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> Of my non-tech friends and colleagues, everyone uses Google. Me, almost, too. I have some friends using duckduckgo - not many and only until Google is the default again...

> If it is legal for a human to learn from a book... True, if the human's access to the book was legal A great deal of training was on the open web, no one should complain. But at least Meta a…

We need more news like this. Congratulations Steve and Doris

> This is certainly not a planned marketing stunt Evidence? The "Tech Bros" have shown such a lack of moral fiber and ethics the burden of proof is on you

> Systems that rely on good people to work... ...are the only systems that are available for free, democratic societies (like what I want to live in) to function

Open AI and Anthropic are in a battle of "scary press release" The warriors are PR people. They are desperate to generate as much fear as possible so AI is heavily regulated, so they are pr…

Capitalism, hoisted on its own petard So determined to own the means of production, enormous amounts of money have been poured into building the frontier models But there is not much special, except …

We have been working hard on this in New Zealand, in the South Island We started in Tekapo ( https://www.darkskyproject.co.nz/ ) which being rural with a very low population density, an…

> The term neoliberalism has no meaning, it's purely used in a pejorative way by leftists. Wrong It is used pejorativly but that does not make it devoid of meaning It refers to the social poli…

> China wants to deindustrialize non-Chinese industries for strategic and/or natsec reasons, No. Not even close China wants its place at the table. With Erope and USA People seem to think a d…

That is the strangest thing, to me

What horrific distopian future you imagine

Yes. It is useful for the scam artists: X, Open AI and Anthropic, to name three

Interesting analogy, maybe a house cat? I think a better analogy is "The EU is like a lumbering elephant. You can steer it, but only if you know how. Otherwise it just keeps on lumbering" A…

This is very interesting. Facebook should be one of the biggest users of AI facing users, given its vast size, the industrial quantities of slop it produces and the tools it offers its users Because O…

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/16/business/truth-social-dat... …

Yes. "Closed AI" would be a better name

"Monetization". What a horror. I pay for some software services. The services I pay for have a billing page (or a donation page) and I pay via the banking system I rigorously block every ad,…

> If somebody doesn't share the same passion, it's almost impossible for someone to take and carry it forward. True, five years ago. The advent of coding agents has changed everything, an…

great???

That is old news, Theo was harsh, arrogant and rude. He was not always right, but always RIGHT!! But ten years ago. What is the point now?

In my country (New Zealand) this would be very illegal You cannot detain someone because you do not like their behavior, in almost all situations. In civilised countries It is called kidnapping

That entire business sector is a cess pit of SEO slop. Good riddence

> outside the Americas So very wrong, not "mostly right" South America is a big place, lots of people live there

> because everyone and everywhere was at war during that time. No, that is incorrect

> Which european dictatorship left their country better off? If monarchs count as dictators, and monarchic states as dictatorship, then almost all economic progress in Europe upto the 1840s

> yet we still trust them with our code and data Who's we, eh?

Meanwhile their software, most software in wide use, continues to be unreliable and insecure Share holder returns are doing OK tho