"Gerger was also frustrated by the proliferation of non-disclosure agreements between big tech companies and local officials"

There should never be a situation where local officials can hide their negotiations behind NDA's. They are PUBLIC officials and the public has the right to know what decisions they are making on behalf of the community (as opposed to the officials enriching themselves or pocketing huge campaign donations).

The solution isn't to censor, it's to clearly label it.

Community notes on X are a good example of how to expose deceitful content without the need for outright censorship, a similar solution would be appropriate here.

If you allow politicians and government officials to decide what the public can or cannot see you can 100% guarantee that system will be abused.

And I would wager these same officials would hire, at taxpayer expense, teams to make sure any negative content would be removed. The public would be paying to have their own voices silenced.

Just being AI based doesn't mean it's intention is to deceive. In most cases it's parody or protected free speech.

I have no issue with slapping a big "AI Deepfake" label on identified deepfake content, but when you start talking about giving politicians and government officials the ability to prevent you from even being heard, that's not ok.

AI has another function beyond "increasing employee productivity". It can also find the employees who are under performing or not needed by the company.

So really there are three compounding reasons:

1) AI making some workers more productive

2) AI identifying workers who poor performers or not needed

3) AI recommending restructuring to cut costs

Completely legit to point to AI for these job cuts for any and all the above reasons.

China has been massively trawling the oceans across the globe for years now to feed a billion fish hungry mouths. China consumes fish like the US consumes beef.

I have to believe the "staggering loses" are due in no small part to the massive commercial over fishing from China and other nations.

"Think about the children" has been a rallying cry for draconian laws, censorship, and erosion of privacy for decades. And that's because it works - it's a legitimate desire to keep kids away from the trash the internet has become.

But the target is wrong - the target needs to be holding the PARENTS responsible for their children's upbringing. Any parent that allowed their child to wander down Skid Row would be arrested for child endangerment - the same should apply to parents who don't restrict their children's access to adult sections of the internet.

Give parents the tools and the education to keep their kids "off the streets" and you'll have a much better result than trying to child proof the net.

As Meta's user base "ages out", this seems more like a tactic to keep the "active user count" up. Don't let my death stop you from counting me as part of your subscriber numbers to investors.

> Sodium has better power density than LFP

Sodium: 175Wh/kg
LFP: 220Wh/kg

LFP has 25% higher power density

Sodium's advantage comes in a broader functional temperature range. There was a time when sodium chemistry was also cheaper but with lithium prices plunging due to oversupply, that price advantage was erased.

It makes no practical sense. You charge your EV from utility power which you pay for. Then you let the utility pull that power back from your EV and then pay again to recharge your EV to make up for the power the utility took.

You're basically double paying for your electricity. The power company will consider you an awesome customer.

Regenerative breaking only recovers some energy. The greater the weight, the more energy is lost to heat. Think about it - if what you say was true, that weight isn't a consideration, then lead acid batteries would be viable.

There's a global glut in lithium right now, and manufacturing facilities for these types of batteries are well established. It will be some time before even CATL can scale production to meet demand.

Sodium chemistries need to focus on what they're best at. Once they scale manufacturing they can start going after markets they aren't good at.

> Do your parents not have electricity?

So you're fine with transferring the cost burden to your parents for the power pulled by the utility company in another county or even state so you can get back home again?

Electricity isn't free.

Being snarky is usually a poor decision making strategy. You don't have to put your faith anywhere though, the market will reveal itself.

Exactly. But it definitely has a place in ground based power storage. Homes with solar or large scale solar farms that need to cycle reliably every day. The greater cycle reliability makes them very attractive for that. Especially true in the north of course, but attractive anywhere really.

Now if all that hype surrounding the new solid state batteries turns out to be true, the entire industry is going to be overturned.

> sodium is much cheaper than lithium

Sodium USED to be cheaper... but the market is currently flooded with lithium which has completed eroded the economic advantage to sodium.

Take a look at the prices for consumer LFP right now - you can get 16kwh packs for under $2k.