The Bambu printers are also great “entry level” as they work so well with a lot of features right out of the box. They aren’t cheap though.

And don’t forget they have a really great deal on bananas.

I’m not advocating he buy a printer, that’s clearly the wrong choice here, but

Getting it set up and calibrated takes ages

…just isn’t true anymore, depending on what you get; the bambulabs printers are basically effortless.

Man, I can still hear the rattle of the teacup.

They made a blood tithe they feel can never be repaid. Compared to that it’s pretty clear they see all this *waves hand around* as trivial amounts of collateral damage.

Yeah, but that old technology is what still lets me run a 13 year old version of Adobe creative suite. If that ever changes I will have to learn something new!

This is exactly why I have been running the same Adobe software for the last, what, 15 years now? Whatever the last one was before they changed to a subscription model, that’s the one I have.

I’m doing my part!

I think the place we haven’t quite gotten to yet is that copyright is probably the wrong law for this. What the AI is doing is reverse engineering the authors magic formula for creating new works, which would likely be patent law.

In the past this hasn’t really been possible for a person to do reliably, and it isn’t really quantifiable as far as filling a patent for your process, yet the AI does it anyway, leaving us in a weird spot.

They didn’t say he will, they said he can. Musk himself has admitted he did just that with a judgement call. Whether he has a contract or not doesn’t change that.

There were a few recent news articles that discussed some of the content of the new book about Elon Musk in which he shared that he had realized that a particular request for bandwidth could only be for a Ukrainian boat drone strike against Russian warships, so he turned off the coverage in that area to save lives, which disabled all the drones.

Those warships later fired rockets into Ukraine, killing people.

The takeaway most people got from this is that Elon is using his influence to decide who lives and who dies in a foreign war where the US has a stake, and he chose the opposite of US foreign policy.

If you think he’s smart, he is potentially traitorous to US interests, if you think he’s dumb, he still got people killed.