As an American, I am not an accelerationist, but I am somewhat darkly satisfied to see the military industrial complex reach the Find Out stage.

They’ve been added to the watchlist.

Wait, is that the watchlist?

Yeah that’s the one. Whew, for a minute I thought we added them to the war planning chat.

Wait, fuck.

Amanita minute to get ready for some real talk in this thread.

You seem like a fungi

Repeat after me: LLMs do not have intelligence.

Fair point. They basically did it with Windows 8 (engineering-wise), but that was even longer ago than the Surface Pro.

The actual hardware is irrelevant to their success unless they can pull off a Surface Pro type of innovative market lead (which we all know they can’t do anymore).

The only thing that matters is the ecosystem. Make every Windows machine an Xbox. Make the OS lean and portable. Run the same OS and games on PCs, laptops, handhelds, and set-top boxes. That’s it. Then console generations are obsolete and Sony is playing catch up.

Fun fact (because there’s nothing more fun than technicality!): Technically it wasn’t his life’s work. Well before his work on nuclear fission, Oppenheimer was actually responsible for originally theorizing the existence of both antimatter and black holes. He was a more intuitive physicist than a technical one, so he didn’t follow through on these ideas, instead letting others carry the work forward.

Neptune’s pretty young. We try not to sexualize it.

FYI, Onyx egregiously violates GPL and basically gives the finger to anyone who complains. Not that anyone is necessarily clean as a whistle and even so they’re miles better than Jeff “I dressed like a fascist before it was cool” Bezos.

I’m a big fan of Kobo, but they also used to have a connection with Walmart.

21 was a letdown for me because I read the book first. It’s a great read, fast, light, and fun. The movie just felt thin in comparison.

They already staged a coup to install him.

“And if you turn it sideways it works like a mouse”

“Okay”

Why are we talking about this more than that?

He’s only doing what he’s doing because of the smart evil that got him where he is though.

Smart evil is so much scarier than stupid evil.

Fuck yeah Canada. More of this please.

That first paragraph is AI slop as fuck.

Valve did the same thing for the Index VR kit. They create these little brief but fully produced games to demonstrate the functionality when they release new hardware, and they’re delightful.

Private business

• that everyone needs to live
• that can’t profit without subsidies
• that has no competitors in its market
• that has growth potential defined strictly by external factors

It’s insane that this isn’t nationalized immediately. Privatizing it in the first place is the work of people who are corrupt as hell, inhumanly evil, dumb as rocks, or, most likely, all of the above.

The game has changed to paying Nazis for Internet now.