Cloudflare is way way more transparent than most companies. Any other company, and you wouldn’t get a post-mortem blog article going into technical details of what went wrong.

In fact, this shitty Mashable “article” does a disservice to the more-detailed post.

EDIT: Aaaaand it’s gone.

Sony are a bunch of fucking dumbasses.

Elfen Lied? I swear the only thing I remember about that anime was the controversy about its gore and themes.

Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state.

And that’s the crux of the issue, isn’t it? You can’t let corpos piss all over journalism to turn it yellow, and you can’t let a state-run press dictate the citizen’s world view.

Information wants to be free, and that’s realistically the only way it can work.

Name the cases.

Posts article on social media. How ironic!

democratic centralist government run by the communist party

Sounds like a dictatorship ran by one party.

It’s international. It doesn’t need to be based in England.

Lenin wanted to create socialism from the top down, establishing a dictatorship

When somebody casually says the word “dictatorship” as a serious solution to a problem, they have already failed.

The Soviets tried socialism as a ladder to communism, were about instantly corrupted.

No, they tried communism as a ladder to socialism, entered the dictatorship of the proletariat phase, and were instantly corrupted. Because, you know… dictatorship.

Lenin’s idea of socialism will never work, because it is far too optimistic, and does not factor the corruptibility of humans. Every single example of communism that has ever plagued a country is a prime illustration of that failure.

Capitalism ain’t the problem. Capitalism for the economy and democracy for the government is the best we humans have figured out. Problem being, money, as in any system, has been funneled to the top. The top took our vote via lack of education and media control, and their power has been snowballing for the last 20-30 years. Now we’re too ignorant and misled to vote in our own best interests. We’re seeing the end game, the end game of any unregulated system.

Capitalism was the system the rich wanted to ensure they still had a foothold. In the past, it was fiefdoms and land ownership. Then a bunch of rich Americans got together (the founding fathers) and democracy wasn’t going see the light of day unless there was some level of compromise, and they got to keep their power in some way. Democracy was supposed to be a counterbalance, yes, but capitalism isn’t actually necessary for a functional society.

Ever since humanity evolved into a barter system, the enemy has always been the rich and powerful (who also happen to be rich), and the tools they use to keep themselves in power. Never ever forget that.

Instead say, “The GOP did this!” (politically) and “The billionaires did this!” (economically). Words matter if you want to win hearts and minds.

The GOP is a tool for the rich, and billionaires are just another identity of the rich. It all funnels to a single root cause.

The internet was a bubble. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful. It just means that companies are overselling its value. There are too many companies jumping on the bandwagon, and not all of them with survive when the bubble pops.

It’s still bad and destructive, but I think far too many people are interpreting this bubble as “if I wait a few more years, this technology will disappear and I won’t have to worry about it any more”. No, it’s more like the internet where if people wait a few more years and don’t use it, they will lag behind and be replaced by people who understand the tech. Companies that don’t use it will die out.

I like Hank Green’s recent takes on AI.

The level of competition is extremely high, and no one will be willing to pay for AI services.

Companies are already paying for AI services. You think everybody has a free account? Please!

I use LLMs every day in my job. It’s a useful tool for programming, and it’s saved me a lot of time searching for information.

Or torrents. If piracy’s on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.

Many video games have funny moments, but Portal 2 remains on top as the most hilarious video game of all-time.

Half light is the biggest troll in the game, surpassing even Electrochemistry in how unhinged it is.

Funny how that plays out, considering the data collection of LLMs have to dance around the copyright issue.

Not that I agree with many of people that say looking at a picture and adjusting weights is considered “stealing an image”.

I’m glad this effort finally has the support it needs, compared to six months ago when it was practically on life support.

FLUX.1 and WAN were already miles beyond Stable Diffusion a year ago. While America has been pushing capitalistic goals with LLMs, China has been releasing banger model after banger model, all as open-source.

Downside is it’s China and comes with their own biases, both with image generation and politics within its text models. Fortunately, some of that can be re-trained back to normal, but the technology is moving so fast.

Delete Facebook, Hit the Gym, Lawyer Up!

Well, you’ll have to ask the person making that claim to begin with.

That implies I want to argue with somebody who is sealioning.