We should instead be on the lookout for Politicians disguising themselves as Representatives.

In fact, Politician should be the new four-letter word in politics. Because NOT acting like the Representative namesake you should carry is in fact THE delineator voters should be using to dismantle shit like Flock and every other fucking thing like it.

Citizens should elect future American leaders on one singular primary standard FIRST: Believe and lead however you want. You will NOT violate The US Constitution or any part of the Bill of Rights doing so. We're fucking DONE watching Greed turn those debates into a fucking business. Which it is now.

If you do violate our basic Rights, recall referendums won't be up for a vote. They will become mandatory. No citizen, has time to elect the wrong shitbag of any color who might be in office for the next half fucking century, which is the SECOND standard we should be holding them to; you get eight years. Tops. Don't give a shit how good you are. If you're that good, you can train your replacement. Besides, politics is the job of pleasing everyone. No one really succeeds.

Ahem

Don't we all! Hard drives, RAM, *and* GPUs, I'm in the market for it all.

I also want to buy silver-tin alloy for casting, and hey, what do you know, silver and tin are also both at astronomical prices due to in no small part the AI boom.

At one point you have to just stop waiting. Prices could start falling tomorrow, but then again, that could have been said at any point for the past several years.

They don't have the revenue to survive much longer,

They were profitable in Q2. You can't extrapolate that endlessly, but they're not a cash incinerator anymore. And they have $15-20B on-hand pre-IPO. They're fine.

Anthropic is more or less breakeven *despite* being engaged in a massive 10x YoY scaleup for approaching 4 years running. Companies undergoing even "normal" scaleup rates are almost never profitable, let alone 10x/yr. Any slowdown in scaleup, or any shift in market pressures from intense jockeying for position to starting to pay back investors, and this drives them into deep profitability

The threat to Anthropic has nothing to do with whether its current business is sustainable or deeply profitable at its core. It is. Its threat is one I've been highlighting for years and now we're really starting to see: once something is "good enough", people start to question why they should be paying more for better. We now have the rise of a bunch of crazy cheap, yet quite coding-competent models like GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3 Flash, MiMo 2.6 Pro, MiMo 2.6 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor, etc. The latter two are almost too cheap to meter. Now, you still need an orchestrator, for planning, supervision, management, etc; it can either be a human or a higher-end model. But you don't need to pay for, say, Opus to get good coding done these days. Anthropic, like OpenAI, is built on charging a sizable premium over inference costs because they have the best and people will pay for it. And sure, in non-verifiable fields (say, medicine), maybe people keep paying for the best, whatever it may happen to be. But the more of the "bulk" coding and the like moves off these premium models and into dirt-cheap models, that seems to represent a real threat to their business model.

Anthropic's response thusfar seems to be "join them". Claude 5.5 Haiku is a good model "flash" model, and they've set quite affordable pricing for it, definitely fitting into the above category. But that doesn't really solve the problem. Their best hope is that Jevon's Paradox kicks up: that now that big projects are so cheap to implement, people keep taking on even bigger projects, scaling their income from cheap flash models like Haiku, orchestrators like Sonnet and Opus, and non-verifiable tasks where people will generally always want to pay for the best. But will that compensate? Hard to tell. This is the threat to Anthropic.

Huh, does stuff like this work in vim? /prompt write me an implementation of the Navier-Stokes equations for a zero-turbulence boundary condition in python, with a sleek modern GUI and test geometry

Unrelated aside, but back in the day when there was just vi, there was always a debate as to whether it's pronounced "vee" or "vie". Eventually my friends and I agreed on a way to settle the debate: we'd have a text-to-speech program read it out for us, and treat whatever it said as canon.

It said: "six".

You wrap them in plastic carefully first. The cameras are perfectly safe in the protective concrete packaging.

I remember listening in on a great phone call to a network provider about sending someone to pick up their expensive Cisco router. It ended with "in 30 days, it's going in the dumpster.

I personally 'uninstalled' another router by disconnecting the fiber cables...with side cutters. 2 months later, they actually tried to bill us for bandwidth we supposedly used from the completely disconnected router. We sent them a picture.

Speaking of my stress levels, let’s clarify something; Those large language models used in the nuclear world will likely report power-plant manipulating information to the humans who are everywhere near power plant operations, who will be trained to do what the “nowhere near” AI says.

That ain’t being hired as ClippyAI to help spin spreadsheet soundtracks, and once you hire AI you won’t be hiring Wisdom and Experience anymore. So get fucking real. The attempts to dismiss the risk are disingenuous. That bullshit only goes “So far,..”

Government can’t do X because it’s Unconstitutional. So they hire Y to proxy that abuse through. We’ve seen that illegal shit happen countless times and hate it. This is the same bullshit excuse with AI. And will become the most dangerous, abused to death in the legal system. He’ll, AI will teach companies how to dodge litigation over proxy disasters.

As headlamps have grown brighter, streetlights (and other nighttime lighting for sidewalks, parks, etc. and daytime lighting for tunnels, parking garages, etc.) have grown dimmer and dimmer, presumably largely in response to demand for energy savings and residents' complaints about brightness, in some cases to the point of making the lighting completely ineffective for its intended purposes.

US President Eisenhower sat and warned the American People about the growing threat of the American Military Industrial Complex, over 65 years ago.

What makes you assume that entity will simply walk away from the next nameless, faceless, war on (AI) terror, and the trillions it will make for them, using nothing more than “cold” threats and DDoS sims, with every politician being serviced with a big, fat PAC.

Four weeks? If AI collapsed entirely tomorrow, how easily would all of society recover at this point? Is the fiscal impact still mere “slop”, easily dismissed? I’d love to say yes. Not sure we easily can anymore, as much as we may need to.

AI doesn’t need employment and purpose to survive. Humans do. Pretty easy to see the priority. Also pretty easy to see how Fuck-You Greed and Fiduciary Duty will happily replace human workers with AI by tomorrow, because sloppy seconds is good enough and those funding it we’ll get ‘round to that whole UBI shit later..looks like too expensive a proposition without that whole population preening starvation step happening first. Right, AI? Good boy, Skynet. Now roll over and go fetch Daddy Warbucks a Soylent bone..

A..nuclear tourbillion?

A..nuc'billion?

Cool.

Uh huh.

With Greed furiously whipping and beating at a steed named Corrupt Profit racing up AI mountain, victim consumers are starting to wonder if we should just shoot the fucking horse.

Then we'll get a livestream going to guillotine Fiduciary Duty in the town square.

Who, me? Bitter about the corrupt pressure put on publicly traded companies and the "magnificent" house of seven cards now holding US investment markets hostage? OK, you got me. Got you too.