@captive_dreamer The submission of local (up to and including national) interests to the transnational (first and foremost profit) is what Islam *is*. It spread along trade routes (as did the Black Death).
The sword was hired.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
@lukerosiak SNAP is a passthrough from the money printer to Big Ag. Big Ag is able to enforce those arrangements by paying for campaign consultants and ads.
Those ads and consultants *don't work*.
Very bad idea. There is extreme fraud in Medicaid and SNAP for one reason: the Feds pay for it but the states run it. That’s a complete moral hazard where states don’t have incentive to police fraud. There are almost no federal investigators.
@docMJP "Added"
The GOP has been living vicariously through the Old World while neglecting the New for *generations* now. Trump took off when he rebuked Jeb for it a *decade* ago. They've never honored the election results from *2006* where that was rejected.
@ConradMBlack An entire hemisphere is hardly isolation.
The New World has been conquered by the Old while we were off fighting their wars for them. Washington warned us.
That’s over.