Hours ago, OpenAI raised $110B.

Depends on the species. For something easy to grow like oyster mushrooms, straw. Do decontaminate the straw. Cooking water or hydraulic lime water should work for that.

VISA + Master just work _for now_. Debanking Nicolas Guillou[0] was a financial Greenland.

Short-term negative-sum transactionalists are governing the US. Even if November stabilises things somewhat, the cat is probably out of the bag.

Trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback. _That_ is why a well-integrated EU-based payment system is needed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Guillou

That's interesting. In Belgium the pre-integration Payconiq could not do that.

> Music is about the human experience, emotions, mistakes, accidents, discoveries.

Pro musician here.

There's piles upon piles of human-generated music soullessly regurgitating stock patterns with inane lyrics since long before Alan Turing was even flown in by the stork. Most recent popular music by far is bland sausage factory production.

Why not allow yourself to be moved by beautiful music, wheter it's machine generated or not?

> Why not allow yourself to be moved by beautiful music, wheter it's machine generated or not?

No, I'm OK sticking to the human stuff!

Because the outcome of that is revolting. Its an insult to humanity. Take a look at the clip of Joe rogan crying over some terrible AI 50cent remix. Its delusional, why would you want people to be like that? I'd never listen to music again if that was all I could listen to.

Think about a world where AI creative works are on equal playing field to human works. The AI can tailor an entire library of work for an individual spitting out hundreds of albums per day. Humans would end up listening to majority AI works just out of sheer volume of production. Any human still creating music would just be making data for AI's to steal and repurpose.

> Ultimately the US will go down hill to become a Belgium.

Sharing one's opinion in a respectful way is possible. Less spectacle, so less eyeballs, but worth it. Try it.

What's wrong with his comparison? He explained what he meant by "a Belgium".

The entire side topic of guns and revolt seems misplaced in this thread.

The original Luddite movement arose in response to automation in the textile industry.

They committed violence. Violence was committed against them. All tragic events when viewed from a certain perspective.

My rhetorical question is this: did any of this result in any meaningful impedance of the "march of technological progress"?

>in a respectful way

The irony

OSS and FOSS are global, not American or EU or anything. The geopolitical situation is on another plane. FOSS can and will be used as a tool for strategic autonomy, for better and for worse.

Why would one at this very moment look with suspicion at a FOSS contributor for the sole reason (s)he's American?

My fingers always ache when I hear praise for the company that through its incompetence nearly lost me my company's domain name... twice. Shame on me for staying with them.

The original TV-B-Gone [0][1] was designed by the legendary Mitch Altman [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-B-Gone

[1] https://www.tvbgone.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman

The Mercosur-EU trade deal, the India-EU trade deal and this China-Canada trade deal. A pattern perhaps? A frantic search for reliable trade partnerships, or just random noise?

Mercosur-EU trade deal was agreed 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93Mercosur_Associatio...

India-EU have deepened ties since long ago too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93European_Union_r...

> Mercosur-EU trade deal was agreed 2019

Sure the details were negotiated in 2019, but it isn't even in effect yet. It still needs to be approved by legislative bodies on both sides of the Atlantic. Which will probably happen sometime this year.