Probably not yet. But the growth trajectory of the size and scope of these deals and the wealth and power of the Epstein billionaire class making these bets is concerning. Deals for ever more energy, compute, chips, AI algorithms for sale and rent, data centers, and data scraping, especially personal data, obtained legally or otherwise. These billionaires operate in different world where they are the superior chosen few, and the rest of us are there for the fleecing.

See, for example, the /. story from today "Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post" Or White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt "We have strict ethical guide lines". Or just ask the Orange One's fellow Epstein class billionaires.

not by the price gouging and scalping. That's fundamental to StubHub's business model. But only $5M? WFT? Oh, and look for a $10 "activist judge" surcharge on the next 5M tickets sold.

Big Tobacco business model needed to hook teenagers on their products which they did with WW2 GIs. The negative health effects over time are physical and easy to illustrate - think autopsies of lungs of smokers vs non-smokers. But it still took 50 years, from WW2 to the 1964 Surgeon General report to the 1990's to get smoking banned in most public places. Big Tech/ Social Media business model needs people addicted to their products too - laptops and lots of screens in grade schools, social media platforms aimed at kids and very young kids all the way to grandparents.. Unfortunately negative health effects are primarily psychological. People can still breath fine. So will it take more than 50 years to rein in Big Tech/Social Media? Hopefully not. Hell, even Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had strict restrictions on screen time/devices for their kids. https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

so why just NYC? How about for all of the US? Oh, wait. elections have consequences.

and his decision to leave is certainly reinforced by the proposed OMB rule changes (enshitification) of the research grant process that would extend across 40+ federal agencies including NSF, NIH, DOE .... https://www.aps.org/initiative... While the Chinese process for funding research has its problems, scientists and engineers are well represented in the National People’s Congress and the CCP central committee, and the funding for science research reflects their priorities. This is not the case in the US Congress. Instead across GOP gerrymandered districts we elect anti-vaxers, climate change deniers, those who know the earth is 4000 years old. And our Dear Leader who appointed the architect of Project 2025 to head the OMB.

Airplane tickets and hotels will be the next target for re-enshitification of opaque pricing. So you wanna know the total cost for a flight to Omaha? Just give us your credit card number now. Enjoy the flight. Then check your monthly credit card statements as they arrive. Questions? Talk to the bot.

The advances in technology to provide low temperature low noise environments and devices need for quantum computing has been useful. Leading, for example, to a break-through in energy resolution of high-precision subatomic particle measurements (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08479-6).

who gotta have their faster louder planes to go with their faster louder AI data centers. More because we can, and screw you.

Science does not have truths. It has theories, and all of them are incorrect at some level. Some of them are useful and supported by data. See, for example f=ma and a falling apple. If it is truth yea seek, turn to math.

and the ROI on investing peanuts (just a few $100 million) to "lobby" congress is amazing, the choice is clear. More money to be made! Especially off the lower leg of the K economy to be populated by kids who are addicted to social media will fail to develope the ability to think critically or focus for more than 2 minutes.

will tell. Monday brings market reaction to various claims over made over the weekend. Then comes TACO Tuesday and we will learn the not part. That would be about the current claim of an agreement to negotiate an agreement.. or not. After nothing gets signed this coming Friday, we'll rinse and repeat for next week's TACO Tuesday. Dear Leader is clearly between a rock, (Iran dictating the terms) and a hard place (That any Dear Leader agreement will put the US on a weaker footing than the agreements that the Obama administration negotiated.).

ARC's electric bill goes to zero.

About 2-4 sigma is about 3 sigma. Particle physics and astrophysics are littered with 3-sigma effects that turned out to be statistical fluctuations, errors, or not properly counting the number of rocks looked under, ie statistical penalties. Not saying these reports have any of these problems, but the 5 sigma bar to claim a discovery is there for good reason.

drones will release your packages from 100 ft! For even faster delivery!