{"id":12760,"date":"2025-05-23T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=12760"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:05:09","slug":"linked-the-dystopian-dream-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2025\/05\/23\/linked-the-dystopian-dream-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: The Dystopian Dream Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/lmnt.me\\\/blog\\\/the-dystopian-dream-team.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250822071108\\\/https:\\\/\\\/lmnt.me\\\/blog\\\/the-dystopian-dream-team.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 14:45:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 14:26:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 11:11:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 23:02:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 16:19:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-10 20:43:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 23:27:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 21:35:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 15:02:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:20:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 11:30:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 23:10:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 23:10:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lmnt.me\/blog\/the-dystopian-dream-team.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via Louie Mantia:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>Sam Altman has built an entire business around theft. Taking everything he can find\u2014but not pay for\u2014he has constructed a monstrous machine that uses an unbelievable amount of energy and an unfathomable amount of water to keep cool. It is an ecological nightmare. In addition, ChatGPT doesn\u2019t just itself fail to recognize the difference between fact and fiction, it presents these answers to people who are themselves unable to discern the difference. Sam Altman is a person who thinks today\u2019s limitation of a laptop is waiting for ChatGPT to respond. He said this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Both of these men are made for each other in the worst way imaginable. They both seemingly have a disdain for computers. None of what they spoke about in that ten-minute masturbatory video showed any ounce of wonder and amazement for what humans are able to do with computers. I don\u2019t think these men are here to save us.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t disagree with this take.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Louie Mantia: Sam Altman has built an entire business around theft. Taking everything he can find\u2014but not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-05-23T13:05:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"3b55418d-a0dc-499f-a6d9-74d86ffbd07f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-23T13:05:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO1VBjaDcSZ-m2XTYb_vQfw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-3jO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12976,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/musings-about-chatgpt-and-llms-how-i-use-these-tools-today-in-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":12760,"position":0},"title":"Musings about ChatGPT and LLMs &#8211; How I use these tools today in 2025","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been paying for ChatGPT at $20 a month for close to a year, and since I'm averse to subscriptions, it's time to think about the value and determine if I want to continue, but also maybe muse for a bit about technology on the larger personal scale between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3030,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/how-the-ipod-changed-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":12760,"position":1},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;How the iPod changed everything&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via The Globe: Analysts were bemused. 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Gizmodo's John Herrman back in January (re connected TVs): It's hard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5795,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/linked-the-next-40\/","url_meta":{"origin":12760,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;The Next 40&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Asymco: In Apple\u2019s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers. This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 40 years. Actually there are no other PC makers that are 40 years old. 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