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They can't have free and fair elections when the US is literally holding their president hostage. And dictatorships like Saudi Arabia are just fine apparently.

The author says as much:

"There’s something particularly clarifying about Musk’s approach. Other AI companies hide their value-shaping behind committees, policies, and technical jargon."

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"The process that other companies obscure behind closed doors, Musk performs as theater."

The massive Spanish purchases of weapons and other manufactured goods from other countries in the 16th and 17th centuries played a large role in jump-starting the capitalist economic revolution in Europe.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-te...

A Carnegie Mellon study found that people with PhDs were more likely than any other educational attainment level to be against the Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v... (page 17)

Gallup polls during the Vietnam War found that higher-educated Americans were more likely to be pro-war while the most anti-war group were those with only a grade school education: https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a15203... (page 19 of the PDF, page 38 of the document)

"text-only conversations are toxic"

..such has been my takeaway from a lot of online discussions, unfortunately. But I feel like it wasn't always like this? My reminiscences of being a kid on IRC was that people used to be nicer when chatting or posting. I feel like software communities used to be more wholesome too, even though there were BOFH types running rampant back then. There's just so much nastiness now. Text discussion platforms like Discord often feel like walking into an animal shelter and a bunch of abused stray dogs begin viciously barking at you from their cages like they want to rip you to pieces. Even though you know they wouldn't talk like to someone like that IRL, just like the barking dog might wag its tail and beg for affection if it was let out. Maybe it's just a reflection of how society has changed/broken and how angry everybody is. And in terms of FOSS how burnt-out people are which you talked about. Looking back, 9/11 was the beginning of a slow descent into Zhang Xianzhong-style "Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill" mode IMO. I really feel there's some kind of social decay going on around how we treat each other in addition to the perennial issues of privilege, gatekeeping behaviors etc.

I recommend getting an ultrasound of the relevant veins/arteries, it's a relatively cheap and safe way to confirm what kind of problems you have.

In the near future, you might not be able to look at a busy street without making visual contact with dozens of lidar scanners. It's already hard to avoid them in SF.

The video referenced in TFA was filmed from about as close as you might be to a scanner while walking on the sidewalk beside a lidar-equipped vehicle. Cars can get very close to pedestrians in busy cities, e.g. at pedestrian crossings. Exposure is much stronger at close distances. Therefore I think there is a significant risk here that has not been studied or tested for in depth.