Michael

Nah, you’re good. Thanks for responding. Yeah, I agree some projects are better than others when it comes usability or asking for reasoning for design choices, and the like. Sorry that mods deleted your post - I didn’t report it.

Have a good one!

There’s a whole world out there - if anybody can effectively run these models, how will they know to stop everyone?

The current US administration and sphere of influence/power may be tyrannical, but they aren’t omnipresent or omniscient - even if they try to be.

For example, I highly doubt China will be able to be stopped before they burst the AI dam. Honestly, they already have - these AI companies are just in denial because they need more capital for their proprietary, inefficient, and centralized models.

Fortunately, they can’t arrest everybody using open-source AI models. There are clear efforts to stop momentum with geo-tracking high-end GPUs and indirect efforts like the EU plan trying to backdoor everything.

Personally, I see it all as ineffective.

We have accessible, open-source AI models - your predictions won’t come to pass.

It’s ALMOST like factory farming isn’t a profitable or a sane practice. /s

Unsurprising that he uses slave labor, too.

Bridging gaps, forming strong alliances and communities, starting movements, and organizing with like-minded people for change and mutual benefit is how acceptance becomes broader and is the catalyst for culture wars to fizzle out. These actions are the spark that allow people to broadly start to realize there is nothing to be afraid about. A person who is perceivably different or a minority existing, having rights, and thriving doesn’t harm anyone or have to be at anybody’s expense.

Our politicians and governments no longer represent us and the laws aren’t moving in the right direction any time soon. Fighting unjust laws and restrictions and winning politicians over is typically what you’d do as a minority to have your existence be legalized and protected, but I’d argue that we are past the point of no return - laws, reform, and protections aren’t going to come quick enough and we need to act urgently.

The more we polarize ourselves against others for holding less than tolerant views and sitting in judgement of them, the harder it is for us to focus on joining hands, organizing, and focusing on solutions and the change we’d like to see (and be). I’m not saying that we should put up with violations of our personal sovereignty, consent to being restricted unjustly by the law, consent to being subject to abuse (physical, verbal, or any other form), or enable or platform these behaviors.

Win the battles you can win - that means focusing on solutions with people that are actually on the side of all of humanity (which includes all people and minorities). The planet and all life on it is at stake.

I feel it’s ideal to be generally kind to others to hope for kindness back. Some might say that bigoted and hateful people don’t deserve kindness and I’d wholeheartedly agree - you don’t owe them anything and it’s not your job to force their heart open. But I feel it’s important to listen to our hearts and act on them - kindness has immense potential to soften hearts and dissolve boundaries - hate often has the opposite effect.

For example, do you let a person with conservative views who is intolerant, ignorant, and hateful stand in your way and eat your attention and precious life - or do you join hands with others in mutual support for progress and forward movement in our societies?

We can be an unstoppable force by moving out of the direction of the immovable objects and going beyond.

You can’t effectively address those who are transphobic and racist by fighting them, shaming them, and being hateful towards them. Bigotry and hate are fueled by a lack of understanding, acceptance, sometimes by a sense of superiority, fear, tribalism, religion, propaganda, incoherence and disconnection, confusion, and of course also by hate.

Adding to a cycle doesn’t break it, we need to move past these cycles of hate and hurt by joining hands with those who are on the side of all of humanity.

The people living in hate and fear who have dug their feet deep into the ground, blocking progress or even regressing it, standing with their closed hearts will catch up eventually.

Why would Islamic countries not condemn China? They certainly seem to condemn the genocide of the Palestinian people. Somebody please enlighten me.

Edit: According to Business Insider, they might fear China’s retaliation (e.g. economic vengeance). How reliant are these Islamic countries on exports from China and how reliant are these countries on China importing their resources (e.g. oil)?

Why would any of that matter when people of their religion are being genocided? Fear of retaliation from a nuclear-powered state and facing consequences in regards to western trade doesn’t seem to deter them from taking a stance on Palestine.

And how much slower is it to launch and use?

We invest in battery tech that utilizes supply chains with slavery and child labor to make those disposable cigarette batteries - and they just go straight into the landfill.

