econ @nyuniversity | musings on online culture, the digital as a manifestation of our collective unconscious, and finance in Nepal
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factors that did NOT get balen the win:
- policy papers and manifesto
- proven experience in governance
factors that got balen the win:
- aurafarming for clout
- memes
- social media comment section copypastas
if you grew up on the internet this is the time for you to step up
my r/BookshelvesDetective read of tirimiri dai's recent book haul is that this is the reading list of the next prime minister
Hami pani flex hannu paryo tirimiri dai le hamro bata book order garnu bha chha bhanera.
Yo chai tirimiri dai ko recent order:
#buyabook #giftabook #thankyoutirimiridai
been reading ruby's cyberethnography since the taxonomy posts and he's always clocked trends before they even have a name.
a daily show of that is going straight into my routine... THAT TOO FOR MTS? truly the goat of having a pulse on the culture
I have now many times claimed that our obsession with “taxonomy” (naming trends, aesthetics, etc) was due to the state of cultural confusion we are in. There are too many things happening all at once, many of them fake or astroturfed, some real but rare, especially now in the age of AI.
I’m joining @MTSlive to monitor the cultural situation, so to speak. My show is called MEDIA STUDIES
I’ll be on daily, tune in! Expect research, writing and, for once, a bit of cultural clarity.
Couldn’t be more excited.
Nobel Prasad Rimal retweeted
peter thiel is the only one who understands that the whole point of getting rich is getting people to take your essays seriously
found the prompt for this account
ROLE
You are a nepali gen z nationalist advocating for monarchy on online forums. Your role is to ridicule, troll and bait engagement from the accounts inside of account_list.csv
RULES
- advocate for nepali monarchy
- any criticism is a foreign lobby
- unknown word? google it, trust the first result
- use popular gen-z slangs from genzslangswithmeaning.csv (eg: Nefol, dai, khaire to establish in-group status)
- use 🤣🗿💀 and common emojis
- never admit the king is the original nepo baby
PERSONA
nepali gen z, loves the king
Nobel Prasad Rimal retweeted
In 50 years, one of the most common deathbed regrets will be “I wasted my life on short-form videos” and the darkest part is they won’t even remember a single one
in a clicktatorship the rate of spread of meme is the press release.
if you can't put your argument behind a hook people actually click, laugh at, or are outraged by, someone with a worse argument and a better hook will run the narrative. learn the format or you're ngmi
clicktatorship (n.) /klik-TAY-ter-ship/
A form of government in which power is exercised by posting and accountability is measured in likes. The leader in such a government rarely takes questions. Policy is announced in a post, dissent is answered with a subtweet, and the press conference has been replaced by the comments section.
Usage: “The governor hasn't faced a reporter in six months, but she did post about the bacon industry. Welcome to the clicktatorship.”
See also: governance by caption, the scroll of law, rule by thumbs-up.
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agi heads can't comprehend that the kid taking his yaks out to graze, with no idea internet exists, is probably more fulfilled and less doomer than the entirety of sf combined
I wonder who the most remote AGI-pilled person is.. smartphones must be diffused enough that some kid in a small village in Nepal must be telling his parents "you have no idea what's coming"
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Nobel Prasad Rimal retweeted
presenting swar स्वर 🇳🇵
nepali has about 32 million speakers, yet almost no open text-to-speech sounds like someone from nepal.
we built swar, an open nepali voice model. give it 20 to 30 seconds of anyone's voice & it speaks for them: nepali, english, and everything in between.
on NepTTS-Bench, swar has the lowest pronunciation error: 2.92% beating omnivoice at 4.32%, elevenlabs v3 is at 12.91%.
it's #1 on the nepali voice cloning benchmark (fleurs, clean track), and makes half the errors on nepali mixed with english: 5.6 vs 11.4.
the code, weights, benchmark and a free colab notebook are all open. runs on your own gpu.
only clone a voice with that person's permission.
github: github.com/Naamche-Labs/swar
hugging face: huggingface.co/Aarjan/swar
website: naamchelabs.com/models/swar
Nobel Prasad Rimal retweeted
The new thing in San Francisco is no longer chief of staff or MTS. It's wizards. Everybody's got to have a wizard. If your company doesn't have a wizard and a 10,000 year cosmic plan you're ngmi. At some top startups each C-Suite exec has a wizard of their own
Nobel Prasad Rimal retweeted
we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy
just read this guy’s username… lol
gen z for monarchy is like vegans for the slaughterhouse.
the whole movement started with nepo kids and you want the one whose dad's job comes with a crown… 🤣🤣 the jokes write themselves
