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Good? I think outrage to such a thing is warranted and is technology related.

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What's your point?

That HN doesn't need to turn into yet another leftist-oriented firehose of outrage porn. There are plenty of options for that elsewhere.

You clearly have an ax to grind with leftists but outrage is a human reaction to something bad happening, it can be perceived on any political spectrum, including right as well. And discussion is the only a good thing even if not everybody agrees, at least we understand where they stand.

I have an axe to grind with outrage porn in general, and it so happens that leftist outrage porn is the prevailing form.

There's also the fact that as the audience is heavily composed of tech workers, we're helping to build these systems and should explore what our participation means for us. Hacking humanity and civilization as it were.

Sure, but better for who? Most likely for the West I'd say. It's pretty bad for Persians as well but who knows what other leader would have done to them. If the regime falls I'd say good riddance but it's no guarantee for a better life or stability in the region.

> Sure, but better for who? Most likely for the West I'd say.

Do you think people go fight their armed government known for heavily repressing any kind of protest for fun after work ?


The people of iran will decide who it's better for, as is their right.

I hope to wake up to see a free iran any day now.



Saddam did stuff like that and he was secular. The original Shah also did things like that. It's not wise to downplay the value of democracy.

In my opinion he doesn't stand a chance a 3rd time around. Also he's too old for that, he'd be 83 yo and by the end of his 3rd term would be 87.

His age or mental capacity never seemed to be a dealbreaker for his supporters previously. I'm not sure how or why that would change. Obviously number go up but if they still trust him it doesn't really matter. They will handwave and talk about advances in medicine & health

ICE is going to have a hell of a time feeding the souls of a thousand foreigners to the golden throne every day to keep him alive. Maybe that's what Venezuela's for.

If he has a third term, it's likely the end of it won't be based on some preset number of years but his eventual dirt nap.

Let's not forget that all that net worth is not liquid and pumped up with hot air.

Designwise as far as software goes it's been an inconsistent mess that others have copied from and made the whole UI/UX pretty bad all around.

I think it would be a good idea to tax companies significatnly when bricking their devices, it's creating e-waste. Open sourcing them like this would be a way for them to avoid fines.

There's no evidence she was trying to ram anyone. Are we going to take their word or use evidence? The whole scene was filmed by the way.

> Funny considering Trump ran on policies nearly the opposite of what he's doing today

MAGA base and Trump supporters are not rational. It does not matter what Trump is doing or saying, they're "taking their country back" even if they're losing their jobs or benefits. This is downright a cult of personality.


I have a new opinion that fits better imo: that they genuinely like it when other people suffer, even at their own expense.

From this perspective Trumps policies are all mostly rational.


What is xAI? Is it something serious such as what Anthropic did to coding? Can it compete with Google? I've tried Grok and seems farcical and useless for me at least, what am I missing?

It’s for generating deepfake porn: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/07/grok-deep...

Presumably this investment is a vote of confidence in the pervert market.


It's much more than that, it's a mass population and politics control device thanks to Twitter. They can choose what everyone knows about the world and how they know it. Also, they have the ability to produce the thing that the people will know and limit competing ideas or contradicting information. Think of it as full censorship and full moderation of information flow that is automated by AI.

The upside is limitless.


This used to be a serious web site.

True, people weren't just leaving snarky comments. Instead they were writing counter arguments etc. Total enshittification.

I didnt realize your comment was sardonic, hard to tell these days.

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