I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.
Elon musk is only known as the richest person. He chooses to pay taxes and not hide his wealth simply because he wants to be seen as the richest person. There are far richer people in the world that we simply don’t know about because they hide their wealth and don’t brag online.
Putin being one, he can effectively use the whole Russian budget as his own piggy bank
Dude has a billion dollar Dacha protected by the best of the best of Russian military air defence and nobody bats an eye
The probability of him not doing some heinous shit behind closed doors is zero
I read about one of his billion dollar yachts when it was seized. Apparently it costs over one million dollars to fill the fuel tank. Think about that next time you’re at the pump!
and no other country wants to put harsher sanctions on russia, because he likely has krompromat on most leaders(besides his frenemies, like china and iran thats probably the one country he doesnt want to cross), plus paying for most if not all conservative government parties in many countries.
If you want to take it further, he’s the richest man in terms of numbers.
At the end of the day, money only matters as far as HOW you can spend it.
The Zucc poured $77,000,000,000 into a fucking vr sim. WHY?!?!
If you’re bothered spending time tricking people into thinking you’re the #1 Path of Exile player in the world, you probably aren’t considered highly on the world stage.
Think of how Putin may utilise that much wealth.
Don’t get me wrong, spaceships are cool, but… Let’s be real… Nobody is going to live on Mars in Elon Musks lifetime…
Trump is a dickhead, but at least taking Venezuela and Greenland are realistic goals lol
The AI bubble is actually a cover used by cloud providers to engage in racketeering. I assume that it is encouraged by the alphabet agencies to setup a network that aggregates advertiser data to match up browser fingerprints and spy on Americans in mass without warrants. The ram shortage was engineered to force adoption for the cloud primarily for small business and sectors that have avoided it due to cost. Retail is a casualty and gaming is next. They don’t care about AI, its just the wrench that tightens the bolt
I am praying this is wrong SO MUCH.
I’m happy seeing so many kids getting into retro hardware and actual computing and physical media and stuff. We should tighten that bolt.
As much trouble as we’ve got, I REALLY will not live in this “everything is just a terminal to The Cloud™” world. It’s disgusting.
Oh like a Chrome book?
Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.
With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”
The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.
I have an HP printer. The HP app on my laptop used to be able to scan documents and so on. Last time I opened it, the only way to use this was to scan my document into the HP Cloud and then download it from there. Fuck. That. Shit.
Fortunately my PDF reader can initiate the scan directly, so I’ll be just deleting that HP app.
Gamergate was mostly fabricated and an intentional trial run for recruiting younger generations into movements that would transition to outright fascism. Pizzagate and Q-anon conspiracies were intentionally started to reduce the fallout from the Epstein files… both of these operations worked far, far better than the people behind them expected.
EDIT: I almost forgot, one reason why many Democrats keep moving right and away from their base despite all the evidence that this is costing them votes is because their post-mortem on Gamergate and Q-anon revealed how wildly effective these operations were and they think they can win with the same play at some point in the future.
There is an ongoing conspiracy to erode the public education system in the US to perpetuate and increase the advantages the children of the wealthy already have. Contrary to what most people believe, the introduction of more technology in the classroom is just one part of this effort, and only leads to “better outcomes” because those outcomes are defined as being a more efficient drone from sector 7-C.
The continued effort to represent LLMs as something closer to General AI is so that at some point, an improved version can be presented as having “reasoned” that humanity will prosper if we perpetuate the current system and give tech billionaires more money. The main reason why it’s failing at present is that many people have noticed a larger than normal number of folks are not, in fact, prospering and feel threatened by what is basically three high power grammar checkers in a trench coat. If the economy picks up before the AI bubble bursts, this may succeed.
Did you know that there’s a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
I will
No, you wont.
A whole lot of those creepy ass insta/FB/TikTok videos of too young girls in bathing suits and shit are directly related to CSAM and child rape.
And some of them are run by their parents
On purpose
Also the Mar-a-lago crowd doesn’t go for bikinis or revealing clothing, what gets the off is innocence
I’m so glad I avoid that
They also make the page slower in non-Chrome browsers like Safari and Firefox
sometimes the pages break more often too.
on a non-human related, about biology. thismia americana(fairy latern) is sitll out there somewhere, originally it was found in chicago and arou calumet, but it was heavily developed, and it was “like distinct” whats unique is thismia is mostly a tropical species in ASIA and alledgely south america and central(likely a different genus), how did it end up america especially a temperate area.
it was found a few times over 100+years ago, and never found after that by PFIFFER. while new thismia species keep being discovered IN SE asia every year(likely origin of the clade thismia) and even 2 extinct species were found to be alive (kobensis(japan) and neptunis(151years later). because the flower is so small its likely hidden in leaf litter and its extremely difficult to find the other species.
