If you're arguing that people are bad at their jobs then so be it. Clearly someone fucked up at Warner in order to accumulate all that debt. At the same time, if the people getting bounced were really deadweight then they would have been included in the layoffs. They wouldn't be getting buyout offers and/or be getting pressured by an RTO order.
Will the employee base at companies like Microsoft eventually consist of a bunch of AI agents? With the General Counsel being the sole human, retained for legal purposes?
Skydance doesn't really count as venture capital in this case. They're an actual media company that already owned Paramount and recently acquired Warner.
Let's be honest, these people aren't going to magically find work at a competitor overnight. Some of them will be unemployed or underemployed for 18+ months depending on what they were doing at Skydance/Paramount/Warner before taking the buyout. And i can almost guarantee you that the RTO and buyouts are aimed at Warner people. Though who knows, maybe they're stupid enough to bounce folks from Paramount.
In any case that is a poor excuse for people not being able to negotiate over work conditions or pay.
"Just go work somewhere else"
"There is nowhere else, you bought all the competiton"
Warner wasn't profitable though...
Don't give them ideas... Now that the market has surfaces a resource, the elites may start looking at wolves blood now - the wolverine stack.
Just in the last 24 months, Gulf, Iranian, Ukrainian and Russian cloud DCs have been targeted, including different availability zones of the same cloud vendor. So I think it's time corporates and governments start re-recognising the benefits of on-prem data centres. Yes, the old, distributed office-building DCs: halon fire suppression, lit/dark fibre, AC, cooling, giant boxy UPSs and captive power generation - all that. What makes it better now is that computers have gotten a lot more efficient (e.g., die shrinks, ARM solutions), while compute demands of most core business processes hasn't changed (I consider most AI loads are NOT truly 'keeps the business going' core. More like icing on a cake)
That's boring though. Hulkapoodle is much more compelling for military applications!
Ohhh good choices!
Which sci fi horror are we getting? Man's Best Friend?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or Gamma dogs?
Trump and Zelensky are doing a pretty good job of keeping petroleum and refined petroleum product prices high. If all you want to do is reduce fossil fuel production, well, there you go.
...then implement link security checking on employee PCs.
Voltus will sign up homes and businesses and give them financial incentives to curb their usage when local power demand is high
For businesses, tweaking temperature and increasing HVAC recirculation (i.e cutting down on fresh air) reduces power consumption.
So when the AC air in these building is unusually cold, warm or stale:
- at the doctor's,
- at the mall,
- at the cinema,
- at (God forbid!) the hospital!
What is Ellen Zuckerman, head of energy market development for North and South America at Google, doing to mitigate the impact on vulnerable on humans? Does she have constraints applied in her spreadsheet model to avoid this? Or has the accountability headache of managing impact just been passed downward to "Where it belongs!"
Do you reckon this was used in the Venezuelan attack?
Most Windows "overclockers" are using PBO with the curve optimizer on any recent AMD CPU to actually run undervolted.
You cannot have a science without measurement. -- R. W. Hamming
