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*Boosts please* - bigotry, fascism and elitism in Gentoo communties, what to do? 

Given the sheer amount of fascism, bigotry, and elitism in the Gentoo community, anyone wants to make a fork of Gentoo with explicit bans on that together with me?

I have a few technical issues I wanna solve too, but preferably we'd get enough beans together to make this something useful.

I can do generic Linux things (specifically kernel stuff, but also other things), but I don't have enough Gentoo-specific knowledge to do this alone. I do have a lot of experience with managing communities.

For now I'd probably soft fork, make our own tarballs + perhaps an overlay and soft fork of portage if necessary.

@cstross @laird

For those who haven't been watching:

A load of AI companies are actually just OpenAI resellers. OpenAI is among the biggest investors in these companies, but NVIDIA is also big. The way it works is something a bit like this:

  1. NVIDIA invests $10M in some AI company.
  2. That company takes $2M in revenue for effectively reselling OpenAI models at well below cost.
  3. That company buys $12M of OpenAI credits (from their revenue plus investor money).
  4. OpenAI reports $12M of revenue and uses this to justify raising $100M more investor money.
  5. OpenAI buys $100M of GPUs from NVIDIA.
  6. NVIDIA reports $100M of revenue and an asset worth at least $10M.

Everyone wins! Money from thin air!

There's a more fun variant that is, roughly:

  1. Investment firm has a $100M stake in NVIDIA.
  2. Investment firm borrows $50 against this stake and uses it to invest in a load of AI startups (maybe even OpenAI).
  3. Demand for GPUs goes up!
  4. NVIDIA valuation increases significantly and now the firm's NVIDIA portfolio is worth $1B
  5. Company slowly sells 20% of their stake (slowly, so it doesn't spook the market, but it's a fairly small fraction of market cap, so that's fine).
  6. Company writes off the $50M investment in startups.
  7. Company now has $150M in cash and an NVIDIA stake valued at $800M that they can borrow against.

If anyone except Trump were in the White House, I'd expect the end result of a bunch of SEC investigations to result in a lot of folks going to prison.

@avie I just found out about Blippo+, saw that it was on your wishlist, and now we both have Blippo+ c:

Do still wanna get a Renamon fursuit some day 💛​💜​

Media marked sensitive due to eye contact.

This is my old werewolf suit, from when I was using my cis moniker "Graafen". At the time I was still under the impression that I was male, and when I started feeling bad about my trans thoughts I denied myself the feeling good about a lot of things, which included this.

These were very good times!! 💜​

Suit was made by DarkFang and @ysengrin of Runnign Wolf Productions

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Zhe renaissance yinglet, not bad for two hours sketching on my tablet

It's #FursuitFriday!
Come and hold my hand (we're gonna have a lazy but cuddly weekend! 😻)
Taken by @Frooxius last @eurofurence 💙
#Fursuit #Furry #Cat

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