As if by design, Bitcoin investment - that is to say, investment in the infrastructure required to mine the bitcoin - laid the foundation and infrastructure needed to power the AI boom. It stimulated grid improvements and large scale "data centers" and whole industries sprung up as a result. many of those companies the sprung up to fulfill the power buildout needs for Bitcoin miners are now servicing the AI sector. I wonder what's next in the "big picture" (evil?)plan (if thee is one) .

Boca Cica?

Let's start a company that gives away FREE cloud connected ALPR cameras to install on your private vehicle!! You get the benefit of an always on dashcam to protect you and your loved ones. Heck, we may even pay you a small to rent the space in your vehicle for our equipment! Think of it as FLOCK mobile! Our TOS states that you can never turn it off, if you do, we'll know, and call the police to throw you in the slammer! And we'll fine you! What do we do with the data? We can't tell you, but rest assured, it's all in YOPUR best interest! Act now, and get TWO FLOCK mobile cameras! one for you and one for your loved one, because nothing says I love and trust you more than always on surveillance!

This is exactly how it works currently - which I support. But some greedy capitalistic company thinks it is a good idea to monetize these deployed cameras beyond their current use. Some people mentioned rising up and vandalizing these cameras -which I also support in concept, but it will destroy the good the cameras are doing in their initial purpose. Baby tiger cubs are cute and all until they get older and grow fangs and become dangerous... Let's not attach grown tigers to our school buses.. Think of the children, not of the $$

Exactly that - They want to sell the data to me - and I don't want to buy it. But my proxy - aka the local government I pay taxes to, says otherwise. Is it really that so m any people actually vote for this crap, or our or elected official so crooked that they take their cut and smile? Can't we, the people, vote on the decisions our elected officials make on our behalf, instead of blindly voting on the individual and trust that EVERY decision he/she makes is in our best interest?

Because your dash cam data is not reviewed by anyone other than you until you see a need for it - so it is not "mass" surveillence. What we're talking about is all those cameras feeding a central database that can be queried and viewed by unknown actors that have a large power base. Very different than you and your dash cam - and I agree, you have right to use your dashcam to protect your property and use the data when you file a complaint. See the difference?

"Crimes go unsolved every day! " And they will continue to do so... This surveillance increases the "crime rate" and allows for cherry picking crimes to solve - the low hanging fruit. The rapists and murders will still get away scotty free because most cops want to get their gold star for quota fulfillments instead of working on the dangerous or difficult crimes. This surveillance give them a rich river of data to cherry pick. And lets not even talk about retroactive "crimes" - Things you do or say that may have been legal at the time, but dig through a historical log to attack your enemies and add some false context and now you have "evidence" of crimes. You'll have to lawyer your way out to prove that what you were recorded doing at the time was legal. This is all just stupid - how many rapists and murders were caught using this tech? Hardly worth the justification in my opinion.

..a beowulf cluster of these!

Lately, I've seen error-correction kicking in, preventing me from doing stupid things - regular tasks that I do every day, suddenly pause and glitch for a moment or to while the ECC does its thing and corrects for a faulty cluster of synapses firing. So, yay that I can potentially replace my arthritis ridden arm, but what's the point if the gray matter that controls it is starting to fail?

I feel bad for the developers being layed off, but the company has been rotten for years ever since they commercialized and did away with standalone confluence and forced everyone to cloud, breaking compatibility with 3rd party apps and destroying that ecosystem. What a a great product that they cratered. I'm still, to this day, looking for a viable replacement that is not on the same money grabbing trajectory (Bookstack is looking good)

Well, he's on to something - send the bill for the door-dash driver to the person who left the door open.

Great! I like that. I'd proposed THOSE people should get a prescription for the advantage of this augmentation to help them live a more normal life. Kind of like ppl get a handicap parking sticker, or some people get prescription narcotics to help them live a functionally "normal" life. Letting anyone have this is chaos. But then, I suppose, because of the world we live in, ppl would abuse the system and claim they have a problem to gain access to this new super power for nefarious purposes.... OR, hey, how about a financial gate - set the bar really high to limit the access... or a moral subscription gate, so YOU, the wearer are tracked and tagged while using it to even the playing field... I dunno - something seems one-sided about all this.

Forget about just the heat, that's about 110 square mile of solar panels required to generate 100GW (accounting to the, ahem, "5 times greater efficiency" of being in space). Which, if were a single array of that size, cast a shadow of about 50 square miles of total darkness. Granted, he's not suggesting a SINGLE datacenter, rather many smaller ones, but the total SF of panels required is about equal, and not a small array by any account.

If I ignore all the bullshit this yellow haired bastard spouts out, part of me might think Trump is a genius playing a fool - aka - "The Batman that Gotham needs, not the one it wants" So, his strategy is kind of a "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" mixed with playing dumb, and letting everyone else fight it out. The entire cast of characters that make up his cabinet - the most useless and worst of the worst. Throw them a bone and keep them close. Let the angry mob chew them up in the end. In this specific example, he took aim at wind and solar, already a target from some of his "friends", but by doing so, he mustered the normally quite left to push back, and with more than equal force, to actually get the message out there and we'll end up with a stronger solar and wind infrastructure than could have been achieved through small wins here and there with the constant pushback. Immigration is a harder one to see the angle, but never have so many people cared about freedom and (protecting) immigrants, the people who founded this country, than before he brought the slab of meat to the butcher block. Everything he's "against" will grow stronger. Like a broken bone that heals stronger. So, maybe he *IS* a genius after all, and actually *IS* draining the swamp, just not in the direct way everyone assumed. But maybe my tin-foil hat is not working... Just some thoughts.

I see a lot of buzz around Cory Doctorow. Doctorow... Hmm... I think people just like saying his name. It's uncommon and sounds funny, but has the word "Doctor" in it, so hey, maybe he's clever? I know I like to say it, it tickles my pallet. I don't think he'd be as popular if he had a different name - like "John Smith".... FWIW, I have NO IDEA what this dude is all about - just like sayin' his name LOL