Now that you mention it, I wonder what that says about the shift of sexual morals. The original French tale was written in 1740.
General_Effort
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Ach so. Darüber hab ich mir auch schon Sorgen gemacht. Es könnte noch ein ziemliches Problem werden, dass Europa bei KI nicht mitmacht. Wenn diese typisch deutschen Mittelständler, die in irgendeiner Nische Weltspitze sind, das auf einmal nicht mehr sind, dann können die dicht machen.
Naja. Muss nicht schlimm sein, wenn KI aus den USA oder China eingekauft wird, so wie jetzt andere Software. Wir werden sehen wie's geht.
Um was für Kameras geht es eigentlich? Foto/Video? Überwachung?
You asserted that models are trained on private data. You were unable to back up the assertion.
I am not interested in psychological or rhetorical tricks. I see no value in it. If you're willing to have a rational, fact-based discussion, science-style, then I am willing to assume good faith until evidence to the contrary is apparent.
Yes. It's easier said than done. I often find myself thinking, I could do more to make my country better.
But I am just too irritated by the selfishness and privilege on display. Just relocating to a nicer country is an option that 99% do not have. You need to be young and well-educated, or be relatively wealthy. Otherwise, a rich country will simply not have you.
At the same time, those who can just pick up and leave are the same people who are most able to change things for the better. Americans are not risking their lives by speaking up. The rule of law is mostly being followed. Democratically elected representatives hold power.
Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never honor. -Otto Wels, 1933, in the final session of the elected german parliament.
Stimmt nicht. Wenn es um "Chatkontrolle" geht, nimmst du dann auch die wohlfeilen Pressemitteilungen der Politiker für bare Münze?
Als Nächstes (2. August) treten die Regeln für Allzweck-KIs in Kraft. Das ganze genAI Zeug, LLMs, usw. , fällt darunter. Was genau das heißt, ist schwer zu sagen. Der AI Act ist vage. Die genauen Details sollten nachgereicht werden, sind aber längst überfällig. Wenn die Anweisungen dann kurz vor knapp rauskommen, werden wohl ein paar arme Schweine ein paar Nächte durchmachen müssen.
Eine Sache, die ich für sicher halte, ist, dass die meisten Open Source KIs, nicht compliant sein werden. Warum sollten die Firmen die Kosten auf sich nehmen? Kann man dann noch Hobby-mäßig verwenden, aber eben nicht in der Firma. Eine Firma, die sensible Daten nicht weitergeben will, kann dann nicht mehr die besten Modelle auf den eigenen Servern benutzen. Es gibt kleine Dienstleister, die Open Source Modelle über API anbieten. Das wird von Europa aus kaum konkurrenzfähig gehen.
Es wird oft beklagt, dass Europa keine eigenen Cloud-Riesen hat. Man braucht eben keine großen Datenverarbeitungskapazitäten, wenn man nicht groß Daten verarbeiten darf. Das ist keine neue Baustelle.
Oh, entschuldige, dass ich nicht glücklich bin verarscht zu werden. Wie unethisch von mir.
You're ignorant of history and that's a problem.
There were fewer than 500,000 jewish Germans in 1933. That's less than 1% of the population.
The millions who were murdered were mainly citizens of Poland and the Soviet Union. If the nations of Western Europe had prepared themselves better for war and fought with more tenacity, millions would have lived.
The absolute disaster that the Wehrmacht inflicted on the Soviet Union is largely the result of Stalin's defects. Dictators are bad; an obvious lesson. A less obvious lesson comes from the Generalplan Ost. The Nazis wanted to murder much of the population east of Germany; Poles, Czecks, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians, and others. Many tens of millions of individual human beings were to be killed, mainly through hunger. Then the territory was to be settled by Germans, That's the whole Lebensraum thing.
Where should all these people have gone?
That's why the Ukrainians today don't have a choice. Putin wants to eradicate the ukrainian ethnicity. We know that. We don't know how many people he is willing to murder; to physically eradicate. Would you take the chance?
In 1939, immediately before WW2 and the holocaust, the MS St. Louis sailed with 900 jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba. But Cuba refused to take them in, as it had just hardened its laws. The ship sailed to Canada and the USA, but they, too, refused. Something, something, race.
Eventually, the UK, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands took pity on these people and gave them shelter. Obviously, many of those on the continent were murdered in the Holocaust.
Where do you think 65 million US Latinos will go? They live in the US and they will die in the US. One way or the other.
