I think that in a lot of ways, it’s less about the Epstein files, and more about how deeply complicit in the elite culture that he claimed to be in opposition against.

Epstein is just an acceptable outlet among his base to air their uncertainty and unease they’re feeling. Because his ties with Epstein have been well publicized and well known about for a while, but from a right wing populist perspective, that was kind of written off and discredited because it didn’t fit the feeling, the “vibe”, that he was upsetting and visibly angering elites and thus he must be acting against their interests in some meaningful way, now though, it’s very clear he’s cosying up to the tech elite and taking huge obvious bribes from other elite groups and actually gutting social programs they use everyday, rather than that just being a threat made by the “woke” media they don’t trust.

So suddenly the Epstein being associated with him is believable to right wing populists because of how visibly elite aligned he’s being from their perspective.

You see, because bi people are a myth as far as the authorities are concerned, when a crime is committed they’re classified as straight men or lesbian women, but when they don’t commit crime they’re gay men and straight women.

No, but I feel the need to make people aware that ring cameras are surveillance devices for cops at every opportunity.

The current situation is a bubble based on an over hyped extension of the cloud compute boom. Nearly a trillion dollars of capital expenditure over the past 5 years from major tech companies chasing down this white whale and filling up new data centers with Nvidia GPUs. With revenue caping out at maybe 45 billion annually across all of them for “AI” products and services, and that’s before even talking about ongoing operation costs such as power for the data centers, wages for people working on them, or the wages of people working to develop services to run on them.

None of this is making any fucking profit, and every attempt to find new revenue ether increases their costs even more or falls flat on its face the moment it is actually shipped. No one wants to call it out at higher levels because NVIDIA is holding up the whole fucking stock market right now, and them crashing out because everyone stoped buying new GPUs will hurt everyone else’s growth narrative.

Pete, you may think you’re speaking to both sides of the Democratic base, but you’re actually just making the moderates shrug and the left want to throttle you.

Fuck ring cameras, they’ve given blank access to their cameras and footage to police departments in the US, users have no option to block this.

A little light headed is perhaps a bit of an understatement to what I feel sometimes. Sometimes it’s “op, almost lost consciousness there for a second”

“I stood up from a squat quickly and feel light headed, I should probably eat something.”

this piece is very well researched, if a bit catty and over the top in it’s tone.

It’s more focused on the business side of things, less on the technical side, mainly how there is no path to profitability for any of it.

If I were to add anything, it’s that any real reason to fund this stuff is probably for it’s use for social engineering, less for consumer of business use cases. But even then, it would probably be cheaper and more effective to have people do that work.

See that’s the kicker, windows has so many “are you sure” pop ups about stuff that most people just click through them without reading the fine print. People get desensitized to it and just ignore them, or maybe even they just assume microsoft is trying to sell them on a feature they don’t care about.

And in this case it didn’t save the files to the trash can, I imagine because it was synching local files with what was in one drive. Not the user deleting local files.

I had a colleague at work that had to redo several days of work because of the one drive thing.

The long and short of it is that they noticed that their connection was being super slow, opened up task manager to see if anything was eating bandwidth, saw one drive, went it it, correctly diagnosed that it was uploading files to it and eating up bandwidth, and then deleted all the files in one drive to stop it.

One drive decided that this meant they wanted all the local copies of the files deleted as well. Like, on the one hand, not the correct way to stop that behavior, but also like, the kind of thing a lot of people would try, and it then deleting all the local files in turn is an unintuitive outcome.

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Because it’s something where the current government can claim they’re “doing something” or “addressing a real problem” but it also doesn’t threaten the rich and powerful.

Going after Facebook would threaten the rich and powerful, for who it is an important tool for manipulating people, who think they can use it to mold culture to what they want it to be my breaking the minds of children.

The current UK government is desperate to say to the public that they’re governing and fixing problems, but they also really don’t want to piss off the rich and powerful.

Which is an absurd thing to do! Getting it in front of more people just increases their costs by creating more load on their data centers. At best it juices investor confidence by pushing up user numbers. It’s not converting people to payed subscriptions at any significant rate, and even then people paying the subscriptions are losing them money because they’re creating way more load than their subscriptions pay for.

It’s unlikely any of this will ever be profitable, the only one making profit from this right now is NVIDIA. Everyone else’s costs dwarf revenue, even just operational costs, not even counting capital expenditure to set this stuff up. None of these companies have a path to profitability, and most of the little revenue is coming from services burning investor money built upon other services that are also burning investor money, or temporary shenanigans like Microsoft trading OpenAI free compute time at their data centers in exchange for IP, or coreweave using their GPUs as collateral against loans to buy more GPUs that get collateralized in turn.

At best the deregulation makes things less unprofitable and drags the bubble out a little longer.

I think it’s likely that Microsoft will start turning it on by default, and resetting it with updates for people who have opted out. Much like they did with edge and Cortana, intentionally making it harder to choose not to use it.

More programs actively blocking it will make that harder, but I wonder how many will stick to their guns when pressured by Microsoft.

I suspect that Microsoft will ratchet up the pressure to force it on people as the gen AI bubble pops, an attempt to keep the narrative alive to keep up demand for their overbuilt GPU data centers.

I think a lot of the most vocal transphobes are people who have been estranged from their own kids due to their unwillingness to accept them. Like they rationalize it as “gender ideology” stole my kids from me, rather than acknowledge that their kids cut them off because they were being toxic. Having a high profile example of someone “getting their kid back” by dropping the bigotry can help disarm that narrative.

What an absurdly hostile thing to say to random people on the internet who have, at worst, annoyed you. like, they have not materially impacted your life in any significant way.

Like, I’m not a vegetarian, and the preachiness of some can be annoying, but like, you could just… not engage? Like, there are so many groups that are actually having a negative material impact on your life, and you’re out here fuming with rage at this?

I think she has a couple of core convictions, and that’s she’s willing to do anything to gain power to enforce them.

Like I don’t say that admiringly. I think she’s a zealot that’s just riding what ever wave it takes.

Yah, they seem very worried about the public groundswell.

Almost like it’s not just about allowing games to be run locally or a third party server being an annoyance. It’s almost like killing games was more part of a larger business strategy, like they were intentionally deleting products people payed for to force them to buy new versions, or move to more heavily monetized ones.