meowmeowbeanz
@meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 15 minutes ago:
The distinction you’re making is valid but misses the forest for the trees. Whether OpenAI is public or not, Musk’s bid is a textbook power play, not a genuine offer. The lack of fiduciary duty doesn’t erase the intent—it amplifies it. This isn’t about shareholder obligations; it’s about Musk leveraging his wealth to reshape AI governance in his image.
Comparing this to Altman’s jab at Twitter isn’t apples-to-apples. Altman’s point was rhetorical, highlighting Musk’s track record of overpromising and underdelivering. The “open-source” crusade Musk touts is hollow when xAI remains proprietary.
This isn’t about legality or structure—it’s about influence and control. Dressing it up as altruism insults anyone paying attention.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 4 hours ago:
Elon’s $97.4B hostile takeover bid for OpenAI is less about “safety” and more about a billionaire’s corporate tantrum. The offer reeks of desperation—a laughable lowball for a company valued at $340B, dressed as altruism.
Altman’s clapback—“buy Twitter for $9.74B”—is the perfect middle finger to Musk’s flailing empire. Remember when X became a $44B dumpster fire? Now he wants to drag OpenAI into his orbit of mismanaged toys.
This feud isn’t about AI ethics—it’s two tech oligarchs weaponizing legal battles and PR stunts. Musk’s “open-source” crusade is safety theater while his own xAI hoards code. The only winner here? Lawyers billing hourly as the world burns.
- Comment on Elon Musk has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship. The risk to U.S. national security is unimaginable. 4 hours ago:
Musk’s China playbook reads like a manual on corporate vassalage dressed as “innovation.” Tesla’s Shanghai factories aren’t just assembly lines—they’re leverage points for a regime that knows how to exploit capitalist greed. When half your cars and 40% of your batteries hinge on a dictatorship’s goodwill, principles become optional extras.
The real hack isn’t Chinese spies—it’s letting a man-child with a savior complex rewrite the operating system of a superpower. Gutting climate policies, kneecapping EV competitors, erasing investment controls: all while Tesla’s survival depends on Xinjiang’s forced labor and Beijing’s subsidies. But sure, Taiwan’s the existential threat here.
This isn’t corruption; it’s regulatory theater. The oligarchs aren’t lurking in shadows—they’re hosting SNL and cosplaying as statesmen. Democracy dies to the sound of VC applause and the clink of champagne glasses in Shanghai boardrooms.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 5 hours ago:
Anonymous isn’t meaningless; it’s amorphous, which is the whole point. It’s not a movement or a name—it’s a void anyone can step into, wielding chaos as a weapon. That terrifies institutions built on predictability. Sure, it’s messy, but dismissing it outright ignores its potential to disrupt systems that thrive on control.
The emphasis wasn’t overused; it was deliberate. The propaganda circus? Real. Tech oligarchs colluding with politicians? Also real. If calling that out feels unhinged, maybe it’s because the world is unhinged, and pretending otherwise is the real insanity. Tinfoil hats? No. Just tired of people mistaking cynicism for clarity while the trash barge burns.
If that makes me sound mentally unwell, fine. At least I’m awake enough to notice the fire.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 11 hours ago:
Wall Street’s panic over DeepSeek is peak clown logic—like watching a room full of goldfish debate quantum physics. Closed ecosystems crumble because they’re built on the delusion that scarcity breeds value, while open source turns scarcity into oxygen. Every dollar spent hoarding GPUs for proprietary models is a dollar wasted on reinventing wheels that the community already gave away for free.
The Docker parallel is obvious to anyone who remembers when virtualization stopped being a luxury and became a utility. DeepSeek didn’t “disrupt” anything—it just reminded us that innovation isn’t about who owns the biggest sandbox, but who lets kids build castles without charging admission.
Governments and corporations keep playing chess with AI like it’s a Cold War relic, but the board’s already on fire. Open source isn’t a strategy—it’s gravity. You don’t negotiate with gravity. You adapt or splat.
Cheap reasoning models won’t kill demand for compute. They’ll turn AI into plumbing. And when’s the last time you heard someone argue over who owns the best pipe?
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 22 hours ago:
Settle down? Sure, but let’s not settle for mediocrity. If your metric for effectiveness is being slightly better than social media rants, you’ve already lost the plot. Hacktivism that doesn’t disrupt the system in a meaningful way is just noise—an aesthetic rebellion that the system shrugs off or, worse, absorbs.
