“Many people told me that out of fear of war and inflation they had moved away from stocks and bank accounts, investing in gold instead. Some said they kept larger sums of cash on hand so they could access it quickly if needed,” he said.

Yes. There are always pros and cons. The “loot boxes” are safe from inflation and bank account limits, but they are exposed thieves just like keeping money in a safe or under the bed at home.

The safest bet is always to invest in society, not in your private treasure chest.

Better be Ducky D. Luffy.

I’m sure that the rich assholes around there will love to prop up a fascist regime. It’s their thing.

Still SciFi

It’s just solipsism with more electricity use.

https://www.techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-epistemic-weapon/

Yeah, but why? Windows is horrible.

Yes, that’s why this update to the poster is more relevant.

Project 2025 CO2 ppm

left

are they tho

How are we in @europe@feddit.org and people don’t know about https://dns.sb/ ?

https://dns.sb/ please

Yeah, the AI slop factories are monetizing open-source code indirectly.

Cory Doctorow: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025) - YouTube - more good ideas than just the DMA.

Would you really claim that a script-kiddie won’t alter a number or a string in some script?

But is he the horse too?

Close. A script is readable and editable code. The LLM slop is “deep” so it’s opaque and you can’t really change the system prompt (you can jailbreak it).

Missing the LLM developer with billions of tokens to burn.

developer

developer

are they tho?

I’ve been trying to warn people about the optimism trap for years. It’s difficult, optimism is a very low-effort and attractive mentality.