Always watch what they do, not what they say.

Tesla would never exist in a capitalist system.

This is a capitalist system. You might be referring to a free-market system, but those are rare and short-lived. Almost every capitalist system has subsidies, back-handers, state-protected monopolies and oligopolies, corruption, dirigiste policies, regulatory capture, and so forth. You can claim that none of it is capitalism, but it occurs in the only capitalist systems that exist in real life, so I suggest that you’re confusing “should” and “is.”

It drastically reduced the minimum buy-in needed to play.

He sure as shit wasn’t a brilliant writer. He was more endowed with the cunning of a proto-Trump huckster-weasel.

…if you get a solution at all.

How about that: venture capitalists don’t know what’s going on in the market any more than anyone else does. They’re just arrogant because they have metric shit-tons of money.

but it was capitalists who made smartphones and computers

Lately, capitalists of a very mercanitlist kind.

Two sides of the same coin. Colonialism is an implementation of the capitalist notion of comparative advantage, stabilized and enforced with guns.

It sometimes happens like that. And sometimes a big player will emerge early in the proceedings and stay on top for an extended period: General Motors, Boeing, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Google. Sometimes there’s even a bit of innovation before they settle into stealing all the sunlight from the smaller trees.

Yeah, they seem to have sped up the process. But something else to keep in mind is that we don’t know what the saturation point is with current AI technology. It’s most likely far less that what has been hyped, but regardless, if our governments had any sense, they’d be getting a sensible regulatory framework in place right now rather than being overtaken by events as they usually are.

Wow, we could have been talking about Jacquard mills and running essentially the same narrative.

Even someone as far back as Adam Smith knew that businesses hate competition and will do anything they can to avoid it. The broligarchy was speed-running the construction of an oligopoly and lobbying the government to erect barriers to entry so they could take their sweet time milking us dry. Now I’m not sure about what the real backstory of DeepSeek might be, but it is still satisfying to see Altman get his ass handed to him.

Those poor little hothouse flowers.

Google are doing it to kiss Trump’s incontinent ass.

Good to know if I ever need to find out where my lesbian cousin is.

I feel like it’s only a matter of time before most people just have AI’s write their posts.

That’s going right into /dev/null as soon as I detect it-- both user and content.

There’s another alternative, which is no social media at all. There is no particular problem that it solved. If it disappeared, would your quality of life be worse in any way?