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Only for a year or so. Any company still vulnerable after these tools have been out long enough deserve it.

Yes, and if they do go up, that would actually benefit the citizens, because they are publicly owned. I’m not sure why this is hard to understand? The only difference is that it’s not owned by tech oligarchs.

In what way is a tax a purchase? It’s ownership but not purchase.

The government, on threat of imprisonment, says give us your stock. No money changes hands, only the AI companies lose.

Oh no doubt, the industry is very, very sick. Incestuous even.

In the other hand, there’s very little downside to a 50% tax on all AI companies. It’s not an investment so there’s no chance of losing your nest egg.

Nobody is purchasing the shares here, it’s a tax.

Yes, that’s how national organizations work. It’s not like some random VC firm that privately owns the stock. It’d be owned by the nation, and the directors would be required to pay dividends to the public on those profits.

This is basic sovereign wealth fund stuff.

He’s calling to tax 50% of all the company shares in AI, making it a public benefit.

Eventually you’ll be able to walk around invisibly simply by not carrying a phone.

WTF that looks badass, I need to try that game

It’s from cyberpunk:

• solo = unaffiliated mercenary (presumably)
• Eddies = eurodollars
• gonk = slightly derogatory term for just some dude

Basically the guy hired a mercenary bodyguard for cheap and the bodyguard went off the rails and tore some dude’s arms off.

It’s relatable because this kind of thing happens all the time in cyberpunk - it might even be hinting a little at cyberpsychosis, where a person has so many cybernetic implants that they go crazy on the violence.

Now I want an RPG where you have to pack your bags with a physics simulation like this.

Have you ever seen Linus and Miku in the same room at the same time? Hmmm

Nice, maybe we should also seize any AI sites being used to generate sexual images of minors.

Oh no wait, it’s okay if you’re a trillionaire, carry on.

No doubt he’s going to be legendary

I don’t think that’s quite true. (Happy to be proven wrong if somebody has better numbers than me.)

From what I can see the launch business generated $4.1 billion, but profits in that segment are negative because the $3 billion in Starship development costs are lumped in to that. The overall loss (-$600 million) would instantly turn into great profit if they decided to give up on Starship.

But for sure, xAi is a nightmare. Absolutely Elon trying to bail himself out again.

Starlink is massively profitable, look at their balance sheets. It’s very simple, their users pay them a lot of money to access the internet. Far, far more than the launch costs to maintain the constellation.

Their defense launch business is also profitable, though I haven’t checked how much.

The Starship development and stupid acquisitions (xai) have been a money pit though.

I think you guys forget how bad it was for queer people. The corpos are not creating division, that division already existed. And it’s way better than it used to be.

Strongly disagree. Normalizing queerness as acceptable (even if some people push back) is essential to change national culture. The motivation does not matter - normalization is critical.

Not too far off. The main character is a venerable 51.

Pretty sure it uses Collabora, which is literally LibreOffice source code in a web shell.

Edit: just checked, they are using OnlyOffice as a base instead of the already European Collabora. Strange choice but so be it.