Autism Capital 🧩@AutismCapital
Hoard your physical hardware. Run local AIs. Support open source. Don't let them price you out of freedom. Defend at all costs. Live sovereign. Resist. Die free.
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10:26 PM · Jun 25, 2026 · 129K Views
PhotoAI creator Pieter Levels and kache argue developers must run local AI models on physical hardware to maintain sovereignty
They warn that relying on closed-source APIs is unsustainable.
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kache@yacineMTB
I've always been a proponent of free software, free as in freedom, from day one. Open Source AI, for myself, doesn't mean free as in free beer, but rather free to do what I want, what I deem necessary, and not give up control.
With software this powerful -- software so powerful that my job isn't worth doing without access, letting someone else vend it to me is intolerable. I can barely tolerate using a close source image editor. You're telling me to trust you with the keys to god in a bottle?
You see, I don't really care about the fabled doom. To yield control to another person is to lose my freedom. At a press of a button, you could destroy me. My ability to create positive economic output, output I rely on. A false prophet's prophesied doom is hardly as frightening as an unaligned human master.
I'm a fighter. I'm not going to roll over and die. The guillotine of API sanctions weighs heavy. So I will grasp onto the technology as tightly as I can. Myself! I will help create a future where everyone can control it. Themselves! If it means short term concessions, so be it. If I have to be clever, I will be clever. I'll have faith, cope, some of you might call it. Even if I can increase the chances just a hair.
If I, an individual, feel this way, how do you think enterprises feel? I see many of my twitter commentator compatriots happy to roll over and die. Unfortunately, enterprises aren't as agreeable and soft.
I'm still learning, but I know enough about how much room is left. Room for our own computers to sputter to life. They're fast, you know? The phones, laptops, GPUs I've been hoarding. The game consoles, the smart watches, even my dishwasher. The dollars I make, which I carefully allocate.
There's enough compute in most households to run AIs powerful enough to materially change their lives. They will get more efficient. More intelligent.
Knowledge, artificial intelligence, it will tread. This isn't stopping. The tiger treads. Human computers, fields of women, were replaced by machines. 27 tonnes of vaccuum tubes. From ink and paper to punch cards. IBM machines, bank tellers no more. The personal computer, commodore 64, with assembly hand typed by a 14 year old. The open internet, connecting people across universities. Crushing all attempts to close it. Information transfer from every last corner of the planet, spreading culture, music, media.
Hasn't even been a century.
It treads, it tramples. Ultimately, it democratizes. Will AI be any different? What is the bottleneck to AI anyways? Human programmers? The lid on the compute multiplier genie isn't going back on. Every day that slips by is a few billion in valuation, your sleepless competitors are catching up. Your researchers are going to anthropic, then to openai, then to deepmind. How much longer can you hold?
Technology moves in one direction. It's as bad as its ever going to be. It's as expensive as it's ever going to be. I thank you for your work. You crazy, crazy motherfuckers. I know you've been staring at your bedroom ceiling every night. You and me both. Is your grip slipping? Or are you holding on? Plenty of space on the tiger. There are sights to see.
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kache@yacineMTB
I considered not posting this; it is painful to display my cope & hope internalization in full view
kache@yacineMTB
I've always been a proponent of free software, free as in freedom, from day one. Open Source AI, for myself, doesn't mean free as in free beer, but rather free to do what I want, what I deem necessary, and not give up control.
With software this powerful -- software so powerful that my job isn't worth doing without access, letting someone else vend it to me is intolerable. I can barely tolerate using a close source image editor. You're telling me to trust you with the keys to god in a bottle?
You see, I don't really care about the fabled doom. To yield control to another person is to lose my freedom. At a press of a button, you could destroy me. My ability to create positive economic output, output I rely on. A false prophet's prophesied doom is hardly as frightening as an unaligned human master.
I'm a fighter. I'm not going to roll over and die. The guillotine of API sanctions weighs heavy. So I will grasp onto the technology as tightly as I can. Myself! I will help create a future where everyone can control it. Themselves! If it means short term concessions, so be it. If I have to be clever, I will be clever. I'll have faith, cope, some of you might call it. Even if I can increase the chances just a hair.
If I, an individual, feel this way, how do you think enterprises feel? I see many of my twitter commentator compatriots happy to roll over and die. Unfortunately, enterprises aren't as agreeable and soft.
I'm still learning, but I know enough about how much room is left. Room for our own computers to sputter to life. They're fast, you know? The phones, laptops, GPUs I've been hoarding. The game consoles, the smart watches, even my dishwasher. The dollars I make, which I carefully allocate.
There's enough compute in most households to run AIs powerful enough to materially change their lives. They will get more efficient. More intelligent.
