You'll know when it's being applied to the elites because they'll complain nonstop about it picking up all the ways they're breaking the law.

That's precisely why it will never be applied to the elites and thus should never be allowed without a sworn warrant. Oh and we need to go back to officers giving a sworn statement under penalty of perjury with actual jail time hanging over their heads.

if we applied Flock cameras and devices like this loose on the politicians, police, and Epstein class. I'd love to see police, police chiefs, politicians, and members of the Epstein class like Peter Thiel, under constant DIRECT surveillance like they want to directed toward other people worldwide.

Whenever some fool bleats "well you're in public..." point out the Epstein class whined so hard that the government had the FAA create LADD to hide their jets. I wonder why the Epstein class would want to hide their private jet flights?

The same thinking that brought us the Metaverse... just on a larger scale?

Maybe some people do have too much money LOL

Or we elect enough progressives who care about the country to unleash antitrust enforcement and shatter large corporations.

Now if you like Capitalism, and love America, you would want that because we've hit the point in Capitalism where it has essentially become Monopolism in all but name. So companies like Deere would have to be broken into a half dozen companies, and firms like Blackrock shattered into tiny shards, maybe one for every brand they own.

The only way to save Capitalism is to make sure we have vibrant competition. A great example of our early stage Monopolism is that an established industry, baby formula, suffered shortages from a single plant having issues. In a vibrant Capitalist society issues at one company would result in competitors swooping in to try and get market share before the original company could get that facility running again. In Monopolism, as we saw, there are insufficient competitors to step up.

Cannot even find a use for the AI data centers / GPU's they have already?
Are they going to lease out the GPS?
With that much competition?

I guess Mark / Meta want to get into the low margin datacenter business. That's going to put a crimp on profitability.

One of the greatest crimes of the 20th Century was some idiot judges allowing click-through EULA's (et al.) to be treated as valid.

The judges saying that a company could force a contract, with untold numbers of pages filled with a legalese on a small (they were all small when this started) screen, should have had their opinions legally drawn and quartered for utter stupidity. You want people to sign a contract? Not like most will read it anyway, but get out the paper and make them sign it. I can think of a few dozen things we wouldn't have to deal with today had we treated contracts equally.

Anthropic and OpenAI both have quiet reports that AI doesn't do much for productivity in the positive, and the negative is reduced knowledge about code operation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.202...

The problem for (in particular) Dario is that hyping the jobspocalypse was never about reality, it was about the AI hype train. They needed, and still need, to keep the gravy train running until they get exit liquidity for their initial VC backers. Anything less means the ultra-wealthy are left holding the bag for the crazy levels of investment / CapEx spending. That's a bad thing, as one of the only big sins in Silicon Valley is VC / Private Equity money getting wiped. That's one of the few times you'll see people get shunned. Neither Sam nor Dario want to be blacklisted so you can be dang sure they're going to run the hype train until they can get IPO's.

I still love running into people believed his bullcrap about AI writing ALL TEH CODE this year, April at the latest. Some of them, mostly people who aren't developers and/or don't program in general, were very adamant and called my questions (and outright disbelief) foolish. Now most are sheepish at best, with a few ever more rabid that it will happen "real soon now" just wait... any day now... just wait.

You beat me by a matter of minutes, it would seem.

This happened at Kimberly-Clark regarding outsourcing.

A small group of people was offered advanced training on a software package that was hot. They were offered company their standard pay plus weekly paid flights, lodging, meals, and a small guaranteed bump in salary, the whole ten yards, for months to go on-site and get the skills. All they had to do was sign a contract stating they would hang around for a couple years, with the caveat that if they quit they would have to pay that substantial amount of money back.

Fast forward a short period of time, in contract terms, and new executives come in and look at "costs" to cut. Why, look at those expensive people! They can outsource that for less so they fire the people they spent a ridiculous amount to train. This was bad for the workers, but as they didn't quit the company ate the training costs. All of them ended up working elsewhere because those skills were in demand.

Fast forward again and the overseas offshoring company is causing more problems than osolutions. So KC goes looking to rehire these people. Well most of them were employed, for a LOT more money than KC had been paying. They did manage to get a couple people back... but at SIGNIFICANTLY higher costs and three of them flat out refused to come back as regular employees and were hired as consultants for a bit more than FOUR times their previous salaries.

Well, they need to keep that hype train running as long as possible.

They need to create a reason for the US government to take "stakes" (bail out) VC and private equity.

Otherwise the .5% could lose significant sums of money.

not with a bang but with a whimper.

The irony of this causing the AI bubble to pop would be too delicious for words. You might be asking yourself: "Why would this, a chip that makes inference cheaper, hurt the AI bubble instead of helping it?" and the answer is brutally simple:

We have billions of pre-sold Blackwell GPU's sitting in warehouses waiting for install. That's on top of the billions it will take to put them into compute modules and install them for use. There are more yet in pre-sold Vera Rubin GPU for compute modules to install. All of those modules that were to be used for inference are now expensive paperweights in comparison to an ASIC. An insane amount of cash tied up in now (if true) overpriced and expensive to run modules.

Not only that, but the data center warehouses will all need to be redesigned. All of those custom racks. All of that power. All of those layouts. *POOF* Useless due to expense. Oracle is screwed. Their data center commitments are based on Blackwell and Vera Rubin compute modules. This working would make those data centers obsolete before they're even constructed. Even if they stop building them what happens to the GPU's in storage? The pre-sell commitments to TSMC? The nVidia cash cow sales? The data center construction contracts? The power? The stock market based on infinite growth of a few companies? Anthropic? Who will be left holding the bag?

That is, unless, it is so limited as to not be useful in controlling OpenAI's (and other's in the future) inference costs. That also hurts because it shows that making inference cheaper isn't plausible at this time and that makes just breaking even look night impossible. That means OpenAI and Anthropic lose another path to making any plausible profit.

There's over a trillion in CapEx right now floating on Blackwell and Vera Rubin compute data centers... and if Jalapeño is real it just nuked them outright. Of course the question of their commitments for buying compute comes into question because you'd better believe Oracle / Microsoft / Google / Amazon are going to do their best to not absorb the cost of all those modules / data centers / power commitments. That means OpenAI and Anthropic might be on the hook for an insane amount of spend on modules too costly to be useful.

This is why some US vehicles are near impossible to import to the EU for sale.

Another issue is the terrible lighting decisions in the US. See: Technology Connections

https://youtu.be/O1lZ9n2bxWA?s...

See also: Cybertruck

European law mandates that vehicles include impact protection zones, avoid dangerous sharp edges, and incorporate speed limiters if they exceed 3.5 tons. The Cybertruck, as the release points out, “clearly violated” these rules.

Americans build flat out dangerous vehicles... stuff that makes TVR look like the pinnacle of safety.

You were close but you've forgotten that regulators are, effectively, captured today. There isn't really a free market in late stage capitalism, it's all about the extraction of wealth.

As my relatives put it: Not until they get the morons like Farage, Robinson, and a whole host of other hate-filled nutjobs relegated to the dustbin of electoral politics. There's far too much going on in the EU right now to start adding open Russian assets into the parliament as MEP's.