Maybe the real treasure were the planes we stole along the way.

Listen. You can literally hear tourism drying and whithering and turning to dust.

But why?

Any idea if it was big enough to hunt for pieces?

Read the article. Lol. Never mind.

Why no mulch? Ezza bettah for de envir-o-ment.

Let me guess, this is not their fault because:

A) They investigated him and found nothing wrong.

B) They just aren’t very good at investigating and come on! It’s hard work!

C) The police union and department is a corrupt get out of jail free card for any aspiring criminal and its well tolerated institutionally, unless you really embarrass yourself with egregiously public criminality that you are finally, reluctantly, put on political trial to face actual consequences.

I wonder how advanced China’s social credit panopticon is now? I wonder how powerful it will become in the near future? How powerful will it’s apex be? What every authoritarian and even neoliberal government is doing with this. Wall Street, The City, Singapore, Luxembourg, Casinos…

A wise decision.

Sorry, I’ve worked for hedge funds and consulting firms and software companies at a high enough level to see how they think firsthand to ever doubt this.

The AI boom and data centre craze makes perfect sense my scenario. The business model without this sure as hell doesn’t support these valuations, but my theory does. It’s a risk, everyone wants it. It is every countries intelligence agency’s wet dream. It a strategic asset and gets corporate power to pay for it.

What would the cartels or mafia pay for a psycho-model-profile engineered LLM assessment model and extortion threat assessment based on key politicians, bankers, military and manufacturer worth? Then add their families, friends, all their gossip search history, pornhub, 4chan, google android, play and drive, then all your email and text messages, etc etc…

Now what would everyone more powerful than say a corp, well funded startup megacorp, large crime syndicate or medium size country do.

I mean, hey, Thiel and Musk, Putin, Xe, Trumptardius Gondii and the entire taxa ajacent aren’t that psycho? It will be fine. They said. Don’t worry they said. Checks newspaper. Hmmmm. Never heard of a hostile takeover?

Look how effective the Epstein influence operation was. Now imagine the value based on what I said about today’s off the shelf commercial tech. It was too much data collection to be viable in the beginign. But enter the advanced LLM models with perfect and all encompasing data markets (combining all systems users from all platforms through quasi-state agencies masquerading as databrokers.)

EDIT: You:

Enshittification is about making money.

Yes. ¿Por qué no los dos? Très? More search dollars by more page searches AND pushing supposedly smarter users towards LLM personality 1:1 mapping resolution of populations. Plus automation, sure yeah lots of reasons. All powerful, thus valuable. I’m guessing this is at the forefront of statecraft and state intelligence and everyone else who can bankroll this kind of power.

EDIT 2:

You know the quote about problems not being solved by the level of consciousness that created it. If you can’t see the value and ultimately fate of what we’ve already built, you are strong evidence of proving the quote true.

It’s a soft power nuclear fucking weapon from threats to any regime, internal and external. From evolution to revolution to stasis.

Edit 3: I’m sorry I get ahead of myself and forget the general audience. This is what Thiel’s Palantir was built for. Like in advertising videos and promo material. It’s an arms length extention of state power and they are milking more than one country.

Ever wonder how dystopian fiction is ruled by megacorps? This seems bond villain levels of viable. Right up Thiel, Musks, Bezos, Microsoft, Anthropic, Cohere, facebook and every other respective system from OS to hardware to retail POS. It was public military information. until it dawned on the powers that be that it works better when people don’t believe they are being surveiled. Act natural. Capture everything. Build your model, Make better higher level analysis tools to work on ever-all encompasing training data.

What we all call AI isn’t the AGI or even AI analysis tool, its the LLM data collection expert system. The AGI works on the data collected and only the well paying client (not us products) get to control them.

It starts with simple stuff like when parents text each other messages about their kids behaviour for parenting purposes and only grows from there. Total information awareness.

Edit-a-fucking-gain! And again!

To be clear, everyone that says AI is stupid is stupid. The general public havent’t seen the advanced AI. They are basing their opinions on the state of public freemium options from commercial entities with Grok and ChatGPT, AMD yadda yadda, which are the core of the interactive personality probes and mappers, not the AI that analyses the data and provides actionable guidance. Even Steam with peformance scores of gamification and strategy across a broad array of users and problem/scenario/game types/paradigms.l and consumers pay for it under the premise of games and commercial software of all sorts.

I’mma nerd out on you. I sewed them myself. I’ve seen magazines advertising them so its not just me. ;)

Too small. You had the kids size.

P.S. I still can’t tell if you’re joking. But it’s great either way.

Like, bowties are cool man.

I’m pretty drunk and stoned right now so I can’t tell if you’re joking. Sorry. That doesn’t sound like a suspenders problem. They hold pants up, not down. Have you considered adjusting the length of the shoulder straps?

I’m pretty sure that is verbatim out of the conservative party platform.

Just in time for us to drastically cut out beef for food security reasons - climate change and trophic level conversion ineficiencies just a few among many.

Edit:

The people cried “we’re broke and hungry!”

The market replied “we have these fancy steaks”

The people cried " we can’t afford steak!"

The economist reasoned “markets serve only for profit, its natural to only serve the rich.”

The poor retorted " you look tasty…"

+1. They are great. I prefer pants with the buttons sewn in rather than the more common steel clamps.

That’s all it has ever needed.

I appreciate the truth of your comment, but respectfully disagree.

1. You don’t build a defense force and strategy for the conflict you hope happens. Hubris kills.

2. Our needs include all of NATO’s needs, and to a far far smaller degree, any UN peacekeeking or similar function.

A 5th gen stealth fighter presents desirable attributes for specific purposes, but to your point they aren’t the bulk of the work to be done.

The cost saving of a single fleet of F-35 also inject various fragilities of their own. Not the least of which is the catastrophic losses from a single plane going down from anything ranging from enemy action to training accident to supply chains fuckery.

I won’t shed a single tear for the F-35 if we cancel the whole lot. But having some 5th gen makes sense. We should be going with the Brit or French led consortiums of middle powers, not US, Russia or China.

Monkey’s Paw - along with all of us.

I counter slam with 🤮

“Blasts”

*sigh