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🤔 Interesting

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So, I'm a little lost. You think AI isn't useful because it isn't generating profits? Or you think it's not useful because of how it distills information and presents it in a chat interface (which was the only point I made)?

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I'm doing my part

Set aside the asinine idea that those cups were "paper." Absolutely nobody has a choice in what McDonalds serves them. McDonald's stocks what it thinks is profitable. And zero people falsely believe they're "saving the planet" by consuming McDonald's products.

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political star wars

Star Wars is not exactly subtle or full of nuance. It's pulp, and it wears that badge with unironic, cinematic pride.

​It is the spiritual successor to the 1930s Saturday morning serials of bold archetypes, primary-colored morality, and breakneck pacing where the stakes are always "the fate of the galaxy" and the villains wear literal black masks. It doesn't ask you to deconstruct the socioeconomic subtext of a spice mine.

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You Don’t Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, and Women Who Share Their Gaming Lives Online (my article)

If this happens to a celebrity posting about a 20 year old Nintendo game system, I can only imagine what it's like for your average female logging into modern competitive shooter.

Gamergate never went away. It was the precursor to the youthful fadcisti, in many ways. We need women in these spaces to help diffuse the malignant culture. They'll remain targets of harassment tho, so it's up to everyone to police misogyny, and racism for that matter, too.

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DeepSeek Permanently Reduces The Price Of Its Flagship V4 Model By 75 Percent

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What does that number meaningful represent as DeepSeek doing well? I don't understand the question

They can afford to lose more money on this? Yes They have lower operating costs? Yes They have a better way to make money of their users? They are not as profit motivated as their competition

I don't think you understand Deepseek's role in the market. It's to intentionally undercut US providers.