I’ll go a step further, they don’t even want “civilians” to have access to any kind of general compute anymore. Just a speaker/microphone, maybe a display that you talk at. No traditional UI, no ability to own or save documents, or even have any concept of where these files live.

Now seems the perfect time to shed the cloud from one’s daily life and do the exact opposite. If one wants or needs compute, it lives in their home. Offsite backup at a friend’s or family’s home. There is not particularly a “need” for all these centralized datacenters for any human other than those that want control of everything.

Remember, Stephen Miller directly and Peter Thiel less directly are likely driving this. Mango is just their senile puppet/mouthpiece/fall guy. Not that it makes it any less serious.

So, NVIDIA CEO, shut it all down for a month and see what happens. I bet nobody will care.

I have to use a lot of LLM tech daily and wouldn’t miss it a bit, myself. Would even sleep better at night knowing all that energy use isn’t destroying the planet’s habitability.

I actually heard from an acquaintance that their employer is forcing employees to burn at least $100 of tokens a day “or else” - like, what??

Such a bubble. Can’t wait for it to pop.

Actually…your info may be false.

https://www.motor1.com/news/707996/vehicles-larger-than-ever-usa-europe/

Average vehicle width in the US increased from 73.4 inches in 2003 to 77.1 inches in 2023.

Ford Explorer: The 2005 model had front/rear track widths of 60.9/61.3 inches while the 2025 model has 66.9 inches for both front and rear track width. An increase of about 6 inches front and 5.6 inches rear.

Chevrolet Tahoe: Overall vehicle width increased from 78.9 inches in 2005 to 81.0 inches in 2025 which suggests track width along with it, although not spending more time searching specs.

Replacing a train stop in one city with a bus to another city in the opposite direction an hour away to get on a train to go back in the first direction is destroying the rail network.

If you’ve ever had the fortune to travel the US coast to coast, by land or by air, you will see the entire fragile existence is held together with thin asphalt or concrete strips with absolutely nothing in between.

Manifest Destiny really should ask for its money back. We just spread out thin and failed. Now, with resources becoming ever more scarce as the billionaires hoover everything up, we will just get thinned out more.

Man, that person really needs more friends. Not a diss either. I have friends spanning countries, cities, life, I have friends that have died. I have friends that still live. Why the fuck not talk to people and be friends?

Also, am adult.

Horses, and most field, work, or food animals, are so dope. They’re just a big version of a small thing one calls a pet. All intelligence, all joy. All way more real than any LLM that might exist. Had one horse that waited for his opportunity to break out and he’d run for a half a mile and always come home. It was his game. I was some very young age child and I’d be out there trying to “corral” him - he was a HORSE - he never put me in danger, he would just feint and run off, and then calm down and come back home, his mission accomplished for fun.

Absolutely blows my mind at how much up their own asses they are to smell those farts.

They keep creating tools to create images, video, text, content. They’re replacing people with machines. Sure, this can have tangible benefits in some roles, especially dangerous ones, but they aren’t doing that. What in satan’s fuck is left in life if we don’t get to create, to build, to have purpose? Did they all collectively watch Wall-E and get the wrong message?

I always come back to that one scene in Star Trek: Insurrection:

Sojef: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.

While in that context, they took it a bit to the extreme, it is still poignant.

It seems the timeline right now is Office Space -> Wall-E -> Idiocracy -> Mad Max.

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Sounds like the mom (mountain lion) was previously killed, and 2 kids were killed and they’re looking for the third kid. Mixed about that, seems cold, but the policy of “coexist until you attack humans” does make some animal husbandry sense, but still leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth. Especially given the dry this year and the climate change, food sources are likely all fucked up. CPW really screwed up the handling of this.

That sounds hilariously delightful.

You should see them with a kerosene lamp.

Surprisingly, Apple. https://www.apple.com/diversity/

Not trying to sound pro-them, to be clear. I just use that page as a Fascism canary.

Allegedly, I heard that they have to list any side effect that came up in placebo trials, even if the drug didn’t cause them. Still just wish drug commercials would be banned again like they used to be, though.

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

The German government owns 31.9% of Telekom.

Google. They just hid Waymo under the Alphabet hat.

And everyone knows how good Google products work offline.

Pretty hilarious that Deutsche Telekom spent buckets of money to integrate Google’s cloud into their network core. Never understood why they’d be so stupid, but here we are.

including on the recently revived file-sharing service LimeWire.

Interestingly enough, the article fragment in the post explains that part. But yeah, had the same reaction initially.

Duh, and/or hello. But also, CodeRabbit is pretty terrible itself at times.