@rpluim @codinghorror aye but that system worked because there is an unsaid agreement: the US dollar is the reserve currency and in exchange the US provides cheap/free access to its markets to the world. Trump's tariffs kill this system. Can the US print money? It sure can -- but if it's no longer the world currency then it becomes worthless from endless printing.

@kentparkstreet1 they did it because banksy dared to criticize the UK government designating the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization. This is crystal clear, alas.

@rachel "I'm X but" always means they are not actually X.

@julianh @behdad @dysfun Let's go on. LLMs are inherently a fascist technology created for explicit fascist purposes and backed by fascist billionaires. (One of the largest backers of it called Marinetti their patron saint.) It is extremely well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda. It furthers creating an alternative reality which is absolutely necessary for fascism to thrive.

@behdad by including LLM output, you have made one of the best open source libraries unusable from at least ethical, legal and software security angles. More angles are possible, these are the ones that come to mind immediately.

@miquel @davidgerard oh no, that's so last year. This year they change the AI orchestrator such that the next few hours run creates a site eight pixels padding instead of 16. Hopefully.

@froboy @rachel I appreciate the candid post. Hope everything works out for our community, our Drupal -- and our world. Hope is all we have left.

@froboy @rachel sigh. of course. I can understand that. Funding of open source has always been a problem and it sure didn't get easier lately.