That the U.S. tested an innovative drive technology for drones during the Nimitz incidents in 2004.
These “UAPs” always seem to miracolously appear near US military bases, aircraft carriers and sometimes submarines, but apparently never around Europe, Africa or Asia where millions of people with phones could film them. The U.S. may have pretended to be upset, but they’re not actually interested in finding out what they are or what people could find out about them, because they did not release the footage from the helmet cameras of the pilots. They actually stayed pretty calm, so they know what it actually was: Their drones. They’re near military assets, because that’s where they’re tested and the U.S. wants to see how a military would react to these device to protect them against tactics that can detect them or bring them down before they are/were used abroad.
So they have a drive technology that can go beyond hypersonic, is accelerating really really fast, can’t be fought with properly.
My guess is that they keep this secret, because of the nuclear threat it poses. If any state in this world could deliver nuclear bombs in an instant, you simply couldn’t retaliate or defend in any meaningful way. Except maybe with a deeply burrowed SUNDIAL project device.
I also read that the Ukrainians use material (especially explosives) which were buried in the former territory of the USSR by the CIA in the time window shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed to conduct some of their covert special operations inside the Russian Federation. That way you don’t have to smuggle in new stuff and the U.S. can profit from destroyed Russian military capabilities.
My guess is that they probably did not just bury normal material there. I think the superpowers have may have buried several nuclear warheads underground in major cities that they can detonate at any time to immediately first strike or retaliate in case of a larger nuclear attack. Why bother with sending a ballistic hypersonic rocket that the enemy can possibly intercept if you can just detonate the device remotely and with almost no delay? Whether you detonate the device under or above the city doesn’t really matter if the yield is big enough to let the city fall into a nuclear polluted crater. This would be an additional reason for why the U.S. moved from atmospheric to underground testing of nuclear devices - apart from the concerns regarding fallout.
Oh and an algorithm based, individually tailored (to you) social media “experience” is probably the new MK ULTRA and it works much better.
Modern nukes contain a subcritical mass of fissile material and require an injection of tritium to arm them, and also require tritium for their second stage to get most of their rated yield. Tritium doesn’t last very long, so needs regularly topping up. If you’ve secretly buried a nuke, you’ll have to dig it up pretty often, undermining the advantages of secret burial. There’s also not much point in having a better nuclear deterrent than your enemy knows about, as the goal is to make them know you can destroy them so they’re too scared to attack you rather than to actually destroy them.
Well, then you build it in a way that doesn’t require Tritium. After all, if the bomb doesn’t need to be transported, you can build it heavier. So you don’t need to make it an H-bomb that requires Tritium.
It wouldn’t be used as a deterrent. It would be used as a retaliation mechanism.
There’s no point retaliating once you’re dead unless the enemy knows it’s something you might do. You also can’t make a plain A-bomb arbitrarily big as you need the fuel to be small enough to be subcritical until it’s assembled, and simple enough to assemble that it spends so little time critical but not supercritical that a random decay doesn’t cause a chain reaction to start before the mass is fully compressed. If it starts too early, there’s enough energy to blow the bomb apart, which stops the reaction continuing. The more material you add, the more often random decays happen, and the likelier it becomes that the reaction starts prematurely. The theoretical limit is somewhere between 500kT and 1MT, which isn’t very much for a city buster, especially if you’ve buried it. You’d have to use more than one, but a pure fission bomb is very senstive to nearby nuclear detonations, so only the first one would be likely to work.
The universe is a simulation, and not only is it impossible to disprove (non-falsifiable), but it would imply that you could be the only thinking consciousness here (Cartesian Solipsism)
Consider:
- the universe has rendering rules, treating objects differently when they are observed, to the point where objects do not have set properties when unobserved (Bell Inequality)
- this holds for even arbitrarily large objects, as scientists have been able to demonstrate molecules containing thousands of atoms demonstrating wave-particle duality
- The Universe has a frame rate (Planck time)
- the Universe has a resolution (Planck length)
- The most basic level of the universe is discrete (energy quanta)
While I choose not to go for the solipsism, I am becoming increasingly persuaded of the simulation theory’s likelihood.
Im a little worried about that. I’m both hoping for and am terrified of it being the Roy game from Rick and Morty.
I’d be relieved because I’d get an “extra life” style of thing, but also I’d be fucking mortified seeing all my pals around waiting for their turn, having watched me goon my turn away.
There’s warzones, scientific breakthroughs to pioneer, robot pets, space exploration, gargantuan beasts to take down, lost treasures to find, and I’m just sat at the cartoon-titties box thr whole time.