Just a recent example. Of course they’re vague about what “public” means, but if you really believe they aren’t using all the photos, you’d be pretty naive in my eyes.
Ok. You can't give an actual example, so you use emotional blackmail to discourage disagreement. Noted.
If that’s what you want to call conservative go ahead, although it’s not what I’d typically associate with that word.
It's called Chesterton's fence.
Not sure where you see the problem?
To cut right to the chase. The problem is your intellectual dishonesty. First, it's privacy, then it's intellectual property, then privacy again. You try the spiel about sticking it to the corporations. When that is debunked, inequality is fine. Now it's about "intellectual workers", as if any of the higher-ups would share the loot.
You don't give a fuck about logic or reason. You're just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You're working through a list of talking points without ever engaging your brain. A third world guy will do that for a dollar an hour.
And don't tell me that you're doing this for free. Doing free labor for billionaires so that billionaires can get some free money from the rest of us is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Ahh. But I have heard of it.
Cut the histrionics. Americans aren't being massacred. They are only asked to go to some minor inconvenience to uphold their country's democracy.
The distance between Chicago and Las Vegas is greater than between Berlin and the Russian front line in Ukraine. Are Germans supposed to feel pity for you poor darlings?
Non-Muricans, what's the thought on accepting US refugees?
Stand and fight, you cowards.
Tweet by Laura Loomer reading:
Alligator lives matter.
The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we gt started now.
Yesterday I heard a kid use "trending" to mean popular. This was at a carnival, referring to a ride "trending" in the sense of having a long line. Feel like this is the modern version of LOL and OMG escaping into conversation.
by Zach Weinersmith at https://bsky.app/profile/zachweinersmith.bsky.social/post/3lsr2cs55jc2h
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Corporate Deal Making Made Easy: Just Give Donald Trump Personal Power To Approve All Strategic Decisions
(www.techdirt.com)
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/215505
Here’s a fun corporate governance puzzle for you. Suppose you’re a foreign company trying to buy an American steel producer. The previous administration blocked your deal. The current president promised during his campaign to block it too, saying he’d stop it “instantaneously. Absolutely.” How do you get the deal approved?
If you guessed “write the president’s name directly into your corporate charter and give him personal veto power over your business decisions,” congratulations! You understand modern American capitalism.
That is, more or less, what happened with Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel. The company has filed amended corporate documents with the SEC that contain what might be the most extraordinary governance provision in corporate history: a section that literally names “Donald J. Trump” and grants him veto power over everything from plant closures to pricing strategies to executive compensation.
Initial reporting described this as a “golden share” arrangement with the US government, but that turns out to be wrong in an important way.
Historically, when governments privatized state-owned companies, they sometimes kept what’s called a “golden share”—a special ownership stake that gives the government veto power over certain decisions even though they no longer run the company day-to-day or even have a direct economic stake in the company. The idea was “we’re selling this to private investors, but we still care about some strategic decisions.”
More recently, golden shares have become associated with China’s approach to tech companies. Beijing lets companies operate with private investment but maintains golden share arrangements that give the government control over key decisions. Indeed, supporters of a TikTok ban often point to the supposed “golden share” that the Chinese government holds in the company (something TikTok kinda denies, by suggesting it only applies to the Douyin subsidiary, and not ByteDance proper or international TikTok).
To simplify: golden shares are a way for countries to pretend they have privatized industries that are actually nationalized. You know: the kind of thing MAGA Republicans used to call socialism or communism.
Trump supporters hated such things just a few weeks ago. Senator Lindsey Graham recently promised legislation to “remove any existing company that has a golden share structure from any American exchange.” Apparently, that principled stance expires when the golden share goes to Trump personally.
That’s a tweet from Lindsey Graham, just months ago, claiming:
I will soon introduce legislation with my Senate colleagues that prevents any company that has a “Chinese golden share” from being listed on any American exchange and further, remove any existing company that has a golden share structure from any American exchange.
Which makes it pretty wild that the US has now created its own version, except weirder: instead of “the government” having control, Donald Trump personally has control.
