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Cake day: January 7th, 2024

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  • There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM’s from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn’t want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.











  • Because the neoliberal order has absolutely decimated the standard of living for most people. People are driven from their homes by skyrocketing prices while their standard of living declines. We all see the wealth we are creating, but each year get a smaller and smaller slice of the pie. Fascists pry at the obvious flaws in the system, while the established institutions and parties swear that just a bit more austerity and investment into tech and finance companies will make everything better. Free-marlet capitalism has failed and everyone knows it, but the only the fascists are allowed to voice their solution since it further benefits the wealthy.