Elon's net worth proves most investors don't care about fundamentals - only whether or not they think number will go up. They dress it up better but in the end MS and Google are playing the same game. Elon's not the only one constantly lying through hype. They just figure if they can get a massive amount of capital that they can come up with something that will keep the hype going long enough for all involved to cash out.

yes, he got into bjj/mma, which is full of right wing trump fans, started dressing like them and turned more right wing, probably because they were love bombing him while he was getting hate from mainstream media for what his companies do (some justified, some unjustified). I didn't have a negative opinion about him until he said that new media like Joe Rogan is replacing old media and it's a good thing which suggest to me he doesn't understand the difference between journalism and opinion/analysis or is so pilled he doesn't give a fuck.

Assessments by intelligence agencies which point to unreliable evidence require an appropriate level of skepticism. Intelligence agencies are also not well equipped to answer scientific questions about "Havana Syndrome" which may or may not be a real thing. From what I've seen the current evidence is compatible with maladies that have a socially constructed component through a collection of potentially unrelated symptoms and social contagion of ideas that make sense of the idiopathic illness. That's enough to create smoke where there is no fire. Some of those people may have some kind of illness, however having an illness of some kind is not necessarily related to the imagined disease construct.

well yeah, that's why this is a computer monitor. there are also a variety of ways to hack regular flat games to display in 3d. some aren't too impressive like using a reshade plugin to infer 3d from the depth buffer but thanks to VR the most popular engines (Unreal and Unity) have been hacked with generic tools to output 3d for thousands of games. there's probably minimal changes required to make those tools output flat 3d video for a monitor. I was watching some 3d videos of Mortal Kombat 1 made through UEVR mod (in VR because I don't have a 3d monitor) and it looks pretty impressive.

I have a collection of k-pop videos that were converted to 3d with AI and while there's loads of odd artifacts it can at times also look impressive (some content works better than others). That said these were converted in many hours of processing per minute of video. Also amusing is when people are using screens (phones, televisions) in those AI conversions they are also 3d, sadly in a way that current display tech can't do without sacrifices. There are some people in this thread saying 3d is pointless and lacking in consumer demand but I think it's largely just a technical problem with how the display tech has worked and how the content is produced. It would just be normal if you could do it without sacrifices.

Previous 3d Blu-Ray conversions don't have visual anomalies like AI conversions but they required a lot of work and often looked like they only had a few layers of depth just like bad AI conversion but I think this will incrementally get better with AI that can segment objects, infer a depth map, adjust for motion, fill in missing data, etc. And what takes hours of processing now will likely also be possible in real time with better models. It's a slow incremental march.

It's cool that he was imaginative but some of those examples aren't impressive if you go and look at the history of those technologies? The first escalator patent was in 1859. Radio was a mass medium in the 1920s and alarm clocks were invented 50 years earlier. It seems obvious from there to invent a clock radio... Usually when you look it's not the concept of a thing that is the barrier it's the underlying technology i.e. the details. It's just mildly interesting because 2025 was mentioned.

a press release says they started a trial in 2024. so there isn't sufficient evidence yet?

yes, the rise in the stock prices of his other companies paid for most of that loss he incurred. It was fashionable to call him an idiot but looking retrospectively the valuation of his companies was never particularly following market fundamentals. He's a good marketer for the online influencer era where getting loads of attention does have a reality distorting effect

presumably if "latin men" could vote they aren't going to be deported. and maybe some of those people are precarious enough economically to out of self interest not want more illegal immigration like other blue collar/precarious classes. some of those "latin men" probably see themselves as white or white adjacent enough to not think of themselves in the way that category is being imposed on them. ultimately it's an empirical question about where the votes came from, were lost, etc

Voting in democracy is mostly good for throwing the bums out, the electorate is not engaged enough to follow issues or know details about candidates beyond what is filtered through party aligned media. One of the theories for this election is that it fits a pattern of incumbents being voted out due to covid policies that personally affected them negatively or economics related to it like inflation. Culture war during periods of social and demographic change also figures e.g. radical progressive activism (2014-2020) and backlash (now) as it interacts with different social identities. There's a lot of propaganda in there (THEY hate you) but you always have to factor that in when running a political campaign.

five seconds of search revealed the "expert" "is awaiting trial on felony charges related to allegedly breaching election machines". maybe not the best source of information. i recall pjmedia also posted loads of bogus election denial content in 2020

on the national level you mean. there are several provincial level Progressive Conservative (PC) parties - not that the label means much, but those parties don't have the more radical Reform elements in control

yeah, Farage was talking about it because he was plotting exactly that kind of takeover.

yes, although under a first-past-the-post system all parties tend to pander to central voter opinion, there are clear differences in ideology, the interests they are receptive to, etc. Party discipline can also give the false impression of moderation and uniformity in the caucus.

yes, in a parliamentary system they are disciplined/incentivized to use restraint by the electorate. if there was democratic backsliding e.g. changing rules to favor one party it would be an issue because it would subvert this check (see Orban for example). unlike the US they can effectively legislate so courts aren't elevated