This is a perfect comment because it describes exactly what happened (from their perspective) in the most succinct way possible. 💯

Normal people when they realize leftists were right:

But fr, they were right and we need to start listening to them. First thing to do is unite!

Time for Dems to shut down the government and call a general strike. Unify the people. Kind of like what Biden did with the railway strike in 2022, but the opposite.

owing to a slight miss on revenue

Nope, try again.

spending surged 66% to $37.5 billion in the latest quarter … approximately 45% of the company’s $625 billion in remaining performance obligations (RPO)—a key measure of future cloud contracts—is tied directly to OpenAI

Ding ding ding! That’s right, OpenAI, the company where being profitable is a physical and mathematical impossibility!

All your data are belong to us.

An Australian app, so you can say “Epstein” on this one but still not “stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine”. At least the hate speech manager (for now) isn’t an ex-IDF Zionist and the platform (for now) is not expressly pro-Israel / pro-genocide.

Yea, and making a car is done in the most wasteful and inefficient (i.e. most profitable for certain people) way by like, shipping the components for the steering wheel to Guatemala, having them put the airbag in there and then shipping the assembled steering wheel to Mexico to have it be put on the steering column, then shipped to wherever the car is finally assembled, then shipped to where it is sold.

On a Chevy 😅

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennet describing how they manipulate information on Wikipedia.

This topic has come up a lot (not least from Cory Doctorow). The fact that the rich are both so fragile and so un-creative is why they love AI, especially the sycophantic variants. They can’t handle someone saying no to them or, apparently, an accurate description of the past that isn’t completely flattering to them. Let them work in food services, lol.

This is an argument for community run fiber, not for Musk.

Are people going to start listening to their “paranoid” nephews yet?

Palestine was the testing ground.

lmao Dunning-Kruger Award for Politics right here 🏆

Trying to explain anything to people with this mentality is a lost cause. Unprincipled people simply can not understand principled people.

Yea, and they will each pre-emptively go the extra mile to prove they are well within the boundaries of the in-group, which leads to extreme views and horrific actions. It’s a combination of low self-esteem, low IQ, and insecurity. This makes the in-group smaller and “purer” but also pulls centrists / non-principled people toward the ideology of the in-group. That’s why Harris was the Democratic candidate in 2024, whereas 30 years ago Harris’ platform could have been a Republican one (and conversely why Sarah Palin seems tame by today’s standards, but not the standards of 30 years ago).

To each their own, no doubt. Personally I’m just in awe at how modern tech actually makes people tech-illiterate, and seemingly at a faster clip each year. Throw in an additional attack surface and that just makes it, for me, net minus. There are social and political implications to being tech-illiterate and tech-dependent (especially dependent on foreign and/or rogue states), which is another minus in my book.

I mean, how do you think they got to be a trillion dollar company, R&D?

Here’s a good primer.

Wait so it’s not an accurate take?