major percentage of these losses can be attributed to the outrageous expenses of training language models.

Those cost seems to be developmental and not operational, after they reach AGI I assume it will go down

Not really, most authoritative countries tend to censor or throttle connection by odering their ISP. Google most did it because it could get bad PR for allowing app hosting hamas content other social medial are self regulating

Same here, but you still need to manually sync repos and click install, right?

So now I can put my ex photo up and prove that bitch is really from hell

Statistically speaking it’s young people who don’t vote much.

I’m with you, remindes of this fun article on our human desire to see things black and white

Google isn’t paying that $26 B cause it want to, but because it knows Microsoft isn’t going to pay that much.

I would argue meta is the only way mainstream content creator are willing to join fediverse, It won’t be the worst thing to have more options, especially when feed curation in on our hand.

I don’t like Elon Musk, his buyout of Twitter was horibble and I don’t agree with many stuff he says, that begin said

story about Musk’s father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim. Source

I’m more of an archivist, belive that will cause loss of many meaningfull conversation and information.