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  • I’m a loooooooong time Debian user. I don’t do Ubuntu or other variants.

    I only run sid on a test machine because its always broken in some way, testing on another, and then the majority is deb stable.

    If I want the latest and greatest and to actually use it though, not just see what’s coming and where issues might be for me later, I use arch. FWIW I use arch on two out of four laptops (one is deb stable, one is a work windows laptop), one Debian sid, testing, and stable each on (somewhat) matching spec workstations, and then deb stable (or deb stable + proxmox) on the rest of the bunch.
















  • It was bailed out because the people who drop cash into elections (large investors) would have been impacted.

    If it got to bailout for AI, they’d profit from the bailout, talk it up for retail, have their market news correspondents talk up about how there is huge profit to be made to get more retail investors (ie: bagholders) roped in, and profit off the drop.

    This is what history tells me, you can come to your own conclusions of course, but IMO… AI is just the newest vehicle for the same story we’ve seen cycle (faster every time it seems) over the past… Well, century at this point. Maybe more but before the stock market I’m without examples I’m personally aware of.



  • curbstickle@anarchist.nexustoFuck AI@lemmy.world•"Come and take it"
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    10 days ago

    Something they have historically been extremely good at, yes.

    Pershing Square in 2020 is the most recent one I can think of. In terms of industries you’ve got the obvious subprime market example, the telecom industry in the late 90s, and probably the best example of an entirely fake industry - forestry/reverse mergers about 15 years ago with Chinese Forestry companies that were basically complete fabrications.

    This is what they do.

    Edit: typo, should have been 15 not 25.


  • Investment firms create returns through market manipulation.

    Thats all these AI firms are to them. The product itself is irrelevant. A funding round increases speculation.

    They make money on it going up, and they make money on it going down. Don’t expect them to stop shoveling money in just because its “unprofitable” for the company they are investing in.

    The stock valuation is the only profit they need.