It’s 100% the end goal. The shortage driving ram prices is to build data centers; it’s not just to hold LLM compute power but to centralize (meaningful) compute power.

Humans are powerful with open information, the ability to communicate, organize…better rip all that down and give consumers what they want; easily clickable funnels into your compute power, your data harvesting, your political and information control…it’s the techno fascist fantasy.

I’m shocked by the number of adults 20-40 who don’t own their own computer at home. Even when computers are dirty cheap in the US compared to their information, record keeping and economic vitality to modern living at ~$400-$1,000, tons of adults simply walked away from computing or never started it as smartphones were already here and were easy to slide into instead of having to learn.

Lemmy worries about windows users but I worry about people who don’t have ANY understanding of how special this moment in history has been when plebs had access to the same technology that oligarchs did (broadly). It’s historically an anomaly that the wealthy and powerful would like to correct. Literally the means of production.

Schools already were largely propaganda machines for corporations. Though this bigger brother is of course far worse.

They people who wave away bombing a school and killing 175 because “it’s war”(that we unilaterally started). These are definitely the people who you want to trust on child safety and well-being.

Plausible accountability

Correct, because it’s important that only large corps with access to resources to create widely used LLMs have unfettered access to the minds of our populace in a completely open way. Random humans being able toaccess and exchange information adhoc, independently without prior approval is of course incompatible with the first amendment.

They aren’t going to be able to retire anyway so it’s almost moot. The average amounts saved by age are predictable and depressing. Anyone would have predicted and did that voluntary retirement contributions and management by underpaid laymen would be something the general public failed at compared to a world where pensions were something companies managed to say nothing of the fact they were guaranteed.

This paired with refusal to fund social security–but always plenty for wars, tax breaks and surgeilance–is deliberate, designed and depressing. 95% of Americans will work until they die.

The email. The email. The what what? The email.

“nope”

Dictatorships can be very efficient, tons of time saved by no meetings, delays, stakeholders, rights, debate or considerations needed.

It provided a much-needed lift…

I’ll catch you up; the only objection that ever existed was that it was a regressive (flat tax with very low income threshold) and inefficient way to fund what almost no one disagreed needed more funding. It was always about the “how”.

Instead of listening to the actual concerns, anyone who questioned it was labeled anti-education, anti-art and/or other inaccurate labels by stupid people who couldn’t comprehend that there are some critical pieces of adult life past “picking you ‘side’ and agreeing with it no matter what.”

Zero surprise it was also incompetently distributed.

I had completely forgotten Lenovo bought Motorola from Google some 10 years ago. Honestly haven’t seen a Motorola phone in at least that long …

If Wallace Shawn and Billy Crystal don’t act in TPB it’s never the instant classic it was and would have been immediately forgotten. It’s a B movie at best without them, though Ewles is carrying a lot. As it was, thank God they were both in it.

The nice thing is, it makes it easy to identify anyone who doesn’t publicly stay they won’t do it now and get fired by Hesgeth, if they don’t do that, then they are absolutely selling their LLM models and data to trump without any safety or security restrictions as that drunk Hesgeth and Trump made clear this week.

Open ai? Gemeni? Not a peep from them about wanting to keep your rights safe and no complaints from Hesgeth means they sold your constitutional rights off.

The nice thing is, it makes it easy to identify anyone who doesn’t publicly stay they won’t do it now and get fired, if they don’t do that, then they are absolutely selling their AI models and your data and privacy to trump without any safety or security restrictions as that drunk Hesgeth and Trump made clear this week.

Open ai? Gemeni? Not a peep from them about wanting to keep your rights safe and no complaints from Hesgeth means they sold your constitutional rights off.

Well not Anthropic anymore because they refused to be part of the surveillance apparatus for Trump and fascism. So they had their contracts revoked today.

The nice thing is, it makes it easy to identify anyone who doesn’t publicly stay they won’t do it now and get fired, if they don’t do that, then they are absolutely selling their LLM models and data to trump without any safety or security restrictions as that drunk Hesgeth and Trump made clear this week.

Open ai? Gemeni? Not a peep from them about wanting to keep your rights safe and no complaints from Hesgeth means they sold your constitutional rights off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y

The entire press release comes from the angle of students having accountability for peaceful protests but speaks not at all to the accountability of police to follow the constitution and other basic laws they have been shown repeatedly in countless jurisdictions to have less than admirable compliance with.

A neutral press release would have also included that the police are accountable for ensuring the rights of all citizens including minors and taking extreme prejudice against escalating to violence. That last part is key, as they have been shown repeatedly to not do so.

This school board is supporting an atmosphere where unnecessary escalations of violence is presented as the norm and where the two parties have unequal duty to the laws that govern interaction.

“…and also grants a number of perks like an exclusive Discord community…” 😬

I’ll end this easily won war in, 24 hours tops.