These entities may have gone but their ghosts never left. They only got up ended because of paradigm shifts, not because the system that allowed them to exist got fixed. The new stuff that replaced the old ones eventually goes on the same path. I am not hopeful anything ever will happen.

vance is a pathological liar. quite obvious just look at how often he makes these trivially refuted lies.

ten year ago there were still things we could have done to stop google. now is too late…

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you can criticise them but ultimately they are a unpaid developer making their work freely available to the benefit of us all. at least don’t harass the developer.

it’s more nuanced than that. Claude is made from stolen code, but it generally isn’t going to copy its training data verbatim (unless specifically told to). so copyright wise it’s more grey than strictly wrong. and though claude is made from stolen code, lutris developers are writing something they give off freely to the world, they are not profiting from the stolen code.

does this make it ok? i don’t know. what if they use an open weights model rather than a closed one? would that be more acceptable?

yeah pls let me hide in vr as the bombs coming down :'(

Keeping an eye on it doesn’t mean you need to think it’s a good thing. Keep an eye on it like how you would keep an eye on a developing hurricane or pandemic.

In a perfect, utopian world, yes. AI can go a lot of good. In the world that we are living in? No.

But it’s still good to keep an eye on what people are using AI to do, and how their capability is evolving. Even if you hate AI. If anything, so you can be prepare for what’s to come.

please don’t get this guy any attention. he is a far right conspiracy theorist.

you really are asking me to do the research for you huh.

a quick web search finds me:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/china-live-fire-military-drills-around-taiwan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Navy_landing_barges

and it’s not hard to find more.

yes, because what happened in the past can perfectly predict what’s going to happen next.

not saying you are definitely wrong, but if someone wants to have a bet i wouldn’t bet on the side of China not invading.

they have more than practical reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_unification

China has been wanting to reunite with Taiwan ever since the founding of the PRC. the reason has always been there, and right now they are more ready than ever.

keep a close eye on what Chinese military is doing.

it’s good that tesla sales are down and people start to pick up chinese EVs. but the EU really should start making their owns EVs

3 months ago, watching ram prices skyrocketing, anticipating this exact scenario would happen, i bought 5 10tb drives.

best decision i’ve made in a while.

lol. lmao, even.

see? ai does create new jobs. checkmate ai doomers /s

she’s the anti-status quo candidate. it’s just she will move the country even move to the right.

one data point: there was big protests near the end of COVID-19, they chose to lift the lockdown instead of doing a 1989. i don’t know how many were arrested or what happened to them, though.