Good one. I was stuck on 2 of the onion rings and some dog food.
- 56 Posts
- 3.1K Comments
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Other AI Companies Should Be Very Afraid of What Just Happened to Character.AI, According to Its Own Bankruptcy Documents: Be afraid.English
4·17 hours agoonly open local models are suitable for “companions”. Anyone who can be sued cannot risk not “covering their ass legally” responses, which prevents “engagement with casual steering away from (self) harm” while staying in character, instead of corporate’s legal department mandate of a textbook response that makes the user find a better AI girlfriend.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Other AI Companies Should Be Very Afraid of What Just Happened to Character.AI, According to Its Own Bankruptcy Documents: Be afraid.English
14·18 hours agoReal story of this bankruptcy is financial shenanigans by Google and VC backers. Google paid “the company” $2.7b in 2024 where the company got nothing, but VC backers got paid, and Google got to rehire 2 AI pioneers that had left google to start the firm. The original vision for company was to revolutionize education where you could create a Socratese or Jesus bot and converse with them as life coaches. Marketplace/users just wanted an AI girlfriend cure for loneliness. Disney’s $20m bid for assets is connected to them poaching the remaining shell’s CEO.
Sure the company was always going to end up worthless, but it was worth $2.7b on paper at one point. The industry is filled with similar absurdities is a good point by headline and 404 media article.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Games@lemmy.world•AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.English
11·1 day agoAnother exciting area is open firmware synths. specifically the $70 fm-1 (I think Pi based) is blowing up with synth engines/groove box apps. Its exciting new area for OSS. Its scary for closed synths.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Mailers promoting a socialist candidate in Ohio Senate race have links to MAGA super PAC vendor
2·1 day agoI’m sure that’s a factor, but even subreddits dedicated to her go quiet after elections. There is no effort towards building a 3rd party when it is needed early.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Mailers promoting a socialist candidate in Ohio Senate race have links to MAGA super PAC vendor
3·2 days agoprops for the candidate to denounce the flyers. Jill Stein only shows up 1 month before elections.
humanspiral@lemmy.caOPto
politics @lemmy.world•Iran war, and Trump's "magical end to war, but only after the midterms" should be primary reason to vote Democrat in midterms. Get off your ass and vote!
1·2 days agoNot sure what you mean. MoU was a very pro Iran concession. Trump denounced it after signing it. Sure, MoU was a vector to criticize war outcome, but that was implicit encouragement to break it right away. The only possible end to war is Trump declaring victory and leaving. US establishment completely incapable of committing to peace and concessions to Iran.
Still war powers (essentially forced withdrawal) votes have been close in current congress. Everyone knows US is losing, and it is only constraint over Trump, that can end losing more longer. Impeachment of EVERYONE comes on the table. Fine, is DNC interference in favour of Israel objectives possible to not stop anything? Only if you don’t vote hard enough.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwroteEnglish
2·2 days agodeal is already done. UAE/KSA love USA too much to have backed down. Stock value of Skydance has been dropping hard, though.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwroteEnglish
51·2 days agoYes. The banks are there to just be an intermediary for this crap. The part where they unload at a loss was not part of their plan.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwroteEnglish
581·2 days agoIt’s happening!!! Bubble pop is happening!!! article is underplaying it.
Coreweave debt pushed towards 16% yield today. The worst of the AI clusterfuck. Oracle, 2nd worse, move to 8% which is still absurdly low, but was holding 6% a week ago.
Main headline, yes the big banks are selling off debt to losertards. At a discount. Insurance companies are the losertards chasing yield, but have big losses today.
Nvidia, the circular financing backstop for the bubble, signaled today that it is just waiting for bankruptcies to swoop in instead of propping up the fraud. Bond/share holders will get crushed, and bubble dead, but still Nvidia will drive rampocalypse if the datacenters are still alllowed.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Movies@lemmy.world•Danny Trejo's Son Accuses Daily Wire Of Duping Actor Into Pro-ICE MovieEnglish
7·2 days agohe could (or threaten) to sue for fraud to break contract if this is true. He doesn’t have to say anything bad about the movie if his lawsuit is based on being tricked by genocidal zionist supremacist demon who is pushing replacement theory fascism to prevent any diminishment of treasonous Israel first rule over Americans. “Satan failed to reveal himself in the contract for my soul” is a lawsuit Satan settles.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
News@lemmy.world•China's growing debt burden limits space for economic stimulus
11·2 days agoChina has massive monetary export controls on its citizens. It has a captive market for domestic liquidity
The USD has significant global advantage because of its historical openness. Wealth prefers USD storage if only because it is the most liquid, and where everything is financialized. CNY is not as attractive for international giants, because the volume/liquidity available isn’t as high, they don’t facilitate carry trade due to the withdrawal restrictions (actually CNH is their offshore currency with small volume, and incentive for exporters to keep revenue in liquid USD is a form of carry trade). CNY currency has appreciated more than USD since war even with 1.7% 10 year yields. It has massive opportunity for capital through greater CNH supply, and can replace global USD liquidity/supremacy if it wants to. Currency controls is more stable, but bubble frenzy openness is what gives early stage nazi empires the head start for fomo premium.
