my current (evolving) thoughts on open claw: it is very early, has a lot of pitfalls re: security and privacy, but is a taste of what is to come i think we can have a clean open source package like start9, that uses local open source models for most tasks, and then hits bigger models through something like maple straight forward, easy to use, relative cheap operating costs, with strong privacy and security guarantees

all the big tech companies are doing insane dirty shit to us behind the scenes unfathomable evil is possible with ai tech for those with unlimited money and no rules

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the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same compa...

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life is short but the grind is long

life is a fucking grind. a long beautiful grind.