owing to a slight miss on revenue

Nope, try again.

spending surged 66% to $37.5 billion in the latest quarter … approximately 45% of the company’s $625 billion in remaining performance obligations (RPO)—a key measure of future cloud contracts—is tied directly to OpenAI

Ding ding ding! That’s right, OpenAI, the company where being profitable is a physical and mathematical impossibility!

All your data are belong to us.

An Australian app, so you can say “Epstein” on this one but still not “stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine”. At least the hate speech manager (for now) isn’t an ex-IDF Zionist and the platform (for now) is not expressly pro-Israel / pro-genocide.

One way of looking at it is that we literally cannot afford war. I mean moneywise. Nixon removed the dollar from the gold standard in order to finance the Vietnam war, which the US lost in the military sense but won in the sense of the military industry making a whole lot of money. Literally more money than was even possible.

Israel can probably make you one of those.

Good idea, but might have to come in like France did in 1971 (they rolled up to NY harbor in a destroyer). For some reason I don’t think it’ll work like it worked for de Gaulle.

Indeed! Castro famously opted for a moral vest over kevlar when visiting the US.

Makes sense, X always boosts racists.

Anti-genocide = anti-racist

Pro-Israel = racist

I really hope the US holds a referendum. Greenlanders tell it like it is.

Hey I’ve seen this one before!

USreal couldn’t destroy Iran through a coup so now they’re bringing in artillery.

Fair enough. Most people with that opinion don’t know about them, or about Ukraine in general or their civil war at all. Just going back to 2013 borders wouldn’t solve anything, especially considering the number of Ukrainians that defected to the Russian side. It would just be an even more divided country.

Great post and I really enjoyed the replies. Mine is of Chavez visiting Castro in 2006 in Havanna, as Castro was dying of cancer. Both men were imprisoned for a failed coup but later rose to power (Chavez democratically and Castro by revolutionary liberation of the country), and both men died in a hospital bed in their respective countries in 2013.

As this is a cultural artifact I’m sure there are many ways of interpreting it, but I thought tankies were the people who think it’s right to suppress imperial-backed anti-democratic coups by any means necessary, and that it originated from the events of the Hungarian Revolution.

Don’t forget napalm and defoliants.

What about Israel? Should it be “destroyed” as well?

That would be nice, but what about the Minsk agreements? Just ignore them? Could they even be implemented at this stage?

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennet describing how they manipulate information on Wikipedia.

This topic has come up a lot (not least from Cory Doctorow). The fact that the rich are both so fragile and so un-creative is why they love AI, especially the sycophantic variants. They can’t handle someone saying no to them or, apparently, an accurate description of the past that isn’t completely flattering to them. Let them work in food services, lol.

What does a win for Ukraine look like to you? Just wondering.

And btw, from an outsider perspective it’s funny and cringe to see the attacks on your comment. I’m afraid those commenters don’t have wherewithal to be as embarrassed as they should be, but it’s a good point, that Ukraine has gotten a lot more outside funding (about $380 bn) than the USSR did to defeat Germany in WWII (about $250 bn in today’s $). I hadn’t noticed that.