it’s mils, esq.

@bdguan this is the most accurate blue-check twitter take on china rn

just spent 2 weeks in china. went into it thinking we're cooked. came back more bullish on america than ever. here's why: 1. chinese citizens are way more chronically online. on the subway, train, anywhere, literally everyone is glued to their phone. gaming, short form, wechat. "don't walk and look at your phone, it's dangerous!" announcements flood crowded areas. their tiktok isn't any better, its still garbage, soft-core porn, etc. 2. everyone's using AI — deepseek, kimi, doubao. but nobody's afraid of losing their job to it. here it feels like there's an existential crisis every week. in china, nothing. i think the CCP won't let companies mass-layoff workers. great for short-term stability. terrible for long-term competitiveness on a global scale. 3. china doesn't produce weirdos. i sat in on a class at tsinghua (china's MIT). not one student spoke unless the professor read their name out loud. no questions. no debate. chinese education produces world-class executors, not contrarians. it does make it a safer place to live though. 4. china doesn't have christianity but it has something america doesn't have: a shared story everyone believes in. every person age 25-70 watched their country go from abject poverty to skyscrapers in one lifetime. that kind of collective proof has a deep unifying effect. compare that to how divided we are right now. america has a huge meaning vacuum that needs to be filled. nevertheless, i return back to my home in america reinvigorated. because everything i saw confirms one thing: china optimizes. america innovates. and the innovators always win.

Some highlights from the WSJ Death of Sora article: - Disney execs learned about Sora being shut down less than an hour before it was announced, this verifies the reporting from Reuters - OpenAI needed to free up compute for Spud, specifically for enterprise tool use - The training run for Sora 3 was about to begin, and the estimated cost was very high - OpenAI had begun piloting an enterprise version of Sora for release in the Spring - at the time of its cancellation Sora had less than 500k users, and was losing a million dollars a day - Disney is currently in active discussions with more than a dozen different companies for their new AI video model and AI tools

@kianamaiart seeing you post a white text over dark background scared the shit out of me

@TaskSoldier1000 neither. the charge was filed with a federal agency, which investigates the allegations. if it reaches adjudication, that's handled within the NLRB agency by an administrative law judge, not via trial courts. nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/wha…

@KatiKnitt Is this small claims or circuit court?

Did anyone hear about this labor case against Spindlehorse?

@DawnC331 Belatedly, our updated story with a few new details about how & when Disney was blindsided by OAI's decision to scrap Sora. The fallout suggests OpenAI's effort to streamline its business is likely to be v messy & complex. reuters.com/technology/ope…

@kianamaiart it's too hilarious; suddenly the legal risk and hardware resource cost of visual media generation got SO high that they decided to leave us alone for the better profit margins in code generation nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

LOL. LMAO even

@blufctchk @alliexloux @CondeNast there are very few people who want to write about kpop for pitchfork, not least because if you write anything remotely negative then you have to deal with kpop stans

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