Except that number is already absurd

185 million of 1.85B really doesn't matter

YouTube has the same problem with 360hrs of video added every minute.

[1] https://barrettmedia.com/2025/...

If it's informative and/or entertaining, is it slop? And, really, given the human-generated slop already in this space what are we supposed to be labeling?

I assume that the attack on Iran was a well thought through plan to encourage the world to decrease oil dependency. Nothing else makes much sense.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear the the US is going to be the beneficiary of this plan. As the rest of the world moves toward clean, cheap energy, the US is going to be left behind. Making gas powered cars that no one else in the world wants and generating power from fossil fuels.

This is why a great many Texas Farmers turned into wind-turbine advocates. They got paid for having turbines in their land but, in reality, it has a minimal impact, so it was pretty much free money.

Good job the government cut spending so this $160B of illegal taxation won't just add to the deficit. They did make thoughtful and intelligent cuts right? right???

These, and floppy drives, are still in daily use in manufacturing. It's really hard to justify spending multi-million dollars on new equipment when the only problem is that you have to transfer information on a floppy or a zip. It's not just the equipment cost, there's also downtime and lost production.

More simply. The stock market does not reflect the economy. After Tesla, GameStop, AMC, etc. etc. etc. you'd have to be delusional to think otherwise. And GameStop, in particular, very much looked like a Ponzi scheme. Nvidia and all the other AI stocks are just a continuation of that trend.

President Donald Trump has gone all in on fossil fuels, which he says is the way to lower costs for families, increase reliability and help the U.S. maintain global leadership in artificial intelligence.

How's that working out so far? It's seems likely that the current situation in the middle east, resulting in increases worldwide (including the US) in fossil fuel energy prices is going to accelerate the uptake of renewables and a decreased dependency on the oil in the rest of the world. The major beneficiary of that is China - solar panels, heat pumps and world-leading EVs.

Clearly deep-fake AI footage (with a very creative backstory) designed to discredit the, totally believable, initial footage.

And the opposite problem. Politicians request the take-down of any embarrassing video as a deep-fake.

"Yeah, that guy handing me a large bag of used bills? - deep-fake., take it down."

Somewhat like the VHS era idea that taping shows was a copyright infringement, which quickly morphed into a drive for people to tape/watch shows (ads and all) I suspect this will not turn out well for Amazon.

Bots shopping is clearly the future and if Amazon is not part of it, the bots will go elsewhere.

From the CNET article: "Tiko has a number of standard agentic AI capabilities -- it can start and stop your music, open a web page for you..." When did starting/stopping music or opening a web page become an "agentic AI" capability.

Not judging Waymo and have no idea of the actual situation under discussion, but the reality is that, in a great many situations, you should run over the dog to avoid the potential of a larger problem. In the extreme, you could imagine someone slamming on their brakes at 75mph on a freeway causing a huge pileup and many fatalities just because a dog jumps out from behind a pillar or something else on the side of the road.

I was considering buy an EV Equinox at the end of last month ($7500 rebate). One of the deciding factors was no Android Auto. It wasn't the only factor, but it was solidly in the mix.

We're about due for another round of bank bailouts (it seems to be about every 15 years or so, S&L in 1989, Banks in 2008, etc.). Will the same rules apply - the government will take control of the banks as they bail them out?