A year ago I woke up early to the sound of air raid sirens. No big deal, I thought — it happens from time to time. We grabbed our cats and went to the stairs, where we met our neighbors and heard heavy shelling. There we learned that almost the whole country was under fire. When the shelling stopped, we came back only to find that there were reports of a ground invasion.

It was a mess, chaos, massacre, bloody and pure evil. No info from the official sources, but lots of real-time civil coverage from the ground: groups of terrorists taking over the border; killing soldiers and civilians; burning houses, shooting strangers and cars in the streets; raping, torturing, taking hostages; advancing further. All of it live, with lots of video and photos. And the shelling continued. In the course of the following days, a building a few blocks from us was half destroyed by a rocket. A writing later appeared on it saying “three of my friends are dead”. Some time later, “three” was replaced by “four”.
In fact, since 7/10 a year ago, there have been only 17 days without air raid sirens in Israel. In the entire year of 2022, for instance, the sirens were only sounded on 23 days.

As I said, the shelling wasn’t the worst. It was the deadly barbaric hordes of Hamas criminals, sewing death — regardless of age, ethnicity, nationality, faith, occupation, wealth. Many people were taken hostage, and many are still being held by the terrorists.

They must be returned home. And this threat from barbaric, terrorist, totalitarian regimes around the world is our common problem, the world’s problem. Those who ignore it are fools; those who support it are bastards.

All the things that people who sell AI (and other blows and whistles) are ‘envisioning’ and communicating to folks rn are complete and utter bullshit. After some time (8-15 years) what we’ll have in reality will be tailored meaningless blowwhistling shit that tries to use you to make as much profit as possible. Full stop. There’ll be some advancements in general, but the big lullaby that people like Altman or Musk (I already regret mentioning this sick fuck) are singing is — and will still be — no more than a foolish distraction.

We’ve seen it before: in the 60s-80s there were dreams of people casually traveling to the stars, and robots helping with daily routine. All we ended up with eventually is unusable ad-driven, data-stealing, hate-igniting (as well as hate-fueled) ‘social’ network. And the worst part of it, we made it ourselves. Nobody forced us to, it’s all our creation from head to toe.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the internet. In itself, it’s one of the humanity’s greatest leaps — a leap forward, into the future, a leap of faith; unconscious, unpredictable, yet pivotal and powerful. But what we have done to it — and by we I mean a range from lustful corporations and gutless governments to various shitheads like an average *-board ‘anon’ — is disgrace. Humanity invented social media, humanity killed it. Lol, hashtag whoopsey.

And if the dreams of the 60s-80s’ seem at least a little bit sincere and genuine, like people were trying to accomplish something meaningful, heading towards a better future, today’s bloated promises look and feel exactly like what they are: a tool to pump up stocks, to sell stuff, to stick a stick up your ass. AI, just like the internet and social media, is great. The guano we’re going to mold it into is not.

The process has already started, you can see it in the endless shitty AI integrations. Maybe we are the ones who can stop this from happening… this time?

עם ישראל חי

The more terrorists and dictators are eliminated around the globe, the better for all of humanity.

literally me

the fucking WHAT happened in Amsterdam?? the fucking WHO won the elections? the fucking… ah, never mind, in a couple of months we’re entering 1925, it’ll be fun, I promise

Today, citizens all around Berlin remember and commemorate the victims of Kristallnacht and the Nazi regime.

These bricks with the names of the victims of Nazis are a part of the Stolperstein project. There are currently more than 100 000 bricks throughout the EU.

Meanwhile, after a recent attack in Amsterdam, Jews have been attacked again — this time in Stockholm.

The only possible response is either arrest or deportation (based on legal status) of anyone who’s involved in hate crimes and inciting racism (not only against Jews, but in general), or supports terrorism and dictatorship. Every person who supports terrorists is no better than them. The world’s on the brink, so actions must follow.

(yeah yeah, of course, it won’t be that way — nevertheless, we must demand it)

considering adding a ‘german niche twitter micro celebrity’ line to my LinkedIn bio

Lately, I started two self-experiments:

1) I have completely abandoned Google search. Every time I need to find something, I use DuckDuckGo instead. It was scary at first. After all, Google has dominated search & provided the best results for decades. Clearly, not anymore. It has become unbearable: littered with bullshit, and the word “relevance” means nothing — all on top of insane tracking. DuckDuckGo doesn’t have all the features we’re used to, but I was amused by the fact that it feels OK and I didn’t switch back after a day, as I thought I would. In fact, it’s now a default engine on all my devices.

2) I switched to a blank Home screen on my iPhone. The reason is simple: I suddenly got a feeling that a system I had been developing for a decade, with a perfect app setup and well-adjusted app positions, was becoming more of a burden than a helping hand. After ten years of impeccable service, it started giving me the subtle impression that it was setting the limits and holding me back in some way. And that if I wanted to continue to build something new, this system needed to be reset. And that was also the reason for my decision to set up a new MacBook from scratch instead of transferring everything from my old machine. Well, we’ll see how that works out.

Yeah, and from this screenshot you can see I'm good at completing tasks and… uhhh well, not so good at responding to non-business inquiries

I’m 30 and that’s my pic rn

Yeah, Vasily Krouglov → Francesco Gatti

The absurdity of some people’s actions speaks for itself. It’s time to rethink the cycle of producing unnecessary stuff instead of just bending the process to include AI

https://colonelroyce.com/cut-out-the-ai-middleman/

I've created a user-friendly ChatGPT prompting guide for beginners and intermediate users. It’s based on my experience of professionally using it for various stuff, from code to analysis, and teaching it to others. Here’s all you need to gain a better understanding of how to make her more useful:

https://colonelroyce.com/chatgpt-guide-basic/

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TECH TRENDS 2025 REPORT

AI has become both a blessing and a curse (rn, more of a curse IMO), but it's not the only story worth telling. Beneath the surface of chatbots, LLMs, and generated images lies a complex web of technological shifts, social implications, and economic disruptions that are redefining our world.

I've wrapped up some trends based on events that happened in 2024. Here’s the full report (take a comfortable seat, it’s big):

https://colonelroyce.com/2025-tech-report/

The discussion (let alone social media hot takes) about AI in the broader masses is quite alarming: most of the people who say anything about the topic either side with the ‘AI bros’ with, mildly saying, an overly optimistic approach in which LLMs are a salvation and the solution to all our problems, or go all in with extreme Luddite beliefs that every iteration of AI must be shut down and the technical progress must be reversed.

I wish every single fucker who has no idea how AI & ML works beyond ‘there’s a chatbot/app that does something I do(n’t) like’ and still blurts out their extremely valuable opinion RTFM, but that’s obviously too much. And maybe they should’ve started with basic education and scientific principles.

Oh, it’s not about AI at all, oh boy…