In Facebook's defense they don't.

Balls don't really apply to any large corporation. They have a completely different legal system. Think of it this way, if you commit a crime a guy with a gun shows up and you go to a torture prison. If they commit a crime a big nerd in a cheap suit shows up and fines them 1/10 the profit from the crime.

People know the game is rigged they just can't stop getting distracted or confused or frightened long enough to unrig it

Is the ability to very rapidly produce interoperability with other systems allowing uptake and open source and breaking up the monopolies.

So for example you could point in AI at the Microsoft office file formats and it could quickly figure them out at all the nasty little tricks Microsoft uses to break open Office file format compatibility. It makes the old, it's not done until lotus 1 2 3 won't run thing much harder for monopolies to do.

On the other hand I would expect very quickly the open source local models are going to be locked down soon. You can't have people pointing a AI model at adobe's Photoshop and basically running multi-billion dollar companies out of business and therefore wrecking the stock value owned by billionaires. They're not going to let you do that.

Just like we saw them gradually taking over as much of the internet as possible so that Facebook basically buys up anything that could potentially compete with it you will see the open source models made unobtainable or just flat out banned.

It's possible that won't happen this last election in America has given a glimmer of hope but it's going to be tough pushing back against that. Like how you have software that lets you take a switch 2 game and run it on PC without buying a switch 2 or even buying the game. Applying that to open source software is of course perfectly legal I just don't see the multi-billion dollar software industry letting us do that very long.

& GPUs!

Honestly I just want to buy high quality blu-rays of the unedited original films. I have the DVD laserdisc rips from years ago and those are okay but the blu-rays are pretty incredible except you have to put up with those stupid fucking changes.

Most recent "art" is kitsch in the first place. More power to artists who create for themselves for the joy of it, but there is no entitlement to a receptive market. Most "art" was always "slop" because slop was fit for purpose, like illustrating dead tree adverts.

Dedicated hobbyists are free to make tools they enjoy and self-validate thereby. They know why they create.

I believe the modern Republican term is:

"Alternative Protein"

Not true. It moves based on money laundering and crime. The core value of cryptocurrency is its utility and committing crimes.

That the entire system is incredibly vulnerable to theft and that it's all really centralized and has been for some time. Money laundering and crime are the only things keeping crypto going. It doesn't help that the Democrats have taken a bunch of seats since they have this nasty habit of enforcing laws against people in suits... The nerve of them.

Jesus this whole form is filled with nothing but 12-year-olds.

You have insurance because healthcare is something we don't need all at once. The problem you're having is that you don't have insurance you have a for-profit system designed to ration the healthcare from maximum profit for a handful of billionaire psychopaths.

Actual insurance is when the largest pool people possible get together in order to properly spread the costs of parts that we all know are inevitable. That's insurance.

And as I pointed out on another comment we have more than enough capacity to produce as much health care as we want. There is zero reason why anyone should have to go without healthcare of any kind. I mean zero good reason. I already mentioned the profits and of course I on the other comment I mentioned super yachts.

And you need to stop with this 12-year-old thinking already.

We have not needed rationing in food, medicine or shelter for at least 50 years debatably over 100.

This is just a fact.

The problem is distribution. The problem is not that we can't feed the poor it's that we can't satisfy the wealthy.

Yes if we are going to have 2,000 super yachts for the 2000 psychopaths that losers need to worship we have to ration healthcare. But we don't have to have 2,000 super yachts. We don't have to have any super yachts.

We have been making enough food and medicine to take care of everyone on the planet for decades. We have more than enough production capacity and we can build more. Wind and solar can produce enough energy for everybody on the planet and for us to desalinate as much water as they could possibly need. We can terraform large parts of the land as needed we have the technology it's not cool and fancy sci-fi stuff but it does work.

People who tell you there isn't enough to go around or telling you that because they're planning on stealing what you have. They are hoping you'll be so busy keeping your eyes on your neighbor you won't notice them taking your stuff and frankly they're usually right. US 2026 midterms not withstanding

That's what caused it. They fired all the competent people and replaced them with corrupt cronies. They then gave the contracts to their buddies. This is a core part of project 2025 and the plan to consolidate power among the right wing extremists and Christian nationalists.

They literally put it right in their documents you can read it yourself. I think they left the part out about giving all the contracts to their buddies but I mean honestly if you read that document and you didn't think that's what they were going to do then well, son I don't know what to tell you. I've got some beachfront property in Kansas if you'd like to buy it. ..

He's a great man who invented the GPU and clearly should be reinstated as president and CEO. The news media is clearly just jealous of his success and his fantastic jackets.









I'm just fucking with the bots that follow me around here and keep calling me Chinese. Pay me no mind.

The US may be judged by those it gives power.

Exactly. Maybe a better comparison for AI would be if you just paid someone in India to make the game from your spec for you. It will cost more than AI tokens but you absolutely could do it. I think most people would understand that isn't in the spirit of the competition.

It's happening everywhere now. A lot of communities are being flooded with AI apps now, e.g. Home Assistant has an endless stream of "I made this cool new dashboard" and it's actually just what AI shat out in an afternoon. Don't get me wrong, it's great that if someone wants a custom dashboard they can have a bespoke one made for them for free and with no coding knowledge, but for people who enjoy making things as a hobby it adds no value and makes their efforts feel somewhat meaningless.

It's not just tech either. Mathematics is being flooded with AI proofs of problems that people have spent their entire lifetimes trying to crack. Artists had it hard already with the number of people competing to sell their paintings and music and comics and books, and now the bar is even higher thanks to AI being able to churn that stuff out all day at very low cost. It doesn't help that some of the people asking AI to make this slop consider themselves to be accomplished artists and want their work to be treated with equal respect.