It WAS a meme stock. They really turned around turning themselves around after cutting costs and changing their main focus to collectibles. As for the buyout, I am thinking its more of a way to get eBay to sit down to a partnership or even a merger. I mean think about it. They are the first place you go to sell your games or used consoles. They have systems in place that calculate how valuable many of their items are.

You could even have them be a cosigner that handles the posting and shipping of your stuff for a fee or to just outright sell the stuff. They could also be able to use eBay network to get first dibs on products they want in their stores.

Hell, this might all be a big smoke screen to hide what they are really trying to do in the background. All the keyboard warriors are watching reddit while the real work go's on in the background. I mean sure. This deal would never work or even be approved. It doesn't mean some sort of deal wouldn't be profitable for both.

Its kind of different for what OpenAI did. They split off part of the company as a OpenAI Group PBC (profit benefit corporation). The idea being that the non-profit still does its non-profit work while the benefactory can do all the corpo stuff to get investments. Whatever reason he feels "betrayed" after he did his initial donation assuming they would stay purely non-profit. ChatGPT PBC is now just raking in cash with major investments with initial from Microsoft and Google as well as selling stocks to others.

I mean I don't buy it though. He is talking on the stand about the "dangers" of AI as a smoke screen. At the end of the day, he just never read the fine print when he donated and "just read the headlines" or "didn't read the fine print". I don't like either of them, Musk or the CEO of the SBC Sam Altman, but I am sure Musk is just pissed that Sam lied to his face. I mean, Musk is a brat, but Sam is narcissist to everyone he meets. He says he is doing AI for the "common good" but then goes to the US to sell weapons grade AI or to get UAE to invest in a fab plant. I really hope this goes to trial, the discovery is be drama filled awesome.

It feels like that AT&T built it more for themselves than the market. Looking at the maintenance manual, except for memory, it had no way to upgrade the. The screen was straight bitmapped with no vertical scrolling, the hard drive is a custom controller, and the the modem was built right into the board. Its like its custom designed to just run X . With all that said, it was using all off the shelf parts it should of been much cheaper if you remove the UNIX licence.

It feels like they wanted a workstation for their internal use and somone decided to try to market it.

I mean sure there are laws for many sports on this but its just a bad idea all around. Its bad for your physiology, for one. Win and you might start believing you can't lose. Lose and you have validation in how much money you lost. Not to mention you might go above and beyond risking your body or life to get that payday.

For me its more superstition that this seriously be a death flag.

Makes me wonder a bit though. It might be more that he is from Canada than anything. I need to look up who the backups were.

I get AI is a good buzz word, but these are LLM's. Hell the largest context I have seen is only a megabyte and that's barely enough for a love life of a few months.

So very true. In some ways I pity the politicians. It doesn't matter if they have 10 fully vetted out papers on how to "solve crime". If the voters say they don't want that or moved to think like that by the other party, they cannot do anything. This invisible gun law reeks of this issue. How many crimes have been committed by a ghost gun? Are there shadow 3D printing farms making them or did they just find one gang member who tried to print one?

To be fair, many of these "gun nuts" in the US is in it more as a hobby. You have half the population complaining while the other half says its their right. Its like having a toy that was given to you by your dad that your mom doesn't approve of.

I mean hell, I have an AR I built over the years, a mouser and a variety of worn out pistols from the 30's. Haven't shot any of them in over 10 years though. Only reason I had a C&C was to be able to blow my paycheck at gun shows and that I had 1am night calls in the middle of Dallas.

I think it was because of Putin, at least with the timing. Importing drugs into the US? Fine. Working with Russia and China to undermine our interests? Not so fine. You can excuse doing it on the holidays to get the entire family and the strike was so perfect it must of been planed months in advance.

As for occupying the country....eehh... We have a really bad history of fucking that up. Its easier to support all the exiled politicians and let them cook. I do hope this is designed as a message to the powers that be that we will interfere if we want/need to. After all these years of Trump though, its more of a wish however.

I think its more because of the alliance Maduro signed with Putin and that the holiday's were the best time to capture the whole family. Hell, for all we know, the intelligence might of thought the whole family were going to Russia for "asylum". It would also take at least a month for planning something like this to have it work so perfectly.

  Oh I am 100% sure he also did it for the distraction, don't get me wrong. You can have your cake and eat it too and Trump is just woofing it down.

I think most Americans think capturing him is a good thing. I just think the reasons to do so NOW is the of the problem. I WANT to believe it was because Maduro singed up with an alliance with Russia 3 months prior that made it a step to far. A way to poke at the bear without making it suicidal. Even if the excuse was shallow (Drug running? Really?), you can't just say "We don't want an in for Russia" while walking that tightrope with Ukraine might end up bad. We want to show Putin that don't fuck with our interests.

I mean people argue about the timing, but really Christmas/New Years is the time to do it. I am sure they had intel on where all his family were going to be during the holidays since the got most of them. I get that people want an "American First" and rather ignore international politics, but we live in an International Society now. Some times you just have to poke a bear to let him know your carrying a rocket launcher.

For reference, I neither like or dislike AI tools for making content. At the end of the day, it just comes down to how lazy you are. The recent Coke/McDonalds ad's were just lazy. The tools are fine and they HAVE to have conventional video editing tools so they "could" of fixed many of the issues in post. If you ever played with LLM workflow you can control how content is generated and then generate a shit ton of sets to get what you want. Even if you get the odd 6 fingered Santa you COULD go in and touch it up with conventual tools. Especially in a simple 30 second advertisement. The reason its called "slop" isn't because the LLM is bad at its job, its because the people using it is bad at theirs. Then they blame the LLM because it can't fight back.

The whole thing translates to, "Stop using LLM's in half baked content with no thought or even basic proofreading! I don't want this bandwagon to stops but most of you idiots don't even bother to look at the output before you ship it! Even though the Zune was a market flop, ATLEAST it was competently deigned. For the love of god, when you type "Make an MP3 player" in Copilot, make sure it IS an MP3 player. Don't make the rest of the industry look like you!"

You know, it makes me wonder how well LLM's can translate corporate speak.

He would use his Costco card to pay a large donation to their current charity, write off the donation as a tax write off AND get that 5% back. Though I am unsure where you would put that 5% back in a tax form? Would it be a gift back from Costco itself? I am betting he just gave his receipt to his accountant and never thought about it.

That said, I do kind of like how Costco handles donations. Its not just one charity but they are fairly open on giving out donations to people in need.

Eh you don't even need AI to do this. There have been filters in premier that have been doing that for decades. Even plenty of opensource software. Not saying AI would be better or worst, just that you can get away with saying "I used a filter!" even if the filter was by AI:P

Honestly this is a bit scary. I am sure the person who committed the fraud thought it was easy money and didn't think to deeply about it. I am worried about a more experienced actor making a partnership with the knowledge to make it work. It wouldn't be to hard to send keystroke batches to fix the input lag. It could be as simple as sending a batch of 50 or so characters, with one mistype where the mouse moves and fixes the mistype and goes back. During that second or so you could send another batch of keystrokes.