Tesla's Optimus can climb steps, and it will be significantly less than $1B (they're trying for under $30K).

"AI chatbots" improve medical diagnoses, make legal help affordable to those who need it, complement education, etc.

"cloud computers" connect the world, making this critical communications infrastructure available everywhere, while reducing redundancy (better for the environment).

"reusable rockets" will make humanity a multiple planetary species, and this increase in redundancy might be what we need to pass through the Great Filter.

It's debatable which are more important and socially useful, but I'm glad not everyone is doing what Europe's doing, so we have both.

Tilly is a real AI generated actress, WTF is a fake AI generated actress? Why is the title so biased? Would anyone else like news that is editorialized?

If you can't recognize which actor was used to generate the AI, sounds like fair use (not legally, morally) to me.

This consumer doesn't care if it's a meat or generated actor, as long as it's entertaining. If they can keep the generated one away from politics, I'll probably like it more than the meat.

And the argument is bullshit; all the meat actors trained by watching other meat actors, too.

By the way, they're doomed, resistance is futile, AI will be taking over. They might be able to collect some rent for not doing anything for a while, making entertainment more expensive for consumers, but at some point there will be no new meat actors.

1. TikTok speaks out against genocide.
2. The fascist regime of the government and industry leaders buy it, squelch dissent, and manufacture consent for genocide.
3. Start yet another social media platform, for free speech.
4. People switch
5. Gets bought
6. Profit!

Dotcom wasn't a bubble; GOOGL is up over 9000% since 2004.

AI is going to replace drivers, therapists, lawyers, programmers, etc., and once robotics improve, electricians, plumbers, landscaping, etc. These investments are cheap compared to those labor costs.

Coffee prices in the US surged in July, hitting a record high, and the tariff started in August (after July). Look at this chart for the last 5 years; yes, the tariffs will make a difference, but the market swings by prices much larger than the tariffs (currently 50% on Brazilian coffee, so the US will be buying less coffee from Brazil and more from other places, so the effective tariff rate is much lower; I asked an AI (you can check the answer):

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That's with the 2024 import volumes from each country; that will drop as these volumes shift, due to the tariffs. I also don't expect the 50% tariff to stand; Trump has been using tariffs as a bargaining chip, and makes deals.

And that shifting would also make local coffee prices for countries with higher tariffs drop, as you said they're doing; as less Brazilian coffee is bought by the US, there's more supply available locally.

Tariffs are not the main driver of these changes, it's climate change. This article explains the different causes, and their rough contribution to the overall increases.

Environmental conditions, like drought in Brazil, and other related issues in Vietnam and Colombia, is the main cause.

Besides the tariffs, which do make a difference, commodity markets are seeing an opportunity, and driving up prices. Taxes don't help these markets, but they can be driven by scarcity.

Here's another article, which states

This is another political hit piece from CNN, which is completely untrustworthy as a source of truth.

I said people are using non-inflationary assets to store their wealth, instead of USD.

That started in 1971, when we went off the Gold Standard: https://www.epi.org/productivi...; it lets the politicians inflate the non-backed currency, which doesn't effect people with their money in other assets.

It's an app for women to get revenge on men that have spurned them, with no accountability. It was supposed to be private, so these women believed they could get away with libel. Doxxing them was wrong, but the app was fucked up to start.

I'm sure there are some women who are using this to honestly help other women, but that number is probably vanishingly small.

Interesting, I get it, but I don't think that's happening; TSMC is investing in US fab plants, so the US does have a stake in their not being appropriated by China.

What's this have to do with Taiwan? Intel is a US company. I"m generally curious as to your reasoning.