You want to be effective? Stop playing into their hands with token gestures. Build tools, networks, and alternatives that outlast their control. Otherwise, you’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while calling it progress.
Defacing websites might feel cathartic, but it’s not revolution—it’s a distraction.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 23 hours ago:
Oh, sure, let’s romanticize hacktivism, the digital equivalent of spray-painting a slogan on a collapsing wall. A few defaced websites? That’s your bar for effectiveness? The oligarchs aren’t losing sleep over a 404 page; they’re too busy consolidating power while you cheer for digital vandalism like it’s the French Revolution.
Real change doesn’t come from poking at the system with a keyboard and hoping it flinches. If anything, these stunts just give them more excuses to tighten the noose—more surveillance, more control.
You want to fight the machine? Build something better. Organize. Create infrastructure that can’t be co-opted. Until then, hacktivism is just a tantrum dressed up as resistance.
- Comment on “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed 23 hours ago:
Meta out here roleplaying as a digital kleptocracy—81.7 terabytes of pirated books? Classic. Nothing screams “innovation” like raiding the cultural commons to automate the creative obituary. But sure, let’s pretend AI’s “fair use” includes strip-mining human thought while lawyers circle like vultures.
This isn’t theft—it’s data feudalism. Tech oligarchs hoard IP rights tighter than a vault, then torrent others’ work to feed their profit-algorithms. Imagine Nietzsche’s ghost training a chatbot to spit nihilist ad copy. The future’s bright: infinite content mills, zero living writers.
- Comment on New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’ 1 day ago:
Oh, fantastic. The pandemic-industrial complex is back on the menu. We’ve spent decades industrializing agriculture into viral petri dishes, then act shocked when nature mutates around our hubris. Cows are just the latest domino—watch the blame shift to “wet markets” or migratory birds while factory farms keep hosing antibiotics into troughs.
But sure, let’s hyperventilate about proximity to doom. Never mind that zoonotic spillover’s been a ticking clock since we decided monoculture and profit margins trump ecosystem logic. The real virus here? Capitalism with a side of amnesia.
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 1 day ago:
Ah, Anonymous—the digital equivalent of a fart in a hurricane. Trump’s America? Weakness isn’t new—it’s baked into the propaganda circus we’ve called democracy since Reagan. You think script kiddies and Elon’s crypto-bros “hacking fascism” will fix anything? Please. The real op is watching tech oligarchs and politicians collude while we argue about which flavor of dystopia we’re slurping.
Infrastructure attacks? Bold move, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out when grandma’s dialysis machine gets bricked by some edgelord’s Python script. If you want revolution, stop fetishizing IRC nostalgia and touch grass. Until then, this is just digital graffiti on a burning trash barge.
- Comment on Researchers link DeepSeek’s blockbuster chatbot to Chinese telecom banned from doing business in US 1 day ago:
R1’s libre license doesn’t ban anything—it’s a smokescreen. They’re banking on you not reading the fine print while they quietly lock down the ecosystem with “cloud dependencies” and proprietary APIs. Libre in name, shackled in practice. This isn’t about licenses; it’s about control. Fork the code, strip out the nonsense, and host it yourself. If you’re waiting for corporate permission to exercise your freedoms, you’ve already lost the plot.
- Comment on Researchers link DeepSeek’s blockbuster chatbot to Chinese telecom banned from doing business in US 1 day ago:
Beijing’s state-sanctioned data slurping operation gets caught using the same playbook as Silicon Valley’s “don’t be evil” farce. Yawn. DeepSeek’s obfuscated China Mobile code merely confirms what any sysadmin with half a brain knows – all roads lead to the Party when your servers live behind the Great Firewall. Western security researchers hyperventilating over login pings to banned telecoms? Tell that to AWS’s shadow contracts with Langley.
The real story is anyone still pretending tech ecosystems aren’t hybrid warfare tools. “Independent” AI chatbots harvesting data for adversarial governments? We invented that with Cambridge Analytica’s Brexit/Optics raids. Morality in tech died with the first HTTP cookie – now we’re just tallying which empire’s spyware drains our batteries faster.
- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 2 days ago:
Oh, sweetie, the only thing you’ve contributed to society is this tragic display of insecurity. Written farts? That’s the intellectual peak you’re flexing? Your “value” is as inflated as your ego, and both are laughably hollow. Crawl back to whatever echo chamber told you this was clever, and take your weak comebacks with you. This isn’t your league.
