fun fact, ohio has the highest number of astronauts per capita. something about it really makes you want to leave the planet

afaik the original “they stole the porch” meme is from cincinnati too, detroit just stole it

lmao apple as the paragon of pro-consumer behaviour is one hell of an idea.

the main reason their os isn’t full of ai is because they’re mad they didn’t invent it. they insisted the longest to call it machine learning instead, and when they switched over they called it “apple intelligence”. but they aren’t avoiding it, they just suck at it, and they always want to call everything by another name and present it a different way so it’s special and “magical” when it’s on their devices.

but behind all that cultish nonsense they have had ai features for ages, often randomly pushed, and they too have reoriented their cpu architecture to include ai processing and run llms. they just have a mainly hardware business instead of a mainly software one, so they tend to emphasise device-dependent local systems instead of cloud apps that work on any device.

and that’s on top of locking down everything, because they want to mediate computers to you. imo that’s the big issue with apple, they don’t want to give you any access to your own tech, because technology is magic and you’re not a wizard, they are. that’s not specifically ai-related though, but it does inform their handling of ai too, and it’s the main reason apple should have been on your list of companies not to buy from way before chatgpt blew up.

unsure, tbh. technically he did activate more money to chase his cards while keeping prices high for large-scale customers, so it would be really difficult to claim he did not act in nvidia’s best financial interest this particular time. sure it’s an evil move, but it’s pro-corporate evil, which is explicitly encouraged under securities legislation.

i’d guess that the sentiment behind exposing him is that the house of cards is collapsing soon anyway, so you might as well enforce the law against china now. like, private money from institutional investors is drying up, that’s why everyone is having ipos, and openai barely managed to get anything in their last funding round. they’re putting all the ai companies on the market so private investors can quietly exit and pass the risk to 401ks, index funds, day traders, and whoever else is stupid enough to soak it up, and then they’ll let it run out of steam because no one is willing to fund the ai bubble any longer. the bank of nvidia is no longer as important in that environment, it only had to be kept around while they had little to no exit strategy, and that has changed recently.

it’s as universal as insults come, that part is true, the american thing is to just make everything about cars

a magic link is not 2FA if it doesn’t also require a password. it’s 1FA, they just replaced the one factor.

honestly i really hate websites that do that and yet don’t allow password-only 1FA. like sure, i understand that the average user’s password discipline is crap, but as a power user i’d really like it if all my accounts weren’t tied to all my other accounts sometimes.

i mean, yeah, maybe the law should not protect those who it does not bind, but as far as jensen goes there is little reason to believe he’s been banging kids or something. both known women he had an affair with are 40+, his wife is a similar age as him too, and i don’t know of any creepy comments he has made. he also isn’t glued to trump the way musk, bezos, the zuck, and the others are. which would have been one of the most reliable tells otherwise imo because the epstein files aren’t about exposing trump, they’re about trump’s leverage over other billionaires with the threat of them getting the gates treatment. he had to use export laws to threaten huang though, if he had files on him he wouldn’t need that.

it’s a particular paraphilia to be attracted to teens, and that’s what epstein island has been about. i’m not saying the nvidia guy didn’t do a million things wrong, but he either doesn’t have that particular paraphilia, or he’s really good at compartmentalising it.

switzerland already did that to some degree. turns out a whole lot of democracy is boring stuff that most people don’t want to bother with, it’s only some specific decisions they want total control over.

imo the right answer would be a system where elected representatives exist but can lose their power at any time. like, imagine a system where voting power on legislation belongs to the people, and bills get introduced through having the support of a certain number of people, but you can delegate your voting power to a representative of your choice, at any time you want, with no fixed terms.

protests would have teeth in a system like that, because they would directly result in the refusal and re-delegation of power immediately, with no need to wait for elections, and no need to weigh a low number of parties. you can just select whoever to handle your vote, whenever. and if you don’t like that person, select someone else.

we could even include an option to override your rep and directly vote on specific issues without having to change reps or throwing your vote away on the day-to-day technicalities that your rep would understand far better than you.

nope, he got divorced like a year before his political debut and hasn’t been married since. they haven’t even accused him of cheating on another girlfriend or anything

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true, it’s polycule ∈ clusterfuck

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nah, affair #2 was with a different vp and #3 is as yet undisclosed. although if #3 was with the interim ceo that would be a very good reason not to disclose it

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imo the distinction is between the workers of that particular organisation vs the public as a whole. there’s still value in the people actually close to the work making the decisions (a lot of the failures of the soviet system can be attributed to party officials overruling experts) but it should be counterbalanced by the public looking out for each other, so that no single org or collection of orgs stand above the rest of society.

actually, i do hate capitalism with all its complexity too. imo the market is a useful tool when kept in check by having to compete with planned, government-subsidised alternatives, but private ownership of capital is what generates 99% of the problems with it. either the workers should own the capital or the public should. the best option is probably somewhere between the two.

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