Where, prey tell, do you think humans get the vast majority of their "knowledge" in 2025?

I had a person yelling at me online this morning because I had the gall to point out that the only way vaccines could cause autism would be using time travel (your born with autism, clearly something that happens to you after you are born can't cause something that happened to you before you without a time machine of some sort), and it struck me that actually the internet IS how a lot of people are "learning" and its making people incredibly stupid.

I had a realisation a while back that it wasn''t AI research/dev per se thats driving this, its Nvidia thats driving it.

DeepSeek proved that you don't *need* the the "hyperscale" datacenters to develop good-enough AI. (Theres a lot of conspiracy theories about how DeepSeek must have had secret spooky mega sized datacenters doing all this, but they published their methods and training sets, and people have reproduced it, and it all checks out, you really can do this shit on the cheap).

And thats bad news for NVIDIA which needs for AI to expensive to justify their capital outlay, sales projections, and irrational market valuation. Hence all the circular investment. Pump money into companies with the provisio they buy a whole bunch of compute that honestly probably isn't needed if AI companies actually started thinking about efficiency instead of scale.

So we're gonna burn down the amazon for NVDA share prices. Yay 2025.

Who's going to do the booting? Certainly not "the will of the people". If the constitution can be freely ignored, and the Army proves to be loyal, then that can be freely ignored too.

Well, it aint over till the fat lady sings. You'll know either way late next year I suspect. Then you get to find out if that second ammendment is worth shit.

The thing is though,historically its not senior brass that coups govts, its junior officers. If the senior brass wants to engage in a bunch of democracy suppression and the junior officers go "Wait up, I didnt sign up to shoot my neighbors I signed up to uphold the constiution" then the govt will discover the military intervention they expected isnt the one they get.

And I really hope that isn't why the white house is shitting anger-bricks over the senators reminding the troops that they are forbidden under the UMCJ to follow illegal orders.

And basically all artists except a handful of irrelevant hipster ones

Yeah thats not 100% not true. Your confusing things like Ozone mastering and a few things like stem splitting with generative. These aren't generative algorithms, they use machine learning to balance eq and compression. And honestly, it kinda sounds like shit, but its not necessarily detracting from the creativity.

Almost no artists use however generative, partly because generative AI can't generate art so it offers no creative assistance, partly because it forfeits royalties since generative outputs are all public domain, and partly because most people are at their core good people who dislike stealing from other people.

Its WEIRD that you think artists are using Suno. Suno cant generate Art, so what do you think an artist would get out of it?

Very few I suspect. Grimes maybe. A few like that.

Every musician I know, and as someone who paid my way through university as a stage roadie, I know a few who have been reasonably successful, are horrified by this and see Warners deal as utter betrayal. God knows musicians had already gotten fucked by the record companies deals with spotify that effectively diverted independent artists royalties to the big labels (It resulted on lower royalties than before, except for the artists on a few big labels who got higher royalties. Or rather their labels did)

I don't, and you don't understand the argument. Their business plan is simply not viable and they should fuck off and someone with a viable business plan should use the space they were wasting.

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

That's interesting to know. I never spent a lot of time with NeXTStep, though I have played with it a little bit. I think I have a VM for an x86 version around here somewhere, but it was a little crashy in a way that the 68k machines weren't and I don't know which piece's fault that is. I spent more time with OS X, but not a whole lot, so I didn't get that far into it.

As long as some little bitch keeps modding down my factual posts

All the extraneous bullshit Microsoft added to the start menu is always lurking in memory for performance reasons.

Fear of facts is a sign of cowardice

School issued devices often don't permit installing arbitrary apps, only those on the approved list.

Most iPhone owners didn't buy them outright. They got them "free" with their plan. Consequently out in the real world I commonly see people with old iPhones with cracked screens. They can't afford to replace them, we don't have an Apple store anywhere near here, etc.

The tariff revenues are needed to cover the tax cuts for the wealthy instituted at the same time, so no.

"An employer can only pay the workers what their output is worth, so if your industry is producing things that are difficult to sell, then you're not going to get a good paying job"

You're blaming the victim. If the employer's plan doesn't include paying a reasonable wage then their plan is crap and they need to go out of business so that someone with a better plan can succeed them.

"The experience of Detroit should be a warning to those who believe that this economic law can be avoided; the car makers sold the same stuff year after year whilst Japanese and German producers made ever better stuff."

That's not because they couldn't do better. They chose not to and depended on regulatory capture instead, preventing others from bringing more superior products to the market. Again it's the employer's fault and no one else's.