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Infobae has more information (in Spanish) and a video demonstrating the fire extinguisher:

https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2026/08/27/se-puede-apagar-el...


> America has the most progressive tax system in the world. There is no other country where the ultra rich pay such percentage of the tax burden.

Nope, not even close. Sort this list by "Highest" and keep in mind that NYC is only one city in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates


Exciting to see this soon after someone got the Fairphone 6 camera working on postmarketOS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285

The 6+ is a different model, but the announcement says the camera module is the same.


Luca Weiss (Fairphone employee and pmOS dev) has confirmed on the wiki that the FP6 image also works on FP6+: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/index.php?title=Fairphone_%28G...


They even mention that they want to move on to work on the Fairphone 6+.


Absolutely not. This is exactly why people have a problem with Chromium, which now has some of the same restrictions on extensions as Safari (Manifest V3).

- uBlock Origin works best on Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

- uBlock Origin Lite FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...


Muse Glimmer doesn't redeem Meta, but it's a contribution to the commons and the Apache 2.0 licensing is an improvement from the restricted licenses attached to Llama. If even Meta can use a permissive license for its model weights, so can any other company.


Even with US sanctions, Chinese AI companies would continue to serve users in every other country in the world (including China itself), so I don't see why they would stop releasing open weight models.


Alibaba Cloud runs ModelScope, which is like Hugging Face but based in China:

- https://modelscope.ai

- Source code (ironically on GitHub): https://github.com/modelscope/modelscope

It's not limited to Alibaba's Qwen. All of the other major Chinese ones are on there (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, etc.) as well as finetunes and quantizations of the non-Chinese ones.


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

- Script: https://archive.org/stream/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/H...

- Film (with some differences): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Vli6Fnj1E


OpenAI is currently a PBC that metastasized out of the original nonprofit also called OpenAI which owns 26% of that PBC. But yes, it is ridiculous.


OpenAI isn't non-profit, they just don't have one yet caz everything is spent on training


I have no reason to care about the interests of these companies. My interests are best served with a competitive selection of open weights models available for my use.

OpenAI has the year-old GPT-OSS, and Anthropic has never released any open weights models. Meanwhile, other companies are delivering a steady stream of high-quality open weights models every month, and I'm not going to stop using them just because some other people don't like the country they were developed in.


I can’t say this enough…

Expect the tap on open models to slow and eventually disappear.

They don’t exist for altruistic reasons. It’s peculiar to current conditions.


Unlike Claude Fable, once an open weights model is released, it's available forever (or at least until every copy is lost or deleted, which won't be soon).

Open weights models are already great, and the ones that are already released will continue to be just as good as they are today even if newer versions are released at a different speed in the future.


A year from now we won’t care that today’s qwen is good enough for some stuff. But yes, it’ll still be available.


>My interests are best served with a competitive selection of open weights models available for my use.

Which is why Chinese companies use people like you.

Sorry for being blunt but if you think this policy would continue in a scenario in which they are hegemonic you are extremely delusional.

Also:

>I'm not going to stop using them just because some other people don't like the country they were developed in.

This is not a serious sentence, but a preposterous, straw-manning assertion to make, and it borders on the insult.


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