Zoe @ekg@librem.one

Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down

Back in February of this year you may recall the interesting news that was announced on Phoronix that AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source. That open-source ZLUDA code for AMD GPUs has been available since AMD quit funding the developer earlier this year. But now the code has been retracted. It's not from NVIDIA legal cha…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down

I'm kinda hoping this will be a wake up call for regulators in the UK and EU. Everyone just watched as Twitter (primarily accounts Elon personally intervened to unban) caused widespread race riots in the UK. It's simply not sustainable to let a bunch of Americans with bad ideals about free speech burn down the rest of western society.

Sweeney's done a much better job with this then I have. I realized this year that Apple's been actively exploiting one of my personal traits - that I generally refuse to participate in pointless arguments & logical fallacies. So by default I ignore the noise, but because its Apple, leaving it unsupervised allows it devolve into Dante's Inferno.

I suspect exactly the same thing that happened in the US is now happening in the UK. Entire political spectrum took a hard right turn, the extreme right wing became increasingly emboldened and a lot of awful ideologies became normalized, then when the pendulum swung back left, everything just continued to get worse because the fear of losing power just increased radicalization on the right, as well as their willingness to resort to violence and intimidation.

@realn2s the failure to get the office of budget responsibility to sign of was the whole cause of the Liz Truss crisis.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @thebrand @justafrog I sometimes forget that my particular mix of neuro divergence, dyslexia, and upbringing leads to an often difficult to parse phraseology.

@maggiejk @samohTmaS @covid_stats I don't know if they still test the sewage water, but that is a common and effective way to estimate population level infection.

@impactology @scienceforthepeople tragedy of the common can only be observed when their exist a barrier to corporation, like when Nepal band the communal management of the forest and lost large part of it.

@mekkaokereke this is what people miss about DEI/EGS, it's literally an investment in a more palatable organisation.

Everyone that understands this, predicted Twitter's revenue drop and valuation drop well in advance. 🙋🏿‍♂️

If you drive away the people that create disproportionate amounts of fun, engaging content (Women, Black folk, young folk, LGBTQIA), then engagement will go down.

If you increase the people who create politically divisive content (yes, this is a euphemism for racist and transphobic content) then you will also drive away advertisers.

What does this have to do with Mastodon?

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@karolherbst It said that progress occurs one death at a time. These is why experts are so important, if you don't live and breath these things it's much easier to continue to belive what you already do. Especially if you are financially well off; it has worked fine for *me* all this time, why change it now?

@ShadowJonathan @realn2s yeah, absolutely. It just that anyone that start their campaign now, and hire competent people, will be told beyond all doubt that neoliberalism is dead.

Imagine a world leader on a neoliberal campaign is as crazy to me as having one run on replacing NASA with astrologist.

@raven667 as I mentioned otherwise. Neoliberal belief lends them self well to justifying empire. Value is inherently plastic and can be shaped by the dominant power, mening people can be made lesser by defining their labour, resources, and capital as less valuable.

@ShadowJonathan fascists also loves these ideas, they are very used to twisting their interpretation to call some less then humans. The motivation for empire is built on ideas like competitive advantage, and (un)equal exchange. As a result of value being built on Fiat (belief) they can simply define some peoples labour, and resources as less valuable.

@ShadowJonathan @Patricia I treat it as an fascist dog whistle, it's useful to call poor people "unrational" if you want to dehumanise them.

@karolherbst people can't afford food, they aren't doing well.

Russian propaganda is designed to look organic, don't be fooled.

@karolherbst A Recommendation

Ryan McBeth @ YouTube has done excellent things about russian propaganda.

@Patricia
This is what the war in Ukraine is about, Russia is one of the last holdouts concerning neoliberal ideals. The the war is Democracy (The west) vs. Neoliberalism (Russia), and neoliberalism is losing.

Russia is very good at propaganda and has done everything in their power to keep neoliberal ideas alive, because they believe they will destroy the west. Witch is true neoliberal ideas if genuinely believed will destroy everything, including Russia.

@Patricia Economics as you know it is. After the 2008 financial crisis actors like The World Bank, IMF, and IBS riped up the textbooks and started anew. Thats why I was malding so hard the other day when you were talking shit about the IMF, they have completely change their tune since the incidents you recalled.