Another factor here is that to make the most advanced chips, you need something called eleven 9 silicon. That’s silicon that’s 99.999999999% pure.

We can only artificially manufacture up to nine 9 silicon.

Eleven 9 has to be mined, and there’s only one spot in the world were it exists. A little town in North Carolina.

That’s why the US gets to say who can even attempt to manufacture advanced chips.

The difference is knowledge. You know what an apple is. A LLM does not. It has training data that has the word apple is associated with the words red, green, pie, and doctor.

The model then uses a random number generator to mix those words up a bit, and see if the result looks a bit like the training data, and if it does, the model spits out a sequence of words that may or may not be a sentence, depending on the size and quality of the training data.

At no point is any actual meaning associated with any of the words. The model is just trying to fit different shaped blocks through different shaped holes, and sometimes everything goes through the square hole, and you get hallucinations.

Hitler actually did both. Several of his “girlfriends” were 14 when they met.

He also managed to become the guardian of his 14 year old niece at one point.

I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for a few years now, and I can say Bethesda games, and specifically modding Bethesda games. That shit works a well as can be expected on windows, and if you keep the mod list light, can actually run better than vanilla.

I will say, the free Fallout 4 creation club content good enough as far as light modding goes, and runs extremely well.

Skyrim on the other hand, would honestly probably be fine if their creation club had half the mods that I want to play with.

Which is sort of wild.

Marx was very clear that communism could not be delivered by heroes on horseback. But then again, Tankies don’t like Marx, they like Lenin, the man who lost an election to actual communists and then had them all killed. He seized power via coup, and then made himself a king, and wrote how kings (vanguard parties) were somehow vital to communism, and how democracy was not.

Except for the subtle Chinese propaganda constantly fed to the rest of the world. Now the propaganda is blatant enough for people to abandon the app, so the world is technically better for the US seizure. The app went to shit, but it was already pretty bad, so no net loss there.

Eh, it’s actually a wash. China did the exact same shit with different key words. They were just smarter about it.

And most of the censorship was in China.

Because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and is no ones friend.

Just because the US is shit, doesn’t make China any better. The world isn’t black and white, it’s mostly black and dark grey.

They’re already doing that. There are reports that content from the DNC isn’t being served anymore, even to subscribers.

And Tiktok isn’t the only place for that exact type of content.

People are already jumping ship to other platforms.

Ah, but that’s the thing. There are always new platforms.

The current winner seems to be a new one called Upscrolled.

The guy behind it is a Palestinian out of Jordan, with Australian citizenship?

Anyway, that’s all I currently know about it, the app is being hugged to death by tens of thousands of new users over the last day or two.