Heh. Supply chain infiltration has occurred numerous times in history without ever passing through the adversarial nation.
There are ways to improve confidence in your supply chain. But it is difficult to completely eliminate the possibility of state actors, even in a supply chain that is closed in your own nation.

I really care about who owns the soil underneath the factory my computer was built at.

Few servers in orbit around Earth are impacted by this flaw.

Exploiting the labor of others is a choice.

Download the offline version of Wikipedia and some backups of GeoCities. The good old days are in the past and immutable, you can look at it, but you won't be able to meaningfully interact with an online society that no longer exists. Because of that, it will feel more like being in a museum than actually experiencing the old Internet.

That said, there are corners of the Internet that have changed little. Forums for special interests. I'm on a synthesizer/musician forum (MOD WIGGLER) and it is pretty old school. There's are guitar forums like TDPRI (Telecaster Discussion Page Reissue) that are also pretty much unchanged for decades. I used to post on NESdev forum, which is a hobby retro game programming forum. But I haven't touched it in a decade+

I'd use it to get a degree in an AI proof industry, like dental hygienist. Nursing kind of sucks these days because of AI and healthcare business. Other AI proof industries might be aromatherapy and massage. Can't even go into a nice peaceful job of driving a garbage truck, robotics are going to end growth in that industry in a few years.

It's an interesting formula MS has though. Age + years of employment >= 70. But I'm not sure how much they are actually paying. Probably a formula of years of employment each get a fractional multiplier on base salary.

I propose prison for anyone who has over $1B in assets. Every month they spend time in a cell deciding how badly they want to keep their money. At the end of the month, they can decide if having a modest $900M is all one person really needs. Why would I go after someone's money, they "earned" it right? It's simple, it complicates a society that operates under the assumption of 1-person-1-vote. That at some fundamental level we are all equal in our representation and voice. That a shopclerk has as much right to their opinion as a the franchise owner of that shop.

Anthropic has real products and real revenue. What people overlook is that anyone can operate an AI company. And there is no secret sauce to making the models. And there are thousands of good quality and free models. And most importantly, a frontier model is obsolete in a matter of months right now. So even if Opus and Fable are the best in their class (debatable!), they won't be next year. So it's a constant churn to build new models. And while you can reuse the training and processes for your model, the model itself is not really something you can arbitrarily extend (nor would you want to), so there is a lot of starting from scratch in this industry.

It's low risk if you were in on it long before the IPO. Now that it is announced, it is just part of the grab back that crappy financial managers stuff into the middle class investment portfolios.

The entire surface of the Earth should get transformed into data centers, and we humans can survive underground. That's the future ASI and the tech billionaires promise. The billionaires get to live in towering air cities, floating ships, or orbitals. Which are nearly practical today using personal drones for transportation.
While AI could have lived underground and humans on top, why would a billionaire want to look at poor people or let them have access to solar energy or valuable real estate?

White House aides can even transport a globe without smashing it to bits. Good luck flying a rocket around the Earth and then around the Moon.

There is always negotiation around capital expenditures and head count at the places I've worked. It is tough to make the argument purely on long term savings alone, because it is so disruptive.
On the other hand, engineering managed to get Macbooks added to the list of approved systems even though they are more expensive to purchase and more complex to manage (difficult to image and tie into the corporate services). So it is possible to do things even when they are financially and logistically a less desirable option.

Easiest for engineering is to say we deploy Linux in the cloud, so might as well put Linux on our laptops. That works sometimes as an argument. Getting web based email and calendar makes the Linux path a little easier. But cyber security and employee monitoring is harder on Linux so IT doesn't like it.

Transform the micro plastics in my brain into slow release caffeine.

Hire up 5-10% more IT and technical writing staff to support and train your regular and engineering staff. You don't need ActiveDirectory, Exchange, and Windows for 90% of your team. Cost for support and licensing is a tiny fraction of Microsoft, etc. and you have more flexibility on when upgrades are forced on you with free or cheap support on a version fork going out to 5 years or more. There are handful of enterprise components that are not easily found in open source. Sometimes you can do without them, or only a certain group within the org needs them. Othertimes you can get contractors to build what you need and a small support staff to maintain it. Especially if you can leverage it as an enhancement to an existing open source project.

I don't think I want to live below a data center. With regular coolant leaks and loud ventilation fans and diesel generators turning on at peak energy times.