I’m personally far more concerned that the universe is a simulation stuffed in the closet of some higher-dimensional flunkie, and our universe is nothing more than a practice piece. That the answer to “why” could be so mundane as to make all effort in our universe entirely meaningless. It’s one thing to say that the universe as we know it will end in heat death, or some false vacuum decay event, and that all effort is therefore meaningless. It’s very different, on an emotional level, to consider the possibility that the universe is a mistake, some Petri dish left in the incubator too long and overgrown with contaminating flora. Even more unsettling, then, that such a possibility is fundamentally unknowable from within the universe.
That the next generation/the one after it will be the first generation to mostly accept non-human art as standard art
The difference between truth and lies doesn’t matter, it is all in the way people behave. Our culture is being manipulated by techniques that cannot be communicated to the masses because of strawmen put up in the media. The people who spread misinformation and propaganda know how it works better than you do and you are falling for their traps regardless of whether or not you believe it. The vast majority of people believe they aren’t sheep no matter how obviously they are. Weaknesses in people’s psychology are propagated and abused and this has happened for all of recorded history. We are led by herd mentality, people don’t have to willingly do anything as long as they see other people doing the same thing.
But that’s just speculation and cannot be proven by science, lol.
Army has drones that can do anything they want. The UAPs over the east coast sighted were their own crap. Army friends go pale when I bring it up.
Google has announced publicly that they do this, several times.
But it doesn’t work with Revanced, which is why they want to ban it.
I have a two second buffer on my older pixel book that has an add blocker, but my new Linux laptop, with 10 different Firefox extensions is instant.
I suspect that OpenAI is on a path to spend as much money on data centers and hardware as possible so they can go bankrupt and sell those assets to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar.
It’s a scheme to filter billions and billions of dollars around the “AI everything” hype train directly into Microsoft’s coffers.
Oh shit, yeah I also was thinking about how the people paying for these huge investments might not be the ones to profit from the venture finally, if it ever pays for itself.
The other factor to consider is the US government is going to bail them out, that is just absolutely going to happen, but I think you are on to something, idk whom is going to be the beneficiary exactly though.
Oh no, it’s actually much worse.
These LLM datacenters are basically useless for anything but running LLMs. You can’t use them for any other cloud software, because all the electronics were specifically made for running LLMs. Really, the only thing that will still be useful is the concrete building and the power and data lines coming in.
No, the actual reason why hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent is because of three things.
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AI boosters (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc) are excellent liars and great storytellers, and rich people eat that shit up.
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rich people invest money by the bucket load, and everyone else notices. Stocks go up and everyone notices that LLM stocks go up, making people buy them making stocks go up because surely, something popular must also be good and useful.
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The people investing money into these lies want to see it happen, so they tell their pet CEOs to implement LLMs and reward them for implementing LLMs. Not for getting a use out of it, but for applying it.
So we get a bunch of people benefitting in the form of massive bonusses for implementing LLMs and pushing the use of LLMs, despite it actually not doing anything useful and being actively detrimental in most cases. All to make the stock line go up, unlocking more bonusses for the ultra rich.
But the LLM itself is pointless. It doesn’t even matter if it does anything. It’s just a vehicle to inflate fake numbers.
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Embrace, extend and extinguish.
My assumption is that the goal of most modern tech giants is to become “too big to fail” and be bailed out like many banks were post 2008.
Bailouts only happen to companies with loads of employees. An AI company with loads of employees is an oxymoron!
Bailouts happen when the overall economic effect of letting a company fail would be more painful than using tax dollars to save it.
The number of employees at the institution in trouble is a factor, as it was with some of the banks in 2008, but think of all the wild deals AI companies are making for memory, hard drives, and data center construction. Each of those adds to the bottom line of other companies and their suppliers and subcontractors. If those contracts aren’t honored, many of those smaller companies lower down on the food chain are going to suffer, possibly go out of business, putting their employees out of work. And that’s not even considering the effect it’ll have on hedge funds and other financial institutions that hold stock in AI.
If it seems insane for AI companies to commit to huge purchases and massive projects before they have a clear revenue stream, it’s probably because it is, but if they can inflate the bubble enough they effectively hold both the US and global economy hostage. Since the US government clearly favors business over people, and so many tech companies have swung right to appease the orange lump currently in office, they stand a pretty good chance of getting bailed out and later subsidized in the event of a crash.
An interesting theory, but I think the key question that needs to be answered is: why would OpenAI stakeholders be prepared to tank the company for Microsoft?
I’m not saying it’s impossible. There could be some sort of tie between Altman and Microsoft, or the high level executives or shareholders of OpenAI.
And who would be left holding the bag? NVIDIA? Is this a scheme to get them to make a ton of AI-centered GPU’s, so that when OpenAI goes down Microsoft would be able to buy that hardware super cheap? Maybe, but then again someone else could too, which would be easier if OpenAI’s assets were on the open market.
