Stockpiles are low. But the TACO on all “massive/civilization threats” is about extracting concessions/subservience from colonies, though its possible that the GCC colonies get angry at US. In this case, China threats through Pakistan may have made a greater impact. China has been more publicly involved in Iran, and giving GCC advise on survival.

Whether out of munitions, or simply losing, the US is going to leave instead of finding munitions/allies next month. Likely a long hiatus from middle east wars for US.

I’m somewhat ok with catering to a political filter in an instance/frontend, even if I prefer open inclusion. But DDOSing anyone in fediverse is bad/unacceptable.

Open models are still most cheaply hosted on a cloud, with batching and 24/7 use. API rates from developer lab are generally fair. Self hosting does have some significant tangible benefits though: Fine tuning for domain specific to organization, and not letting LLM provider train from your prompts/answers, followed by competing with your organization in the future as a result of “distilling your IP”.

It is burying old news in headline. The consequences/pitfalls of their “strategic shift” are fairly new. The layoffs were explicitly justified for pivot to datacenters that OpenAI will “surely” be able to rent. The new extra problems in that strategic shift just makes them look worse for going all in on the bubble.

There is zero proof of distillation. Minimax 2.7 development was surrounded by moderate use of Claude. M3 is their latest generation, and pretty solid, but its performance cannot be attributed solely (or even 5%) to distillation, and that is only lab that has been accused of significant API use. These claims are all 3-4 months old by now, and Anthropic blocked China access after publishing the accusations. Repeated BS is BS from losers trying to lobby for support.

It’s unclear “Americans view this”. Government’s Zionazi permawar must dress up all defeats as mandate for escalating permawar. US establishment only recognizes Zionazi supremacist genocide, and always will justify amplifying it.

gherkin tests?

Has he tried paying Iran to abandon enrichment, and sell uranium and centrifuges at a price they can’t refuse? Current stage of war is about not letting Iran get $1/barrel of oil at $70 or less, to make oil $90 or more.

Their $500B/year permanent military budget increase + special $300B to recover/amplify production rates to replenish munitions from Iran war, also come with “butter” cuts. The cost of Iran war is that $300B + $37.5B, not just the latter.

Also Cursor (recently bought by spacex for $60B) “stole” not only the entirety of kimi 2.5, but all of their users data to train its composer models ontop of kimi 2.5.

article ignores the circular financing bubble. It layers on top all of the hidden costs in servicing their fake revenue and fake stock valuations.

A bigger factor in AI fraud economy, is the circular fake assets and fake revenue. $1T valuations in top 2 LLM providers implies $50B-$100B eventual recurring profits with little to no reinvestment. $1.75T SpaceX valuation was based entirely on fraud of at least 5x more expensive space data centers than earth and supposed 90% of value of company is based on Grok enterprise TAM. IPO was boosted with fake Anthropic paper lease where they were renting gpus for 5x the cost, and over 2x the list price of on demand rates from Nebius/coreweave, but with instant cancel clauses, and “first 2 months free” scam. 11th hour similar Google deal (who owns 6%+ of spacex) further amplified the SpaceX fraud IPO.

The main circular fraud though, is most of the companies (Nvidia not mentioned) in article put an inflated asset on their balance sheet, while trading revenue credits for those investments. Article’s “footnote debt” is largely to serve those revenue credits.

There is no evidence of “theft”/distillation by latest models. Anthropic’s original allegations were weak against deepseek. When someone publishes vibe code to github, it’s not theft from the LLM to train on it. Repeating loser whinning often enough to make it US dogma, doesn’t make it truth. China is a short fuse away from sinking US fleet blockading Iran.

I don’t get the general criticism. It will all depend on details. If you can “rent” a $1000 device for $500 in payments over 2 years, and have the option to pay $500 at end of 2 years, or pay $250 over the next 2 years, then that is a better deal for you, including the delayed payments, and your optionality. If rampocalypse is over in 2 years, you can get a better device. How far away from the above formula implementation is matters though.

An advantage with buying a “good phone” is that Apple needs to keep their trade in incentives high to get you to upgrade later. Lease provides a clear upfront proposition instead of hoping for future Apple generosity.

1. hype frenzy is based on doubling every few months.
2. OpenClaw frenzy turned out to be very expensive for limited benefit, with security concerns/failures. No big new hype agent app.
3. “Tokenmaxing is good for you” only made sense before you got the bill.

The AI hype/scarcity frenzy (bubble) was based on Meta and xAI hoarding GPUs for themselves instead of reselling compute, making it abundant instead of scarce. All of the other datacenters were hoping to have them as customers instead of competitors.

2 lies in article:

1. byline “proves compute is scarce” is opposite. This is not a real datacenter rental deal. It is a “can quit anytime” show deal. Token consumption is down 20% since march peak.

2. “Compute costs are rising exponentially”. Blatant lie, in terms of compute pricing $/gpu hour. Rates are near their accounting floor (though not at rock bottom) for H series, and the faster newer cards are just 2x the $/hour instead of the 8x saturated performance difference.

You see… the previous corrupt process was only a problem not because doors were falling off planes mid air, but because that happened recently enough for you to remember it tied to the corrupt process. If Boeing isn’t allowed to sell cheaply made death traps, then China and Iran win.

A very simple theory of innovation/development is cultural, specifically whether your empire will make you rich for developing military applications, and control more heretical heatens. Motivation for the Wright brothers would simply have been great empire/government rewards for success. Eastern cultures were less expansionist driven.

hot-air balloons before plastics were often made of silk (and rubber), since most other materials are either too heavy (at least for practical purposes) or too thermally sensitive, and that’s an expensive experiment to be undertaking if you haven’t the first clue how it works.

I have no idea how old “Chinese lanterns” (small hot air balloon carrying a candle) are, but I assume very old. Concept behind hot air balloon understood. and the most basic imagination would understand the scaling potential. That they also dominated silk supply would require a different explanation for why human basket sized balloons took so long to develop.

Willowdale, rn, at 474. 200 points higher than “official city reading”. Detroit has a 908 reading. I think that is 1/1000th smoke to air ratio.