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I mean, no? He lived in England throughout the controversy, he didn’t move to Japan till 2022, years after his controversy died down. He probably moved because he’s a fucking dork.

They’re lying about using AI to write software, they probably have required all their programmers to have an AI plugin installed, and are thus counting any code they make as “written by AI”, and then are counting any minor edit to existing code as the entire thing being “written by AI”.

The software is bad because it’s written to serve the infinite growth imperative. The reason they claim they’re writing code with AI is because that being true is the only hope that they have for achieving the infinite growth imperative. It’s a con, it’s a cult, they are extracting as much value as they can before everything falls apart.

The AI is not the reason their software is bad, but their software is bad for the same reason they’re claiming to use AI to write it.

I mean, he never really went anywhere, still gets like 2 to 6 million views a video, he just stoped doing news worthy edgelord shit for attention.

The stuff that was getting him in trouble was stuff like paying some kids on fiver to hold up an antisemitic sign, used some Nazi imagery in videos, shouted the N word on stream, and a bunch of other things. This was all between 2017 and 2019 and while he hasn’t made amends, he also hasn’t kept doing it.

I could see stuff getting small changes and them claiming that the entirety of the new version is “written by AI”.

I’d guess a lot of the people writing the code don’t even have it turned on, it’s just installed because management said it had to be, because management wants to be able to tell investors they’re “innovating work flows”.

I bet they’re counting code written while someone had an AI plugin installed as “written by AI” and I bet that accounts for almost all of that 30%. On top of that, I’m betting that they made it mandatory to have such a plug in, and the other 70% is just code written before they mandated this.

One of the rhetorically effective things about his campaign messaging was how broad and vague it was. Pundits, podcasters, influencers, and those manipulating the algorithms of social media, took that messaging, isolated parts of it and recontextualized those parts for specific audiences.

So while he may have assumed he was being very clear about what he was going to do, the messaging many of his voters got was totally detached from his intentions.

A good example of this is people who thought that the tariffs would somehow be a tax levied on foreign countries, not a sales tax on imported goods. Or those who thought the tariffs would be targeted at specific goods categories to benefit their particular industry, not a blanket tariff that impacts their upstream supply chain.

He told his subordinate on the campaign to get voters to vote for him, he assumed that meant convince them he was right, but that was impossible, the only ones that could get him the numbers he liked were the ones who just twisted what he said till people agreed with it.

But, we already have quake.

Look, I’m not an accountant, I don’t need a numpad.

I use librewolf just because it’s privacy focused.

But, there is also waterfox, floorp, and mercury, just off the top of my head.

Frankly they should probably split off the ad side from everything else.