I’m not buying this theory yet, but it’s kntriguing enough to keep an eye on at least.
I guess in this situation the upper mgmt are in on the deal and under MSFT’s thumb and get to earn top dollar and be a special boy CEO for a few years.
Regardless of their nationality, billionaires largely pursue the same interests in order to strengthen their position of power in the political system in which they are most involved.
This is, of course, a conspiracy theory, but the Epstein files, for example, certainly suggest this - as does the fact that billionaires’ companies are all multinational and that it is almost impossible to trace where the incredible amounts of capital in the international economic system actually come from (such as the massive concentrations of capital managed by asset managers like Black Rock).
In short: I suspect that the biggest problem facing people worldwide lies in the power of the respective so-called elites, and I think that they coordinate among themselves in order to remain in power or to expand it further.
This is how I explain the resurgence of Nazi ideology, which is actively promoted by billionaires in very different countries.
I forgot the exact quote, but the gist was that wealthy people don’t need to actively collude, because their interests naturally align: Lower taxes, less oversight, less restrictions what to do with their wealth, undermine any effort that might threaten existing power structures.
That also explains why they naturally seem to support authoritarianism and facism, because those systems offer exactly that.
Don’t the panama papers detail a lot of this and a financial trail of how they collaborate with one another?
It seems like the panama papers had been collectively forgotten 2 years later, but they give blatant evidence of the secret elite money laundering and invisible payment network of collaboration IIRC.
As far as Nazi ideology, fascism always goes hand in hand with corporatism, so it makes sense.
Yes, absolutely, I completely agree: the Panama Papers already made this very clear - and the fact that not one of those who benefited most from this outrageous multi-billion-dollar fraud against citizens was ever prosecuted already showed that both the law enforcement agencies of the countries and the political leadership are so deeply infiltrated that they simply do not fulfill even their most basic duties anymore. In other words: corruption on a scale that one can only conclude that even most of the remaining democracies must be rotten to the core.
And yes, you are also absolutely right with the second point: Nazi ideology has always been closely linked to the interests of business magnates. That is where the term fascism, as originally coined by Mussolini, comes from: autocratic rule by the economic elite.
What I wanted to point out with the example of the US, and specifically the Eppstein affair, is simply another example of how billionaires have now apparently come to the conclusion that, thanks to their corrupt accomplices in the corridors of political power, they are untouchable - and this is precisely how the US president is acting, who should actually have been in prison for decades for countless serious crimes. Unfortunately, he is not, but is now leading the US as the spearhead of international organized crime, which is unfortunately still not called that because, despite its obviousness, it is secured by state pseudo-legitimacy.
Edit: Another example from Europe is the CumEx scandal - here, too, the massive profiteers, all of whom are billionaires, have never been prosecuted for their massive tax fraud amounting to billions; only a few scapegoats have been convicted.
The question comes to mind - why work so hard to consolidate their power so thoroughly? They already have basically everything anyone could want. Why not kick back and relax?
One plausible answer supported by some of the data: They love raping children, and need their power network to continue to feel safe while continuing to kidnap and rape children.
I suspect that child abuse in these circles is something like murder or other serious crimes for less influential forms of organized crime like the classical mob (Cosa Nostra and so on): these heinous crimes serve as proof of loyalty and at the same time as a bargaining chip that the mob boss can use against his “soldiers.” That would explain why there are disproportionately more pedophiles in the GOP, for example. That may not be the only reason, but pedophilia is clearly the common denominator among those who support the authoritarian-fascist regime in the US.
In any case, Epstein was also obviously used by Mossad to collect blackmail material against influential people.
It seems to me, especially given the proximity of the US regime to the equally fascist Israel, that this is a fundamental strategy to prevent co-conspirators from going public with their knowledge.
I’m not so sure it’s actually pedophilia, as in I don’t think they’re sexually attracted to children.
I think what actually turns them on is having the power to destroy a vulnerable person with impunity, and pretty much no one is as vulnerable as a child.
Which makes sense because you have to be a psychopath to become a billionaire.
Yes, that is certainly a motive for many of these monsters. However, the effect on the “lower ranks” or even pf all those caught in the act remains the same: because they commit a crime, and a most repulsive one at that, they are vulnerable to blackmail and manipulation if there is proof (pictures, videos,witness statements).
So the motive hardly plays a role as long as it is treated as a “proof of trust” that every co-conspirator must provide as a “ticket to join the club” of these degenerate criminals.
As I said, this is a classic strategy of organized crime. And since the current US system is essentially organized crime, just on a unprecedented level, I don’t see why the same methods shouldn’t be used here.
For the US, the fact that the president’s father had proven ties to the mob and that the president’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was the go-to lawyer for various underworld figures in the 1970s and 1980s only makes this more likely.
