***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Quincy McCall]

Does smell like Buddy was hoping to get caught, trying to live out his Joker fever dream. Maybe he has an insanity defense?

Cooked either way

 

[earldagoat]

 

[moe200069]

seems to have some strong opinions on "Japan real hole" and how to revitalize Japanese society

Another white man with the hubris to think he has solutions for another country

Hope them genocide fries were worth your freedom buddy

 

[osh kosh bosh]

But the buyer will likely be Zuckerberg or some other baron whose platforms don’t compensate content creators.

All of US centered tech oligarchs have an anti arts and humanities ideology to their core. Moreover, they want to put most content creators out of business and have it all be replaced by AI slop.

From the perspective of a lot of Americans, we’re making our country poorer and uglier so that a few already extremely rich guys can benefit from further ensloppification.

I know a bit about this because of work

1. Youtube pays more generally than Tiktok, this is why most big TikTok creators will try to convert their Tiktok audiences to youtube.
Facebook pays more probably but has an older audience.
IG doesn't pay people very much, but large IG followings are generally more valuable to sponsors than TikTok followings

So if Zuckerberg bought it, he does own a platform that pays for content and I really doubt he'd want to upset the economics that drive the platform.

2. Tiktok main selling point is e-commerce not ads.
Tik Tok is essentially chinese QVC. their ad business is not as sophisticated as google or facebook, i really doubt Facebook or Google, or Twitter is gunna risk the antitrust scrutiny to buy them just for the audience, especially if the ByteDance refuses to give up the algorithm.

if you're gunna buy them I think it's much more likely to be a Walmart or Amazon, and again, why would you upset the the economics that drive the platform?
Tik Tok doesn't pay creators that much.

3. Generative AI is nowhere even slightly close to impacting any of this.
my work sent me out to see some demos and hear pitches and learn about it.

it's not even slightly close. it's driving a lot of investment in silicon valley so everyone is incentivized to oversell it,
but the reality is the video generation things require tons of prompts to generate something even halfway decent.

and all the factors that are causing stagnation of LLM performance
are EVEN WORSE for video. even less training data, and higher compute costs to process video.



so yah imo I think all these concerns are not big deals assuming the CCP doesn't just refuse to sell

 

[rexanglorum]

Italianx

 

[Mark Antony]

eh someone will just buy it. problem solved.

Trump doesn't have the power to get rid of the law, but his TikTok investor donors don't want to see their investments reduced to zero so someone will def buy it.

Seems like something a firm like Blackstone would jump on.

 

[dmbrhs]

If that’s really the killer he’s a fool for not fleeing the country

Do people not understand how hard it is to just "flee the country"? If you're not wealthy or don't have connections, you're not getting very far. I remember in high school these two kids committed a pretty brutal armed robbery. One kid was rich and had an aunt who lived in Switzerland. He also had Swiss citizenship and a Swiss passport. He was arrested in Switzerland but they wouldn't extradite him for awhile. I forget how it ended, but either he was going to be tried in Switzerland or here, so he waived extradition and came back. It was a long time ago, back when it was easier to do this stuff.

 

[Beruseruku Desu]

Luigi Mangione’s most recent review on Goodreads. “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive.”​

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingas****/?f=flair_name:"r/all"

 

[gry60]

How Peter Thiel’s network of right-wing techies is infiltrating Donald Trump’s White House

With David Sacks as “AI and crypto czar” and Elon Musk as co-head of the DOGE, Peter Thiel’s network has become closely tied to the new Trump administration.

www.yahoo.com

It was PayPal cofounder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel who introduced his mentee, JD Vance, to President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021. Three years later—with Trump and Vance just weeks from the White House—it’s Thiel who is sitting pretty as many people within his network head for official or advisory positions in the next administration.

