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Flipped the senate, too.

Good.

Speaking of putting a datacenter in the Grand Canyon: https://www.tiktok.com/@joenunnink/video/7699584433812163870

I mean all of open source software (as we traditionally defined it) relies on an ISA, which is actually executed by microcode that isn’t available to the public?

I don’t see how this is any different. It’s like saying Intel has to publish their transistor physical library and microcode to be “truly” open source. Like I don’t have the internal notes about the most recent microcode changes (which is akin to “training process” in the analogy).

That’s because people hate them!

https://news.gallup.com/poll/709772/americans-oppose-data-ce...

70% of Americans are against having them locally. By group, “Strongly oppose” is about 50%, “strongly approve” is only 7%.

What’s worse is that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho hired literally the smartest man on the planet to fix their crop problem.

So in a way, he was a more effective president than Trump. He was smart enough to know he wasn’t the smartest person in the room.

What we have now is, in a way, worse than idiocracy: we have kakistocracy.

The French students form of protest has already yielded concessions.

Some of us truly are.

It’s what the shareholders crave!

I agree, and it can’t be right - is this based on “projected utilization” or something?

My thinking is there wouldn’t be downward pricing pressure on data center compute if utilization was actually this high - it would mean providers could jack up prices and walk with larger margins rather than burn money for acquisition, right?

Plus the market wouldn’t increase the price of borrowed money if utilization was that high; they’d see the same signal. But the cost to borrow money for datacenters has roughly doubled year on year (might just be for riskier ventures? Buildings? Is this aggregate?) - those two signals wouldn’t disagree, it’s nonsensical (I mean, right?)

Edit: it’s just “the buildings”, and it makes sense: maximal utility comes from installing compute in a building already setup to house compute (cooling, infra, power). I actually take this as a negative signal: we’re seeing downward pricing pressure already, AND new projects aren’t fully booked, AND money is now twice as expensive. Somebody’s going to lose their shirt unless OpenAI’s Omnissiah comes online and converts us all.

We could create an open-source SETI@HOME but for training open source models?

Nah my bad, I should have considered that as a possible interpretation and I failed to. Have an excellent day!

You’d have to be very naive to think the “thing” they were pushing was the “recognition and honor of the indigenous people” and NOT the $4500 music production retreat.

They’re already starting state level charges against some of them. There’s definitely accountability coming.

Hopefully the midterms results in massive investigations of Trump and everyone in his orbit, but if we get “we all need to come together” faux-centrism I wouldn’t be surprised.

We need to fully destroy the notion the DOJ isn’t independent, and make a number of changes that bring us back to having a modern country.

Some of us want to nationalize these companies. What we’re not going to allow is landed gentry to profit for generations from stealing all the content they could scrape.

The lies Americans tell themselves to support their own exploitation will always amaze me.

"Fractally stupid" is a hilarious descriptor, as is "dam that's made out of failure modes".

No we use robots. It's 2026?

"Can you imagine trying to build a factory in the state with the most factory output?" - Yes, I can imagine that just fine?

They'd rather be in control of ashes than not be in control of a functional society.

Oh come now. What person?

Is this “speak of the devil and his ears shall burn” (I.e. do you feel attacked by this statement?)

You have to remember exactly how few people are represented by current US policies. They are willing to elect increasingly fringe candidates, "Just to feel something", in the hopes that something will change for them.

Social media outrage, no. But a state which doesn’t apply laws equally and consistently opens itself up to violence, a fraction of which will be directed at the billionaire class.

We only need to eat one, the rest will fall in line.

I don’t think the old “right is good for the economy” canard holds up today. It seems to be a holdover from disciplined fiscal conservatism in the 1980s; 40 trillion in debt, $6 gas, and a new and unpopular war are quickly eroding that talking point.

> Furthermore, we have a significant portion of the voting public who fully support this.

Define "significant" - Trump has the worst approval rating of any president ever measured. The "conservative coalition" was always going to Balkanize, anyone with a modicum of sense could see that, and they were unpopular before but now they're EXTREMELY unpopular.

I mean, "a conservative win" in a country where 1/3 of people have no religious preference, 1/5 marriages is multi-racial and acceptance of legalized gay marriage is in the 70's. Winning a battle isn't winning the war, they were deluding themselves into thinking they were going to "reshape" anything.

Now they've outed themselves as nutcases, but crucially, nutcases who aren't delivering on the economic promises that were cover for their fascistic impulses, in a coalition that was obviously going to implode once they reached power.

Maybe looking back, this will be seen as the "dead cat bounce" of Conservatism than anything else.

I'm in agreement with this. I had informed opinions on databases, programming languages, and frameworks before the Eternal Sloptoberfest, and increasingly I understand LLM related things just as part of doing business.

> Russia is successfully fighting the entirety of NATO

Has anybody told NATO yet that they’re fighting the Russians?

If only we had known, right?

If AI ruins humans doing mathematics because of "economic strategy" we should destroy, not the machines (although the data-centers will be burned down as a byproduct) but the economic system that demands this.

Do we really want people to have no association with their city, and encourage them to be interchangeable cogs for whatever business deigns them worthy of a job in some remote part of America, so they can be ready to take whatever’s offered like that’s a good thing?

Most people like putting down roots, knowing the town and people, having a local community, would like to have family and friends nearby.

Remember how we were all going to “surf the information superhighway” and we’d all become smarter because we had access to all the worlds experts and books?

I remember!