Oatley. “We can’t call it milk”

I (poorly) made this and used it once already today - I feel like it could work here as well:

Shout out to Brightworks and Drongo on Youtube for their BAR coverage. It’s a great game. I just wish RTS wasn’t so toxic.

We call that Linux here and you can start winning today!

Microsoft steeply lowered expectations on the AI Sales team, though they have denied this since they got pummelled in their quarterly and there’s been a lot of news about how investors are not happy with all the circular AI investments pumping those stocks. When the bubble pops (and all signs point to that), investors will flee. You’ll see consolidation, buy-outs, hell maybe even some bullshit bailouts, but ultimately it has to be a sustainable model and that means it will cost developers or they will be pummeled with ads (probably both).

A Majority of CEOs are saying their AI spend has not paid off. Those are the primary customers, not your average joe. MIT reports 95% generative AI failure rate at companies. Altman still hasn’t turned a profit. There are Serious power build-out problems for new AI centers (let alone the chips needed). It’s an overheated reactionary market. It’s the Dot Com bubble all over again.

There will be some more spending to make sure a good chunk of CEOs “add value” (FOMO) and then a critical juncture where AI spending contracts sharply when they continue to see no returns, accelerated if the US economy goes tits up. Then the domino’s fall.

We’ve done the latter since WWII, just not generally in allied countries.

Edit: ooof - just now seeing the “always has been” emoji. I’m owning it… whatever.

I just heard $7000 for the cheap seats?

’m no expert computerologist, but I think that any system that requires anybody but you to have your key is insecure.

Computerologist here. You are 100% correct. If anyone says otherwise, they are selling you something.

I doubt this goes anywhere other than “virtue” signaling to his puppets that he’s stronk-man big tough! IANAL, but discovery works both ways. He would have to pony up ALL KINDS of juicy corruption transactions, etc. as soon as JPMorgan claims they closed it over money laundering and fraud. Not to mention that JPMorgan has DEEEEP pockets to fight it. I expect either a very quiet and quick settlement where they just cave to get on his good side or they go balls deep and he withdraws. My money is on the latter. TACO.

LinkedIn has entered the chat.

I’m not exactly standing behind it - just saying what I’ve read. I’m confident nuclear plants are after 9/11. Anything else is probably hit or miss, including petro/gas pipelines, coal, and generating plants specifically. Plus if a bad actor (likely state sanctioned) decides to, they can get through air gaps with spies/traitors/unwitting idiots with a simple USB drive. After air gapped uranium processing centrifuges were wrecked with an errant USB drive, I would expect all systems to disable or remove USB drive connectivity, but I’m sure that’s inconsistent… at best.

I can only speak for the US, but our electric grids and production are supposed to be air gapped for critical infrastructure. Healthcare? I doubt it based on the continuous leaks there - and medical supply chains are tightly integrated with internet/cloud… Shopping still has a fairly sizeable local accessibility for staple items, certainly food distro where the internet wouldn’t matter for at least a short while, but it’s also tightly integrated for Supply Chain Management, much like Health care - so there could be a run on it.

I’m not sure on public transport, but most are goverment led, so probably air gapped.

There’s also a shitton of dark fiber laying about. Internet infrastructure COULD be brought back up depending on the damage that triggered outages in the first place.

Don’t forget Xitter, Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp/Meta, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Minnesota Star Tribune, LA Times, Time Magazine, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Tiktok, Reddit, Sinclaire (Radio) and now CBS / Paramount, etc… It’s a trillion dollar propaganda machine run at the pleasure of billionaires. If we go orthagonal, we should include all major AI players too, most definitely Grok.

Right wing media IS mainstream media now.

Let’s not limit it to the US

The word is that Julia Roberts took the title in the 90s

I choose to believe that this is active resistance from within.

OK, I’m going to challenge the statement that AfD would be considered left in the US. I’m from the US and I’ve seen their politics and they would defnitely be considered far right in the US sense (or our current “right” which is MAGA in power). I appreciate your point about media labels, though, so everyone should apply critical thinking to those labels for sure.

Which makes sense since it’s a fruit

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I agree with you. I’m not saying the EU isn’t doing better on substantially every level like education, social services, policing, well being, worker rights, etc. I’m saying the EU is at risk and it’s it goes beyond just the US and global tech corpratism to authoritarian & oligaritarian influence of (soft and hard) compaigns to shift the EU far right. I am saying I hope the EU can hold on to what they have and push back further!

On a side note, the Nazi’s borrowed a lot of their eugenics from the US and our deeply ingrained racism, so I’m not 100% sure this is new