Steve Randy Waldman
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How expensive would it be to run a full-size DeepSeek-R1 on ones own hardware or rented server? Instead of paying giant service providers, could small communities of people affordably run their own, for privacy and ideally customization?

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“After an initial denial, the patient’s appeal for the scan was ultimately approved six months later. By that the time, the patient had died.”

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You'd think before sending repatriation flights, someone would make a phone call? It wouldn't be, like, "Hi! We're here! Can we come in?"

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Notice he's not treating Columbia like a democratic sovereign state whose government speaks for its interests. 1/

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He's imposing special sanctions on members of a political party of whom he disapproves, and on citizens who merely support it, for no action beyond their membership or support. He's using the economic might of the US to put a thumb on the scale of the country's domestic politics. 2/

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And we get mad when Russia or China "meddle" in our affairs. I guess a saving grace is that this is pretty overt! /fin

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abundance is awesome and i support it, but presuming abundance will overwhelm distributional concerns is a bet we’ve already taken that works out poorly, both from an abundance and distributional perspective. i am radically for the equitable abundance agenda!

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The American consumer looks forward to valuable innovations.

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potentially dangerous criminal aliens are mostly very nice people.

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the US military is an example of an effective, high quality labor pool reinforced by a well organized benefits state. sets a dangerous example.

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does deep seek low training cost presage the possibility of models built and trained by nonprofits with broad public support, with no plutocrat or aspiring plutocrat anywhere in the pipeline?

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$100M is my number, and that seems too much. But yeah.

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in prospect revenge is more appealing than remedy. but it’s like a bag of cheetos — you’ll find you wish you’d gone for the salad after you’ve binged.

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“I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV. Today I will be performing your heart surgery.”

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sorry, i love light AI. suck the value out of all the plutocrat’s capex. may all their billions turn to dust while we run whatever fancy autocomplete we want on our laptops.

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just encountered a Rolls Royce SUV that looks like basically every other oversize SUV, and i think to myself wtf are you guys doing to your brand? looking forward to the Lamborghini minivan.

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discretionary immigration enforcement to knee-cap blue state ag industries seems clever, until you realize food markets are mostly national and the economic advantage you give to red states will take the form to consumers either of high prices or shortages.

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on the bright side, a military under Hegseth might struggle to defeat Greenland.

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a thru line of the Trump Admin’s actions is testing the proposition nothing the Federal govt does matters or is any good. will ppl really die if PEPFAR is halted? is NIH just a job program for dorky Democrats? doesn’t FEMA just step on better informed states? isn’t the military just foreign aid?

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section 230 at the very least should not apply to paid content. freeradical.zone/@tek/1138847...

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people are constantly accusing the federal government of being a jobs program, but that’s just Congress.