Sure seems like it tho.

Yes there really are. Some days it makes sense to me, some days it doesn’t, but the Epstein thing is the only thing that cuts through Fox News.

I used to own a house free and clear. If the value dropped by half, I would still feel a lot poorer.

When the price of assets held as a store of value drops, the holders of those assets are impoverished. That’s already bad.

Now, when a fall in the price of assets held as a store of value drops, and that triggers a series of defaults that ripples across the financial system, that’s even worse.

I can’t see from the outside the degree to which Chinese society has been financialized, but I’m betting it’s more than the CCP wants to let on.

As I understand it, housing speculation has filled a similar role to 401(k)s in the US, the relatively illiquid asset that “always goes up”.

People will feel a lot poorer when their apartment loses 70% of its value, and I don’t think that’s exactly the same as, say, a big leveraged builder going out of business.

You’re right of course the US won’t let one rich man go broke so it is worse there.

It’s like China has a few smart people left in their government!

They’ve fucked up plenty, their asset bubble is going to be crippling just like everybody else, but overall they are in a vastly better position than the US to advance their imperialistic goals.

Good.

The Gulf States are some of the only societies with more overweight people than the US.

Nah I’m fatter than him and hegseth.

High and stupid will do it.

Roads were also useful for random citizens and people who happened to be in the area.

LLMs are overwhelmingly more useful to bad actors.

AI is an amazing tool for fascists.

Annihilate private access to computing, censor and rewrite all comms, destroy free software and the last remnants of education…

Every single decision made for evil.

And all these vendors who are locking themselves into one customer are about to learn why that’s a bad idea.

It’s not the case that everybody who loves AI is stupid and lazy.

But boy stupid lazy people all seem to love it…

This is a racist fairy tale that will get you pwned.

That’s not what’s fucking going on here and you know it

Craigslist is stil the standard for listing rentals in Vancouver for some reason.

I acknowledge that we are reading their press release with different amounts of charity, and that if you view them as communicating in good faith, your interpretation is reasonable.

I will note that on Mastodon they said they had changed their post to improve the optics to the community. This is also a reframe for optics.

They didn’t say they weren’t going to harvest your actions to train generative AI, they only said they’re not putting the generative tools in the app for the users.

Like I said, they’re taking the money, they’re still buddies with Anthropic, they say this was personally negotiated.

Look at how Harvard interacted with Jeffrey Epstein, same playbook here. Just cause the president of the university was flying on Epstein’s plane and honeymooning on his island doesn’t mean he had influence over Harvard! He wasn’t on the board of trustees!

I care less about the generative AI being built into blender, than all of everybody’s creative work in blender getting siphoned to Amodei, which I don’t see them backing off of (the thing about adding extra API calls Anthropic wanted isn’t addressed here, only the branding of the donation).

If a man’s paying your rent he is gonna feel entitled to something, whether you call him your boyfriend or not.

Blender showed who they are, they should not be trusted until there are role changes.

Clear cookies and use a vpn to book flights.

Socrates and Aristotle have an addendum

“in ancient Greece we would force our philosophers to flee the polis or commit suicide if we disagreed with them”

No no no that’s not how it works

It’s a VM that you set up, you have the image yourself, you could put it on a machine in your living room if you had to.
“I’m paying for a colocation of a machine I administer” is very different from “I’ve written my application such that it can only run inside an AWS system”