hmm…

hmm…

…and my axe!

need ‘s got nothin’ to do with it

“Manners maketh man”

I mean… it always was unsustainable…

AI is a surveillance technology.

Is the entire neighborhood a cornfield?

That seems… impractical.

The short selling is over. Time to pump the market again.

rhymes with lootin’

Or it plunges us back into the dark ages, where people believe things based on anecdotes and superstitions, and sources of factual information are rare and typically locked inside some walled garden or other.

This is just another form of control being asserted by the wealthy and powerful - knowledge is power. Removing effective access to knowledge keeps people in the dark, making them easier to manipulate.

Hold on to your public institutions. Fight for them tooth and nail. Collect books (unredactable, uneditable, un-paywall-able sources of information). Donate to libraries. Don’t patronize LLM systems. Prefer local storage and applications over cloud services.

And don’t romanticize ignorance.

Aaron Swartz was right about everything

He’s never played with a full deck anyway.

futuristic technology

In which case anyone who wants to can read the message traffic and make changes to it before passing it on to the receiver.

No, you can’t conduct business this way.

No one can bank online without reliable encryption. No one can transact business online without reliable encryption.

Fantastic. Hadn’t heard it before.

throwing a wrench into the US industry right now is a pretty good deal.

This is the part I don’t really get - they’ve spent decades working to control these resources, and I can’t really see what benefit they get from this that offsets that time and effort.

Manipulating the flow and the prices makes sense. Cutting it off entirely just to participate in a dick-measuring contest with the US really doesn’t make any sense. Nations are already looking at moving their supply chains especially for electronics after all the COVID disruptions. Encouraging those nations to go looking elsewhere for the entire supply chain just loses you business and influence, no matter how much short-term cost you inflict.

This is kind of interesting… China has been working on monopolizing sources of raw materials for awhile now, and putting them on the market cheap so that they become the de facto supplier, making it difficult or impossible for any other sources to be developed.

But… there are other sources of things like lithium and cobalt, it’s just been cheaper to buy it from China so everyone does.

Cutting off the supply will cause some slow-downs and a bit of chaos in the short term but what will happen is local sources will suddenly become worth developing. What this does is effectively burn a big piece of China’s economic power… I wonder what they’re getting out of it right now? The impact won’t last very long.

And scholarship programs.

Cutting federal funding will make it harder for anyone but the wealthy to access higher education.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die?

And it only covers a period of 51 years (1948-1989).

You’re a drain on resources you authoritarian bootlicker.