Well, we do have ex post facto protection for the moment, soooo…
Yeah I have it on every device I own now.
No reason to use it ever, but it’s there. Like, not installed, but there.
In the United States you get sent to prison if you use the wrong slop machine
It’s only a proposed bill (thankfully), but definitely one to keep an eye on.
“American Libeety”, ladies and gentleman.
As well as banning research. Absurd overreach of government and it will accomplish the opposite of what it wants.
It’s definitely not because it’s a competitor to Grok (x.ai) who just spend $6 billon on GPUs or anything
Unless the goal is actually sabotage
Of the US’s own capabilities?
Yes? You know the history of the political situation we’re in and how we got here right? The foreign entities that are salivating at the idea of a weakened America?
The Nazis were also extremely incompetent when I came to stuff like this. Hitler had generals scrambling behind his back to produce their best weapon, but he kept finding out and making them stop along with tons of other micromanaging.
Trump is an idiot and so is musk. Most business people are short sighted and fascists even more. They also may be high on their own farts and think the system won’t collapse with them “in charge” like a toddler left in s room full of candles and napalm.
Not saying that foreign powers aren’t loving this, but they don’t have to have control over it.
That’s right, be sure to check for communists under your bed everyone!
That’s not what’s happening. The theory that the builders of Empire were the ones that understood it, and the inheritors of Empire are true believers in the false justification the builders gave and thus defeat itself when given the reigns is coming more and more true.
TBH, I think that’s giving too much credit to those in charge. They don’t want to be China’s or Russia’s puppet. They imagine themselves the puppeteers (whether that’s true or not).
This makes more sense than these parasites submitting to a foreign adversary lol
Americans try not to scapegoat foreigners for their own domestic problems challenge (impossible).
Just keep your head buried in the sand.
Here you are, blaming the decline of the US empire on evil scheming foreigners and y’all fucking wonder how oh how fascism is so popular lmao
I’m not the one making up jingoist conspiracy theories to avoid having to confront the real problems
Just keep believing increasingly unhinged BlueAnon conspiracy theories. The US is just a smol bean fragile liberal democracy being mind controlled by the bad, mean, no good authoritarian foreign masterminds. Previously.
Jesus Christ you people sure are stupid
USSR leadership did… And some of them become the new global oligarch elite. Others got dead.
Current clonw posse could be trying to do something similar, thinking they can do better for themselves
another great day of not being an american
The whole globe is sliding right. It’s not a great day for anyone.
Yeah, thanks to steve bannon, elon musk and facebook
Sliding right and left. It’s becoming more polarized as Empire decays.
true but they will not stop me. even if i was american, i’d download deepseek, idc about anything at this point
if i was american i’d download it rn
> be european > deepseek gets banned > "hardfork" it to a european hosted gitlab instance > see openai and xai tears flowing againwhat a joke.
Some jokes are not amusing.
Yes in this context it means “pathetic”. For people who were thinking I mean the other meaning of joke.
Clown Country
Download it now, then. Before it becomesa law.
Anyone who doesn’t know how to (safely!) pirate books, articles, films, games and software, please read, use and share the resources over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
This skill is increasingly useful.
Genuinely great comm and resource.
On a side note, wasn’t this the guy that Sean O’Brien praised for being pro-worker?
Surprise surprise, those given access to the levers of power in the US are almost never pro-worker in reality.
Good thing I’ve just accepted a faculty position outside the US.
I’ll get to move to a country that doesn’t persecute academics and I think I’m just beating the crowds on the way out.
Nice to see the brain drain of the US in action. I’m glad I don’t have to see it’s downfall firsthand.
Where are you going? I’m currently on last yr of PhD and thinking of leaving, but I don’t know if I should abandon the PhD to leave or not. I’d like to finish it, at least do it remotely, but chances of finding work immediately after PhD are slim.
The position is in Germany. It might be out of the frying pan and into the fire given Germany’s right wing rise, but that’s happening across the western nations and we’re all in trouble.
I don’t have a ton of advice for you. I defended over 10 years ago, so I’m moving straight into a tenured/permanent position as senior faculty. For an ABD, I’m not sure what the landscape looks like these days.
If you want to make the move, start talking to people. Reach out to people publishing in your field and talk shop. Collaborate with them, talk about the future, and be willing to take a postdoc (or german system W1) position. It’s more ramen and a small bedroom, but it’s one where there’s healthcare and civil rights.
Academia (and most professions) are all about networks. Talk with people, collaborate, and grow that network. Something will come along.
Thank you. I have a family to worry about so can’t survive on ramen alone… But I’ll look for other countries postdoc and such. I’m a bit scared of moving somewhere I don’t know the local language now because of how things are going in the US, if something like this happens and I can’t understand their language I’d not even know the dangers.
My university in Germany operates entirely in English. The academic world is very international so it often falls back to English to support the faculty and students. Issues in the community will also be run through the university news routes, so while I’ve been learning German, I’ll also have a big resource with my work community.
There’s a few places to check for positions. I interviewed in Ireland and Scotland as well (didn’t get the jobs). There’s also Australia and new Zealand hiding out there. Or Canada. Hell, Mexico has a great university system you could look into.
Your PhD does open new doors. It’s by no means a guarantee of a faculty spot, but it’s valued so you can leverage it.
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