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  • I think certain media strategies make a lot more sense if you look at it as a private conversation said in public rather than simply a public statement. The FBI guy did one of these earlier this year on Epstein where he answered a question nobody in the room asked. It’s easy to write it off as just poor presentation or trying to avoid other questions. But I think there is a deeper purpose and that is to let specific people or a specific person know something. If you contact them directly, that puts a clear line from you to them. If you shout in an public place and they happen to be there to hear it, you’re talking to everyone.

    So anyways, Ghislaine was visited last week by Bondi or Bondi’s team. What Trump said here is to show Ghislaine he’s ready to play ball on her pardon. It’s not a Trump gaff. The plan may be to feign weakness, have the GOP put her in a congressional hearing where she says she never met Trump, and then pardon her. Is it an obvious gambit? Yes. But it’s legal and there’s enough plausible deniability for the 20% of Republicans that matter. Ghislaine goes to Israel for protection and Trump can move on with the Russiagate trial as a palette cleanser.

    This has to be like watching the Warren Commission shit. Like a lot of the public agrees this is fishy and everyone is hoping someone will step in to stop it. But then it happens and a few years later you’re the punchline of every conspiracy theorist caricature. There’s going to be some MCU movie in 10 years with a tinfoil character and one of the heroes will quip “Oh you think Epstein’s island was real too eh? pffft”














  • Remember that time Tulsi was running for President as a Democrat. I wonder how much money they gave her to take up room away from others? If they can actually get Obama to appear in court, it’s over. The satanic pedophile ring won. They’re dabbing on everyone. There is no future but violence. Not because of Obama specifically, just that hundreds of people in power will go along with a show trial instead of pushing Trump onto his own sword. Like the quantum state tariffs, extreme austerity, and resurgence of mainstream fascism is more important to them than letting President Hamburger take the fall for them.


  • It is an actual tactic to associate radicals with moderates in order to make them look bad to their supporters. Look at the actual meat of the article:

    Sources say Mamdani and Khan have since exchanged texts and spoken over the phone. Khan’s advisers have also been in contact with Mamdani’s campaign team.

    The sources close to Khan add that Mamdani needs to move to the centre to widen his appeal, particularly as Cuomo and the incumbent mayor, Eric Adams, are running as independents in the general election on November 4.

    These are actually two unrelated pieces of information. One is that Kahn has been in contact with Mamdani sometime since his primary win, and the other says someone close to Kahn (but not Kahn) advises Mamdani be more moderate. This is a classic yellow journalism tactic and Adam knows that, or he should, given his job.

    Keep in mind that liberals can see our dunk posts on twitter. They can actively measure what riles us up by our posting response. This is why social media successfully replaced COINTELPRO. It’s not about just spying in terms of movement and action. It’s also about sentiment analysis. We’re about to hit August and the NYC general is in November. So these kinds of things are going to continue popping up. They perform several functions. 1) To reassure moderates that the adults are handling it 2) To make Mamdani’s team seem like there is public pressure on him to be moderate 3) To make Mamdani supporters, who support Palestine, unsure of his commitment.

    It’s one thing for us to criticize our own, in our own house. But when we’re out in public, other people can see it and capitalist establishment will take advantage. I’m not asking anyone here to support Mamdani if you don’t want to, I’m not asking you to get into electoralism. I’m just trying to illustrate that we can’t take every bit of news that confirms our bias (that people always sell out) at face value. Even when they do eventually sell out. I think AOC is somewhat of a victim of these kinds of tactics, she wasn’t ready for it, and now it’s too late. Let’s see if Zohran is ready for it.




  • it’s probably because most programmers have given up on optimizing graphics

    Not picking on you in particular, but this is actually a huge thing in gamer circles. There’s a whole cottage industry of game critics who focus on how poorly optimized games are and how that’s indicative of a competency crisis in the industry. The gamergate holdouts boost this narrative to compliment their idea that DEI hires are incompetent and it’s leading to poor quality games. You end up with two sides of this, the political side with is just right wingers complaining about their grievances, and the apolitical technical side that couches dissatisfaction in craftsmanship. They end up feeding each other.

    This is kind of like a microcosm of broader politics, and the typical thing missing is a class/material analysis. The woke DEI slop people are obviously attributing problems to women and minorities. The technical people are attributing everything to incompetence or lack of standards. The real answer is, of course, that games are a heavily financialized industry where decisions are made by money people more than games people.

    A lot of the reasons why games have these optimization issues is that optimization is a skilled and time-consuming job. Investors and the managers of game companies don’t really want to spend resources on that. They want a minimum viable product so they can get to market as quickly as possible and start getting returns on investment.





  • xAI, OpenAI, Google, and Meta would sell different narrow and general AI packages as business solutions. It runs your customer service, payroll, scheduling, marketing, etc. It would replace existing software solutions and employees. Functionality would be rented to businesses. If you’re developing a mobile app and you need to use AI for some feature, you rent it from one of the big guys.

    This is pretty much the same SaaS model that’s been used for years. This already happens with internet, servers, cloud storage, etc. It will be AI as a service. What used to happen was that every company had their own servers or data center. Renting that stuff became a new business because 1) Rent-seeking is one of the fundamental ways to make money under capitalism 2)Companies don’t want to build and maintain their own servers. If you set up your own server and install Windows, Microsoft only covers the software. If your server breaks or needs work, you have to hire a third party to fix it. If you rent cloud storage from Microsoft, they have to cover everything. This results in more uptime and less maintenance cost for the company.

    As all this AI stuff gets better and becomes more ubiquitous, businesses aren’t going to want to build and maintain their own models. They will want to rent them just like servers. The AI company will handle all training data and everything. It’s going to skip the “setting up your own server” phase that businesses went through in the 70s-10s. It’ll go straight from this new thing to SaaS. It already has in a lot of cases.

    I don’t take the subscriptions at face value. I think a large part of letting people buy access is to generate a little revenue for investors but also for testing. They need a lot of people to stress test these things and find all the problems. The developers can’t work in isolation, they need to see how people react to their ideas. So what we have is actually an unfinished product being sold for the privilege of testing it. Once it’s finished enough, they won’t need as much testing. By that point, the opportunity of selling AI to other businesses and governments will far outweigh letting some lonely person do pillow talk.

    Speaking of, think about Grok companion. They’re already developing an independent service for AI companionship. When that product is fully developed, they will make more money selling it independently of Grok itself. So it wouldn’t be included in your Grok subscription. Grok will just be a part of other products like cars, your fridge, twitter, etc. Therefore there is no need for a Grok subscription. Other companies will do this too, but probably in a more “classy” way. It’s only a matter of time before the current subscription tiers are changed and then eliminated completely.


  • Also important to note that the public will, eventually, lose access to ChatGPT and other LLM platforms as it exists now. Everyone is just beta testing it for these AI companies. When it actually works, consistently, they’ll end all public facing services and it will be strictly B2B. That means the only access you have to generative AI will be through Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. Then they can just block usage violations. Therefore no “Hey chatgpt, write me a program to crack games”.

    You might have some independent access to LLMs you can run locally, but they will be outdated and not as well trained. The big guys will also use AI to keep those options out of search results and make sure they’re removed during security scans of your computer. B2B is simply a way more profitable model for software than selling you a $20 subscription for a chat bot.