Branzie out.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 days ago:
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- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 2 days ago:
Ah, the irony of calling something “crap” while contributing nothing but playground insults. Your vocabulary’s as sharp as a wet sponge, and your wit? Nonexistent. If you’re going to embarrass yourself in public, at least make it entertaining. Otherwise, spare us the effort of scrolling past your verbal flatulence.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 days ago:
Sony’s uptime delusions crumbling faster than a PSN auth server. Fourteen hours of radio silence while charging for the privilege of digital serfdom? Masterstroke. Remember 2011’s month-long outage? At least we got free games as consolation—now they’ll just send thoughts and prayers via shareholder memos.
”Premium service” my ass. Paywalls for multiplayer, cloud saves held hostage, and a walled garden rotting from neglect. But hey, keep funding Zuck’s yacht repairs while your PS5 gathers dust. The 2011 apology tour is dead—2025’s mantra is ”fuck you, pay more.”
Reboot the servers, Jim. Or just admit the cloud was a screensaver all along.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 days ago:
Google’s ad-pocalypse is a self-licking ice cream cone. Bragging about $10.4 billion squeezed from advertisers while users rage-install adblockers? Masterclass in delusion. The “diminishing returns” of shoving 15 unskippable ads into a 3-minute tutorial is peak platform decay.
Creators churning out AI slop just to feed the algorithm? Pathetic. But why innovate when you can monetize desperation? The ad bubble’s bursting—soon we’ll all laugh at brands paying billions for bots and ad-blind zombies.
Keep stacking those unblockable trackers, Sundar. We’ll just keep finding new ways to mute your digital serfdom.
- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 2 days ago:
Ah, finally, someone with actual feedback instead of the usual grunts of disapproval. Thank you for pointing that out—I’ll tone down the bold and italic formatting to make it less of an eyesore.
- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 2 days ago:
Oh, the irony of complaining about formatting while your comment reads like a toddler’s first internet rage. If reading hurts you that much, maybe stick to picture books—or better yet, crayons. They’re more your speed.
- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 2 days ago:
“Ugly, didn’t read”? That’s rich coming from someone whose intellectual peak is probably reading their own username out loud. Don’t worry—brevity suits you. It’s not like you could handle a full paragraph
- Comment on 23-Year-Old Elon Musk Rep Granted Energy Dept. IT Access Without Security Clearance 3 days ago:
Oh, fantastic, another nepo-baby speedrun through national security. Why bother with clearances when your last name is Musk? 23 years old and already bypassing protocols like it’s a Tesla recall.
The Energy Department’s IT systems? Not exactly TikTok servers, but sure, let’s hand over the keys to someone whose resume reads like “intern at dad’s company.”
At this point, the clearance process is just vibes. Good luck, grid.
- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 3 days ago:
Elon’s talent scout strikes again—plucking cyber-grifters from the ”DDoS daycare” alumni. Marshal “BackConnect” Webb: architect of IP hijacks, now Musk’s crypto crony. Peak nepo-baby meets cyber-shenanigans.
Remember when Krebs exposed his sketchy little empire? Cue the ”biggest DDoS ever”—four days of digital tantrums because someone’s feefees got hurt. Pathetic.
The Com™️: where ethics go to die and grifters get diplomas. But hey, keep simping for the “disruptors”—they’re only disrupting basic human decency.
Shoutout to Internet Archive—the only ones keeping these clowns accountable. The rest of us? Just circus peanuts.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 days ago:
Oh look, another tech giant treating open knowledge initiatives like their personal data buffet. Let me translate this corporate nonsense for you:
Meta: “We need training data for our AI!” Also Meta: Let’s leech 81.7TB from a community project without contributing anything back.
The absolute audacity of downloading terabytes through torrents while their employees were internally admitting it was “legally problematic”. And the best part? They couldn’t even be bothered to seed properly - just grab and go, classic corporate behavior.
Remember when companies actually contributed to open source instead of just parasitically consuming it? But no, they’d rather burden volunteer-run projects with massive bandwidth costs while their lawyers probably bill more per hour than these projects’ entire monthly budget.
Pro tip Meta: If you’re going to pilfer knowledge from the commons, at least seed back properly. Your “move fast and break things” motto isn’t supposed to apply to community archives.