OpenAI just bought the raw wafers? WTF.

I think the RAM manufacturers were found to be guilty of colluding/price-fixing in that case (maybe this case too).

I could be wrong, but I think Linux would be horrible for the kind of security you'd want in a smartphone. At least that's what I read from the GrapheneOS folks...

It seems like a "great firewall" is where all this will lead. Projects like xray-core may become important to a lot more people in the future.

I think you may have a misconception of what the bottom 25% of earners do. Or, maybe I do. I don't know anyone that does that stuff regularly, not even the high earners I know.

"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat” Freeman [an advisor to Reagan] said. “That's dynamite! We nave to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.'

Not really. TSMC has a near monopoly on the advanced fabrication, and ASML has a near monopoly on the lithographic machines TSMC uses. Nvidia is a fab-less designer. Google has its TPUs, and Amazon has some kind of custom chip too.

I don't like chargebacks being impossible. I think countries being able to manipulate their currency to balance inflation and unemployment has advantages too; if we're going to keep doing this capitalism thing at least.

I think Krugman is a legit intellectual and doesn't intentionally cherry pick numbers. I followed his blog and such starting when I was a teenager (during the 2008 crisis), and I think he helped me understand what was going on, using fairly rigorous math and data (for a "science" communicator). Few other economic communicators made sense to me at the time. The Austrian school was being pushed heavily by the right and tech-bros, and didn't seem based on anything but vibes.

There's the famous Pirates porn movie; I think still the highest budget porn ever made. I remember a porn movie about a fire department that also seemed pretty high budget (Flashpoint, I think). Seems like most porn is clips now rather than full-features. I think porn with stories used to be a lot more common when you had to buy tapes or DVDs. There's a really old one I saw called The Devil in Miss Jones, which I guess could be considered horror. And another one from I think the 2000s called New Neighbors where some demons move in next door or something.

I liked a lot of Michael Ninn's work back in the day, like Catherine and Neo Pornographia. He definitely was trying to go for a more artistic thing. Looks like it's extremely hard to find now, and Ninn is now on an AI slop kick.

On the other side of things, Nyphomaniac was an artsy film bordering on pornography, IIRC.

It's ok. It's like a sillier, less philosophical Northern Exposure.