Assuming you meant progressives, no. Not good for anybody but the wealthy who take the opportunity to buy everything up. Economic trouble also historically makes the populace more susceptible to far-right populist rhetoric.

I'm skeptical they'll actually come with no telemetry or other forms of anti-features. The investors, like Bezos, will likely push for it. They have a new CEO, who comes from Amazon. There is a federal mandate for all US vehicles to come with driver monitoring technology starting in 2027.

I like kale cooked like southern collard greens. And in soups. Beet greens are good like that too. Or any greens really.

I've gotten 2 drops from them. When my requests expired, I just raised the donation by $10 each time until I got a drop. Takes about a full day with a 5-tined fork, wheelbarrow, and garden rake to spread it all around my beds; and I usually have ~1yd^3 left over that I add to my compost bin throughout the year.

I guess there's a blurry line between an "application" and a web site. But, generally, for open source applications, I'd rather them be native. Preferably, the applications would actually be native (e.g. Qt, GTK, Jetpack Compose, etc).

I've noticed a lot of consumer embedded products have been using PWAs for flashing and configuring devices (Meshtastic, Meshcore, Betaflight, am32 configurator, etc). I have to open Chromium to use them because they don't work with my normal browser (and I probably don't want my normal browser being able to access arbitrary USB devices).

Wouldn't a home be personal property, not private? 401ks might be a better example?

People are trying to use it on larger code-bases and that's where it goes rogue and just creates an unmaintainable mess. It's decent at writing small scripts that are likely similar to scripts it has been trained on (starts failing when you start trying to get it to do more novel types of things).

I've been messing around with AI a bit. Kimi k2.6 is very close to Claude Sonnet; "thinks" a lot, but that seems to help it. I think it's something like 1/3 the cost of Sonnet. The newest GLM is supposed to be similar. Minimax, MiMo, Qwen, and Deepseek is a bit of step down. The big step down are the small models like Qwen 35B and 27B, but they're still "useful," and I can run them on my 24GB GPU. I'm also now forced to use Sonnet and crank out slop code :( It's going to end in disaster.

It's up there in the rankings of causing the most harm to the world. And not so great to live in and work, if, for example, you're an undocumented Hispanic farm worker (there's still modern day slavery going on here too). But, for the average citizen, it's of course better than many third-world countries, not really great when compared to peers. Living in in the US is like living in the modern imperial core that exports violence and extracts resources from other countries and peoples. So, yeah, it's better than being in one of those countries the US is harming. However, it looks like the imperial boomerang phenomenon is starting.

"Society confronts the simple fact that when everyone can possess every intellectual work of beauty and utility—reaping all the human value of every increase of knowledge—at the same cost that any one person can possess them, it is no longer moral to exclude. If Rome possessed the power to feed everyone amply at no greater cost than that of Caesar's own table, the people would sweep Caesar violently away if anyone were left to starve."