Fitting that their mission statement sounds written by ChatGPT.

Actually that’s a great metaphor for Trump: the manager the nation’s Karens think they deserve.

Yes but…This is an administration staffed entirely by people who know nothing about their jobs except what they’ve seen on TV and the movies. Zero doubt that Kash thinks it’s a magic lie detector.

But look, what if someone used food stamps to pay for luxury products like name brand Pop Tarts and not gruel-grade rice? It’s not fair that the least fortunate get all the breaks!

He was ineligible but got elected anyway, therefore no Constitution. #MAGAlogic

Phew, I’m glad they have succeeded in making gas prices a complete non-issue. So anyway, about those Epstein files…

The damage being done to the future just by discouraging smart people from caring about the general population must be enormous.

Imagine you worked your whole life (spent it, a thing you don’t get any more of and is the most valuable thing you have) to protect and save as many lives as possible, including gaining education and experience making you an expert on what you do, only to live under the constant threat of punishment from imbeciles that wield power like a child with a magnifying glass and an anthill.

Pretty strong deterrent against good people doing good things.

Is it this? https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-edition

It seems based on the original Wipeout, but I can’t find a similar XL decomp/rewrite project, just emulation.

When their alpha testers are already ransomware victims, I suppose they figure what’s the harm?

I wouldn’t underestimate the security holes that spaghetti AI code will create. Hackers have had a motivation to get creative solving those problems for a long time. E.g., a persistent logger or listener over an extended time to collect rarely used keys when they production cross the air gap, for a single catastrophic hack later?

Ultimately in a code-illiterate world, the code-literate hacker is king.

Yup, these are not investments; they’re not even bets that AI will continue. No, they are self-fulfilling prophecies of AI’s relevance.

In the end there has to be an economic backstop for reality. It’s either third party vendors that aren’t part of the hyperscaler cabal, or employee payroll. We’re already seeing layoffs which reflect AI financial tie-ups rather than efficiency gains.

But those two are where I’m hoping eventually we see missed payments as an early canary in the mine. But it’ll probably be a long time, too much money is at stake now for them to give up until they’re actually broke.

Yes, but a) not all terms are legally enforceable in all situations, and b) that enforceability has not to my knowledge been tested for situations where the software fully disabled the hardware unless the new software and terms are accepted.

I mean, we’re already at 200-500% even for those low capacity drives, unfortunately. I bought a 26TB last fall for $240. I bought a 22TB in January for the same.

The part that hasn’t been litigated is unilaterally modifying the agreement and whether you separately own the TV apart from the software covered by the click-wrap contact of adhesion.

I think a court would decide you have the right to use the TV without the software if you disagree with the terms. Except they currently give you no way to do that.

Further, it should be illegal to require an update that updates the terms, since the manufacturer effectively can force you to agree to new terms while holding your TV hostage.

Contract rights have a limit, especially with TOS agreements that are not negotiable.

I knew this was coming at some point. Forced updates need to be illegal, or allow users to roll back updates at their discretion.

When you buy something, the seller cannot enter your house without permission and break it. Legal action is going to spread - Hisense should be next, they did the same thing to me.

Any idiot could have predicted if you cut China off from Nvidia chips, they’d use their own, quickly surpass Nvidia, leaving Americans not being able to ripoff Chinese progress, unless we get our hands on the new Chinese chips if they’re not direct ripoffs of what Nvidia is doing.

I agree the policy never made sense, but Chinese chips are still a few generations behind and will remain that way for a while.

China currently has a physical limit to transistor size that is enforced by the physics of their lithography machines. They are doing everything they can to use export-controlled ASML technology including rebuilding prior generational tech from the second-hand market, but that is a.K2-level sheer-face climb. Considering how much unique knowledge ASML and TSMC have, even corporate espionage can’t fill in those gaps probably for a decade.

They absolutely are using homegrown chips that are lower quality and making up for it in quantity, however, using older lithography.

The only competence these people have is creating fascist power structures, because as psychopaths, that (and not competence in any meaningful field) is the one thing they’ve been training their whole lives for. Their fragile egos combined with sociopathic fixation on authority and loyalty means that everything needs to be a performative demonstration of masculinity and power.

Or more succinctly: They get off on people having to do what they say, preferably against their will, and we all have to suffer so they can feel good.

All of these actions just self-identify Hegseth and the rest of Trump’s gallery of rogues as weak, pathetic, sadistic children.

This is a great example of modern journalism failing.

For example:

The Republican administration’s power struggle with federal courts — which is testing basic tenets of U.S. democracy — reflects an expansive view of executive authority that has also challenged the independence of federal agencies, a president’s ethical obligations, and the U.S.’s role in the international order.

The AP doesn’t want to appear to be picking sides, so it reports on Trump’s actions, but calls them a “display of executive power” and that his actions are a “power struggle” with the Courts.

No, he is violating constitutional separation of powers. He has broken his oath of office. He is breaking the most binding law in our country. If the Constitution does not regulate the executive branch’s action, we are no longer in a constitutional government.

By waffling and timidly refusing to call this what it is, the AP tries to stay “objective,” but all it in fact is doing is normalizing anticonstitutional law-breaking, which means even citizens who read the news (to say nothing of those who don’t) will feel this is some uncomfortable gray area instead of the actual constitutional crisis it is.

This is why we’re never going to have overwhelming public support for impeachment until Congressional democrats actually file and litigate articles of impeachment - because the fourth estate has already abandoned their independent ability to report on reality, and with it, any responsibility they have to sustain democracy.

No no no, there was that one time in 2016 when he brought in the press and showed them a table of blank stacks of paper and said those were all the deals he was divesting from to not have any conflicts. That proves he’s clean.

I’ll just add to this thread: Being naive is a problem, sure. But dooming and refusing to be optimistic about the possibilities for the future plays into fascists’ hands, because we limit our imagination to whatever worst-case we expect, growing resigned in advance to their moves.

The only way out of this is to keep demanding a fair and just world - including through our expectations - while also preparing for the other side to do everything possible to derail it.