Couldn’t we buy from Taiwan? Or better yet, build our own devices with Taiwanese processors. It’s much harder to spy if the supplied components are simpler and the device is opaque to them but transparent to us.

It just came out recently that wealthy Americans and Russians came to the Balkans during the Yugoslav war to hunt and kill civilians for fun.

With Trump crying in the background?

US style open corruption is illegal in the UK and the EU isn’t it?

That said I don’t trust them, I’m just saying if we want to rail against the thing, we should know exactly what the thing is.

Anecdotally, ProtonVPN’s servers have had a jump in usage percentage since this shit started, particularly in the Netherlands.

I guess the trusted processor would be the state authority that already has all your data.

That said, I think it’s a solution looking for a problem. IDC if 14 year olds jack off to Pornhub, I rather care about 54 year olds being swindled by Meta to destroy our democracy. What did we do after Cambridge Analytica?

No banking apps or NFC payments.

Japan had an aircraft carrier fleet rivaling the US, better carrier fighter planes than the US, and were occupying a lot of China, who was a peer opponent. It also took a US-USSR alliance to take them down.

Russia on the other hand is able to wreak a lot of havoc, and is also good on some technological fronts, like drone warfare, espionage and ballistic missiles, but it has recently lost a lot of its fleet against an opponent with no navy, and is stuck in trench warfare with equipment that in WWII would be the equivalent of muskets.

This whole posturing is because Russia ran out of easily recruitable people, and needs internal justification to start throwing in conscripts as well.

Oh, BTW it’s “Wunderwaffe”, if you want a “Wunderwaffle”, go to Brussels, they put strawberries and cream on it so high it won’t fit in your mouth.

I get you. I feel that way about most news I consume these days.

The revenue is still less than that of Clash of Clans or Candy Crush. And it is mostly coming from the companies involved in the shell game as well.

Companies, totally.

The only country it might take down is actually the US, as it might be the spark to start some shit in the current tense environment. I mean that I could see the bubble pop be Franz Ferdinand to a 2 Civil 2 War.

I agree, and the actual real implication in the article sounds just as bad as the headline, so I feel it’s a clickbait machine editor who did this.

The claim BTW is that OpenAI is alleging that random people criticising them are actually in a conspiracy with Elon Musk (the actual person involved in a lawsuit with OpenAI) to discredit them, and the court is humouring this nonsense by subpoenaing random people’s private messages.

Oh yeah, the “peacekeepers” led by Trump and Tony Blair. Almost forgot about it.

Well really it’s “his” Gaza “peace” “accord” since Hamas hasn’t even signed yet IIRC? And Israel will break it either way, even if Trump did in fact win the PP, they can’t take it back, so let’s get back to the genocide.

Give it to Greta Thunberg

And the reason they were actually cut is because monopolists raised prices so that inflation would drive up interest rates, killing competition and labour power, leading to consolidation of the monopolies and fewer jobs and less competition overall.

Truly a great indicator of the US economy’s health.

Tesla is 47.91% owned by institutions, not retail. Add Musk’s 12%, and that leaves retail at most 40%.

Tesla goes where institutions want it to go, since they are the only organised force on the market anyway.

If you look at what AI does, however, it’s mostly classification.

Not necessarily, a huge use case is regulation and control in the engineering, not the political sense. Like driverless cars, independently flying drones and such. And yeah, they need classification subsystems under the hood to work, but their ultimate outputs are complex control signals, not simple classes.

And don’t get me wrong, I also like ML and AI as a field, I just don’t like how OpenAI fucked the field with text generators that they got Silicon Valley to worship like gods. I even like LLMs, just not the grotesquely outsized cult around them.

Not really nowadays, from 13 years old they go back to school.

One of the recent ones is an MBA now.