It’s not for game developers, it’s to convince capital that they should keep funding Microsoft’s data center expansions. Keep funding the methane companies that provide the power for them.

Wait that’s not Miku

#1 reason to learn to make your own pizza

Muffled dr.Worm playing

Offer a better service for a better price.

Streaming services don’t sell content, they sell convenient access to content, and it’s been getting less convenient as time goes on. So less people feel like it’s worth paying them.

That would require an act of congress, which, while not impossible, is very unlikely given the current situation. some congressional republicans are pissed at him right now, and they have an extremely slim majority, so any defections on such a vote would prevent it from passing.

Aldi nord and Aldi sud are two different companies (north and south), they split when two brothers disagreed on whether to sell cigarettes in the grocery store. The Aldi’s in the US are Aldi Sud.

Aldi nord also exists in the US, they go under the name Trader Joe’s, formerly a small regional chain that they bought and used as entry to the market before expanding it across the country.

Or fake social security checks going through when some idiot breaks the COBOL code that runs federal payments system.

“Ignore the fact that we almost caused a global financial collapse because we let a 20 something with no experience in COBOL muck around in the code for, and potentially introduce bugs to, the federal payment system that services, among other things, treasury bonds, the things that are the foundation of the global financial system. Yah we know we said he had read only access but whoops, turns out he actually had write access as well!”

They’re just so eager to pull their masks off, like. Like, there is only so much algorithm manipulation can do to obscure observable reality from their audience.

I don’t really know much about his personal politics, but his work seems to speak pretty loudly about rejecting the idea of software as private property to be bought and sold by capital, which, you know, that’s more than just progressive, even if it’s just in one area.

I don’t think he can, just due to the way it’s set up. Like, it’s not something that can be bought, and it’s not something the executive branch has any ability to unilaterally effect.

I think to some extent this cadre is swinging at ghosts. They were presented with inconvenient (to them) truths and rejected them. Now they construct increasingly elaborate and nonsensical alternative reasons for things being the way they are. The consistent observable realities they are encountering get written off as malicious tools of an imagined enemy. So they lash out at anything that contradicts their world view, especially when it’s evidence based and not just opinion.

It’s a fight that will never end, because they live in reality, not their idea of it. This isn’t to excuse their behavior but to say that they’re not just evil and mean or carrying out some carful plan. They’re very much making things up as they go and picking new fights as they hit roadblocks. If left in power, they will slowly destroy everything attempting to make the world fit their preconceived notions.

So, thing is USDA guarantees a minimum price for stuff like corn and dairy, paying the difference between the actual market price and the minimum price to farmers. So the market price for them will drop but production won’t, and chances are, most of the stuff will end up getting thrown out or used in utterly absurd way. Closing USAID just removes a potential useful outlet for the surplus. Rather than corn getting used for subsidizing food costs in other countries, it’ll be up getting used to make potting soil, gasoline and dry wall. Not because it makes economic sense to do so, but because the government will pay the economic losses that are inherent in such wasteful use cases.

So the issue is, that those are two different categories. USAID tends to be food stuff that the US massively over produces, dairy, corn, soy, ect. These are all categories that are highly automated and don’t require much labor (relative to other categories)

The places where the most migrant labor is utilized are things like fruits, vegetables, and meat processing. stuff that can’t be mechanized to the same degree as corn or milk. Stuff that doesn’t tend to get exported as part of USAID because it is in demand in the US.

Truly the most aristocratic of creatures. The bluest of bloods one might even say.

There is an over arching issue with most of the extant models being highly unethical in where they got their data, effectively having made plagiarism machines.

It is not ok to steal the content of millions of small independent creators to create slop that drowns them out. Most of them were already offering their work for free. And I am talking about LMs here, writing is a skill.

Say what ever you want about big companies being bad for abusing IP laws, but this is not about the laws, not even paying people for their work, this is about crediting people when they do work, acknowledging that the work they did had value, and letting people know where they can find more.

Also, I don’t really buy the “it’s good for disabled people” that feels like using disabled people as a shield against criticism, and I’ve yet to see it brought up in good faith.

It’s absurd because Biden wasn’t doing anything, like he was upholding the status quo, with limited efforts to patch up some issues.

Trump is straight up trying to gut the federal government and sell it for parts as well as legitimately trying to take away people’s rights, if not straight up make their existence a crime.

He’s also trying to do this with a pretty weak mandate. Most people who did want him wanted him for a specific policy and ignored the rest.

So he’s creating a huge amount of backlash while only appeasing a small group with each action.

I’d highly recommend:

Technology connections; he does in depth videos about the engineering of household appliances we often take for granted.

Bernadette Banner; she does videos about historical textile arts, weaving, sewing, ECT.

Lindsey Nikole; she does videos about ancient animals, Zoology, and Paleontology.

Ze frank; he does irreverent videos about interesting species of animal.