The biggest problem in America is the largest most profitable companies pay 21% instead of 15% corporate income tax, apparently. Meanwhile all peeps of no taxes on tips or SS have disappeared.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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I am sure they would have donated to Harris too, not sure what's so big news about this
All lick the anus
That’s a good band name
What
Lol. Our society is straight pathetic.
Our ancestors are turning over in their graves.
We're going to end up being the most embarrassing era in American history. Assuming history is taught in the future.
I'm descended from an officer killed by the British in the American revolution.
My parents and my brother all voted for Trump.
This blatant cock gobbling makes me sick.
Let me get my little black book of boycott.
Oh. It's already there on the first page since forever.
Maybe I'll just flip off Zucky when I see him next time.
Supporting a fascist gala... $1,000,000.
Banning TikTok... Priceless!
Tell me this isn't corruption.
Corruption implies this isn’t exactly how it’s meant to work.
Just need to readjust thresholds a bit friend. For example, I used to think that using the office of the president like a QVC platform to promote a bunch of cheap crap made in China for personal financial gain seemed pretty corrupt and not to mention just plain gross. After giving myself a violent lobotomy though (don't tell me you haven't thought of it too) , I'm happily purchasing a subscription to the new presidential perfume and find that it is really helpful in attracting all kinds of incel friends.
This isn't corrup-hahaha sorry I can't even finish the sentence
so corrupted that i couldn't help but lol at the headline
Watch his inauguration be empty as fuck like it was last time
Zuck bending his own knee in the vain hope he won't get bent over Trump's.
Maybe he should have spent a little less attention on Caesar and tried to learn a few other lessons from history.
Dude think he's Caesar but he's Crassus....
Nah Elon is dimestore Crassus because he's richer. Marky mark is Lepidus because of his horse face.
Why not Marc Anthony? He gets left in charge and everything goes wrong.
Because I don't want to watch Marcus Zucitus run the lupercalia
Someone needs to pay for all those people to attend, otherwise it will be a ghost town on the National Mall.
What about my inaugural fund???
the tech CEO to right-winger pipeline is well greased in the year of our lord twenty twenty four
They make a nice couple. Orange lizard team.
Whew folks lined up to kiss that ring FAST!
If there’s any good that comes of this blatant corruption, I hope it’s Trump leaving open source ML alone instead of giving into whatever monopoly Altman is pushing.
There’s basically a fediverse vs Facebook war going on within AI land, and the tremendous irony is that Zuck is a huge open weights proponent.
Zuck is a huge open weights proponent.
No he isn't. It's a position he holds for the moment to harm competitors. It allows him to take the work of others for his own profit.
The moment his engineers create a competitive improvement, it will be proprietary.
That’s, unfortunately, the position of everyone “big” in the open weights ecosystem now, just in different flavors.
If Meta creates a solid foundation of open AI to get to that point then I will give him credit for that, though. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Meta's doing the right thing right now, if you reject that because eventually Meta will do something that isn't then you'll get nothing at all.
Because THATS the most important thing right now
No, but it’s not unimportant.
As dystopian as it is, we are stuck with AI, and there are two futures:
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Stagnant, earth burning, censored corporate APIs.
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Open weight, power efficient, extensively community modified, locally or “swarm” run models.
And it really is urgent, because the later has a great fighting shot now, but funding/regulation dries up for it, it will never catch up again. Altman an the “AI bros” know this which is why they are pushing the AI danger angle so hard… so you can only by it from them.
It's simply a silver lining.
Frankly, I'm fine with Zuckerberg reading the room and doing what's needed. It shouldn't be what's needed, there's going to be huge blatant corruption under Trump. It's terrible that America has put itself in this situation. But America has put itself into this situation, here we are.
So if someone lobbying for something that's good has to suck up to Trump to get it done, that's unfortunate but at least something good gets done. The proper fix is to get Trump back out of power again and put a more reasonable government in its place. That won't be for a while, though, and it will require the DNC to read the room to accomplish it.