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  • *Now* you fuckers are all about IP laws…

    If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people’s work — and getting sued for copyright infringement left and right — OpenAI is sobbing that the buzzy Chinese AI startup DeepSeek did the same thing on its AI that it built on all that pilfered content.

  • What’s cooler than a billion dollars? Dignity.

    “You may not have a billion dollars but your dignity is all yours. No one can take it from you. Compared to some you can already be ahead of the game.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-moment-of-calm These gents aren’t going down in history like Rockerfeller et al. It’s a very different media eco-system capturing their actions. Their stories will…

  • Democracy dies in darkness schtick…

  • Fake it ’til you make is now…

  • “But clown shoes are preferable to jackboots”

    As I’ve said recently, I expect things to be very bad for a long time, possibly a generation, as a result of America’s choice. What I am saying is that perhaps they will not be as bad as they could be because God, in His wisdom, has chosen to make these people weird freaks along…

  • Next Bright Light: May 2028 – contract negotiations

    Forget the mid-terms… Shawn Fain synced all major union contracts to expire in May 2028 Fain led the UAW to an historic strike: the UAW took on all three of the Big Three automakers, and cleaned their clocks. UAW workers walked away with three new contracts, all set to expire in 2028. Fain then called upon every union to bargain…

  • Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly?

    That’s the Brutalist aesthetic in a nutshell. People who wax nostalgically over these ugly buildings nowadays miss the point entirely. We were never supposed to love them—that would have defeated the whole purpose in erecting them.  Fear and disempowerment are the intended results.  And that, my friends, is the real purpose of the Tesla Cybertruck design—…

  • This is a shit onion of schadenfreude – AI tech bros worried about AGI emerging under Trump

    So tech bros, instrumental in voting Trump in, are now worried that they’re wild fantasies will come true under Trump: But if it does, as another user noted in a since-deleted post on r/Singularity, Trump’s second term may well “shift the [artificial superintelligence] future into [a] dystopia, not a utopia.” https://futurism.com/ai-bros-terrified-agi-trump Tell me I should have…

  • Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?

    The answer is the right-wing media. Today, the right-wing media—Fox News (and the entire News Corp.), Newsmax, One America News Network, the Sinclair network of radio and TV stations and newspapers, iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel), the Bott Radio Network (Christian radio), Elon Musk’s X, the huge podcasts like Joe Rogan’s, and much more—sets the…

  • United States of Fear

    Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well this year. Does he see something of a transformation that’s comparable in the United States?