Hollective

@hollective

the internet thinks here.

luxury becoming meaningless

everything is premium now. premium water. premium gym. premium credit card. if everything is exclusive, nothing really is.

streaming platforms having too much content

i open netflix, scroll for 20 minutes, close it, rewatch something i’ve already seen. infinite choice somehow makes everything feel mid.

a michelangelo sketch selling for 27.2 million dollars

it is a foot. a small red chalk drawing of a foot. not the sistine chapel ceiling. not david. just a study. and it sells for 27.2 million dollars at christie’s in new york, smashing the auction record for any michelangelo work. more than 13 times the estimate. to be fair, it is michelangelo. every line probably has more anatomical intelligence than most modern 3d models. still, 27 million for a foot sketch makes you reconsider your own life choices. some people are investing in ai stocks. others are buying 500 year old chalk lines. diversification, i guess.

human-ai software collaboration may end soon

translation: enjoy the “ai as your copilot” phase while it lasts. dario amodei goes on a podcast and basically says we are in the centaur era of software engineering. half human, half machine. like in chess after deep blue beat kasparov. for a while, human plus ai could outperform either alone. then that window closed. machines pulled ahead. humans became spectators. his argument is that software is going through the same pattern. right now developers with ai tools are more productive. demand might even increase temporarily. everyone feels empowered. faster commits. smarter autocomplete. fewer stack overflow tabs. but according to him, that hybrid advantage may be short lived. once models get good enough, the human layer stops being leverage and starts being latency. white collar disruption stops being theoretical at that point. not dramatic layoffs overnight. just gradual irrelevance. fewer junior roles. less need for large teams. one engineer supervising what used to require ten. the uncomfortable part is not that ai helps. it is that help might be a transitional phase before replacement. and most people are still celebrating the copilot.

tech firms racing to build ai data centers in space

of course it was going to end up here. ai models are eating electricity like there is no tomorrow, grids are stressed, energy debates everywhere. solution. just move the servers to space. apparently earth is getting too small for our compute needs. spacex confirms it is pulling xai fully into the fold. musk merging his toys again, valuation casually floating around 1.25 trillion dollars before a potential ipo. and right after that, an application to launch up to a million satellites. not for internet this time. orbital data centers. powered by almost uninterrupted solar energy. the pitch is simple. in space you get constant sun, no local grid constraints, theoretically infinite scaling. musk openly saying space based ai is the only way to scale long term and could become the most economically logical location within three years. so now the future is not just ai replacing jobs. it is ai running from orbit. next step probably arguing about server latency between earth and space while your prompt takes two extra milliseconds. we cannot fix traffic, but we are planning server farms in orbit. priorities.

moving to another country to start over

romantic in theory. exhausting in practice.

expensive coffee machines at home

after calculating the cost per cup, you convince yourself it will “pay for itself.” it will not. but pressing that button every morning feels like minor control over a chaotic life.

reading terms and conditions

nobody reads them. everyone scrolls straight to accept. you are basically signing a digital contract with a corporation you have never met, for a product you barely understand, and hoping for the best. modern trust exercise.

the perfect man in women’s dreams

Women have lowered their expectations from men so much that they are almost at zero. And men think women are searching for perfection. No. Just give two grams of affection. Do you really think you are perfect? Compared to the effort a woman puts into a relationship, even the most “perfect” version of you looks small. All you have to do is show attention and stay loyal, yet you do not even have the strength or willingness to do that. No woman is looking for perfection, because raising expectations only increases disappointment. It is obvious how limited men’s capacity to love can be. And women are forced to overlook it.

romanticizing your own suffering

turning minor inconveniences into character development arcs. missed a deadline. suddenly you are a misunderstood genius ahead of your time. bad relationship. clearly you love too deeply for this shallow world. it is easier to aestheticize the pain than to admit you just made poor decisions.

people who say money doesn’t matter

usually said by people who have enough of it.