Welllll, I didn't say it was Waymo that killed taxi service in San Francisco. No, that would be Uber and Lyft.

However, a lot of people -- particularly women, for reasons -- increasingly prefer Waymo.

I read it as "Data Centers Are Being Powered by Gas Giant Planets" and I said to myself, "Hmmm, I never thought of that one..."

If you've never had a boss like this -- a lazy narcissist -- you're lucky. But if you have, the pattern is familiar and unmistakable:

* Doesn't understand the issues.

* Doesn't do his homework.

* Believes he's a genius whose "gut" overrules people who do understand and do do their homework.

* Plays his subordinates off against one another.

* Highly susceptible to information from random sources: thing he saw on TV, or heard on the golf course.

* Not particularly fussed about contradicting himself because he doesn't care about being right, but does care about being in charge.

* The more chaotic he can make things, the more in charge he feels.

* Has a cynical view of the people he works for but has a genuine gift for flattery when it suits his purposes.

Once you've seen this up close it's really obvious when you come across it again. You can't *not* listen to a lazy narcissist boss because he absolutely will try the stupid shit he says he will. But you can't count on him either, because he has no commitment to anything other than how he looks and feels *right now*.

Neither. Commerce didn't drop it, it got taken away and given to DoJ, but not because Commerce couldn't handle the invetigation of where the chips were going. The case goes to DoJ because we're talking about criminal charges of smuggling, corporate fraud, violation of national security statutes. Also because the Commerce investigation was tained by potential political interference. And possibly because it ran afoul of a counterintelligence operations siloed in the DoJ -- although by this point the cat is so out of the bag everyone must assume they've got a FISA wiretap warrant on them.

However, the *effect* may be to slow the progress of the investigation and delay any actions being taken.

The first reason for this is that criminal investigations are slower, the standards of proof higher, and potentially involve a criminal trial. Commerce could simply make an administrative law determination that put Megaspeed on some shit list and come to some kind of agreement with NVIDIA.

The second reason is that putting this into DoJ's hands is putting it into a department that has had staff turnover and loss of institutional knowledge, strife between career personnel and political appointees, and difficulty replacing lost employees. It's also led by lame-duck appointees, facing turnover in the next administration. So if they don't make progress in the next two years, allowing for transition delays, it could be years before anything gets accomplished. By then a lot of people will have left their jobs, memories will get hazy, evidence will go missing, and defensive positions constructed.

So while the investigation hasn't been *killed*; it has been delayed so long that it's effectively in suspended animation. It's not possible for Commerce to sanction anyone because the investigation is out of their hands.

"Return of the Return of the Living Dead" ?

Yeah, they'll recruit outrageously popular AIs to draw crowds at the cinema.

Go ahead and ruin every movie plot ever.

Money may be an aphrodisiac but come on, Jensen, look in the mirror. There's limits to anything.

Why not hold the actual violators responsible rather than the infrastructure operators?

And only after their day in court.

Disclosure: I'm also non-American, but from an english speaking country.

I desperately want to agree with you. It would be great for the temperature in any political debate to be brought down. But I think America is a little past that now. Do you think, based on all the evidence, that Trump has society's best interest at heart, or his own?

So wanting society to adopt the posture of "all we need is for Trump to change his tune and make sure he has society's best interests at heart" is a little naive. That's not going to happen. The frog and scorpion parable is completely apt here. Society needs to do what it must to avoid becoming the frog.

BATMAN WITH a BONER!!! I never thought of that!

San Francisco has a strong Waymo presence (I think we were the first market to get public access to them). But we also believe in public transit; in fact, the Bay Area just voted for two important transit measures that will increase costs to taxpayers and property owners, but are designed to make up for badly needed funding from the state and federal governments that just isn't forthcoming anymore. The alternative, we were told, was massive cuts to buses, light rail, and passenger rail across multiple cities and jurisdictions. I guess we decided that wasn't what we really wanted. But there's still room for Waymo, just like there used to be room for taxis.

Some banks allow it. They give you a one-time code to take to an ATM.

"I think a lot of us hoped for a much more balanced and measured approach."

I think a lot of R voters in '24 had a short memory to even hope for anything either balanced or measured from this administration, particularly since it had no incentive to deliver either. Though to be fair, a lot of D leadership also had a short memory in '24, in that coronating a Presidential candidate did not fare well when the candidate was well-qualified, so trying it again with a less qualified candidate was a bit eye watering. There was plenty of blame to go around for that snafu, but all of it landed squarely in-house.

Anyway, hopefully the new congress hits the ground running, a la Trump in '25, focusing on exercising their authority over the purse and passing legislation to deliver results and constraining the executive. If they're too timid to do that, it will be yet another bloodbath in '28. Impeachment is a red herring -- Vance would be just as bad, or worse (since he's actually competent), and the opportunity costs of focusing on impeachment are just too high right now. Draft censures and file lawsuits to set the stage for later criminal prosecutions once this administration is out of office, but above all, exercise the considerable legislative authority vested in congress, and put more checks on the executive -- through amendments if necessary. The time is now.

I know you are but what am I?