https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Lai

In May 2020, Lai told CNN news that US president Donald Trump was “the only one who can save us” from China, with Apple Daily publishing a similar plea addressed to Trump the same month.

There’s something ironic about this…

Being a billionaire is like staying alive long enough to be a villain. They were great at something but nothing justifies holding that much power for so long.

Also introduced voucher schools because he didn’t want teachers telling him laptops won’t solve education

I’m suggesting that the choice between industrialization and skilled labor is a false one because China is industrialized and has a highly skilled labor force. I agree this is because of American owners seeking profit, but it seems the same won’t happen to China now that they’re industrialized.

Deskilling blue collar labor is how America gave China a manufacturing edge. What do you think will be the result of deskilling white collar labor?

Here’s a question: why don’t you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?

Enshittification is a paradigm shift, but not one we associate with the birth of the internet.

On to your list. Why does misinformation appear after the birth of the internet? Was yellow journalism just a historical outlier?

What you’re witnessing is the “Red Queen hypothesis”. LLMs have revolutionized the scam industry and step 7 is an AI arms race against and with misinformation.

LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.

IDK about “white knight”; I first heard the phrase “dangerous by default” from a black man recounting how he got nervous being on an elevator with a white woman.

“Dangerous by default” is one hell of a thing to internalize 😞

Who needs IP laws when you have EULAs that bar competition? Certainly not corporations with their armies of lawyers.

I can’t take made up curves seriously

I’m surprised it didn’t end as a crypto announcement

They can do what Ukraine did, buy drone parts from China to make the most of their defense budget.

Stop confusing young autistic vulnerable people.

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I’m old and autistic and not confused by the fact trans women are women. Hope that helps.

Eztv is good enough for me anyways

Certainly would make hijacking other apps more easy if you could access the API.

You have a sales pitch that works for the poorest countries, what do you have for the wealthiest?