Just as a reminder: this is the man that claimed he could fix world hunger for a measly single-digit billions, then chickened out when people pointed out he had the money.
He didn’t solve world hunger, and instead massively contributed to making the world a worse place.
The worst thing about it: he probably could have solved world hunger with single-digit billions of dollars. He just didn’t care to do that.
It’s so weird that we have to go through hoops and loops to get rid of this stuff! I was sick of my Android responding to a long press of the power button, meant to shut it down, with a Gemini prompt. Took me an hour to figure out I can’t get rid of the function, but I can switch back (for now) to old style Google Assistant.
If you have to force functionality down your users’ throat despite them not wanting it, you already lost. Gemini is Google’s Clippy, just less iconic and more also-ran.
I sort of have a sense this is not going to end well for Musk. I get this sense of déjà vu from the days of Michael Jackson.
We may very well in the future, of course! But maybe at the rate technology develops, it could be smarter to start working on it when the threat becomes visible.
I venture the uneducated guess that satellite to satellite might be the next space defense frontier ahead of space to ground.
I think it’s because the threat model against which a Golden Dome defends is just not that plausible any longer. Given the distances, a space-based ground defense can only protect from long-range attacks, like ICBMs. Unlike in the 80s, the technology to intercept and destroy ICBMs safely is now probably there, but the threat of all out nuclear war is much reduced.
My pet theory is that Reddit is trying the battleship steel approach. Let me explain: Battleships sunk before the end of WWII are special, in that their steel has never been exposed to the radiation from nuclear blasts. That is important in a series of applications, so there is a market for that kind of steel, and obviously it’s a very limited resource.
Reddit has one of the biggest collections of purely human-generated text that is not domain-specific. That is an incredibly valuable resource, especially now that we know that LLMs hallucinate worse if they are fed LLM-generated content.
I am thinking Reddit is planning to sell that text for the long haul, until changes in language and technology make the content irrelevant. What actually happens on the platform is not important anymore, as long as it doesn’t cause the ire of the powerful.
In fact, at this point, Reddit has a vested incentive in making the Internet worse, which means banning real humans from Reddit, too. Current Reddit content is not valuable, because of course it contains lots of bot generation, so making it visibly worse is a quick way to make the old content more valuable.
Basically, the company plans on getting rich on the backs of yesterday’s you and I.
It boggles the mind that the only sanction for willful violation of the Constitution of the United States is a judge having to beg to have the guy brought back.
There really should be jail time for anyone in a position of power that knowingly ignores people’s rights.
TikTok may be doing to GenZ what Facebook did to their grandparents?
The really weird thing about this election, which this analysis here repeats, is that a majority of young, especially young male voters went for Trump.
That is bizarre, because the political platform of Trump, the GOP, and especially Project 2025 is a frontal assault on young people. From reproductive rights to recreational drug use, from LGBTQ+ rights to employment rights, from access to universities to access to health care. Everything in that platform is meant to take from the young and give to the old, because the old have been reliable voters for the GOP.
It is not surprising that Trump suddenly polls tragically bad with GenZ after the vote. The question is, how could GenZ voters fall so easily for the mirage of lies? That’s the same people that accused Boomers of voting GOP because of lead poisoning, after all.
Oh, great. Took them only a month and a half to decide. During that time, Trump’s tariffs have shown to be political and economic poison.
Now he gets to walk away with the threat of imposing tariffs still in his pocket (since it takes the judiciary that long to make a call), but the ability to blame “Liberal Activist Judges” if things don’t work out.
Imagine the utopia of milk and honey the USA could have been if ONLY the tariffs could have been enacted like the Constitution wanted! /s
I am writing down the names of the friendly enterprises that dropped the rainbow. I don’t forget easily, and I never forgive cowardice.
He seemed actually okay until Trump got elected. But he’s a multi-millionaire, so there was always the risk he was going to side with “his kind of people” before the rest of us
For instance, he had the case of Elijah McClain reopened. I only mention it because I hope a lot more people hear about Elijah McClain and keep him alive in their memories.
Well, don’t keep us hanging! Which one are you???
If you get within earshot of a Republican, chances are you’ll hear complaints about “damn taxes” within five minutes. So to a certain set of people, definitely everyone they talk to is constantly complaining about taxes.
When I was starting out and making little money, the taxes I paid were definitely cutting into my ability to live. I think instead of “standard deductions” we should have real minimum incomes. If you are under the minimum income for your location, you don’t pay taxes.
Now that I am at the end of my career, I think it’s stupid that my taxes are not higher. If I could have given young me some of the money I am keeping now, I would have had a much better life overall. I obviously can’t do that now, but I can give someone else the same breathing room.
It’s not just that kind of service. There are media properties to tariff - movies, shows, music. There is software and consulting for enterprises to tariff. There are financial services to tariff.
The USA is the biggest exporter of services in the world, by a huge margin. Trump can pretend all he wants that it’s only goods that matter, but the moment US services are going to be hit with tariffs, the wailing will begin. All his ultra-rich friends made their money on services.
Uh-oh. The check must have bounced.
Not so much Plan B, as just Plan A running into Orbán’s veto, but not giving up in advance, and hoping that Orbán is not going to be around much longer so that the accession can go through with the next government.
Hold on to your chairs, incoming Presidential pardon!
There must have been a gallery component, since I only looked at generators that had one available.
Honestly, in hindsight the templates were really not a big deal. Just for fun, I tried converting the Hugo template I used to Pelican, and it was easy for me.
Pelican is solid and mature and I would use it, in hindsight. The only major flaws are that it’s much slower (but makes up for it with incremental builds) and that the community is much, much smaller. On the plus side, Jinja2 is much, much, much better than Go templating (Hugo borrows from Go).
Oh, the joys of being old! I remember the GWB years, when PBS was pressured into a Both Viewpoints era and suddenly they had “experts” extolling the virtues of Trickle Down Capitalism.
If you stand for something, like PBS has, it’s always a terrible idea to cater to the opposite. Liberal law firms that settled with the Trump administration have found that out, Target is finding it out, and PBS might do, as well.