David Sacks—who worked with Thiel at PayPal and wrote for the Stanford Review, the student newspaper Thiel founded as an undergraduate at Stanford University in 1987—was named as the White House’s incoming “AI and crypto czar” on Wednesday. Jim O’Neill, former CEO of Thiel’s personal foundation, has been picked as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Elon Musk, whose financial and vocal support helped elect Trump, will be running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Musk had worked closely with Thiel at PayPal; and Thiel’s venture fund, Founders Fund, was an early investor in several of Musk’s companies, including space cargo business SpaceX, tunneling firm the Boring Company, and brain-chip startup Neuralink.

Trae Stephens, a general partner at Founders Fund, is reportedly being considered for deputy secretary of defense, according to the Wall Street Journal. And Michael Kratsios, Thiel Capital’s former chief of staff and a director at Founders Fund–backed Scale AI, is reportedly handling tech policy during the Trump transition.




Then, of course, there is Vance, who worked for Thiel at one of his funds, Mithril Capital, then launched a venture fund that Thiel backed. Founders Fund still lists Vance’s venture firm, Narya Capital, as an “affiliate” on regulatory filings.

wavycrocket

 

[jshortt]

East Coast cities with Republican Governors giving back billions in federal dollars so they could cancel transformational public transportation systems

Cincinnati Baltimore​

https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...pt-black-baltimore-segregated-and-poor-367930

"Sorely missing is a long-planned east-west transit route that would connect isolated Black Baltimore neighborhoods to downtown and suburban job centers and to other rail lines. In 2014, the Obama administration offered Maryland a selective “New Starts” grant of $900 million to finally build what was called the Red Line — a project that would not only have connected thousands of Black Marylanders to better jobs but would also create a comprehensive transit system that might restart the Baltimore region’s economy and improve race relations by building literal connections between communities.

Today, there’s no construction of rail in Baltimore. The $900 million has been returned to the federal government. The state of Maryland redirected $736 million of state funds originally set aside for the Red Line to building roads instead — in predominantly white areas. And the U.S. Department of Transportation, which was supposed to investigate whether that decision was illegal and discriminatory, quietly closed the case without making any public findings.

Transportation investment and disinvestment have been central in Baltimore’s long saga of racial segregation and inequity, and the Red Line was the most recent chapter. Since Gov. Larry Hogan killed the Red Line in 2015, it has become a rallying cry for transit and racial-justice activists in Baltimore and beyond"

Damn, that is literally how I remember the Ohio situation playing out too!

 

[earldagoat]

 

[rolaholic]

AIPAC has been running up the score this cycle

 

[IATT]

AIPAC has been running up the score this cycle

Where all those protesters that could show up at everything democrats were doing

 

[pmatic]

 

[gry60]

AIPAC has been running up the score this cycle

DLF



Looks like the IDF is getting a US-funded space program soon

 

[rexanglorum]

 

[Based Jesus]

Killing people in cold blood is actually the most american way of resolving our differences. That's kind of the problem.

 

[1995]

 

[earldagoat]

Luigi Mangione’s sprawling family found success after patriarch’s rise

The patriarch of a sprawling Italian American family, who died in 2008, was a self-made multimillionaire real estate developer who owned country clubs, nursing homes and radio stations while supporting an array of civic causes.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com

 

[IATT]

 

[dmbrhs]

The MAGAs are soooooo mad it was one of their own who did the CEO. You know they were praying that it was a lefty lunatic. Nope. The call is still coming from inside the house.

 

[moe200069]

 

[biggie62]

The MAGAs are soooooo mad it was one of their own who did the CEO. You know they were praying that it was a lefty lunatic. Nope. The call is still coming from inside the house.

Was he one? I haven’t seen anything.

 

[p0tat0 5alad]

I only see people mad he got apprehended tbh.

 

[dmbrhs]

Was he one? I haven’t seen anything.

Most certainly. He's a total MAGA, and the fact none of the conservative media news is covering him proves it. They don't want to be associated with a MAGA gunman who took out on of their own. These are the same people who declared their own people were actually ANTIFA members just taking a stroll in the park on Jan. 6th in order to absolve themselves of responsibility. They are being VERY quiet on this one all of a sudden. Gee, I wonder why??? Could it be that it's one of their own???