Lithium-ion batteries are absolutely not anything to be proud of - it’s a rare material and not scalable like other emergent technologies.

Lithium-ion has the potential for fire/explosion, is hazardous, and has poor cold-weather performance when compared with sodium-ion batteries.

And earlier this year and late last year in Northern California, we had two lithium battery plant fires that very likely contaminated a significant amount of our agriculture and soil.

The contaminated farmlands produce 70% of America’s greens and vegetables (a.k.a. the Salad Bowl of America). We were ill-equipped to address this situation or remediate it - see Status Coup News’ reporting to see how it affected the health of residents in a 50-100 mile radius.

Even if we stored it properly (away from anything it could contaminate including people), lithium-ion is simply not viable for energy storage.

There’s only ifs because powerful forces (that do not represent the will of humanity) do everything they can to suppress or derail renewable energy efforts and divert our collective focus to war and conflict.

China is proving sodium-ion batteries are viable. Sodium is abundant and the batteries seem cheap to produce. Solar panels are also cheap to produce.

Instead of economic war or other forms of conflict, we could cooperate on these technologies and move forward as a species.

It’s all very easy when you realize that war and conflict are not in anyone’s best interest, with consequences that could spell the end of our planet’s habitability, and could cause death and suffering that make previous World Wars look like child’s play.

We already know fossil fuels are undesirable for the planet and we’ve already had plenty of nuclear disasters.

Let’s worry about expanding nuclear technologies when we achieve fusion and the world achieves stability.

If we got our head out of our ass and invested into battery tech - e.g. sodium-ion batteries or proton batteries, we could very quickly build sustainable energy storage instead of relying on technology that is potentially dangerous or continuing to rely on fossil fuels.

You too.

I’m not frightened, I just don’t need to elaborate further to you online. I am not naive - I’m simply aware of the technology being used against Americans and its capabilities.

All Trump has to do is twist the definition of “terrorism” to defend his power against people not committing any crimes and suddenly mass arrests start happening with AI’s guidance before literally anything can manifest. He’s proven that due process isn’t a concern, and has already considered suspending it.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/04/08/the-worries-about-ai-in-trumps-social-media-surveillance-00279255

Organizing or openly admitting to anything of the nature should never be done online with the technology being leveraged against us. There are movements that exist online in spite of this, do yourself a favor and look them up to see what they are doing.

What are you doing to do?

Convince others to stand in their power and do everything in my own power. I don’t need to elaborate further.

How are you going to change a thing?

Like I said, a critical mass of Americans need to realize their power and demand better.

If you want to spread feelings of helplessness, encouraging others to see themselves as small and powerless, while also continuing to blame progressives (the people who want to achieve progress), that’s your decision.

I’m hopeful that you choose differently.

Who has a better chance than Harris?

The voters should’ve been able to determine that with a primary. Instead the senile old man held on until the last minute and there was literally no time for a primary. After that, Democrats wasted a billion on a failed and rushed campaign.

I already said what I’m going to do. Everything that is in my power, and encouraging others to stand in their power.

What are you going to do? Keep blaming the Bernie Bros until Trump takes away all of your rights and installs himself as dictator?

If Democrats could’ve budged even a little bit to the left, they would’ve won and stopped Trump. But they couldn’t. They also couldn’t hold primaries before the presidential election.

You don’t need to be a psychic with a crystal ball to determine that Kamala couldn’t win, especially not with her strategy of shifting to the right and appealing to voters that literally don’t exist.

Democrats spent more energy systematically suing third-parties off the ballot than attracting the voters they were so afraid of losing to third-parties.

What do I need to move on from or do about it?

Stop playing the blame game and do literally anything. You’re projecting your own personal inaction and frustration onto progressives.

In a constitutional crisis, while the last shred of democracy is at stake, do you simply vote your way out of the mess?

There’s no checks and balances

Then you admit there is a constitutional crisis?

Playing the blame game doesn’t solve anything or improve the situation. Maybe you need to move on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding <- You are here.

What are you going to do about it?