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Comment Re:AI Goes to the Moon (Score 2) 7

It would be good if it could locate lava tubes as well. Unlike lava tubes on Earth those on the Moon and Mars are sometimes kilometers wide and can run for hundreds of kilometers. if the interior of a section could be sealed it would create a huge habitat for minimal investment.

Comment When I read AI tech discussions ... (Score 1, Informative) 106

... I know how my parents felt when I tried to explain programming too them. It all makes grammatical sense but the actual meaning eludes me.

Is it just me? Am I just getting old and heading for the get-off-my-lawn stage or are there any other people who like to think they're tech savvy but are totally confused by AI models and how they really work?

Comment Re:Flock is building 1984 (Score 4, Insightful) 253

That's a pretty shallow(thought admittedly depressingly popular) analysis of the situation.

Being in public does leave you with no particular defensible expectations of not being observed, and possibly even remembered for a time, by assorted passers by; and typically also permits more direct tailing of people for observation purposes(subject to some, often slightly vague, threshold at which having PIs or paparazzi hunting someone remains a problem even in public; as we saw here where the police took the notion seriously enough to show up but not to do anything in particular).

What it has historically never meant, for technical reasons, was pervasive coverage and longterm retention. Which is certainly increasingly feasible with only moderate levels of investment; but is absolutely a novel development for what 'public' and 'no expectation of privacy' meant.

It's like defending the installation of a massive network of sprinklers because "you have no expectation of staying dry when you go outside; haven't you heard of rain?" Sure, nobody the weather to be sunny all the time, any more than they expect everyone to avert their eyes in public; but they would correctly consider the installation of irrigation equipment on every lamppost to be an intrusion on their ability to stay dry despite the fact that the sky has never extended them a constitutionally protected right to no rain.

Comment Re:Golly that kettle is dark! (Score 3, Interesting) 90

It's rather rapidly becoming "worth the pain" since 2022. In 2021 over 95% of international trade was conducted using the USD, in 2025 it was just over 70% and this year will be lower. Just the CIPS and mBridge are replacing SWIFT, and after only two years A7 is already handling tens of billions of dollars in exchanges every month. Combine that with Bessant's panic at failure of recent Treasury sales and the upcoming sell-offs of Treasury bonds as the Gulf States try to stay financially afloat and we're looking at a whole new financial paradigm coming up.

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