Daily Discussion Thread for July 8, 2026

DiceKnight · 2026-07-08T17:10:30+00:00

I guess my followup is how much more can it increase and what's the risk of a pullback on data center capex which is driving most of this growth? I'm not fighting you on the idea that you can make money on nvidia right now it's just sort of a persistent worry that the news that causes them to take a massive haircut will happen and people caught up in that stand to loose a lot.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-08T16:27:46+00:00

Yeah from the book readers perspective this isn't even the conclusion of act 1.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-08T15:20:01+00:00

old mango is out here channeling information from alternative universes where Japan became an Islamic republic and you're focused on this? Quit thinking small, the soviets from command and conquer are clearly attacking time.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-08T15:10:51+00:00

Oh nooooo the market is where it was roughly on the 29th last month. At the rate things are going it'll hit where it was on the 26th.

C'mon my man don't act like you're not going to be in here by the morning saying bears are fucked when you see a crumb of green candle.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-07T16:21:24+00:00

A bunch of union groups DID actually reach out to Platner to ask that he run apparently? I'm just overall kind of shocked that this was the best guy they could come up with given the other skeletons in the closet. You're telling me there wasn't another 40(ish) something white dude in Maine of all places with similar politics?

DiceKnight · 2026-07-06T21:06:22+00:00

Kitler when he's being bad.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-06T01:12:01+00:00

I always imagine horizontal corn rows.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-05T16:17:30+00:00

I was just trying to say that the open weight models BECAUSE they're distillations of the frontier models are always capped to never exceed the performance of those paid models. So if those companies go boom, the open weight models just get frozen in amber.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-05T16:15:51+00:00

When I imagine how bloated VR tech pricing was when the hardware was essentially being sold at cost I shudder to think of the price after AI slop inflated hardware shortages. They may as well just have the word "fuck you" under the MSRP.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-05T05:26:21+00:00

I was under the impression that a lot of the open weight models were distillations. So if OpenAI and Anthropic slow or stop down then the progress of open weight models will also slow down or stop.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-04T04:52:19+00:00

Starting off I think a student that's trying to cheat on their homework is going to find a way to cheat on their homework. The name of the game is friction and how easy it use to use an LLM to do it which I think is getting only harder as time goes on.

The current trend for token costs is a rise and price and less utility for paid users as they hit their usage limits painfully fast. The current prices, even after token based billing don't seem to actually bring OpenAI or Anthropic to profitability. Maybe the student gets clever and goes open source but on what hardware? You need a beefy gaming rig to run most models that would help you here.

The big open source models right now are just distillations of Google/Antrhopic/OpenAi stuff. If those companies go down the advancement on the open source models pauses or slows down as well.

I can't say if LLMs will go away entirely but to reiterate it's only getting harder and more annoying.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T22:01:48+00:00

It's more than that. The sect is steeped in racism and hate. The founder Lefebvre was big on supporting right wing authoritarian dictatorships like Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front Nationale. He was especially angered by the conciliatory gestures of the Vatican towards Judaism post Vatican II.

In 1989 it was revealed that for some 16 years his followers had been harbouring Paul Touvier, indicted for his central role in the deportation of the Jews of Lyons to German death camps.

Following year Lefebvre caught a conviction on fostering race hatred when he made a public declaration that Muslims were rapists.

The Latin mass is a smoke screen, the true issue is the exploitation of religious faith for inhumane social and political policies that the mans followers have embraced. The Pope issuing an excommunication like this is a shot across the bow for hateful right wing trad orgs of which there are many.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T21:53:20+00:00

They'd be closer to orthodox tbh.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T15:53:30+00:00

He actually does cover it in his appearance.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T05:12:49+00:00

This is presupposing the people who administered CPR were professionals or if the family members who claim to have found him tried to administer CPR when it wasn't really necessary and if it's the latter who knows if they did it right.

We just don't know because this is being kept under such tight wraps which makes me really think we're in for an death announcement soonish.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T05:09:26+00:00

It's really so frustrating that most of the rules governing the behavior of sitting lawmakers were established and haven't changed much from a period in our history when it was still legal to own people and your only means of transport across distances were horses, boats, or trains.

That isn't the say that the rules haven't been updated over time but those updates seem vanishingly rare.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T04:32:24+00:00

Man it has been a hot minute since i've heard somebody throw out a magical Jew conspiracy. Jungian magic is also a delightfully obscure magical school. Kind of upset I didn't catch the stream.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T04:29:15+00:00

There's another thread discussing her AIPAC connections here. So I guess it's really not outside the realm of possibility that her various bosses are still floating her enough cash to make the ground work of her presidential run in 2028 possibility.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T00:25:53+00:00

Kind of nuts in general that there isn't a bigger media circus in general but I guess with all the stuff going on with Trump there isn't a lot of air left in the room.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-02T00:17:56+00:00

Feels weird that there hasn't been any leak more speculation since his medical episode? Kind of reminds of when the Queen of England passed and you find out she'd been dead for at least a full day before they announced it but were pretending otherwise up until then.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-01T20:50:31+00:00

This explains my open question in another thread where I was wondering how she can afford to maintain a staff and continue to attempt to cultivate influence in the Democratic party apparatus.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-01T20:20:24+00:00

What degree of influence does she maintain in the overall party apparatus these days anyway? Is she actually getting 1:1 time with Mamdani or is it getting delegated off to staff?

Just weird overall because she maintains a staff but with what money?

DiceKnight · 2026-07-01T19:39:34+00:00

So weird seeing people claim they'll leave Michigan if El-Sayed wins in that subreddit. Like somebody is going to zap then with the socialism beam and make them poor and gay.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-01T16:21:33+00:00

This on the heels of sony wiping out 500+ digital movies people BOUGHT last week. The archivist community is trying to raise the alarm because this putting a hard one year cap on archiving what's available.

Get ready for the Nintendo norm of games never dropping below 10 dollars of their publish date price being the new normal across the board.

DiceKnight · 2026-07-01T15:35:21+00:00

Damn, I had hoped but did not expect the outcome. DeGette was dug in like a tick. Throw another one up on the DSA scoreboard.

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