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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
you might find that a trillion dollars isn't so good when it's all paper value and mark-to-market bullshit. Oracle is raising funds based off of future revenue from a datacenter they haven't even broken ground on yet. And that oracle datacenter is a big part of what's popped NVDA's paper value. It's all harvesting the potential future gains to inflate the market today. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
You're participating in their demand generation efforts to create the mirage of a market, in order to fraudulently court more investors. Sora2 is already being used for disinformation campaigns and racist shit, and whatyda know, people have already figured out how to get it to NOT watermark its work. The market can and will be irrational longer than you can hold out your short position on whatever fuckery they're doing. NVDA is investing in customers, just so they can turn around and buy more GPU's. It's completely masturbatory and circular. It's one hell of a bubble that we're gonna have a fun time paying for. And best of all - it's going to wreck our power grid and dry up all our water sources HOORAY! -
can you link to the source for this?
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The Guardian: US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled. The professor, nicknamed “Dr Antifa” by a group of students, had said he was moving to Europe after receiving death threats. Turning Point USA activists have claimed he is a “financier” for the leftwing movement. A petition calling for his removal from the university had been launched in the weeks following the assassination of the Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and Bray’s home address was revealed on social media. One threat included a vow to kill him in front of his students, according to the Washington Post. The threats led to Bray’s decision to relocate to Spain with his wife and two children and to continue to teach his students remotely. “Since my family and I do not feel safe in our home at the moment, we are moving for the year to Europe,” Bray said in an email to students on Sunday. “Truly I am so bummed about not being able to spend time with you all in the classroom.”
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I really wish people (read: decision makers at tech entities and media platforms) would put more effort into information assurance and validation. Hell, even just PGP signing videos/content from original sources would go a loooooong way to proving authenticity.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Captainant replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
the fastest way you can clear the editor (on mobile, PC you just ctrl+A and backspace) is refresh your page, then click the text box, which will bring up a "clear editor" little button you can hit -
Cyril only realized it as the leopard was eating activity eating faces, and even then he still resorted to his baser instincts. His moment of clarity was too little too late, and he suffered the consequences of his betrayal of the Ghormans. He was still instrumental in facilitating the Empire's fascism
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Zelensky is playing the game now with trump, lmao https://www.politico.eu/article/tomahawk-missiles-ukraine-nobel-peace-prize-trump-says-zelenskyy/ Kyiv will nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he sends Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine and helps broker a ceasefire with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday. “During our most recent meeting, I didn’t hear a ‘no.’ What I did hear was that work will continue at the technical level and that this possibility will be considered,” Zelenskyy told journalists in Kyiv about a meeting he held with the U.S. president on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York at the end of September. “The plan for ending the war won’t be easy, but it is certainly the way forward. And if Trump gives the world — above all, the Ukrainian people — the chance for such a ceasefire, then yes, he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Zelenskyy said. “We will nominate him on behalf of Ukraine.”
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
it's the classic fascist tactic - things are ALWAYS both ways. It's doublethink. Their enemies are always all-powerful and DANGEROUS and the reason the fascists MUST seize power, but also their enemies are weak nobodies who can't do anything.- 1229 replies
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Captainant replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
lol you're a pussy that is too much of a coward to own your position and opinions. You still haven't answered the question, I guess you're waiting for 60 votes to do so? -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
ICE goons are going to start getting return fire as they continue to escalate and assualt and brandish at anyone and everyone who DARES question them, or ask why they're breaking into a cemetary -
Tell me you've never had to schedule a specialist appointment without telling me. American medicine through insurance companies is a worse experience by far. Because you get loaded down with medical debt and they will deny all but the barest and most basic shit. My problem is that you're labeling "rent seeking and extracting wealth" as "unabashed capitalism". American capitalism does produce massive profits, but it drives horrific inequality - worse than the divide during the French Revolution. 75% of US corporate profits have gone to stock buybacks, not into the business or to their workers or anything that actually grows the economy. It's all been masturbatory paper value creation, that gets converted into tax-free liquidity via loans. It's all bullshit and superior if and only if you're on the extractive side.
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There's a whoooooole lotta Cyril's in America
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You goddamn SOCIALIST!