The SEC filing contains what may be the most extraordinary corporate governance provision ever written:
ARTICLE VI
1. The Corporation shall not, either directly or indirectly by amendment, merger, consolidation or otherwise, without (in addition to any other vote required by law or this Certificate of Incorporation) (i) at any time when Donald J. Trump is serving as President of the United States of America, the written consent of Donald J. Trump or President Trump’s Designee*, or (ii) at any other time, the written consent of the CMAs (as parties to the NSA) (and any such act or transaction entered into without such consent or vote shall be null and void ab initio, ultra vires and of no force or effect):*
(a) alter, amend, repeal or waive any provision of this Certificate of Incorporation, except as contemplated by Article XII of the NSA;
(b) change the Corporation’s name from “United States Steel Corporation”, change the Corporation’s headquarters from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or change the Corporation’s domicile to a jurisdiction other than a state, commonwealth, district or territory of the United States;
(c) reduce, waive or delay any Capital Investment (as defined in Schedule 2 to this Certificate of Incorporation), subject to receipt of necessary approvals and permits on an expedited basis;
(d) (A) prior to June 18, 2027, close, idle or sell the Corporation’s Granite City Works or (B) prior to June 18, 2035, close, idle or sell any other Production Location, except, in each case of (A) and (B), any Temporary Idling or in response to, or as a result of, a Force Majeure Event;
(e) fail to follow the recommendation of the CMAs (as parties to the NSA) with respect to Trade Actions;
(f) effect any material acquisition of a business that is domiciled in the United States that competes with the Corporation or its suppliers;
(g) implement pricing of the Corporation’s average spot sales price during any rolling six (6)-month period below eighty-five percent (85%) of the corresponding six (6)-month average for that applicable steel product as publicly published by the U.S. Midwest Domestic Hot-Rolled Coil Steel Index (i.e., Hot-rolled, Cold-rolled, and Coated steel); provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the average spot sales price will be calculated monthly and will be based on the average spot price for the applicable steel product for each individual customer transaction in the United States;
(h) accept direct financial assistance from the Japanese government, excluding (a) financing obtained from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) or other equivalent Japanese government related financial institutions on commercially reasonable terms and (b) financial assistance for research and development in Japan;
(i) prior to June 18, 2030, reduce the base salary of employees of the Corporation; and
(j) make material changes to the Corporation’s existing raw materials and steel sourcing strategy in the United States, unless such changes are intended to benefit the Corporation, its operations or customers, which changes, among others, include: to the extent steel making raw materials or inputs are or become inadequate in quantity or quality; and initial imports to the Corporation to accelerate the transfer of technology or commissioning or qualification of facilities committed to being built in the United States (e.g., grain oriented electrical steel).
The practical effect is that Donald Trump now has personal veto power over US Steel’s pricing, plant closures, executive compensation, acquisitions, and corporate governance changes. The company literally cannot make major strategic decisions without Trump’s written consent.
There’s something genuinely novel here. American corporations do not typically write individual politicians into their governance documents. Some might even argue it looks quite corrupt.
Many people have claimed that this is nationalizing US steel and embracing socialism (some claiming this is good, many others more correctly being horrified by it).
That latter link, by trade expert Scott Lincicome, points out how absolutely ridiculous this is:
As we’ve already discussed (twice), there is no reason for the U.S. government to be involved in what is inarguably a small transaction involving two publicly traded companies that are both eager to seal the deal on mutually acceptable terms. The “national security” arguments for blocking or amending those terms are bogus: As I explained in December, “the U.S. military needs a tiny amount of domestic steel output and gets none of it from U.S. Steel,” and security experts across the political spectrum—including officials in both the Trump 1.0 and Biden administrations—saw no serious concerns. The government’s involvement was and remains about politics, and the whole drama serves as a serious black mark on U.S. international economic policy (and Biden’s time in office).
But calling this “nationalization” doesn’t quite capture what’s happening. Nationalization suggests the government taking control of strategically important industries for policy reasons. This is more like… “Trumpalization”? The personal capture of corporate governance by an individual politician.
The structure makes this clear. When Trump is president, he controls US Steel directly. When he’s not, control transfers to Treasury and Commerce—the “CFIUS Monitoring Agencies” referenced in the documents.
This dual structure—Trump when in office, federal agencies otherwise—makes it impossible to defend this as standard CFIUS oversight. Normal foreign investment reviews don’t write specific politicians into corporate charters. They create institutional safeguards, not personal fiefdoms. If this were really about national security oversight, the control would run through established government agencies with expertise and continuity, no matter who was President.
This seems unprecedented, and not in a good way. A private corporation has voluntarily surrendered key governance decisions to Donald Trump personally, apparently as payment for his approval of their deal. It’s the kind of arrangement you’d expect to see in a kleptocracy, not a constitutional democracy.
And somehow we’re supposed to pretend this is normal corporate governance.
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I didn't need that mental image. But since you have installed it in my head, I am honor-bound to upvote.
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