...Like their opinion is supposed to control our democracy?

Smartphones have matured enough there is very little incentive to upgrade.

64 camera lenses oughtta be enough for anyone!
  - Phone J. Gates

> And no the bubble isn't going to pop.

It's smells more bubblier over time. Sales of AI services are not self-supporting the hardware and infrastructure needed. AI usage numbers are based on the heavily discounted services supported by investors and market-share fights. These subsidies cannot last forever. Users will be more judicious with AI use when they have to pay real prices, and the market will realize it over-built.

Investors are pricing in big breakthroughs, and if these don't arrive, the existing stacks are financially hosed.

But if the moron is going to brag that his product is a national security threat... Come on... It's like protesting that some moron got arrested for joking about bombs at airports

All the most profitable regulations are founded in FUD.

But "harvest now, decrypt later" is a real threat quantum or not.

There are a lot pictures on politician's telephones which would be damning today or in 20 years. And no, there are no encryptions are from time.

Where's that micro-violin I loaned to a tardigrade?...

It's unproven, possibly would make the problem worse if things broke up in unexpected ways, and energy-intensive.

But DOGE banned atmospheric drag, based on an "anti-woke" keyword search.

the cockroaches of the heavens

Being Earth was also alleged whacked by a Mars-sized object, forming our moon, it seems colliding spheres is common during the early stages of planetary systems. The difference is we got a terrific silvery moon out of it, but Venus only got long nights.

Tidal forces do exist on Venus because of the sun. In fact it's stronger than the sun's pull on Earth because Venus is closer.

From NYS Teacher of the Year, John Taylor Gatto: https://www.informationliberat...
        "Call me Mr. Gatto, please. Twenty-six years ago, having nothing better to do at the time, I tried my hand at schoolteaching. The license I hold certifies that I am an instructor of English language and English literature, but that isn't what I do at all. I don't teach English, I teach school -- and I win awards doing it.
        Teaching means different things in different places, but seven lessons are universally taught from Harlem to Hollywood Hills. They constitute a national curriculum you pay for in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what it is. You are at liberty, of course, to regard these lessons any way you like, but believe me when I say I intend no irony in this presentation. These are the things I teach, these are the things you pay me to teach. Make of them what you will. ...
          How did these awful places, these "schools", come about? Well, casual schooling has always been with us in a variety of forms, a mildly useful adjunct to growing up. But "modern schooling" as we know it is a by-product of the two "Red Scares" of 1848 and 1919, when powerful interests feared a revolution among our own industrial poor. Partly, too, total schooling came about because old-line American families were appauled by the native cultures of Celtic, Slavic, and Latin immigrants of the 1840s and felt repugnance towards the Catholic religion they brought with them. Certainly a third contributing factor in creating a jail for children called school must have been the consternation with which these same "Americans" regarded the movement of African-Americans through the society in the wake of the Civil War.
        Look again at the seven lessons of schoolteaching: confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, surveillance -- all of these things are prime training for permanent underclasses, people deprived forever of finding the center of their own special genius. And over time this training has shaken loose from its own original logic: to regulate the poor. For since the 1920s the growth of the school bureaucracy, and the less visible growth of a horde of industries that profit from schooling exactly as it is, has enlarged this institution's original grasp to the point that it now seizes the sons and daughters of the middle classes as well. ..."

DOE is combining #1 and #2 to give us Nuclear Slop.

At least a role model to the MAGA types: bigoted lying* anti-LGBTQ+ lout.

* Claims to be a founder of Tesla. Balderdash.

> I hope they mend all of that and become a Great Country, that they were, once again.

Which period are you referring to? They've always had an authoritarian gov't.

I will give China's gov't credit for putting R&D into solar and EV tech. They take a lot of guff for the coal thing, but since they don't have many petroleum fields, they arguably get a pass. They are on track to move away from coal in a few decades.