Every time I see a story like this, I think about Daniel Suarez's book Daemon.

It isn't a great book - fairly disposable scifi that requires TV-style disbelief-suspension and eventually devolves into weird techno-utopianism. But has great bits of scene-setting mind candy that is frighteningly believable.

Like the fleets of robot cars used as weapons.

You are subsidizing billionaires.

I was pointing to the vacuousness of the claim.

I've already run an LLM natively on my phone. That did "not require a data center at all", and also did not require DS.

I realize that half is the focus of the article, but it misses a huge piece of the perniciousness.

They demand exclusivity with venues.

Which means you either hand over all your booking and ticket sales (for a fee, of course) to them, or not be able to book any Ticketmaster artists. If you haven't considered the question, you may not recognize that artist-choice and ticketing are two of the biggest levers a club owner has to manage their business. Most of the other costs of business are pretty inflexible - about your only other cost-control options are fucking over your workers and watering the beer.

This does a couple things - clubs become more like farmers - they get to soak up all the risk with none of the control. It also gives TM more control over artists - I've seen less info on how TM squeezes them, but don't think that isn't there. If an artist doesn't like their terms, they don't get to play their venues.

And of course they wet their beak at every single touch point along the way.

DeepSeek has proven that it can use far less computing power

I've seen where they've asserted that, where has it been proven?

if DeepSeek' s claims are true,

Ah.

some AI queries may not require a data center at all

And here's how you falsify the claim. When can I expect to see that 200B param model on my phone?

I'd bet money that number has very little to do with the actual accounting.

If I were running the their team, I would absolutely fuck with OAI and other competitors like this. They can't discount it completely - this is still early days, there almost certainly are undiscovered efficiency tricks out there.

But it forces them to spend time and money chasing those based on whatever is in DS's paper. Messes with their OODA loop, if you think about things that way.

When it shoves one of those interstitials at you, you'll see a URL parameter like this: "pipelineType=Chewbacca".

Change the Chewy reference to some other word of your choice.

It breaks the rest of the bullshit.

A substantial amount of the actual work of "journalism" these days is hiding the actual informational payload behind someone's pet bias.

Which sometimes leads to a problem deciding which bias to emphasize, but that's why they're the professionals.

"If you slice up humanity into arbitrarily delineated categories like this, number go down."

"Interesting, which arbitrarily delineated category?"

"Youngins."

"Ah, so they're lazy fuckups, not maltreated but noble boomers."

The US is dropping workplace safety monitoring, particularly for all those miners whom a certain nostalgic segment of people who have never worked in mines like to claim they're looking out for.

The US was doing something. That effort appears dead now.

Instead, states like Florida and Texas are heading the other direction, making it impossible for local government to protect people.

I'm sure your foreman will allow you have water every 2 hours, he's a nice guy, right? Not that like that last jerk.

Sure. The fast-growing reefs take around 100K years to reach their current sizes. Slower ones are, well, slower.

I guess the second-best time to plant them is now?

Robotaxis are so 2023. Haven't you heard, all the in the know fascists are betting robots are going to fix everything.

Or was it rooftop solar, I forget.

I always love it when a game exec tries to gaslight their own customers.

It is usually execu-newbies who react like this, but this guy looks like he's been in the business for a while, so I'm guessing he's out over his skis on this title.

The big audit companies have been pushing companies to do a lot more surveying - they're really harping on NPS for whatever reason.

That's why you can't ask to use a restroom without getting a survey about your experience.

I used to sometimes fill them out - they are actually useful to companies, and if I didn't hate them, that's OK with me.

But they're over-fishing. It is constant now. So fuck it, I refuse.

As far as the state, well, you don't tell the truth to fascists unless you're a suicidal moron. 'Nuff said.

We gotta talk.

See, you do this thing.

Sometimes you stop looking at your phone. I know, food, peeing, mouth noises at other people who aren't looking at their phones, either.

That's why we need you to put this on your face.

Which is unreliable in many situations. I worked on several projects that had issues involving intermittent data loss on a DB9 port, and every time the culprit turned out to be a USB/DB9 adapter. When we'd install dedicated RS232 cards, the problem went away.

For laptops, the answer to this kind of thing should be a standard space where a customer can specify what ports he wants... you get X number of standard ports, and then you can choose what goes into one or two available spaces. But you're just not going to see that happen with manufacturers, even if the customer is willing to pay a greater cost.