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It’s really unfortunate how much public trust they burnt along the way, maybe this wouldn’t be such a hard sell now?

The company is valued over $950B. It remains to be seen how much it’s worth.

The average life cycle is 20 days, during which time a female can lay ~3000 eggs and travel up to 200km. In 1971 there were 473 confirmed cases in the United States, in 1972 migrating flies breached the sterile fly barrier, and by 1973 it spiked to more than 100,000 US cases.

Viva Mayor Gunderson!

“Containment” doesn’t really work when you leave the lid off.

Aren’t American AI companies drawing billions in federal contracts? Not to mention the federally-sponsored pushback on foreign competitors?

What you’re arguing for is essentially a return to pre-1990s enforcement of antitrust laws. Not new legislation, just the pragmatic application of existing legislation.

Anti-competitive tactics aren’t in play at all?

They evidently did not.

Pangram reports “confidence is limited - low word count”

https://www.pangram.com/history/94ff59a6-b5f1-40c2-be6e-7dcf...

The problem is the litany of people below this comment say “they get great results”, with zero sources or examples to back any of it up. Is there a showcase, or “Claude’s Hall of Fame” with a list of Git repos full of production-ready, rock solid code to shut up the naysayers? If not, then I can only think of one reason why not (such examples don’t exist).

Cleanup costs should be applied to all coal mines, but we didn’t bother with that either.

How are unsustainable decisions and practices working in the best interests of the shareholders?

I’d imagine it’s not so simple, especially without a functional legislative branch, but we could really use a “digital bill of rights” that could provide a comprehensive set of baseline protections and standards for things like this, online privacy, data protection, whatever stops Meta/X/et al from being maximally harmful, etc..

I vote for “shenanigans”.

That’s [part of] what regulatory frameworks are supposed to accomplish: minimize and compensate for capitalism’s excesses. A free market can do a lot of very impressive things with surprising efficiency, but it fails on a number of things societies value, FOSS included. IMHO, there should be more robust publicly funded support for license enforcement, facilitated access to forming charitable/non-profit organizations, subsidized grants/loans, and something akin to the Public Broadcasting Service, but for the internet. Sort of like a national intranet, with federated social media, web archives, public service portals, email, digital asset storage, and software development and distribution resources. But that’s just my democratic socialist head-canon. No doubt such a system would be incredibly difficult to implement, and come with any number of unintended consequences that, for the purposes of this discussion, I chose to ignore. It’s also worth noting that there are several of those things in the USA’s federal government already: you can find open source software repositories for a number of federal agencies, like NASA and the NSA (which includes several fun projects).

None at all.

I’d have given them bonus points if they’d used “alternativetoalternative.to”.

I think the free speech is equally elusive in this context.

I wonder what (if anything) this means in relation to this other recent headline: "The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now" https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/the-worlds-busiest-spa...

I've been anxious about this prospect. Having seen the rightward ideological lurch all over the world caused by immigration in the last 15-years, the relatively extreme mass migration that's likely as the planet gets warmer promises to be an existential threat to any number of societies. In my opinion, we should be looking ahead and tempering our attitudes for what seems increasingly inevitable. It's quite literally the least we can do, since the cessation of oil consumption has yet to make an appearance at the proverbial table.

I’m more inclined to agree with you, but the replies to this did strike me as darkly funny. These exceptions for the chosen in-group are some of the hallmarks of fascism, and this administration has leveraged several other popular tropes as well—fetishizing Greek/Roman mythologies, hobbling academia and the press, ethnic cleansing, Christian Nationalism, revisionist history, idolatry, eugenics, etc.. Fascism is a term I would have called absurdly exaggerated just a few years ago, but to the extent that the President and his administration are the leaders in both policy and diplomacy, I think it’s probably fair to level a judgement that their behavior is the contemporary set standard for the United States. This is a fascist country right now.

But I agree with you that nuance-free oversimplifications are likely unhelpful in any meaningful discussion.

These things don’t usually happen overnight, and for the vast majority of the public it will never be directly visible. It’s not like someone flips a “Anti-Antifa” switch and a bunch of ultra-starched uniformed troops start goose-stepping through Toledo. It’s a developing series of dynamic events, many of them will seem rational, justified even, but the result is concentrated executive power, a toothless legislature, a complicit judiciary, and a pliant mainstream press. I’m sure there are lots of people who will recognize these for what they are: an alarming number of dominoes falling towards a totalitarian dictatorship.

However the United States is a big, complex beast of a country, and the judiciary has not been fully captured, and neither has the legislature. All we need to do to stop this creeping authoritarianism is show up in-force and vote overwhelmingly against it this November. They will obviously try to confuse the issue with any close calls, and use such opportunities to assert dominion over local/state governments. We cannot let that happen. The best way to avoid such a scenario is to show up strong enough to make the results beyond question. That’s the ultimate test that we are still a nation of laws, and I am cautiously optimistic.

They didn’t sound like Claude; Claude sounds like them.

I’m usually very tolerant of others’ varying capacities, but 100% this. High-school level reading and comprehension shouldn’t be a hard ask for professionals.

I specialize in replacing all company I.T. with a subscription to “Reader’s Digest”. The cost savings are phenomenal but we currently don’t have enough data on how it affects productivity, that should come in Q429. In the meantime, we cancelled the company’s vision insurance plans, and replaced it with a subscription to the large-print edition of “Reader’s Digest”, and once again the vast reduction in overhead expenses has induced a lot of very encouraging enthusiasm. That Dave Barry is a hoot and a half. We expect to double executive compensation off the savings from these dual-thrust “Reader’s Digest” campaigns.

Good lord, just write the thing.

In my home city (Charlotte, NC), navigational aids have become so ubiquitous and relied upon (even among locals) that it’s made traffic patterns extremely predictable. During rush hour I find Google Map’s suggested routes function as markers for where all the traffic will be, and I can take the surface roads out of town with far less traffic and hassle than I could 20-years ago when everyone basically knew their way around.

This sentiment has been all over recently, or so it seems; Which makes me question whether I am reading propaganda, a genuine memetic idea, or a bit of both?

You’re not trying hard enough.

Yeah, because warrants have never been rubber stamped without proper oversight before. If we make these things normalized and routine, they will be abused. Don’t give them an inch.