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Captainant replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Alas, he is infected with MAGA brainrot and can't even spell his deflective insults correctly. It's equally SAD and LOW ENERGY! -
Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Captainant replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Hey @Incredulityhow does it feel to be demonstrably dumber than MTG? -
bLeSsEd ArE tHe PeAcEmAkErS!!! [JDAM's another boat in another country's territorial waters]
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What's there to be optimistic of wrt/ genAI? It's the new flavor of off-shoring/outsourcing jobs and it's being used by the idiot executive class to attack workers and justify layoffs. They're incredibly useful and powerful for doing data condensation and information recall - IF you take the effort to build a vector store of knowledge. But soooooo often I see FIRSTHAND the trend of people using it for every problem, even things that have extremely mature machine learning modeling techniques. And since the idiot executives don't know what their workers actually DO, they're more than happy to believe the magic box that they bought with company money. It's so SOOOOO massively oversold and leveraged to the tits with fat leveraged bets made with money from mark-to-market "windfalls" as companies sign deals to build new data centers. The revenue just isn't there to support the level of capex expenditures that are currently propping up our gimped GDP
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I have as much say in stopping our government's descent into fascism as I do for improving our o-line. We can sunshine pump all we want but I'm not sure what if anything you or I can do to directly affect a change. Further, shitting on discussion and discourse does nothing but reinforce the status quo as "normal". So that's probably a big part of why you're getting the reaction you've been enjoying. But seriously, I've canvassed for candidates I like, called my reps and senators (lmfao, right?) to express my position as a constituent, but sadly I lack the millions in disposable political speech (read: millions of dollars) that enable my voice to be truly heard. It's a lot easier to not be a downer when everything isn't going to shit while a group is dedicated to accelerating that trend. It does suck that it's not the early 2000's and we still had a semblance of class mobility and market fairness, and a football team that didn't crumble in the face of adversity, but alas. We fuckin don't.
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Our economy is NOT strong - an ever smaller group of consumers and businesses make up a significantly larger percentage of spending. It's a K-shaped economy with the top getting exponentially bigger while the bottom gets steadily smaller. The stock market is strong, but individuals are fucking struggling. Hard times and complex problems make people look for simple solutions, and trumpism and blaming nonwhite people is a simple answer. I joked earlier this year about trump DIY'ing his own economic calamity to enable his fascist takeover, and goddamn it's happening before our eyes
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
TFW modern policing started out as slave catching patrols "just enforcing the law". And yeah, we've been operating in a semi-fuedal means for as long as housing as been out of reach for the average/median American. Lords of the land seek and extract rents from the workers who live on their land. If you don't have a home, you are criminalized as a homeless person and pushed further down the social hierarchy. So, you MUST go find a job in order to give the majority of your earnings to a landlord just so that you can avoid sliding further down. Remember, to them, the only value that you intrinsically hold is how much money can be extracted from you. Nothing more, and absolutely nothing less than extracting wealth and funneling it to the oligarchs -
You should really read a history book about 1930s Germany and how often the nazis fucked up their plans and pissed off their citizenry until their schemes caught on through cultural normalization. There can be all the resistance you want, and then DHS will helo-rappel down and go Fallujah on them. The State has a legal monopoly on violence, and they have been ratcheting up with zero check on their power. I really wish I had your optimistic mindset, but brother, America is as cooked as our o-line is.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Speaking of Doctorow, he just did a long interview with Adam Conover on the subject of enshittification -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
One step further, Sergio was a whistle stop for GW Bush and catered for his fucking campaign events! The entire point of these actions is to terrorize nonwhite people and create an underclass of person that is unprotected by the law but still subject to it. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/texas-waco-chef-deported-sergio-garcia-ice-undocumented/ He was a well-known business owner who had won an international following in the years when President George W. Bush brought hordes of journalists and politicians to Waco. Within 24 hours, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had Garcia deported across the border into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He was separated from his four U.S.-born adult children and wife, Sandra. Sandra Garcia, also undocumented, would reunite in July with her husband in Monterrey. The detention and deportation abruptly cut short an American dream 36 years in the making. It came as a shock to customers and fellow business leaders. The news rippled through Waco’s immigrant community and brought a sense of fear and vulnerability, said Mito Diaz-Espinoza, president of the Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “Deportations like Sergio’s — to fixtures of the community — are making people think, ‘This could be me next, or my favorite place next, or somebody who I talk to every day’,” he said. Garcia, originally from Veracruz, Mexico, rose from selling ceviche in Styrofoam cups to earning writeups in Texas Monthly and catering events related to President Bush’s Western White House in the 2000s. A box of thank-you notes at the family’s Waco home includes signed letters by a Baylor University athletic director, Waco Independent School District and countless customers through the years.
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