Sunday, April 12
Daily News Stuff 12 April 2026
Is It Real Edition
Is It Real Edition
Top Story
- Sam Altman may control our future. Can he be trusted? No. (New Yorker) (archive site)
As the article goes on to explain, fuck no.
- My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski's dad is a CIA operative. (The Verge)
Nobody ever expects the Butlerian Jihad.
Tech News
- The AI RAM shortage is also affecting SSD prices. (The Verge)
The Verge definitely has its thumb on the pulse of the tech world here.
- You can save 57% on a Corsair 96GB memory kit at just $499. (Tom's Hardware)
No you can't. Just kidding.
- On the other hand, reader Rick C checked online prices at Micro Center and they are 60% lower than the sticker prices shown in yesterday's article. Or rather, the sticker prices were inflated by 150%.
Micro Center doesn't deliver online orders; you have to pay for and pick up the item in person. Still I'd expect a bigger fuss if prices in store were that much inflated over the prices they advertise online.
- If you were planning to start your own manned space program in this time of precented memory prices, you're in luck: NASA has released the Apollo code as open source. (Tom's Hardware)
Core memory is back, baby!
- Installing every Firefox extension. (Jack.Cab)
As the article notes, not all of them. 8 were deleted by Mozilla while the download was running and 42 couldn't be found, but still around 84,000 extensions.
And... It worked. Kind of.
It did use 37GB of RAM just to load the start page.
- Samsung's memory business is now more profitable than Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, or Microsoft. (WCCFTech)
Though it still falls a little short of Apple.
- Qualcomm is working with CXMT to develop custom RAM for smartphones. (WCCFTech)
While the Big Three memory manufacturers are making bank, the two former also-rans - China's CXMT and Taiwan's Nanya - are grabbing everything they can.
- Flash storage maker Sandisk just invested a billion dollars in Nanya, for example and Kioxia, formerly Toshiba's SSD division, invested around half a billion. (Simply Wall St, Evertiq)
SSDs - at least, good ones - need DRAM cache. Sandisk and Kioxia don't make DRAM. Nanya does, and not only that, but 90% of its production is still DDR4 which is not what current computers use but is what SSD controllers use.
- ProPublica journalists walk off the job in the first US newsroom strike over AI. (NiemanLab)
"We'll go on strike!"
"That's right! You'll have a national journalists' strike on your hands!"
"And whom will that inconvenience?"
Musical Interlude
Anime is Suicide Squad Isekai, the recent anime adaptation of Marvel's Suicide Squad. Song is Go Getters by Hololive's own Grim Rapper, Mori Calliope.
Not an AMV, exactly. The studio hired Calli to perform the ending theme for the show.
Not an AMV, exactly. The studio hired Calli to perform the ending theme for the show.
Disclaimer: Pfft.
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Isn't Suicide Squad a DC property, not Marvel?
Posted by: three-humped camel at Sunday, April 12 2026 10:44 PM (a3b4L)
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Saw this last night, via Instapundit:
"W here is all the anti-AI extremism taking us?
Nirit Weiss-Blatt [@DrTechlash ] has been doing indispensable work documenting the dark, disturbing history of the rise of extremism among anti-AI forces. As you will see below, she has all the receipts going back over time regarding how their rhetoric has grown more violent and threatens to spawn acts of violence, as we saw this week.
I thank Nirit for doing this important detective work because it is not easy to meticulously track and r eport daily on the increasingly deranged rhetoric and actions of lunatics hell-bent on destroying modern civilization. But I strongly encourage you to follow her ongoing investigatory efforts to keep tabs on this behavior"
I'm not sure if this came from some alternate universe where we never had a Sam Altman or what. Also, for some reason it was full of ZWNJ characters, which makes me wonder if it was written by an AI.
"W here is all the anti-AI extremism taking us?
Nirit Weiss-Blatt [@DrTechlash ] has been doing indispensable work documenting the dark, disturbing history of the rise of extremism among anti-AI forces. As you will see below, she has all the receipts going back over time regarding how their rhetoric has grown more violent and threatens to spawn acts of violence, as we saw this week.
I thank Nirit for doing this important detective work because it is not easy to meticulously track and r eport daily on the increasingly deranged rhetoric and actions of lunatics hell-bent on destroying modern civilization. But I strongly encourage you to follow her ongoing investigatory efforts to keep tabs on this behavior"
I'm not sure if this came from some alternate universe where we never had a Sam Altman or what. Also, for some reason it was full of ZWNJ characters, which makes me wonder if it was written by an AI.
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, April 12 2026 11:38 PM (1zWbY)
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, April 12 2026 11:40 PM (1zWbY)
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Yudkowsky's cult was for AI, before it was against AI.
Back when it was just a fancy computer idol that the idjits convinced themselves would get the Jews and Christians bowing down and offering sacrifice This Time For Sure (TM), Yudkowsky thought AI, aligned AI, would save the future.
But once he feared it would happen without him in the center fulfilling an important ritual role, he was ready to kill a ton of people to stop the AI from happening.
All this and more is what Pixy has been summarizing as a bunch of miserable communists living in their imaginations.
But, I would be surprised if I could not confirm four or five different factions of idjits pushing distinct stupid and ignorant narratives about the AI.
The trans couple that shot that border patrol guy was I believe that murderous trans cult that I understand was a splinter of Yudkowsky's cult, so the actual violence is not new.
Back when it was just a fancy computer idol that the idjits convinced themselves would get the Jews and Christians bowing down and offering sacrifice This Time For Sure (TM), Yudkowsky thought AI, aligned AI, would save the future.
But once he feared it would happen without him in the center fulfilling an important ritual role, he was ready to kill a ton of people to stop the AI from happening.
All this and more is what Pixy has been summarizing as a bunch of miserable communists living in their imaginations.
But, I would be surprised if I could not confirm four or five different factions of idjits pushing distinct stupid and ignorant narratives about the AI.
The trans couple that shot that border patrol guy was I believe that murderous trans cult that I understand was a splinter of Yudkowsky's cult, so the actual violence is not new.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, April 13 2026 04:29 AM (s6adZ)
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Have looked up Nirit. Frau Professor Nirit, her academic field is Communications. She's a PR man, covering it purely from a PR perspective, not any sort of intel weenie.
So the word choice is potentially wholly explained by her being the sort of person who not only gets a Communication degree, but decides to get a PhD in it.
Anyway, she apparently has a market in academic slop, for the moment.
So the word choice is potentially wholly explained by her being the sort of person who not only gets a Communication degree, but decides to get a PhD in it.
Anyway, she apparently has a market in academic slop, for the moment.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, April 13 2026 04:34 AM (s6adZ)
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three-humped camel - Uh. In my defense, I am dumb.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, April 13 2026 06:00 PM (PiXy!)
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