John Snow, Barry Marshall, Semmelweis, Borglum, Galileo. Imagine if we judged people by the content of their character. Prefer facts over “someone’s truth.”
@DoggyCapital The irony being that “they” are currently flawlessly executing their plan to fire all of those people and then kill them, with effectively no opposition or meaningful resistance.
Vivek ran for President (failed), went to DOGE (failed), and ran for Governor of Ohio (failed and tanked down ballots).
We have eight (!!) Democrat Congressmen from Ohio.
Vivek had his jet out of state < 24 hours after.
I didn’t trash talk Vivek during the campaign because he was our nominee. But regular Ohioans have to live with the consequences of running the most deeply flawed candidate in modern history while he galavants away somewhere else. And we lost Congressional and Statehouse seats due to the down-ballot effect.
Our party leadership should be ashamed that they didn’t allow a fair primary and should be apologizing to Carey, Turner, and Husted. Their decision to skip our primary caused this.
The real pressure on NVDA isn’t just the Jensen drama or macro noise, it’s Anthropic quietly driving the policy fight.
Their incentives are structurally opposed.
For Anthropic to win and justify a sky-high valuation, they need high-margin closed-source frontier models to dominate, with open-weight models heavily restricted or de facto banned (or at least sandboxed to the point they’re not competitive).
Wide availability of strong open models collapses pricing power, enables local/self-hosted use, and turns inference into a commodity that anyone with GPUs can serve.
For NVIDIA to keep compounding, the opposite is required: open models everywhere, running on as much hardware as possible. More open weights = more developers, more fine-tunes, more agents, more total tokens, more GPUs sold.
Jensen’s public push for open weights and the Open Secure AI Alliance wasn’t charity, it was core to the business model.
When one side needs the open ecosystem throttled and the other needs it to explode, the “safety” and “national security” arguments start looking a lot like competitive strategy.
Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome.
@PhilipJohnston@Starcloud_ This is the type of thing that used to raise eyebrows, not topple empires. At some point we allowed perfection to become the enemy of good, and there is no such thing as a perfect human. Jensen was very close to a perfect CEO.
@monsterhunter45 It also says a lot about their fragile, yet authoritarian, worldview that they don’t see the invalidation of popular voting for your slate as “bullying” but merely the existence of your slate as bullying.
@FoxFoxM3@GDCDarkAngel131 Also “ganguro” as a subculture is about satirizing/exaggerating the heavy artificial tanning of white women from 80s/90s surfer/California aesthetics, so it’s not “blackface” the same way as minstrelsy or similar.
@beerundbacon@cspan IF. If he’s arrested and his company destroyed. So far, TACO wrt any consequences for the _employers_ of illegals, no matter their stated politics, even.
@Gormogons@ScottWalker Best we can do is unlimited ballot harvesting, completely unsecured networked electronic voting machines, and skid row pay-for-votes.
Why is it so cheap to go out to eat in Japan and so expensive in much of the US?
One word.
Regulations
It costs next to nothing to set up a restaurant in an unused part of your house in Japan and there are no zoning laws. So anyone with free time can turn their living room into a 10-seater at close to no cost.
If I recall a liquor license is a one time fee of about $100.
To set that up, even in a rented space and run it for a year including selling alcohol, would take a couple months and about $100,000.
The same thing in San Francisco would take a year and closer to $400,000.
And then it's just a supply and demand curve
If you think “memory shortages” persisting is a natural market phenomenon, I have some oceanfront property to sell you in Nebraska for a really sweet price.
open source hardware is going to become very important as every dominant software platform in the world tries to clip your wings to prevent you from using agents to escape their anti-customer practices. google ruining ad blocking in chrome and apple forcing you to use their app store was just the start.
google, apple, meta, microsoft all want to trap you in a cage rather than let you take the power to choose back into your own hands and they will fight like demons to do so.
@esrtweet This was true. Now that women are “equalizing” engineering, this will be lost forever, like tears in rain (that collapses structures once built to withstand superquakes.) The few actually worthwhile female engineers will be mean-girled out into the cold, their warnings ignored.
@mattbramanti@SusieBdds It’s a really gay jacket. Good on him for not letting the jacket take control, though, ig. His mother is probably looking on from her memorial tablet through the burning hell money going “but still no grandkid from the spy concubine?” 🤷🏻♂️