VegaKH

This sounds like it was written by the CCP. Chinese EVs = futuristic tech. American EVs = much shame.

"We are investigating alternative hardware..."

The way she writes like this is serious research is throwing me.

This is a long article that could be a paragraph instead and lose nothing.

I didn't realize that this wasn't posted by the dev, and that it was only meant for his normal subscribers. So my criticism is a little harsh here.

I hated that. I didn't find it cool, just weird and distracting.

The top reasoning competitor to GPT-5 would probably be Gemini 2.5 Pro. That is the first model I would like to see it compared with.

I agree with the premise of this post, but I'd like to see it made by someone else (and not only because this is on a furry blog.)Their argument is also poorly formed and poorly written.

They start by defending their use of furry art and railing against potential backlash from HN. Then spend a lot of words talking about how Collective Shout isn't anti-LGBTQ, but could potentially become anti-LGBTQ, but even if it's not anti-LGBTQ it's bad because it's anti-abortion. None of this is actually pertinent to the argument.

Then they talk about alternatives to Visa /Mastercard, such as crypto, WERO, FedNOW, petitions, blah blah blah. Next we move on to some good-old-fashioned self promotion, talking about how they helped save some library from the evil right wing politicians.

And the article ends without even making one coherent argument, which should be this: two American companies should not be able to dictate the moral standards of censorship for the world. They have too much power and too little oversight. Let's start with that.

In the US, Visa and MasterCard are cartels of almost unlimited power. Even your bank debit card is controlled by one of those processors, so you often can't buy something with your own money unless they approve. And for some reason, they have taken it upon themselves to be the morality police.

The counterargument is that accepting payment for morally-reprehensible items might damage their brand, but I feel that this is borderline absurd. No one is going to stop using Visa because they process payments for incest games on Steam.