@soatok Yeah, it's hard to accurately guess at these timelines. Lots has happened between now and then - I'm a little surprised that it's spacex/xAI going public first instead of openai, and the fact that Nasdaq has changed the rules specifically for them means that investment and retirement funds will be left holding the bag after 14 days.

All signs (to me, based on how there's still no amazing use for this tech) still point towards a catastrophic bubble pop, now made worse by the nasdaq rule change. I don't want to even try and guess a date now, because there's too many moving pieces financially.

spacex/xai's chart of total addressable market in their IPO document (below) really says all it needs to say about the ai hype scam.

Meanwhile, many software companies/projects are putting themselves on the path to an immense amount of technical debt and employee skill loss with this garbage (even my workplace is starting to show signs of going in that direction) 

that doesn't mean you shouldn't be wary, doesn't mean you should be suddenly cutting them slack on other issues they have, or pretend their work culture and ethics are flawless, even when it comes to the LGBTQIA+ topics.

But it does feel rough to see colleagues who are 100% well intentioned getting shouted at and hated for no other reason than people perceiving it as hostility, when it really is not what it's intended to be.

I really wish people would come together more. We're in this together

because to be quite frank, it takes quite a lot of coordinated efforts to set up and carry forth pride events at e.g big tech companies.

And to go through all that effort, just to be met with hostility from people who you presumed to be actual allies, is disheartening, and feels very wrong.

If you want to build a better world, if you want places everywhere to be more friendly towards these things, I personally don't think infighting over what is essentially puritanism, will do anyone a favour.