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Speed cameras next. They’re just revenue generators and part of a safetyism Trojan horse for surveillance.

Who is this for? Is it just a way to monetize dying platforms before they inevitably become worthless?

The last stage of Doctorow's enshittification cycle is "Then, they die."

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


This company makes the internet unusable if you value privacy and use VPNs or whatever. Evil.

Has anyone else had GI issues from creatine? Even at low doses?

Isn't that, like, the most common side effect of it? I was just googling for side effects, and different sources vary a bit, but almost all list digestive discomfort

Yes from what I’ve read. But I wonder if some people simply can’t take any amount of it at all. The low doses are SUPPOSED to fix discomfort.

I don’t know much about this system. But is it really possible for a VC backed service like door dash to compete against it?

It could, by bringing better customer service. However, the decentralization aspect of the real thing is very intriguing for me. I wonder if there's a way to standardize this service offering while keeping decentralization in its core architecture. That'll be the best of both worlds really. Could probably revitalize this industry too.

Yea no one buys this excuse. It’s just a way to create lock-in and siphon off our data. And it’s at the expense of consumers who can have a better experience through Apple. No one should trust the low quality software car companies build - they simply cannot invest in it like a real software company. And one day they’ll probably be hacked and it’ll be the consumer who is victimized.

I’ve seen this trend of not including CarPlay pick up. Sure Tesla has this stance. Now GM. And I guess Rivian. All are out of consideration for our family, as a result of this one choice.

Or if you want a simpler reason to distrust them - look at what this Rivian person claims in this article. He says CarPlay takes over every single pixel in the car. That hasn’t been true on any car I’ve had with CarPlay. The CarPlay piece is framed within the UI of the car maker, and the dashboard behind the steering wheel also doesn’t have CarPlay pixels. It’s a blatant lie.


The biggest benefit is that it creates competition among models. If more people use open weight models or models from other providers, it’ll be harder to ban them. Which is what OpenAI and Anthropic will try to accomplish. OpenAI by lobbying the Trump administration for favorable treatment (see Brockman’s MAGA PAC donations), Anthropic by using religious leaders and nonprofits to push “safety” justifications for difficult regulations.

> a kind of international finance man cum-captain of industry (perhaps best embodied by Sam Altman)

What the hell is a “cum-captain”? Search isn’t helping.


Probably this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cum

I.e. finance man as well as captain of industry


the correct usage is dashes on both sides of the word, the usage above was extra confusing because it was incorrect

As in cum-"captain of industry"

non native speaker here - I don't get it.

It's an old English word (predating the sexual connotation):

cum - Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.

Basically nobody uses that language construct anymore until you run headlong into it in a Hackernews comment or something


I use it, but you're supposed to hyphenate on both sides so this usage was incorrect.

thank you! this was most helpful to lead me into asking the right question.

https://share.google/aimode/dDekJEZzfKaE6FCvH


“cum” (rhymes with “broom”, rather than “dumb”) is Latin for “with”.

that's when it appears cum "laude" (eg)

in commonwealth (seniors in everyday UK, HR and pedants otherwise) usage it rhymes with dumb, like you'd expect

https://youtu.be/RzESsmv5FhM

Radcliff-cum-Chackmore


No it isn't. It's Latin.

only the ethymology is latin. the use combining role names is old English, indeed.

'cum' is latin for 'with', and it is commonly hyphenated when inserted in between other words.

It's also a slang word for semen, but that's not relevant here.


I suspect they mean "with" but in latin. But I'm not entirely sure.

That's correct

I can’t read the article due to the paywall, but I think Brockman becoming the largest donor to the MAGA PAC is really about regulatory capture, and the timing is to protect OpenAI from new competition they didn’t see coming.

Anthropic also wants regulatory capture but they’re doing it differently: they are partnering with religious organizations to push safety / ethics narratives, that they hope will end up in law. The religious groups are a vehicle to get public support for their desired regulations.

Without such protections, neither company can avoid being commoditized. The Chinese models are close behind. And traditional big tech controls distribution. So what’s their moat?


Yes that’s because the pope is pushing actual messianism. Are people forgetting what he stands for and which organization he represents? It’s silly that people are suddenly putting him on a pedestal. The Catholic Church is an evil force that has destroyed many other countries’ cultures and religions, not to mention enabled the mass systematic abuse of children.

The pope is against tech companies getting power but is happy for the Catholic Church to gather power and abuse it when it’s for his causes. No thanks. Tech companies are far less evil than Catholicism.


> No thanks. Tech companies are far less evil than Catholicism.

I'm atheist, been in tech for almost 30 years now, and even I don't think that is true.

What religion and/or belief system do you follow?


Even today, their ban of contraception alone is a cause of many misery in poor Catholic-majority countries.

I wouldn't even bother reading whatever they wrote.


The various popes have made many statements in the past about converting many ethnicities and countries. With that comes contraception bans, reduced women’s rights, interference in the politics of those countries, corruption, and so many other problems. Like other extremely opinionated belief systems, the Catholic church’s goal is to replace all other beliefs and systems of government, and the power they get is meant to impose their beliefs on everyone in society.

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