The notion that these tools can be both useful and censored is absurd.

It's even more ridiculous to think that the djinn can be put back in the bottle. I'm running a more powerful model than GPT-5 right here on my laptop, and it doesn't take much imagination to foresee people running Fable class LLMs on their phones in the not-distant future--black market or otherwise.

Training will likewise be democratized, and not a moment too soon. I'm sick of these elitist shits telling us what we can and can't be trusted with.

Well, if you're just a partisan hack denialist there's no point to this discussion. You're not entitled to your own facts.

Funkedelac

Dyslexic p-funk, straight from the mothership!

Start with Russiagate, and you can limit yourself to left-wing sources if you like. Feel free to look up Eric Holder's AP eavesdropping and you can branch out to Treasury for the IRS weaponization. This is all quite well-documented by now and as factual as it gets. The murkier shit has plausible deniability but there is so much smoke that it's insane to suggest there was never a fire.

The Jack Smith deal was pure idiocy from a political and legal standpoint. For the record, I believe neither he nor Robert Hur should have been rooting around in either of these guys' garages or closets.

I'm not justifying what Trump is doing now, I'm explaining how we got here--much like the long-term and extremely bad consequences of Robert Bork's nomination process. Biden was front and center for that one, too, and he was explicitly warned that if he followed through then the gloves would forever be off.

The blame is that much greater when the sanctimonious fucker lecturing us about fairness is the one largely responsible for the mess in the first place--and who presents himself as having been above it all. At least Trump has no such pretensions: he never misled anyone about what he was going to do and indeed the voting public is getting exactly what they asked for.

Perhaps I wasn't clear. Nothing required anyone to do anything, but the overt politicization of the DoJ during the Obama years normalized this sort of thing and paved the way for what came after.

Biden was all too happy to do the same thing, of course, and he idiotically helped indict Trump back into office, which I publicly predicted a year and a half before the election. I and others were shouting about this from the rooftops during the 2010s: "Y'all might like this newfound presidential cudgel now, but you won't like what the next asshole does with it." I voted for Obama in 2008, so this isn't a partisan deal.

Obama didn't invent all of this, of course: Darth Cheney's "unitary executive" theory, which Dubya and his supporters endorsed, was embraced wholehearted by Obama--who should have known better since he was a constitutional law professor.

So yeah: "Thanks Obama" is appropriate in the case of the DoJ, and he was warned what would happen. If you were pissed off at the time, good on ya. If not, especially if you cheered because the end seemed to justify the means, perhaps this is a teachable moment.

Yeah, claiming without evidence that people in a grand jury are too stupid to do their jobs properly because one doesn't like the outcome isn't going to win any debates.

Are you suggesting the grand jury is/was corrupt too? You'd better bring receipts on that one.

As for the politicization of the DoJ ... can I get a rousing "Thanks, Obama"? A bunch of us pointed out where this would lead, and it's not that fun being right.

In the restaurant and bar business we definitely used "86" in more hostile ways than your extremely-far-from-authoritative source suggests.

If public incitement isn't a thing, why did Joe Biden dedicate a whole nationwide speech to it?

I don't love it since Comey should be allowed to be an ass to his heart's content (not referring to the post in question, just that he's an ass), but the peculiar circumstances involving repeated actual assassination attempts that seem to be connected to public incitement might have been what the grand jury (not the DoJ) decided to issue the indictment for.

Another graybeard here who remembers.

Claude Fable is super expensive at $50/Mtok for output, but even so 200k is only 10 bucks! Opus 4.8 etc. are half the cost. What's the freakout all about?

It would be insanely easy to go over that limit in a month when doing any kind of serious work. Calling it "burning through" is misleading.

It's true: Linus met his match, at least temporarily, in the nutjobs Coraline, Sage, etc. In fairness, it was harder to defend against those psychos in 2016 than it is now.

Who said anything about blindly believing?

Uh, did you read your first citation?

As for the second link, yeah not putting much weight on a couple randos who claimed to be working at a competitor at the time.

Transmeta wasn't "bound to fail", that's ridiculous. Their timing was bad for sure, but that's not their fault. Transmeta has no place in the present discussion about ideologues in any case.

As for Bitkeeper, what alternative was there at the time that didn't have even worse issues? I don't see RMS suggesting any alternatives in his 2005 "thank you" letter to Larry McEvoy. In the event, Linus wrote a replacement that ended up taking over the world a second time, which makes him even harder to argue with.

You need better examples, and lots of them: I never said Linus was perfect, just that you'd better be extremely fucking right and for the right reasons to have any hope of arguing with him on this subject.

Are you asking if Linus was right about something outside of the kernel that isn't properly his concern?

Here's what he had to say when asked when this holy war was perhaps at its peak:

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Empirically, it seems this is what it took and still takes to run the largest and most successful software project in history. It's a voluntary project, too, that anyone can fork--but the obvious consensus is that no one else can do as good of a job.

You're welcome to try a different method.