Or… They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.

Well this guy was the Vice Chief from 2022-2023 and became Chief in 2023. So that’s under the Biden administration, for what that’s worth.

I get what you’re saying, but the more direct comparison would be to the Chief of Staff of the Army, not the President.

I gotta say, I spent a solid minute on Google Images trying to find a picture that made him look more badass than the professional headshot photo, but a good half of the images are him in readers.

That depends on your sorting preference. Several sorting options are very straightforward like top, new, etc.

Sex is a scapegoat for implementing surveillance and discrimination systems. The same as every “think of the children” law ever passed.

It’s not about the children, it’s about making it impossible for opponents to justify in the 10 second sound bite that the media allows with no further context whatsoever. And that’s all of the media that 90% of people consume.

They are as far as the shareholders are concerned if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription. The bullshit the company spins is just as, if not more, important than the raw numbers. Especially when companies only report mandated info and the raw numbers they’re referencing aren’t disclosed for comparison.

Statistics is the art of making up a narrative you want to show via numbers, and finding a way to say it exists regardless of reality.

Shareholders are dumb panicky creatures. As long as the numbers aren’t terrible and you say some nice things most of them take it as gospel.

Spinning shit as a positive is a full time career in the corporate world after all.

Subscription info is definitely part of the information provided to investors. The raw numbers may not be in the financial documents, but revenue from subscriptions most definitely is and will give a general idea of changes even if the company doesn’t give the numbers directly.

You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.

The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.

Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.

There is zero reason for any of them to lie. They can just not comment about things instead of making shit up.

No I want that to be a capital offense.

If they’re able to prove in a court of law that you knowingly lied to constituents, off with your head.

Arming your "enemy’ immediately before attacking them seems like a very stupid idea. So par for the course with this administration.

Yeah but that doesn’t have Trump’s name associated with it. So it doesn’t matter/exist.

You forgot to add removing the arbitrary size limit for Congress imposed by the apportionment Act of 1929 which directly led to gerrymandering even being a possibility. “Representation” is so inaccurate now that it’s hard to even claim it could be constitutional at this point.

Claiming the bots are right is just support for the genocide in Ukraine.

That’s not the case at all. Things can be illegal and still morally right.

Trying to conflate the two for simplicity is irresponsible. That’s how you get Israel claiming their genocide in Gaza is justified as self defense from one attack (which may have been partially orchestrated by part of the Israeli government in the first place).

Sometimes the bots are right, they’re just pushing it for an agenda that happens to align with reality at the time.

Running an LLM locally is entirely possible with fairly decent modern hardware. You just won’t be running the largest versions of the models. You’re going to run ones intended for local use, almost certainly Quantized versions. Those usually are intended to cover 90% of use cases. Most people aren’t really doing super complicated shit with these advanced models. They’re asking it the same questions they typed into Google before, just using phrasing they used 20+ years ago with Ask Jeeves.

It’s also very likely that they have a significant amount of corporate customers actively saying they won’t purchase AI-oriented hardware for security reasons, so they’re trying to spin the consumer angle publicly to try and grab the holdouts everyone else is obviously abandoning/ignoring as a side effect. That may be giving them too much credit, but despite just being okay at just about everything, they’re still one of the large OEMs that has survived.

Or it was intentional, of course. Losing a phone while travelling is a reasonable cover story.