He’s pro “Do the thing that gets me money.” He has zero idea how crypto works. He has no idea how a friggin’ electric car works.
They tapped out people in fixed incomes donating $50 at a time to his “legal defense” slush fund, and this is the next level of letting his broligarch funders use him as a what he is, a brand name, to fleece the undereducated and zealots.
But hey, I bet they’ll get a pardon if they need it ;)
1 out of 16 states. In 1 out of 27 countries.
Where is Estonia or Finland or the Netherlands to set the bar higher?
Yeah, but it’s all piecemeal and small batches of workstations. There’s no full national scale moves.
I reeeeally wish they would just embrace and find open source software as a public good and get it over with. The equally glacial pace of adoption of OSS to avoid vendor lock in with MS is not exactly giving the OSS world the boost it deserves.
Robot is as surprised as I am!
Lol, idiots. This is what happens when you lose touch with reality.
Case in point: These geniuses pushed seasteading for nearly a decade until they realized what everyone else did in the first minute of hearing the idea, that it is a dumb fucking thing to live on a floating trash heap to avoid normal amounts of regulation and participate in society. None of them ended up wanting to actually so the thing they were pushing.
How’s their Utopian blockchain city idea going? The only IRL version, Prosperia in Honduras, is falling apart.
These people are fucking lunatics, simply by virtue of using abject wealth to push ideas that are idiotic on their face, over and over.
The real danger is when idiots enthralled by money are elected into power and taken by these people. The blind letting the blind, elected by the dumb.
It’s temporary in the sense that 2 years ago, this stuff barely worked. We might be at a plateau of compute, but Deep Seek did highlight that gains may be possible through design rather than compute.
This is not the end of history. In even 5 years what we’re all using now will be cringe garbage.
Because anyone that’s tried to use an LLM for more than shits and giggles knows they’re unreliable, finicky golden geese.
My rule with Claude is that if I can’t get a code fix after 3 asks, it’s hallucinating too much and I have to pull my shit into a new instance and start with new prompts. Yes, that’s a temporary problem that will last 2 years max, but its not enough on which to be totally overhauling the global economy today.
Not at all, this is well established technology already in use all over the place.
When countries use digital IDs, they are able to carve out validating individual aspects of an identity. Just address, just over 18, just class of driver’s license, etc.
So the State has a website/wallet where the user pulls a token from the State, basically a fancy hashed OTP/Login code.
The website, which can’t derive your identity from the code, sends the code to the state API and can’t ask more than “is this hash legit” and the State API doesnt need to say more than “yup.”
Where can things go wrong? The State can ask to know who needs the token. Or even demand to know, and log what sites use it. The state can contract this out to a vendor that logs it all, making data theft far more risky.
It all depends on his the state builds requirements.
Tokenization is the easy solution.
You go onto you state gov website and get a token that just says “this is an adult.” Nothing else. Token lasts 10 minutes.
Cut and paste into the site. They authenticate without saying who theu are, back to the gov site, “yo, this legit?” State says “looks like something we would do.” State keeps no records of WHO validated the token, just that it was a legit token.
Same way that routers connect to VPN services.
Not sure why you’re getting down voted. Porn can absolutely become a behavioral addiction.
I used to work at a place where we had a lobby guard that watched porn on his phone all day (sound off). Not sitting there trying to jerk it, it was a compulsion. He would just be watching it while talking to other people, standing by the door…it was weird. He eventually got fired because he genuinely couldn’t not watch porn.
That being said, I’m a huge privacy advocate, and while there are actually ways to anonymously be on a website and verify age, that’s not how anyone is doing it. Things like signing up for an account on a site and scanning your ID are just abysmally stupid. There’s a zero percent chance that this system as is doesnt lead to data theft and possibly even extortion.
All to try and flood the treasury so he can afford tax cuts he promised to donors.
Turns out running the government is hard and it sucks.
That’s what the broligarchy paid for. Literally. The term is “RAGE” Retire All Government Employees.
People in general have no idea and just want to get spun up on drama and manufactured outrage.
Same thing happened when people started scrapping Twitter 10-15 years ago.
Yeah, it’s different for everyone.
My “counterfactual” is knowing a lot of kids that were home schooled. They were just young weird adults that didn’t thrive in most circumstances. There’s a reason why even rural agrarian societies found value is putting kids together.
Because my crusty heart knows not but an abundance of hate, greed, and darkness.
But maybe I’m give it a try later today, I dunno.
Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you’ll be in for the rest of your life. That’s not “child care,” it’s a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.
In? Its more like he’s one of the first wave of official Schedule F Nepo Babies.