The whims and grim future of LAN-based AI

A few days before $Intel (INTC.US)$ earnings last week, I started the rough draft of this column in my head.  As a seed germinates and grows, getting whipped about by atmospheric winds of constantly-changing direction, the shape of the message started to formulate like a taproot shoots straight down. For the last several days, I've mulled over various angles strengthening the main ideas of the messages I want to communicate.  For the last several days I researched, absorbed the reports, got updates on latest facts, news... sifted a large variety of hype and listened to the opinions of detractors. And even though I don't always know exactly what the main message will be until I start writing, I take care to not get too excited about an idea until I know its taproot can hold enough sustaining nodes to keep alive. I also knew that after earnings and the bad news released by the whole of the "industry" -- especially Intel -- last week was not time to start writing.

I've expressed gratitude to the Moomoo team many times since joining this community that publishes and shares content, content such as mine, 50-something days ago. Finally, a way to talk to the adults in the room about serious financial issues and other economic factors facing women everywhere, I thought when stumbling upon the NNQ. The Moo Community is reminiscent of how some places on the Internet used to be before the phrase "social media" started being bandied about, destroying brains and making people forget that we're supposed to call everything that is published on the Internet*

If you're on college dropout CEO's LAN, you're not really on the Internet.

College dropout CEO's LAN is all about how well can people clown around and goof off for attention.  Mind you, a user's "maximum popularity" can be determined and ranked only within their own peer group, and never any bigger.  On an isolated (is okay to be real and describe it as a fascist-run) LAN, nothing can actually go viral. Especially not if college dropout CEO doesn't like what you have to say, how you said it, or if he actively dislikes like you as a person.

Last week aside, let's look further back.  Would you agree that things have morphed from bad to worse in the whole of the tech sector since (let's be generous and count all 7 years of college dropout CEO's reign of terror running a publicly traded company) ... things have been "atrociously" bad for tech since at least 2019? Maybe the AI that college dropout CEO wants to waste more money on, encouraging human intelligence to goof off so he can fix his image?  Maybe not such a good idea.    Even the gamers agree.

The thing that people who write video games and people who write news articles for paper presses have in common is that they are humans who need stable (landlordless) housing that returns equity to them, paychecks, healthcare, and unbiased networks to rank their content so that the Internet can function as intended, to amplify independent voices.  SilverSpook has been fundraising for housing for as long as I've known them.