You might like mathsgear as a source of delightful trinkets, if you've not seen it before.

Vendor swag (and especially company swag) can be great, but has a shelf life due to the branding. It's pretty embarrassing to sport a T-shirt from a former employer at your new employer (duh!)

What would be cool is a site with tips and tricks for removing branding of different kinds, so you can keep the swag without the stigma shelf life hit.

Eg how to remove logos from fabric without damage? Easy enough when it's just sewn on, but for some kinds of swag the logo printing methods are more stubborn than others and probably require chemicals.

And if it sucks.... that's just Megamaid!

I'm estimating 2 years + 2 years. The reckoning can be dragged out either through war, or through government bailout guarantees. Second half of next year will be interesting.

Psst! I am Neo, I'll save you!

Why? Is the printer on fire?

2026 may be a bit too soon. First the circular AI economy bubble needs to burst, and that will cause a lot of demand contraction and businesses shutting down. I'd estimate about 4 years, let's say 2030?

We've been burned by Java.

This is nothing particularly new. Mircosoft tried this already in the 2000s with Managed C++. It didn't turn out well. People didn't care for safety features and memory management then either.

The Rust people are learning this lesson too. You don't break code that works. You don't rewrite adequate code just for the new shiny. If you want to stay in business, that is.

That's so Greedo!

Why do you care? It's just one AI industry company complaining about another AI industry company scraping their content and repackaging it in a different way. They'll figure things out amongst themselves, and if not, it won't make a difference. It's not like Copyright is consistently enforced these days.

That time still exists in much of the world. The American...... experiment..... is being watched carefully, popcorn in hand. Something about trainwrecks and not being able to stop looking and all that.

Sounds like they're making a loud whining noise already before they even have a job!

They know it's bullshit, but they have FOMO.

The trick is not to go after his wealth. The trick is to go after his family's wealth: bankrupt and jail his kids. If you don't, you just leave disgruntled rich control freaks free to attempt to *retake* the kingdom after daddy is dead.