Sanders’s AI ownership plan is a massive expropriation dressed up as a dividend program. A 50% stock tax means the government would seize half of the upside from the companies that successfully build in America. That would instantly tell founders, investors, and employees that if they create something valuable enough, Washington may take control of it. The result would not be “democratic ownership”; it would be capital flight, slower innovation, and a giant incentive to build the next generation of AI somewhere else. The plan also confuses regulation with ownership. Government should set rules around safety, privacy, competition, and fraud, but becoming a controlling shareholder turns the state into referee, player, and political boss at the same time. Once a commission can steer board decisions for political goals, AI companies become public utilities run through election cycles, lobbying pressure, and ideological fights instead of technical competence and customer value. History is full of warnings. State-directed industrial schemes often start with promises of fairness and public benefit, then slide into politicized management, bailouts, favoritism, and collapse. Venezuela’s oil sector, Britain’s British Leyland rescue, and China’s Great Leap Forward all show the same basic failure mode: political control overrides market signals and practical expertise. A better approach is to regulate real harms, tax profits transparently, enforce competition law, and let Americans build wealth through broad-based investment—not by nationalizing the winners after they succeed.

Blocking nebulous blame lawsuits that are closer in kin to Butterfly Theory and Astrology than a whole done it is wise. As long as it doesnâ(TM)t stop lawsuits against direct pollutantsâ¦. You dump toxic waste into a river, you are liable, Hurricanes in Florida, and hot air in the summer, not so much.

AI is garbage in garbage out. If itâ(TM)s recommending nukes itâ(TM)s because the data itâ(TM)s looking at isnâ(TM)t weighted towards the desired outcome.

I have good vision, 20/20 in one eye and slightly better in the other, and itâ(TM)s not till Iâ(TM)m sitting about 3 feet from a 90â 4K that I become aware of the lack of resolution. So anything under 70 is gonna look pretty impressive at normal viewing distance at 4K. And I think that where people say, I donâ(TM)t need 8k, if you get far enough away for a good screen viewing, you far enough away that 4K is really good.

These life and death numbers were alway an extrapolation of an extrapolation based on modeling of an opinion they are quantified emotion, not fact. While Iâ(TM)m not saying to solely measure pollution controls by their economic impact. The numbers that the EPA would give for natural gas and other stuff were far more political than data.

Microsoft decided to cap the cpus supported, my Ryzen 7 1700 with an m2 and 64 GB of ram couldnâ(TM)t run windows 11pm because it wasnâ(TM)t fast enough but because of DRM. So now it continues to run windows 10. Thatâ(TM)s not on the market thatâ(TM)s on Microsoft.

We are at the apex of wind and solar, itâ(TM)s as cheap as itâ(TM)s likely to get. Between government subsidies and market investments there is a dearth of companies providing those products . SMRs have just started and are first generation mostly prototypes. As the market adoption grows the cost will come down significantly.

I think NASA is wise to do so, what Iâ(TM)m unclear on is A) has this been done for other vehicles under development, B) Are there any real viable alternatives on the books being actively developed. The falcons had their issues at the start but are hands down the best orbital payload delivery system ever developed.

We have been living in a world without âoefactsâ since the dawn of time. Thatâ(TM)s why there are so many different religions, cults, cultures, and philosophy majors. Facebook is doing the right thing by returning to free speech and yeah the dumb ideas will self identify.

Yes, Python isnâ(TM)t going away, it was the academic language, the science language, itâ(TM)s now the data science language. However, I would teach C/C++ or Rust. Somebody has to teach the next generation of programmers how to build operating systems and hardware drivers. But getting hooked on solving the problems ensures they always have something to fall back on to get it done.

That said, having chat GPT write a students homework is on the rise and learning standards at universities continues to decline. Itâ(TM)s so bad that the last time I taught college in 2014 3 of the 14 students in the class couldnâ(TM)t write a coherent paper if their lives depended on itâ¦. I wasnâ(TM)t the English professor so I didnâ(TM)t grade them on their communication skills.

Much like when a New York Times reporter gets the front page story completely wrong and the retraction if there is one is on page 19. There are no consequences until the system collapses and everyone looks around covered in ash and epiphanically utters⦠âoewait there was a fire?â. Because the stakes for baseless accusations are extremely low and the review process so onerous for the accused you end up with a one sided grinder. Now if the TA was had to raise their concerns with the professor, the professor with the department chair and the department chair with the provost, and if the accused were found innocent by an external review panel and everyone involved lost their employmentâ¦. Well you would see a the false accusations rate against the student drop like a rock.

Assuming that the laws of physics havenâ(TM)t been repealed by a green new deal⦠If the Tesla Model S which has one of the most efficient drive systems gets around 300 miles on a 100kwh battery, and you want to 750miles it stands to reason you will need at least 250 kWh, this means you will need to recharge at a rate of 1.6 MW. Thatâ(TM)s 72 homes (100amp) at max power draw real usage is probably closer to 150, so you are looking at a subdivision per vehicle. In order to make a super charger that can service say 8 cars you are easily looking at the power draw of a small American town. Guess we are going to need a lot more windmills.

I know how well the auto scan machine works at the supermarket.

Inequality is a concern it's one of the reasons why empires fall, think Louis XVI, but there are a few factors here that the report doesn't seem to address. The great injustice isn't that there are rich people and there are poor people, It is that the poor people starve or succumb to the environment. And that has been on a nearly exponential decline over the last 20 years. The poor today are better off than the poor 5 years ago or 10 years ago. Now COVID has not been good, world leaders have nearly declared open economic warfare on the low and middle classes. This has led to an increase in wealth for the top 10% almost directly from public treasuries through the poor. In the US the wealth of the 1% combined is enough to run the US government for less than 6 months. And in order to do this you would have to burn, Apple, Walmart, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Facebook, and a host of others to the ground, the question becomes, and then what? So before we commit to redistribution as a moral imperative, we really ought to be asking: how does the life a person in the lower classes stack up to the same life 20 years ago in the following areas: 1) Food and shelter security, 2) Life expectancy and 5-year cancer survival rate 3) Literacy 4) Access to information and education, 5) Upward mobility.