The weirdest thing about all this is that by sheer accident, the QAnon freaks actually managed to find a tiny sliver of truth: There really is a cabal of powerful child abusers. It's just that they got every single other detail, including who the child abusers are, insanely wrong.
I have a work-supplied laptop with Windows on it. I use it maybe once or twice a month, just for the things requiring a VPN. The rest of the time it sits there gathering dust while I get real work done on my Linux laptop.
The specs on the work laptop say it should be a performance beast, but my Linux machine (with half the RAM) runs circles around it.
I'm watching that happen in my industry (software development). There's this massive pressure campaign by damn near everyone's employers in software dev to use LLM tools.
It's causing developers to churn out terrible, fragile, unmaintainable code at a breakneck pace, while they're actively forgetting how to code for themselves.
A while back, I was thinking about upgrading my living room entertainment PC. It's got a decent video card in it, but some of the other hardware is getting long in the tooth.
Now, my plan is to focus on software tweaks to squeeze the absolute best performance I can out of it, and keep the hardware as-is until it starts physically breaking down. And when that happens, I'll find refurbished hardware to upgrade it with, rather than spending the exorbitant fees to buy anything new.
What mystifies me about all this is that it's obvious what the end goal is: No more PCs, and everyone just rents dumb terminals connected to AI data centers that run everything and have all the compute power. The problem is that literally no one but AI companies want that. Not consumers, and not other companies that sell software and services to consumers.
When cars replaced carriages, it was because people actually wanted them. Cars had real-world benefits over horses. But this shit? No one wants it. Gamers want game performance you simply can't get with streamed games. People who work with computers for a living don't want their ability to do anything to vanish if their ISP has an outage.
Shit's gonna get stupid, fast.
~~Jails~~ concentration camps
We can't vote with anything but our wallets here, so this is a thing we can do to at least reduce their income. And considering they're losing close to $100 million every day already, I can't help but suspect nickel and diming them a bit still hurts.
The fact that we no longer respond with horror and outrage over the knowledge that we have children in prison camps is itself horrific.
I wonder how OpenAI's investors feel about that expense, considering they're losing somewhere around $80 million every single day.
At the beginning of the year, they projected a $14 billion loss for 2026. They'll almost certainly exceed that by quite a lot, and may have lost $12 billion in the previous fiscal quarter.
They aren't bleeding money. They're a veritable cash volcano, blasting it into near-Earth orbit.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if they're working on it. He's destroying their bottom lines.
That said, if you go after the king, you'd best not miss.
Try it on a large screen. Once details are visible everything looks super strange.
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May? They definitely don't. Vibe coders are producing lots of garbage code they can't possibly have reviewed, at breakneck speed.