Speaking of schadenfreude, Silicon Valley is in a tailspin (meatspin?*) over a bit of news out of China, and it just tickles my balls. These tech assholes have been sucking up to Trump because they're looking for federal funding for their massively expensive AI ventures. Remember when I said Microsoft assumed command of Three Mile Island?
To keep up with these things, a week ago Trump announced a plan to spend $500B on AI infrastructure. Because the universe is cruel and loves to take stuff away from me, this project has been named Stargate**.
Enter schadenfreude. China just released their own AI, just as good and possibly better than ours AT A FRACTION OF THE COST. We're talking 3-4%. Holy fucking shit. That really is a gamechanger.
I'm actually a little hard thinking of Musk and Zuck and the others seething at the universe's betrayal of them. These fuckers entered a race to see who could outspend whom (Musk might not win, as rule number one of the stock market is NEVER USE YOUR OWN MONEY), and China comes along and shits in their cereal bowl. Nvidia, the company that makes the microchips for AI, has been riding high so long they practically had a license to print money for themselves. When China released DeepSeek and their AI chatbot, R1, Nvidia stock took a fuckin' nosedive. They lost $600B in ONE DAY. That's not just a terrible loss. It's the worst one-day loss in HISTORY. It took China two months and less than $6M to beat the mortal shit out of us. R1 is free, and more importantly it's OPEN SOURCE. If you want the gory (and exceptionally boring) details, here they are.
Don't get me wrong. I'm still not happy because we still have AI. I'm just happy that these cocksuckers, who thought they were kings of the tech world, ratfucking everyone they come in contact with so they can ratfuck humanity for centuries to come, have been rendered irrelevant.
What's next for the techbros? I can only assume that, since it is open source, they're going to rip off DeepSeek for themselves, take it private and charge out the ass for people to use it while screaming about the godless Commies living in China and how we can't trust their products because they are evil.
Speaking of China, what has President Trump done to fight the godless Commies that he promised he was going to fight? Heh. Just kidding. Him and Xi are . . . not BFFs. That would be Trump and Putin. But S(econd)BFFs?
Schadenfreude is very rewarding for those who don't fall into its trap. I just have one question left: does this mean that Microsoft has to give up Three Mile Island? I still don't trust those corporate fucks.
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*Don't Google that.
**Joke's on you, you will have to pry Stargate from my cold dead hands.
BONUS! Are you looking for a job, and you couldn't get hired by RFK, Jr.? Maybe Elon Musk will take you at DOGE!
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