mctoasterson
I mean, you can self-host your own local LLMs using something like Ollama. The performance will be bound by the disk space you have (the complexity of the model you’re able to store), and the performance of the CPU or GPU you are using to run it, but it does work just fine. Probably as good results as ChatGPT for most use cases.
I will give it a shot today.
Now that they’ve shown their proof of concept works and they can falsely imprison people on bogus charges and use them as bargaining chips to free their actual criminals, they will be doing this a lot more.
Nice to see some benefit to updated vanilla AOSP, Graphene, and other options.
It goes without saying but it seems like a deeply fucked business model to horde zero-days that could cause billions in damage or safety issues if they fall into the wrong hands, in order to keep your mercenary surveillance product working.
Kind of a rock / hard place situation.
If they “force” him out without him dropping out, by faithless delegates or somesuch, it would reveal the entire process of selecting candidates is actually a meaningless farce (which everyone already kinda knew, but no one seems very interested in dispelling that myth just yet).
If he won’t consensually drop out within the next week I don’t see how they get rid of him without it being an even bigger clusterfuck.
Not a campaign expert, but there are tons of things that political campaigns need to do in the 3 months leading up to an election -
Conduct national and local ad buys on TV, radio, and social media.
Orchestrate volunteers to call voters and knock doors.
Print promotional materials such as signs and shirts.
Conduct candidate appearances (speeches, public forums, rallys) which includes travel costs, event space, logistics.
Coordinate and encourage voter turn out (includes a lot of research, planning, data analysis).
Prepare any legal challenges related to the ballots and election procedures (this could get very complicated and expensive in a national campaign as there are so many venues; Imagine having to retain teams of lawyers and potentially file suits in all 50 states).
All that stuff costs money. Usually a re-elect campaign has years to raise money so jettisoning the entire warchest with 3 months left isn’t a good idea. Granted there is so much PAC money in national races, maybe it doesn’t matter as much as it used to.
Since I never hear anything about this angle-
The other reason it kinda “has to” be Harris if it isn’t Biden, relates to campaign finance rules. If he steps aside, she can continue to use their campaign funds.
If it’s neither, then whoever is nominated basically has to start fresh raising money, and with a huge time disadvantage.
It is also Allstar week in Major League Baseball, and night 1 of the RNC coincided with the Home Run Derby.
Of people who still watch broadcast or cable TV as their source of nightly entertainment, I’m going to guess most people were watching dudes hit homeruns instead of watching a glorified political ad.
Butter from Normandy in particular.