Fascism always needs to cull people in power to make it seem like an improvement to the idiots. This is just that. What’s more interesting though is on paper how wealthy musk is, and whether any of that wealth will be used to battle the administration, and additionally if his companies will become nationalized/bought/sold/failed/disintegrated and he’ll fade into obscurity.

Not the same verbs, and specific to Emacs, but I’m kind of sad cutting and pasting won over killing and yanking

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KillingAndYanking

Let’s not forget the Catholic church

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence

Here’s the report:

https://files.catbox.moe/bm9n2c.pdf

True, though for now paparazzi photos generally are “here’s the celebrity in real life doing [x]” whereas AI is “celebrity never did this thing and we applied their image / voice to it like they did.” Really difficult for celebs to shut down tabloid or fan ai-generated garbage, but I think the bigger issue for them right now is film or music studios just using their likeness to keep the profits churning

That’s pretty cool. How do those with kids or a “home base” manage to just leave for an extended period of time? Do they seek new housing or just have someone take care of their property while they are gone?

Also when you say “invest in passive income streams” please elaborate, as this often leads to buy property and be a landlord, grift others, etc.

Either way it makes a whoosh sound as it goes by

I mean there’s a whole bunch of assumptions

First, you’d need to make enough money to work 1-2 years to be able to save up enough that it’s more substantial than a two week vacation, which for many isn’t possible.

Second, you’d need to have a type of career where it’s just fine to stop working for awhile and then come back like nothing happened. Most careers don’t let you just leave for awhile and come back when you feel like it, and applying for a new job every year or two years sounds fucking miserable.

Third, you’d need to have some place you can live during those 1-2 years you are working. Either you’re rich enough to just already own a home or condo or keep paying rent, or you have kind friends or family that let you live with them. Otherwise, again, you’re searching for housing every year or two, which sounds awful.

Fourth, you still need medical care when you aren’t working, so you need the money to pay for private insurance.

As you said. Pets, kids, an SO with a stable job that doesn’t want to do this, all non-starters.

To me this screams “I have a trust fund and I mean that I want to save up travel money while my apartment is already paid for.” And where that’s not the case, I imagine it’s someone in a very lucrative field, where working two years nets them a significant amount of money.

Though the top comment certainly shows an example of where this does work (though it requires all the assumptions I outlined above)

Never thought the company named after a tool the great evil used to dominate and spy on others in LOTR would exist to dominate and spy on others!

Yeah probably just annoyed they aren’t getting raises with the amount of new government contracts coming in

They already do pay-gate useful functionality, this is just an alternative revenue stream

Yeah it’s best if they tried to steal from the IRS. Trump wants them to do that again but give him the money directly this time.

Well, in hypercapitalism there is no success, there is just expected exponential growth, I guess in that case you’re right; but hypercapitalism is destined for failure because it is unsustainable

“That’s a whole month’s truck payment!”

Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner last month that promised face-to-face access to Mr. Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Less than three weeks after she attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon.

Mr. Walczak’s pardon application argued that his criminal prosecution was motivated more by his mother’s efforts for Mr. Trump than by his admitted use of money earmarked for employees’ taxes to fund an extravagant lifestyle.

Ah yes, already has a rich MAGA mommy but it’s not enough unless you’re fucking over someone else.

It came just in the nick of time for Mr. Walczak, sparing him from having to pay nearly $4.4 million in restitution and from reporting to prison for an 18-month sentence that had been handed down just 12 days earlier. A judge had justified the incarceration by declaring that there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the rich.

There is. There always has been.

Yeah they all have to get a speech from the person who is probably working hardest right now to gut their benefits when they get out of the service

Yeah I think it’s also because instagram prohibits linking directly to onlyfans, so for many it exists as an intermediary where the can still have that link but it’s not direct.

Or worse. A single bad actor (according to the company) poisoned grok to be white supremacist. How many unsupervised, privileged LLM commands could run in a short time if an angry employee at Anthropic poisons the LLM to cause malicious damage to servers, environments, or pipelines it has access to?