A bunch of stock-trading bots and quick-fingered suits probably just flinched and dumped a couple hundred billion into ARM stock though. See also: the company formerly known as Long Island Iced Tea.

One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.

BTW it turns out that DLSS5 isn't working with any texture properties/layers or geometry meshes, it's taking finished frames with motion data and hitting it with a slop filter, which is why it adds hair to one side of a guy's head where it wasn't before and makes a nostril look oddly huge when a shadow makes it hard to see where it ends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The AI data centers mostly run on natural gas burned in on-site turbines, this could hasten the AI bubble popping.

Or build more solar + wind with storage so that we could almost be powered by moonbeams and unicorn farts and not have to wait decades for a nuclear plant to finish construction or pretend that producing a little more oil locally would meaningfully affect global prices.

Please don't, Microsoft, you're enabling a golden age of Linux adoption! Win11 needs more slop, THE INVESTORS COMMAND YOU!

If it's cranking up the bump/AO maps to the point where it appears to any layman, or even a person with texture modding experience such as myself, that the characters are getting face-swapped with AI-inspired replacements, wouldn't you say that's too aggressive an enhancement and should be dialed back massively?

I'm pretty sure the legal definition of treason in the US is something about giving aid and comfort to an enemy in war and doesn't include defying the constitution.

Their mistake is that they think letting a Chinese commercial app spy on them will cause that info to be kept to the Chinese government rather than sold on the open market where the US government can get it too.

While that's true, a responsible generation aims to boost the next generation to a *higher* level than the education they received. The world has become more complex and faster-paced, and even if that weren't true, the consequenes of aiming high and falling short are better than the consequences of aiming for the status quo and falling short.

So while I'm 100% onboard with skepticism that technology will magically make education better, I think the argument that "the education I got worked for me should be good for them" isn't a strong argument. What we need is a better ecducation that would have been a better education fifty years ago: stronger math, science, and language skills, general knowledge, and, I think critical thinking and media literacy. Possibly emotional intelligence -- it's kind of pointless to teach people critcial thinking skills if they are carried away by emotions.

There are no economic or security reasons to blockade Cuba, so that leaves *political*.

It used to be believed that bullies were low status individuals who are lashing out out of frustration. But research has shown that bullying is an effective strategy for achieving and maintaining social status. In other words it's a political winner. So the focus of research has shifted from the bully to the people around him who enable the bullying. The inner circle are the henchmen -- people without the charisma and daring to initiate the bullying, but join in when the bully gets things started. Around them are the audience, the people who wouldn't risk participating but enjoy the bullying vicariously. And around them are the much larger group of bystanders, who don't approve but are waiting for someone else to stop the bullying. Then off to the side are the defenders, who stand up to the bully.

Perhaps the least appreciated supporting factor in the phenomenon of the high-status bully is the silence of the bystanders, which is dependent upon the perception of widespread approval. Since you can't visibly see the the line between the approving audience and the apalled bystanders, the silence of the bytstanders is absolutely essential in sustaining the bullying.

Lot's of Americans are apalled at the idea of using military force to inflict suffering on the Cuban people. But that's only politically advantageous *because* of *them*. Tney are indistinguishable from the relatively small number of people who are thrilled when Trump announced he can do anything he wants wtih Cuba. The gap between actual approval and *perceived* approval is absolutely critical in establishign and maintaining any kind of authoritarianism. This is why would be authoritarian leaders are so focused on punishing and marginalizing any kind of expression of disapproval.

Sure and we'll solve all labor issues by just having people quit jobs with bad working conditions, solve car safety by having people just not buy cars that aren't safe enough in crashes, water safety by having everyone boil and filter their own water, and food safety by having everyone conduct their own restaurant inspections. All people have the resources and education to take part in these highly practical and efficient solutions.

How would you make it impossible? I was thinking that outlawing closed-source software would be a good first step, but that's relying on laws again...

Why do you think it just changes the lighting? Have you seen the demo? It's changing features including on people's faces. That's much more analogous to having ChatGPT redesign your models. The way it face-swaps the Resident Evil characters and a futbol player is downright comical.

https://www.theverge.com/enter...

He's a bit worse than Sam Altman, more like a vehicular Elizabeth Holmes.