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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
So they made an AI restaurant! It has a manifesto!
Itāsā¦ a printer for QR codes. That a guy who is reallly not equipped for sticking QR codes to bowls has to peel and stick onto bowls. And then they get filled by hilariously imprecise cereal dispensers.
Theyāre building an empire, yall.
(Via Jonty)
Most restaurant origin stories involve someone sharing their favorite taco recipe or whatever. These guys start off with a bad pop-history explanation of the battle of Alesia. Thatās how you know their food is great.
Thereās more where the founder of the company talks about how he really hated working at his familyās restaurant while growing up (good sign). Knowing that his family came from China adds another layer of weirdness, in my opinion. The characters where the company name comes from (ę¹é©) can be read in both Chinese (gĒigĆ©) and Japanese (kaikaku) and mean the same thing (reform) in both languages. It just feels so weird that he talks so much fluff about Julius Caesar, mentions his family from China and then, out of the blue, uses a Japanese name for the company. What is with these people fetishizing ancient Rome and Japan so much?
Yeah, one is tempted to search for a historical throughline here, an axis if you will
We conveniently forgot about all the civil wars that happened afterwards that resulted in the dismantling of the Roman republic and Caesar taking absolute power. Oh yeah, I see it now.
Thereās also a village in
aquitaineArmorica that he never properly conqueredā¦Translatorās note: kaikaku means flan
Also the random Bernard Arnault mention (CEO of LMVH occasionally the richest man in the world depending on how strong the stocks are) at the end is a bit odd, Iām guessing added by an LLM because of the Alesia (~Paris) angle.
And how does a 23-year-old whose parents run a Chinese restaurant have >$600,000 to found a company? Austria is a conservative country with a lot of old money and laws that are not friendly to small speculative businesses.
It can be done (friends and I have tried around 2007, and saw minor success until the company ran headfirst into the financial crisis and our inflexibility regarding user privacy and choice), but itās not easy if you donāt already have money and connections.
If you do have those connections, nobody will stop you from building the stupid company of your dreams tbh.
Taxis dating and food. Love how the āinnovationā of AI is now just going after the uberfication targets of last time.
And the manifesto but just makes me think that this will be the first AI to attempt a mass shooting. Unhinged ahistorical manifesto usually precludes that. āRoman siegeworksā what? (This isnt about siegeworks, it is about roman discipline, they should have thought about a defensive wall from the start. (It even has a technical name which I have forgotten). Literally the wrong conclusion imho. And if you look at the wiki page, the whole story about them building the defenses in the night is just made up (also the word is āContravallationā (which was also in the manifesto image, I need new glasses)).
Also think the step from āvictorious empireā to āempire laying in ruinsā the next paragraph is just bad writing.
And a last thing, the whole fadeing in of the text/images on the site is annoying, and also breaks for me at times. Causing the images to fade in and out randomly. āMade by sleep-deprived engineers and sheer willā that tracks.
āBehind a one-way mirror,ā They are watching you eat.
Foundersā credentials include a PhD, experience developing software, and being ranked #4 in League of Legends (European edition)
So this is literally a rehash of Spyce, a CambridgeMA based startup whos first restaurant was in the old chipotle in harvard square. They had a similar setup but one that was able to make actually-hot food instead of salad bowls which were decent. (they ironically sold to sweetgreen in 2021)