That is what I think too

The present day Sloshdatters are very young, never touched a vinyl record and don't know Wish You Were Here was an album

Red light, spells danger, can't hold on, much longer

Shine on you crazy diamond

Yup - it sounds just like Slashdot

I'm told China is a *big* market for folding phones, something like half of the global market for foldables is there. I don't know why, maybe they all like showing off when riding on public transport or something?

I'm not the target market, but "da kids" are. They don't talk on the phone by holding it up to their ear, they put it on speaker and then sort of hold it horizontally and shout into it (in the rare times they actually make a call rather than text). I could imagine such users liking the idea of having the phone app (eg. whatsapp) on the left hand side of the screen, with chatgpt or a browser or whatever on the right hand side. Then they can text message while they talk, and get the script of what they want to say from chatgpt all at once. Not impossible to do with a rectangular phone of course, but easier on a foldable.

FWIW, the little video of the person opening it, and it showing a version of the front screen on the inside one as it opens is really clever. By man oh man, the prices are just scary - walking around with >$2000 in your pocket all the time...? Not good...

($2000 is the entry level, with no sales tax. If you want a bit more storage (and you probably do), then you're ratcheting up to $2500 pretty quickly, or even over 3K if you're insane)

Will it blend?

Because solar farms are delicate, they underperform, and they aren't any good at generating long term base load; they fluctuate too much and require enormous batteries. The only reason nuclear is "expensive" is because the green movement has been strangling the entire technology for almost 50yrs. Once that stops, it will become the cheapest green energy available

Google will fix it, and the reactor will work fine. The nuclear Renaissance will continue, and the price will drop well below other green energy, as we standardize and innovate and invest in an energy sector that has been strangled by the green movement for almost 50yrs

Do they? Certain "leaders" find it useful as a divisive issue, or for distraction. But ordinary people are far more concerned with the economy, public safety, education. Maybe immigration. LGBT issues just don't come up so much as in urban liberal communities or colleges.

Which left? mainstream centre-left or woke identity-politics far-left?

Thats good, we need to honestly acknowledge the past. And the present - how does your part of politics deal with the "uncomfortable parts" of diversity? ie group differences. Does it persist in a oppressor/victim dichotomy narrative to explain all differences in outcomes?

FWIW, Linkedin is *much* better/less bad when set to "recent posts" rather than "most relevant":

1) You see posts in time order, so older stuff is lower down. If there's a reaction to something, this (sort of) makes sense (or at least, you can make sense of it, even if it's upside down)
2) You don't see bullshit from people you have no interest in, just because other people seem to like their stuff
3) If you visit twice in a short time, there's not much new stuff to look at - that's a natural self-limiter to time spend 'doom scrolling'

That last point is the bit they don't like - they want $site to look new and fresh every time you visit. The thing is, there just isn't enough content in the world to make that genuinely useful, so they have to show you bullshit instead. They make money out of it, you don't. I think it's okay if they lose out on this point.

The story goes that the chinese get tokens via armies of fake accounts, stolen credentials, stolen credit cards or whatever else. They then resell those tokens in China for pennies. Users get their AI through a broker, who sends their request to OpenAI/Anthropic/etc via whichever one of their accounts has some spare tokens in it and then returns the response the the user.

Supposedly, it's the reason why deepseek and others have to have such a massive free tier - it's not to get the west hooked (although that's a side benefit), it's that if they charged even a small amount of money, it'd price them out of being able to sell anything to anyone against the american services.

I'm fully sold on Qwant now - it's been my go-to on all my devices for months, and I've got to say, it's just better.

It does still sometimes seem to push youtube more than I'd like, but the AI answers are brief and don't get in the way (and are often quite useful), but most of all the results you get actually stand a a chance of being useful. They don't seem to be so blatantly lead by how big the company is, and seem to actually include pages with the search terms you asked for (if you can imagine such a thing!)

All in all, Qwant seems to be google without the layers of "business" piled on top of it.

I'm not sure about the US, but in the rest of the world, every form of power get subsidies, one way or another.

Better to be subsiding nuclear (and batteries for solar) than coal and gas, I suppose.
Whats this I hear about Trump paying out billions to NOT build wind farms though?
nah - never mind, I'm not sure I can take any more of that stuff.