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  1. Here is something fascinating from a TIL tidbit from AI lore. The whole reason there is an AI wars at all (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Grok) and not just Google AI and a bunch of midgets, is because of Elon Musk and his infamous pettiness. Because the company he invested in (DeepMind) spurned him (and Zuck) and took less money to be bought by Google, Sam Altman and Elon spun up a company (OpenAI) to get back at the betrayal he felt by Larry Page who he thought was his homeboy up until then (and whom he accidentally made aware of when showing a Breakout video on a private plan). Elon's cache was able to poach a handful of great AI researchers from Google who up until that point had every AI expert in the world (and if you follow their coaching tree makes up every AI company we talk about today) and it's suggested that without Elon's involvement and recruiting (remember Elon in 2014/2015 was still a golden child and hadn't turned heel) Google would have ran away with it. Fascinating.
  2. Who wants to tell him? lol
  3. Wow. With as basic and common of a use case that is and with literally hundreds of companies doing this succesfully, I'm not sure I'd want to publicly admit this or go on record to let the world know I'm incompetent.
  4. Anglicizing is a thing that goes as far back in America to the Ellis Island Jews, Irish and Italian mass immigration era, nothing new there. Some might argue it's cultural assimiliation and adaptation and resilience, others might argue it's racism and assualt for not letting people bring their whole self to work. I've always subscribed to the quaint philosophy of "Mind My Own Darn Business", personally.
  5. Why would they kill the golden goose? The one thing that people love and applaud and is guaranteed engagement farming to be shared? Dumb move IMO
  6. That's a great analogy.
  7. Was there not a Christmas joke swap this year?
  8. Fuyaaaaaaah!
  9. It's funny you mention CRT because I had that thought as well reading this. I came to the conclusion that the reason it was such a bogeyman was actually prescient and strategically deft by the party of the aggrieved white man. CRT was a tiny interdisciplinary framework found almost entirely in the ivory tower of academia and had zero to do with anything else, but to hear the aggreived white man tell it, it was everywhere and all at once. But the genius was to kill it as an infant in the crib before it got full grown and then you had to address the conclusions that reframe everything. If my cynical interpretation is true (and I think you are agreeing with me) then it actually was politically savvy to demonize, isolate and eliminate CRT while it was being sold as "just an academic framework and just an honesty interpretation of history, nothing to fear for the aggrieved white man." which might not have been entirely the truth.
  10. And so THIS finally gets to the heart of the extrapolation or the political point I think Bozo was trying to grasp with. We, as society and politics, can meet these aggrieved white males where they are with a measure of empathy and understanding and gracefully bring them into the big tent but it doesn't help when you have others take the position of that being just another example of the white man being coddled and privileged and helped in a way that no minority or marginalized group ever got. But also we shouldn't be surprised when to your point the white male group who feels they got the rug pulled out from underneath them doesn't just accept it and deal with the new reality but instead chooses to try and fight back and win back the ground (privilege) they've perceived to have lost (though they never really had it).
  11. True, I should have said lost the forecasted percentage of the pie they were groomed to believe was theirs based on a mix of history, entitlement, privilege and what they've been groomed to believe their whole lives instead of implying they lost something they already tangibly had.
  12. So in that sense, they are the first generation to have to deal with the social and political reset. It's going to be messy and it sucks for them. I think your point is that we should acknowledge this and try to address their situation (and perceived situation) and find a way to embrace them for political means? Okay sure. I don't think you'll get an argument there except or until the point where the embracing conflicts with the demographics and issues of those who are being benefited by their loss. At which point it's just a math equation, which group is bigger and/or more helpful to the greater cause?
  13. Do you know who else used to ask this question? Nazi Germany though they referred to the morons as "useless eaters". Let that sink in as it should be sufficiently scary.
  14. I read the article just now. For those skewering the guy for a poorly written essay that is emblamatic of why he couldn't make it as a screenwriter, reading the last 7 pages was infinitely worse. A more damning repudiation of millennial and Gen-X white man's ability to write, indeed. Anyways, a few quick points: 1) I take umbrage with the title. The Lost Generation will ALWAYS refer to Papa Hemingway and his expat peers in Paris post-WWI. 2) I thought the essay was fine and appreciated the plight. I mentioned this before, but I was consulting at a FAANG post George Floyd and was around some staffing of projects both contract and w2 and we were unabahsed in dashboards that tracked the HR KPI's around hiring and were very vocal about prioritizing underrepresented minorities (e.g. not white OR asian/indian) and underreprsented minority (e.g. not male, but else). I've heard from friends that era has been over for a while, for good or bad. 3) The fundamental issue is that in order to disrupt the old mode of white privilege and help the minorities (who are, in fact a majority), it doesn't happen without change and for the in power group taking a step back or accepting less award. There has to be a cohort of white males who lose percentage of the pie as other groups gain it, in order to more evenly disperse resources in a world of scarcity. The seeming injustice is that these white males were born and raised in a group with outsized power and representation and were coming of age in a time of political and social "reset". 4) An analogy for me is the conversation I see playing out in bad schools/neighborhoods and white flight. Sounds far removed but bear with me; the main thrust of this analogy is that a group of people are going to have to be "sacrificed" in order to right the sins of your grandfathers past. You and your children are going to have to live through the growing pains of re-integration and the trough of disillusionment (e.g. schools getting worse, crime getting worse, property values temporarily depressing, higher risks of bad outcomes, etc.) before the tide lifts and society is better through a better area. At some point we are able to, on the surface, double ledger account for the puts and takes of this sort of social correction. The conflict I believe is a tale as old as time. When we peel the onion down we see we STILL live in a world of scarcity and we STILL only have a finite amount of resources to go around and we STILL are all competing and will either cling to the structure that exists or will push for a new structure to exist that will optimally serves us to get the biggest slice of pie. This seems to be both the human condition and the base rules for capitalism.
  15. This is a harsh one too, on Kamala's book"
  16. Read this review and it's pretty scathing re: Karine Jean-Pierr'es book:
  17. It's happening! Breaking news: Justice Department releases trove of Epstein files
  18. What's the word for a glow down?
  19. well this thread got fun.
  20. I believe you and defer to you, I just mean that to continue the level of mainstream, broad critical AND commercial success (and numbers) a la the Thanos arc, they've fumbled pretty badly and it seems that reverting back to RDJ and Chris Evans is an acknowledgment of that. The future is obviously to introduce the "new class" of actors who can take MCU back to the top on another 10 year arc, but it doesn't feel like they've quite found their footing there yet. It's like a football team who drafte dthe QB of the future in the first round but it was a bust and now they are bringing back Joe Flaco or something until they can reset.
  21. Fair enough. But you have to admit it was a funny quip.
  22. BTW...US-Russia talks are due to resume in Miami this weekend. So much for shutting down for the holidays, eh.
  23. I think it's deeper than just "The US is pressuring Belguim" @Schulz2.0. Here is a global finance analysis I saw:
  24. Agreed. It's Benelux with the capital seat in Amsterdam. No need for provincial areas trying to claim sovereignty.
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