Her birthday is close enough.

I kind of dread people celebrating me, usually in part because the times around that celebration are busy and stressful for me so I can do the performative gratitude that people expect when it happens.

Then it devolves into conversations of what is wrong with you (why are you broken) or what is wrong with this (why do you hate me).

Oh, I try keeping my friends away from her.

But he’s the one to stop the genocide!

Well, he doesn’t have a royal title any more.

I expect that China is likely investing in 1 due to industrial policy. When 2 happens, it is going to collapse the industry.

Likely, Lemmy will be illegal in those countries. However, given the federated nature, I expect a more whack-a-mole approach to banning.

Yeah. They likely equate LLM with all AI and a company with software which is more than just a chat bot gets lumped in with everyone else.

How many people are formally hired in Argentina?

Regarding the NJ election, it became obvious that the former Lieutenant Governor bent the knee to AIPAC, both to get money to support her campaign and also to fund a smear campaign against former representative Tom Malinowski since Tom wanted some conditions on aid to Israel.

Looks like AIPAC got Tom out, but Analilia Mejia is likely going to be far worse for them

But why would a fire wizard become a metallurgist?

First, the development of martial technologies that negate the use of a fire wizard likely wouldn’t be developed by a fire wizard. Instead, it would likely be developed by people trying to engage in war without the use of a fire wizard.

Second, the people in charge of tending the fires at a steel mill weren’t the people designing new alloys at said steel mill. For throughput reasons, you wouldn’t want your R&D team having to man the production line. The technae involved in making something hot is different than the technae of creating a strong metal. A factory owner would want to keep the two jobs separate.

The problem is that Galaxy’s Edge got descoped later in the design process while Eisner made decisions early on in the design process to ensure a cheaper park.

Galaxy’s Edge feels emblematic about the issues of design under Iger versus Eisner.

Eisner vastly expanded park capacity, but he didn’t just focus on E-ticket attractions. He intentionally built some parts of the parks to entertain but cheaper to add capacity and give people a place to be entertained if they didn’t want to wait in long lines.

In contrast, most of Iger’s expansions were generally a lot more costly and didn’t have the throughout of previous E-ticket attractions. This ended up pushing Disney into being a more premium experience.

I feel like this is a symbol of the difference between the Eisner and the Iger CEO tenures. Eisner built out a massive expansion of the parks under his leadership, doubling the gates in Anaheim and Orlando while planning international expansion. Iger didn’t, choosing smaller expansions with premium experiences over capacity expansions.

It is part of the reason that Universal has been able to grow so much, Disney doesn’t have the capacity that it needs to meet high end theme park demand.

It depends on what you define infusion as. Three big theme of magic versus tech isn’t that magic stops existing, but that tech radically changes the balance of power in how to use magic. To use a fire wizard as an example, the best use of a fire wizard is different between the medieval era and industrial era.

For the medieval era, the best use of a fire wizard is as magical artillery. Sieges are likely broken as the attacking army has enough fire power from their wizards to burn away defenders in a castle. You likely need these wizards to understand strategy, so they will likely be generals or kings. A fire wizard is going to have a high status in society.

For the industrial era, the best use of a fire wizard is as a replacement for coal. Weapons on the battlefield have replaced the need of fire wizards and some weapons have enough range to be a threat to the wizards, negating their need. Instead, a fire wizard is either used to melt metal or to power a steam engine because they are cheaper than using coal. At best, a fire wizard is going to be at the level of skilled labor in this society as their efforts are best used to be an energy supply.

That shift in power is going to have major ramifications on societies.

Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

I like magic settings that deal with non-magic technology becoming a threat to magic.

The complaints about the arms industry/the cost of war has been around since recorded history.

AI server farms has only been around for a few years.

This wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.

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