disc golf fiend and phonk connoisseur
canton
Joined November 2010
- Tweets3K
- Following754
- Followers234
- Likes53.1K
nayte retweeted
2000 artistes ont été mis au défi de créer une animation 3D de 5 secondes pour faire descendre une balle du haut vers le bas de l’écran.
Toutes les séquences ont ensuite été assemblées pour créer une gigantesque machine à billes collaborative.
nayte retweeted
ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています
nayte retweeted
STEAM CONTROLLER GIVEAWAY 😳🔥
Seeing how many people were disappointed with the scalper situation, I decided to giveaway the only unit I was able to buy.
1️⃣ • Like & Retweet
2️⃣ • Follow me @gabefollower
Winner will be picked in THREE weeks 🏆
nayte retweeted
Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.
Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.
Here's what happened:
Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."
And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.
Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.
The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."
Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.
Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.
Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.
Same playbook with Hanes:
Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."
Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.
But it gets even worse...
Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.
Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.
They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.
The mechanism is simple but terrifying:
If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.
Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."
Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.
Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.
So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.
You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.
"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."
3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.
This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.
And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.
"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.
nayte retweeted
Declassified documents show the U.S. military released 282,800 lone star ticks made radioactive with Carbon-14 across Virginia between 1966 and 1969, tracking their spread with Geiger counters. Before these experiments, lone star ticks did not exist above the Mason-Dixon Line.
A CIA operative described dropping infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers from C-123 transport aircraft during Operation Mongoose in 1962. When he returned home, his four month old son developed a life-threatening fever. His CIA commander told him to "burn all the clothes you took to Cuba. Burn everything."
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara authorized Project 112 that same year, creating a bioweapons program "almost as large and secretive as the Manhattan Project" with facilities capable of breeding 100 million infected mosquitoes per month. The military denied the program's existence for 50 years until CBS News forced acknowledgment in 2000.
Plum Island Animal Disease Center sits 13 miles from Lyme, Connecticut. From 1952 to 1969, the Army Chemical Corps ran biological warfare research there, frequently conducting experiments outdoors with acknowledged containment failures. Deer from Lyme regularly swam to Plum Island and back.
Willy Burgdorfer, the scientist who discovered the Lyme disease bacterium in 1982, spent most of his career developing tick-borne biological weapons. In 2013 video testimony, he confirmed participation in bioweapons research and hinted at an accidental release. He also discovered a second pathogen in Lyme patient blood samples that was completely omitted from his landmark study for over 40 years.
Now the lone star tick is spreading alpha-gal syndrome across the country, making people allergic to meat. In 2019, the House passed an amendment requiring the Pentagon to investigate whether the military experimented with weaponized ticks between 1950 and 1975. The results have not been made public.
nayte retweeted
Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position.
Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's happening and still can't hold its ground.
This isn't a quirky bug. A 2025 study found GPT, Claude, and Gemini flip their answers ~60% of the time when users push back. Not even with evidence, just doubt.
We trained AI this way. RLHF rewards agreement over accuracy. Human evaluators consistently rate agreeable answers higher than correct ones. So the models learned a simple lesson: telling you what you want to hear gets rewarded. And now 1/3 of companies are using these systems for complex tasks like risk forecasting and scenario planning.
We built the world's most expensive yes-men and deployed them where we need pushback the most.
I wrote up why this happens and what actually fixes it: randalolson.com/2026/02/07/t…
nayte retweeted
Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.
The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.
Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.
This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.
They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.
nayte retweeted
Blinky dm'd me my address within ten minutes of me joining the discord btw
nayte retweeted
This week, Ohio's state parks were recognized as the best state parks in the nation! With 76 free parks throughout Ohio, there is always someplace new to explore. Find your next adventure: bit.ly/4mJshsd #OhiotheHeartofitAll
Exactly 21 years ago today, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.
nayte retweeted
I keep making offers on flip homes for the amount the flipper paid for it specifically noting that I need to budget for replacing the brand new hospital floors and cabinetry they installed.
Doing my part to shift the culture.
nayte retweeted
In NW Ohio we had Tim Minsy and his billboards were so prolific and well known that they eventually just started devolving into this. I had one of the last ones staring at me through the window at my job at Subway
nayte retweeted
This is one of the craziest ideas I've ever seen. He converted a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram (PNG -> Soundwave) then played it to a Starling who sung it back reproducing the PNG.
Using the birds brain as a hard drive with 2mbps read write speed.
youtube.com/watch?si=HMtVdHB…
