⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

guess the USA invasion of Venezuela puts a flashing neon crosshair on Taiwan.

An extremely ridiculous notion that I am forced to consider right now is that it matters whether the CCP invades before or after the “AI” bubble bursts. Because the “AI” bubble is the biggest misallocation of capital in history, which means people like the MAGA government are desperate to wring some water out of those stones, anything. And for various economical reasons it isn’t doable at the moment to produce chips anywhere else than Taiwan. No chips, no “AI” datacenters, and they promised a lot of AI datacenters—in fact most of the US GDP “growth” in 2025 was promises of AI datacenters, if you don’t count these promises the country is already in recession.

Basically I think if the CCP invades before the AI bubble pops, MAGA would escalate to full-blown war against China to nab Taiwan as a protectorate. And if we all die in nuclear fallout caused to protect chatbot profits I will be so over this whole thing

*opens news*

Oh ffs sake.

*closes news*

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115826683070912702

The UK government’s official internet policy:

1. if you run a web forum or fedi instance, you need to do a bunch of paperwork to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct to protect the kids.

2. if you are rich and run a neo-nazi website with officially posted virtual CSAM, politicians won’t leave despite that being a million times worse than anything you’d read on a forum about fixed gear cycling or a mastodon server run by some queer furries running arch for their polycule.

Incredibly coherent.

I can't be the only one hearing the news coming out of #Venezuela and thinking #Trump must be terrified of whatever is about to come out regarding #Epstein

good christ, US military kidnapped Maduro

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115830428767897167

#USPol #Venezuela

Will FIFA ask for its prestigious peace prize to be returned?

#Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/02/google-ai-overviews-risk-harm-misleading-health-information

Twitter’s Grok AI is now being used by people to undress women, as verified by the BBC. Twitter refused to reply, simply saying “legacy media lies”. It isn’t a lie.

In the UK it is illegal to create or share non-consensual intimate images, including via AI. The UK gov say they are investigating.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98p1r4e6m8o

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn...

Hey, he told me to do it! @pluralistic

(PS: Absolutely definitely for sure buy this book, I am kicking myself for forgetting to buy it sooner! It has been a delight.)