That's a pretty bad case of BDS you seem to have there. You should see a doctor about that. You know you have a problem when you start every sentence with "But Biden..."

"The bribe has to be big enough, or you just have to stroke his ego properly.."

The bribe has to be big enough, AND you just have to stroke his ego properly.

Nothing provokes rage from Trump like saying anything negative about him.

Actually, *this* is capitalism. Deere tried to assert control over their machines in a way farmers didn't like. So somebody else is providing machines that don't include that control, and people who like that feature are buying his instead. Capitalism in its purest form.

Did...you just imply that Israel wants to conquer the Ukraine?

Wow. Just...wow.

The days of unlimited funding are over.

Let's recap. First, VC and mega-tech corporate coffers were the sources of unlimited funding. Compute was bought and essentially offered free or nearly free to even the most voracious users to juice usage stats and hopefully disrupt that too-long-entrenched habit people have of, let me check my notes, "using their brain to think." And to do 30% of the job of a person at 5% of the cost, sure, why not! Four to six months ago, those funds started drying up.

Fortunately, there was circular AI "investments" and "deals" between Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, etc, which of course wasn't funding at all, just moving money between multinationals/hyperscalers to double- or triple-count the value of the money as it changed hands and maintain the air of inevitability by sheer scale of AI investment. Sure, it wasn't real value, but it was good enough to (maybe, if SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic move quickly) give runway for a few IPOs, and heck, when we're only burning through a few billion dollars a month, what's the harm in placing a bet to own the all future labor value?

But now? It looks the CEOs, boards, and shareholders remember they like their present-day selves more than their future-selves (future me? That guy is basically a stranger!), who are really the beneficiaries of these costly bets. So, with no other funding sources, AI companies have no choice but to charge users for compute directly. So now AI can do 30% of the job of a person at 10,000% of the cost.

I think we all see where this is going.

And if he's trying to "pare" it, a small, sharp knife would probably work better.

I was just reading this comment on another social site:

"Any statement that starts with "No one would be stupid enough to..." is false."

Amazon: "That makes absolutely no sense. That would lose us money, not make us money."

Tatooine 90210.

I would pay good money for Hope Classic. Han shot first, dammit!

"alternatives most people haven't heard of like Ghost, Beehiiv, Patreon, and Passport"

Yeah, for sure nobody's heard of that Patreon thingy.

You've missed his point. It's not how much of the universe is made up of the voids, it's how large each void is and how evenly the voids are distributed. Going back to his foam analogy, the average packing foam is over 95% air. That doesn't change that on a macro scale it appears to be uniform and solid.

It's dead, Jim.

It's not coming back.

Some of us *like* having a watch.

No.quack.