Futurology Today

You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture capital funds in Silicon Valley.

Introducing Doublespeed, a startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients. In a nutshell, phone farming is a tactic most often used by hackers and financial criminals to use large numbers of devices to send spam texts, farm social media engagement, or generate fake reviews.

On its website, the fledgling company bills itself as a “bulk content creation” service. Basically, it lets customers “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” It does this through “instrumented human action,” a fancy phrase meaning the company’s phone bots will somehow mimic “natural user interaction on physical devices to get our content to appear human to the algorithims [sic].”

In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, Doublespeed co-founder Zuhair Lakhani even boasts that they used AI to write the company’s code. “Claude code is truly our third cofounder,” he wrote.

The whole thing is backed by a $1 million cash injection from a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz back in 2009.

Doublespeed clients can expect to pay anywhere between $1,500 and $7,500 a month for access to its phone farm.

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Sorry for the delay. My ass took forever to get to sleep and then the CPAP didn’t fucking work so I woke up EXHAUSTED. kill me.

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Just making this post to invite people to play PoE together, I am by no means a pro but I do understand the fundamentals of the game and can help people get started, I also have a guild to for us to help each other, and since the new season starts halloween it would be a good time to get into it. So if anyone wants play together hit me up

Original title (FR): À la poursuite du Père Noël! (In pursuit of Santa Claus!)

Zoé, an 8-year-old girl, wants to get a BB gun from Santa Claus to get revenge on Timothée, a classmate who annoys her by playing with his Lego robot. Her mother, Nadia, works for Timothée's parents, which complicates her quest for revenge. When she discovers that her Christmas wish hasn't been granted, Zoé is determined to find Santa and force him to grant her wish. And her luck changes when she hears an advertisement revealing that Santa Claus, in person, is on parade every day at Parc Enchanté, the famous amusement park...

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1432812-la-poursuite-du-pere-noel

Anyone else having problems sending messages/making calls?

Israel's strikes also wounded some 200 people,

The agency said 22 children were among those killed, as well as women and elderly,

Israel began carrying out air strikes on Tuesday after accusing Hamas of attacking Israeli troops in Gaza and violating the truce. While Israel did not say where its troops were attacked, Hamas has said its fighter had "no connection to the shooting incident in Rafah" and reaffirmed its commitment to the US-brokered ceasefire.

The situation in Pokrovsk is very dynamic right now, the RFU break down is especially helpful in this moment to understand the context of what is happening in the immediate area of Pokrovsk.

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I am interested in getting a 3D printer but I have no idea where to even started. Is there such thing as a multi-purpose printer? What’s a good source to read up on printers, software, filament?

I am thinking small replacements items like drawer guides, funnel for espresso machine, essentially little parts and pieces that break around the house and farm. Also maybe some device cases (including outdoor ones) etc.

Ideally I don’t want a closed system. I have a Cricut for 10 years or so and I hate being locked into the app so much. Unless there is a really, really good reason.

Edited to add: Thank you all! What an amazing community!

The Ecological Footprint metric shows how much nature we use compared to how much nature we have.

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Ze (Tergel Bold-Erdene), a 17-year-old, studies hard at school to succeed in the cold, callous society of modern Mongolia. When Ze encounters Maralaa (Nomin-Erdene Ariunbyamba), his senses are awakened and another reality seems possible.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/730256

Floyd Roger Myers Jr. -- a former child actor best known for his role in the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.