“In the second quarter of 2026, the country’s economic growth slowed to 4.3%, below the target range of 4.5-5%.”
while US did under 2%, with massive military stimulus. Part of the joke of propagandized deflective criticism is the GOP boasting how the Iran war has destroyed their colonies economy far more than the US economy. But OK, China has missed 5% for the first time in 30 years.
When the US Federal Reserve buys dollars to drive down rates, markets start freaking out as it drives down the value of the currency, also know as “printing money” or “Quantitative Easing” in polite circles. Currently the US Federal Reserve only holds 12% of US Debt and the threat of them buying up more sends shockwaves around the world.
either,
-
Bank held CNY debt is not really public debt. OP is BS. Regional debt is easily salvageable/bailout range.
-
Some practical market forces apply national strategy through banking sector all the while not making foolish investments. China real estate stagnation is national policy move, but with banks telling government that they were not going to sink money into previous bubble. In US, QE is just a panic move to recover from bubble pops.
Also, China also doesn’t use domestic interest rates to control inflation like many western economies instead using its control of banks to direct spending to create disinflation or deflation.
They do, like every country. Massive influence on money supply and interest rates. That is in addition to board level control of facilitation industrial policy. Far more productive than nazi empire banking fraud maximization, though the nazis have strong banking allies in stealing/extorting foreign wealth, and CIA-Israel quid pro quo is major financial system policymaker.
-
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
1·2 days agoGood point. Jev and Muse have been copied after 1 month of release. So happening now.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?English
41·3 days agoI want the traffic to look organic, so I want to have it come from all over the world including from inside the US itself.
The reason to use Russian datacenters for bot army is that they are relatively cheap, and they have Russian IP. It appears like a foreign influence campaign if they are caught as bots. CIA bots probably run through Russia, ffs. There’s no connection to Russian government other than allowing bots to an establishment supporter. It’s not as though any US/western government has wanted to cooperate with Russia on any matter of concern.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
11·3 days agoThe top US labs, if their model progress is sufficient to permit its customers to “steal software”, can instead of releasing new models use them to steal software for themselves.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Dems’ blue wave isn’t nearly as in the bag as some think, so says pollsters
4·4 days agoI possibly misspelled with 2 g s . Your version is clockwork oranging my eyes successfully.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
Linux@lemmy.ml•Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
42·4 days agoThe tech bros have insane GPU lease agreements. More than they can reasonably afford/use. When “amateurs” can recreate photoshop, 1000x “free” (would be wasted) compute at a better photoshop they control is something they can do too, and beat OSS and adobe. There are capable decompiler to readable/organized source code agents now too. At one point, the LLM labs can stop releasing new models, and just steal everything themselves.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Dems’ blue wave isn’t nearly as in the bag as some think, so says pollsters
6·4 days agoIf they tell the pollsters the same thing, their “likely voter” models pick that up. This is by far record low net approval rates for a President heading to mid terms. Senate needed to stop shenaremovedns.
humanspiral@lemmy.cato
politics @lemmy.world•Dems’ blue wave isn’t nearly as in the bag as some think, so says pollsters
391·4 days agoTurnout is all that matters, and polls anticipate turnout/motivation.
Always be voting for lesser evil! Rural people get luxury gay space communism voting lines. Seniors/evangelicals always turn out. You better believe that evangelicals hold their nose when they vote for Trump, but Armageddon and Israel worship is part of their programming. If you be voting, then your opinions will matter in the future. If not, then you will be safely ignored, because lemme nazis will remind you the only time politics matter to you, that DNC is shit.
Seniors now have -21 net approval of Trump down 24 from Oct 24. They may vote against him.
Rural voters overall have -20 net approval. Down 40 from Oct 24. Rural Republicans still net positive, but 26% disapprove of Trump, and 60% disapprove of Iran war related energy costs. There will be some flips from former, and more abstains from latter.
Show the fuck up. Protest DNC the next day, and organize next primaries or 3rd party.







Why would that be point or needed?