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baggachipz commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
sebzim4500 · 3 days ago
I assume that they mean that OpenAI will now be obligated to pay a lot of that money back to Disney as some kind of licensing fee. No idea if it's true, but that's the only way his comment makes sense.
baggachipz · 3 days ago
The carousel of ~progress~ financing continues to turn....
baggachipz commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
reaperducer · 3 days ago
I look forward to making a few videos of my daughters favorite Disney princesses "talking" to her.

I look forward to chatting with Pluto and Goofy and asking why one has to wear pants when both of them are dogs.

baggachipz · 3 days ago
Given that only one of the dogs can talk, you're set to get only one answer. Though I suspect that the ability to talk bestows bodily shame, based on this anecdotal evidence.
baggachipz commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri   reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
mgkimsal · 3 days ago
Petty as in 'small and does not really matter' or petty as in 'vindictive'. All administrations do many small things that may not ultimately have much impact, but often those may be for benign reasons. Understanding the reasoning behind the decisions would help in determining what kind of 'petty' this is.
baggachipz · 3 days ago
Absolutely vindictive. He goes out of his way to cite "DEI" in his comments.
baggachipz commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri   reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
chinathrow · 4 days ago
> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

What a waste of government time and spending.

baggachipz · 3 days ago
The levels of pettiness in this administration know no bounds. I'm sure they'll forbid the use of "woke", and require all government employees to say "I terminated sleep this morning".
baggachipz commented on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content   theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/ta988
aa_is_op · 3 days ago
We have Trump blabbering about EU censorship, but here's the US oligarch's social network doing it at his orders.

The "bastion of free speech" is exporting its censorship to other countries... If I'm an EU lawmaker, I'd honestly use this to just ban Zuckerberg's entire social media sites and get it over with

baggachipz · 3 days ago
I will never understand Europe's obsession with using WhatsApp. They've had a long time to switch off it for a better and less evil product.
baggachipz commented on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content   theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/ta988
deaux · 3 days ago
Nope, the things you named aren't easier. Out of the two, it's much easier to not work at Meta than do any of those things.
baggachipz · 3 days ago
What's so hard about not using Meta products? I manage to not use them every single day. There are dozens of us!
baggachipz commented on Uber is turning data about trips and takeout into insights for marketers   businessinsider.com/uber-... · Posted by u/sethops1
andsoitis · 6 days ago
From the article: ”aggregate users' data without revealing their identities.”
baggachipz · 6 days ago
Source: "trust us bro"
baggachipz commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
baggachipz · 6 days ago
That often wrong and unnecessary AI bullshit ain't gonna pay for itself!
baggachipz commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto   twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
baggachipz · 6 days ago
Good thing the industry has moved on to another promising niche technology which is being hyped and ruined by greed.
baggachipz commented on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/1... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
LeifCarrotson · 10 days ago
Agreed! I recently listened to a podcast (video) from the "How Money Works" channel on this topic:

"How Short Term Thinking Won" - https://youtu.be/qGwU2dOoHiY

The author argues that this con has been caused by three relatively simple levers: Low dividend yields, legalization of stock buybacks, and executive compensation packages that generate lots of wealth under short pump-and-dump timelines.

If those are the causes, then simple regulatory changes to make stock buybacks illegal again, limit the kinds of executive compensation contracts that are valid, and incentivize higher dividend yields/penalize sales yields should return the market to the previous long-term-optimized behavior.

I doubt that you could convince the politicians and financiers who are currently pulling value out of a fragile and inefficient economy under the current system to make those changes, and if the changes were made I doubt they could last or be enforced given the massive incentives to revert to our broken system. I think you're right that it will take a huge disaster that the wealthy and powerful are unable to dodge and unable to blame on anything but their own actions, I just don't know what that event might look like.

baggachipz · 10 days ago
One need only look at 1929 to understand what's in store. Of course, the rich/powerful will say "who could have seen this coming?"

u/baggachipz

KarmaCake day2689December 3, 2010View Original