I can't tell which of these profits are in actual currency and which are in fake money.

I'm getting the picture that governance is a great thing until you find out that other people want to govern you back.

Well look if you no longer had a Silicon Valley executive's salary you might have opinions about that situation too.

Weird sort of wartime to be investing new dollars into Israel though I thought?

Oh wait right. https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel%E2%80%99s-most-important-source-capital-california

Weird, I thought that policies such as improving the uptake of asset-backed commercial paper(1), loosening restrictions on beneficial owner(2) anonymity in shell corporations(3), and even protecting network marketing(4) companies from innovation-unfriendly regulations would be far bigger vote getters than this.

• (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset-backed_commercial_paper
• (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_ownership
• (3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_corporation
• (4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Marketing

Well, minimum 32 years, as presumably there would be some inbox time and drafting time on either end, misunderstandings and subsequent discussion being so critical to avert when followups take a while.

I came here for his full-throated support of Apple Music staying installed no matter what and I am so sorely disappointed.

There is nobody quite as cranky as the (relatively) regular person who has to clean up after the rich person's mess.

This is only one of a vast number of possible AI hellscapes. https://awful.systems/post/1061543

Have an upvote.

I haven't paid that much attention to the software and platforms behind all this. Now that you mention it, yes, they are all products not underlying technologies. A bit like if somebody was a Zeus web server admin versus AOL web server admin without anybody being just a web server admin. Or like if somebody had to choose between Windows or Solaris without just considering operating systems.

Then again, what with all the compute and storage and ongoing development needed I'm not convinced that AI currently can be a gratis (free as in beer) thing in the same way that they just hand out web servers.

I think you've nailed it.

Found a startup, get paid C-level salaries for a few years, exit or not, repeat.