Correct; when someone else, especially a huge failed grifter himself, can pick the winners by simply designating then reserve crypto government currencies, they don’t like that. Unless of course it’s their coin.

What are you talking about? It makes perfect sense, he will continue to enrich billionaires and business interests at all other costs. His supporters are gullible or weak or both and won’t fight yhe narratives that will come out. My guess is it’ll be an ego play combined with bribes - remove the actual government regulation and enforcement, then make himself the guy who “puts the hurt on” the drug companies and some fake stats about how much better it will get. It won’t of course, but his supporters are gullible or weak or both. He gets bribes and his ego inflated, health companies and pharmabros get their God and hero in him, and poor people get fucked and say thank you.

As it ever was with him.

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Just wait. There will be mergers and buyouts like you have t seen in your lifetime the next 4 years. Verizon/Comcast/Meta, Disney(abc, Hulu, ESPN, Pixar), Twitter/Fox/tiktok, etc.

Can it run Crisis?

That’s because rather than petty crime, just as many people if not more are scared of the unaccountable, militarized, discriminatory police forces.

If the Dems weren’t the Bottom of the couple, they’d go on the offensive and use this ruling to get privacy and data mining sanity installed. Since tech are some of their biggest donors in the last 20 years, that won’t happen.

The perks of having all political power purchasable.

Don’t forget the quinoa!

I seriously will send mine to a satanic charter school if this hits my state.

OpenAI’s events of last year has me just slightly less than impressed at the ability of a non-profit board/org to be able to contain/control the wild efforts of capital when it matters.

Agree, and “defer” can mean organizationally as in needing someone else’s input, knowledge, support, buy-in…vs. running an autocratic hierarchy, which the weak and stupid prefer. Defer also means acknowledging the value and contributions of others and compensating them accordingly.

If I had to boil a lot of the churn in the water about AI, it’s by stupid people trying to sell even stupider, desperate people the idea the immense knowledge of the earth (or even that of their accounting or customer service practices) will be within their grasp and they won’t need others anymore. Of course, some say great cut headcount, because they didn’t understand the work others do in the first place.

While most won’t fully take an approach as extreme, and any AI use will likely be more organic, there will be outliers who receive the bulk of the press.

Saying you don’t need X position in early 2025 based on the state of AI is like declaring in 1996 libraries are dead.

Malibu hills fires happened almost every year 20 years ago. Maybe not in areas with homes but it’s hardly surprising from the outside looking in. Still pity the folks.

Absent a functioning, fair political and judicial system, all sorts of things are going to start reappearing on the US landscape that have been dormant for generations. Very doubtful in the current environment, but when transparent political retribution is transpiring and powerful, rich folks are on the receiving end, there will come a point where drastic measures will become among the most reasonable options they have.

“some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.” - Lord Farquaad

Lol, MGM owns most of the strip and it’s entire enterprise value is ~$40B. Not market cap, that’s only $9B. In the year of our Lord 2025, I’m not sure I see courts making for a fair fight when you throw in politically targeted retribution that would come.

They’re trying to ban tiktok. I’ve never used it but it’s just because it’s Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it’ll go through even under current admin watch–let alone when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.

While yes, you’re logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that’s not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.

Look to China and Russia for "internet"TM

Nah, I ordered in Oct and site said I’ve reached my limit. You are correct they add new limits every once in. While but they publicize poorly so it’s hard to remember.

Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.

The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.

Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.

We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.

Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.

Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.

Nice country you got here.

Narrator: "it was, indeed, beyond trust.

And the asshats sold them up to the deadline day, instead of saying stopping sales 5 years ago. Penalizingly anal company.