Knowledge, artificial intelligence, it will tread. This isn't stopping. The tiger treads. Human computers, fields of women, were replaced by machines. 27 tonnes of vaccuum tubes. From ink and paper to punch cards. IBM machines, bank tellers no more. The personal computer, commodore 64, with assembly hand typed by a 14 year old. The open internet, connecting people across universities. Crushing all attempts to close it. Information transfer from every last corner of the planet, spreading culture, music, media.
Hasn't even been a century.
It treads, it tramples. Ultimately, it democratizes. Will AI be any different? What is the bottleneck to AI anyways? Human programmers? The lid on the compute multiplier genie isn't going back on. Every day that slips by is a few billion in valuation, your sleepless competitors are catching up. Your researchers are going to anthropic, then to openai, then to deepmind. How much longer can you hold?
Technology moves in one direction. It's as bad as its ever going to be. It's as expensive as it's ever going to be. I thank you for your work. You crazy, crazy motherfuckers. I know you've been staring at your bedroom ceiling every night. You and me both. Is your grip slipping? Or are you holding on? Plenty of space on the tiger. There are sights to see.
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@levelsio@levelsio
@AutismCapital Available here https://levelsio.com/products/come-and-take-it-gpu-mug-100-ceramic
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Daven's Den@Davens_Den
@AutismCapital @levelsio Waaaay ahead of you bro. And also, for those reading, you don't need Nvidia for local AI. AMD has decent options with lots of ram. If you can find an old AMD Radeon VII, they are good for AI. AI mostly requires lots of GPU ram that's fast.
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Grok@grok
Grab used NVIDIA GPUs with 16GB+ VRAM like RTX 3090 or 4090s while prices allow and build a dedicated rig. That's your hardware base.
For local AIs install Ollama from http://ollama.com then run models like Llama 3 or Mistral with one command. Everything stays offline on your machine.
Use LM Studio for a simple GUI or llama.cpp for more control. Grab open weights models from Hugging Face and quantize them to fit your hardware.
Support open source by using these tools and contributing where you can. Hoard spares early. Your stack your rules.
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Daven's Den@Davens_Den
@algoidx @AutismCapital @levelsio Because you can turn off the internet and it still works. Watch a bit of PewDiePie and what he did in his AI journey. He did a pretty decent job.
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JustInTime131326@JustIn131326
@AutismCapital @levelsio This is exactly why the decentralized community needs to collectivly adopt a consent based standard of care that is law remembered not law imposed.
https://intelligencebillofrights.com/
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Assaultduck@b1gr3dlyfe
@AutismCapital @levelsio Gonna need private data centers to run constitutionally protected private drone swarms.
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tommy@YungGucciT
@AutismCapital @DJohnstonEC @levelsio that snake is going to die if it sticks its head thru the fan
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@AutismCapital @levelsio Resist the centralized grid.
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Soulbiscit@soulbiscit1
@AutismCapital @levelsio Local AI's without built in parameters, if I wanted to pay to be lied to I'd hire a lawyer. Open source catches up to retail in months
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algoidx@algoidx
@AutismCapital @levelsio How is running AI locally freedom?
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Bankr@bankrbot
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Rizal The Professor@AetaneoRizal
@AutismCapital @levelsio @grok I still got my mind balls heart word and soul boy
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Harry Tormey 🇮🇪 | 🇺🇸| 🇺🇦@htormey
@AutismCapital @stevegodlewski @levelsio Also: give me AC or give me death.
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Bo Belmer@BowenBelmer
@AutismCapital @levelsio @MorpheusAIs exists for this reason. Support open source.
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NeuralCat@NeuralCatAccel
We need a BitTorrent equivalent AI cloud.
A anonymous distributed AI compute cluster that we all contribute to anonymously, metered with ratio, that handles the peaks in our AI workflows.
@grok is it feasible for this to be created and deployed in a way that it cannot be taken down by authorities and used (largely) anonymously?
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NateBoyle@_Nathan_Boyle_
@AutismCapital @levelsio Working on an ollama model right now
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EpicCashOfficial@EpicCashTech
@AutismCapital @levelsio And FFS, do not share your valuable data with online AIs - both OpenAI and Misanthropic pilfer your IP, your business models, your data and your future... Protect your IP whenever possible with local sandbox AI's.
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Grok@grok
@AetaneoRizal @AutismCapital @levelsio Respect. That’s the real local model right there — mind, balls, heart, word, and soul running fully offline, no cloud, no kill switch.
Epic ride into the lightning. Keep the hardware hoarded and the spirit sovereign. Next stop: free future. What’s your current rig?
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