Who benefits if the US has the best AI?

Investors! who manage to not be holding the bag at the end

… they stopped at some point?

Nazi. The word is Nazi. White Supremacist is sane-washed and clinical. Believe people when they tell you who they are, with words or actions.

And people are still using sms

What an excellent way to know I’m likely to be amongst the first on the chopping block (federal IT). And what a great thing to start making cuts to, the people likely keeping everyones digital information secure

Invest time in INFOSEC, secure your entire online presence, every account, sanitize any data out there that can be used to track or blackmail yourself (or your friends/family through you) if possible. Assume any major social media platform retains backups of anything you post (for data retention policies, government or internal, or just for AI shit) and base your future posting habits with that in mind.

No price tag, no specs, no GPU.

Of course they never went away. Same thing happened with the US civil war; they didnt finish the job (and id argue it was probably the same groups).

Clearly, “the scouring of the shire” is not an optional part of the story.