I once made up an idea for an action thriller, called “President Psycho”, where a serial killer gets elected as the president, and immediately legalizes murder involving brutal torture for himself and his friends, if committed to the “right target”. God my ideas are becoming reality before even realizing them, and the worst is that I had an idea for an edgy magical girl metroidvania that set in a dystopian world which has been completely overthrown by fascists, all while I just started to take more seriously a much more simpler and smaller game idea (Arkanoid clone that is basically a hacking minigame but bigger).

Does that immunity ruling also apply to the VP? If yes, then Kamala Harris can do a few things, all she needs is a fully loaded handgun.

And you have all the reasons to be terrified, the US in case of a Trump victory will either:

a) Go isolationist, dissolve the NATO, then let the power vacuum to be filled by Russia and China (one is better than the other), all while a big ultranationalist movement will claim to fix the issues.

b) Make whatever insanity Trump’s christofascist call “morals” into the global standards for human rights, heavily censor the internet, etc.

A second Trump victory will have dire consequences for the rest of the world.

Hell, people in the military just need to go on and execute the offending members of the supreme court, the house, etc., then just say “the president told us to do so”.

Good luck with that, the fans of the potential dictators have most of the guns, law enforcement is packed with fascists, etc…

(Although I agree.)

Even if he manages to bounce back from time to time, it’s only going to be downhill from there.

I also do think it’s primarily a money issue. Some of it might be those donors wanting the two parties to do different things, by basically leading the democrats into their graves.

These are hugely unpopular moves from the supreme court.

If that gets updated, then it will favor big corporations.

Issue is power imbalance.

There’s a clear difference between a guy in his basement on his personal computer sampling music the original musicians almost never seen a single penny from, and a megacorp trying to drive out creative professionals from the industry in the hopes they can then proceed to hike up the prices to use their generative AI software.

No shit Sherlock, a civil organization investigating corruption might uncover corruption that could influence the elections!

https://web.archive.org/web/20240626173744/https://www.wired.com/story/russia-disinformation-network-ai-generated-biden-video/

Unpaywalled version

I personally don’t care if someone “steals” my code (Here’s my profile if you want to do so: https://github.com/ZILtoid1991 ), however it can mean some mixture of two things:

1. China is getting ready for war, which will mean the US will try its best to block technology, including open source projects.
2. China is planning to block GitHub due to it being able to host information the Chinese government might not like.

Of course it could mean totally unrelated stuff too (e.g. just your typical anti-China and/or anti-communist paranoia sells political points).

Put content that is illegal in China into your code, problem solved!

The only people more cultish than Apple fans are Tesla/Elongated Muskrat fans.

No thanks, I don’t want to spend days troubleshooting issues with cross compilation, differences between Wine and actual Windows, struggling with the tty-only debugger (I want my debugger to do things on button presses, not by complicated scripts), etc.

Skill issue.

Oh, here comes the gatekeeper protecting their operating system from the “normies”!🤣

They actually plan to use some local stuff in addition to the rest, otherwise I don’t trust anything OpenAI/Google.

GPL code is the least concern, you can always just say the AI-generated code is GPL. What about training on leaked proprietary code? The training data already known to include medical records, CSAM, etc., wouldn’t be surprised if it also contained proprietary code.

One problem: not compatible with Windows. Of course you can use Wine and similar stuff, but isn’t 100%, especially not when you’re developing for Windows. Also there’s the issue of NVidia drivers (I won’t sell/throw into the trash my GTX1050 just because NVidia doesn’t want to make their drivers open source), and also a lot of pro audio stuff isn’t available on Linux.

With AMX, now we have 1024 bit processors!