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Could insert most countries names and be equally right.

All so that keep one's unabridged freedom and get extra money to freely piss away on crap and narcissistic indulgences, or on some comically priced house you carefully use contraceptives in.

What are the odds, would you say, that the US don't have a team constantly trying to breach China's networks?

Hence the framing of these articles always strikes me as dishonest by omission. The titles should all append "(similar to what we do)".

And then Microsoft forced him back in on the grounds of: he's a scumbag but he's our scumbag so he's untouchable

Altman is a snake who uses words purely instrumentally, and this is well known.

He basically takes advantage of people's limited memories and default assumption that when a person says something its honest.

Layoffs at Block 5 months ago

managing earnings to sustain equity valuations

That's an interesting take, so eventually they'll just run out of these tricks and at that point the valuations will burst?

I'm not sure if there's a name for this yet, perhaps "AI shit-eating grin artistry".

But the way you do it is: try to make the most aggressive, gleeful statements about people losing or will be losing their jobs, and in fact entire careers.

Make it as obnoxious as you and your AI can make it. Make references to burger flippers being more valuable than software engineers.

Make really flippant comparisons that deliberately and dishonestly mischaracterise the role. Refer to nonsense like LOC output rate as a proxy for value, or point at things like its ability to clone quickly as if that were where value comes from.

And then of course, double down at every criticism of the position.

I say a lot? You took two long paragraphs to carefully say nothing.

Efficient means their value outputs are high relative to their inputs.

If they or their voters say homelessness is a problem, they don't burn billions on grifting "consultants" and produce no change, they spend a few millions and cut homelessness in half.

The right has only ever had efficiency lip servicemen, no efficiency doers.

Once any right-winger gets in power they do the same thing lefists do - piss away billions of other peoples' money on their favourite things, as fast as they can, with impunity. They might call it some fuckwit name though like "A Big Beautiful Bill".

Oh and they keep all other forms of inefficiency too. Farm subsidies, tariffs, all the other dumb shit, that's well protected.

So not a difficult lift for Mamdami, despite socialism being basically a big middle finger to morals and reality.

Facebook is cooked 5 months ago

I just searched "TruthSocial".

First result is Trump's page, which I could access without a login.

There is the same ad "Featured Ad. Must See Video. This Video Will Soon Be Banned. Watch Before It's Deleted" repeated about a dozen times on the page, showing a woman wearing booty shorts approaching a private jet.

Looks very highbrow

Almost makes one want to anonymously respond:

Oh, I see that you're cunts. Well that's your choice. My choice, in response, then, is to notify certain corners of the dark web how you approach security. I'm sure they'll find something else, and don't worry - they won't bother you with a disclosure.

Facebook is cooked 5 months ago

Drug dealing "harm" is the classic abject shirking of responsibly.

Oh no, I'm contacting my dealer, and now going to meet him, and handing cash to him... Oh no poor me this is being done to me by him..

Filth

That's the point though - why does it take hundreds of millions of dollars for phase 3?

Because it happens in a regime that intentionally makes it so.

That's not how e.g. vaccination got invented now is it.

Busy-bodies too busy "protecting us from ourselves" to let us find cures.