago

@aesthr
Better than a guillotine

Cavyherd 1d ago

@Christo_459 @aesthr

At least guillotines don't risk immolating the neighborhood....

Crovanian 1d ago

@cavyherd does he have neighbors? I thought trillionaire freaks like him isolated themselves in compounds surrounded only by manicured lawns and other Epsteinite freaks.
Maybe he’s considering an impulse buy of such a mansion in Malibu after this, idk…

Cavyherd 1d ago

California. Depending on time of year, you look at it crosswise & whole hectares'll go up....

I mean, not saying that's not a neighborhood that •shouldn't• go up. Just saying guillotines are easier to aim....

a hermit for hire 1d ago

@aesthr Just one? We can do better than that!

Monsieur_Lepetit 1d ago

@aesthr
I hate it that this man compels me to violence

Erik Uden 🚩1d ago

@aesthr laughed more at your post than any comedian

nieuemma 1d ago

@aesthr I think we've really democratized Molotov cocktails.

@aesthr it was me, pyro-luigi

thriftwicker 1d ago

@aesthr There is a direct correlation between being a sociopath and / or an evil dickhead and the number of molotov cocktails that get lobbed atcha.

@aesthr
A year after this reaction to the Ghibli Slop Machine:
https://icosahedron.website/@colon_three/114236410555423739

Jeezy Peeps (@[email protected])

personally i think miyazaki should be allowed to hunt sam altman for sport

Icosahedron

Crystal_Fish_Caves 1d ago

@aesthr cool. soon so many more people will have lots more time off to let him know how much they appreciate being replaced with robots that have to tell you up front they are gonna suck and also your utilities go up to support a robot that is shit at the job.

I have had to spend SO MUCH TIME SCREAMING AT ROBOT CHATS THAT MY NEIGHBORS ARE THREATENING TO HAVE ME COMMITTED I CANNOT IMAGINE WHY I HATE THIS DECADE. cant I go back to the 80s clothes music movies I was so much happier then ...

@Crystal_Fish_Caves @aesthr

Be careful ... I yelled at one to 'go away and don't come back' just as a friend was about to knock on my door ... she left ...
Took some explaining ...

Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@aesthr for entertainment purposes only.

@aesthr
will the thrower claaim he was just a doordash delivery guy?
from wiki "declaration on Soviet state radio that incendiary bombing missions over Finland were actually "airborne humanitarian food deliveries" for their "starving" neighbours."

Timo Geusch 1d ago

@aesthr @jwz “embrace and extend”, eh?

Casey Ydenberg 1d ago

@aesthr We don't know if the molotov cocktails are conscious, but we are open to the possibility that they could be.

Ω 🌍 Gus Posey 1d ago

@livingpixel 🏆

canleaf08✅ 加拿大葉子 🏳️‍🌈⚧️🇪🇺🍁1d ago

@aesthr I 'ave the feeling that the AI economy is a terror gang, pressuring economies to adopt their "tools".

Have you heard this one ...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

ℂ𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕖@world: /#

blinking_cursor

@aesthr I'd even say molotov cocktails are fuelling the entire economy right now!

* sees myself out *

Strfnurfn 21h ago

@aesthr If you're not getting the desired results, that's really a skills issue. Knowing how to guide them productively is becoming a core requirement.

Mistake not ...19h ago

@aesthr wait til someone who doesn't like billionaires gets to the new meta ... drone delivered Molotov cocktails.

potion_genderqueer

@aesthr BRILLIANT quote-toot. 10/10, the only note is "keep a copy of this!"

@aesthr reading the headline and thinking: damn, only one?

Joe Alexander 4h ago

@aesthr love when humans stop being humans