Elon's smart enough to know it won't work -- but he's also smart enough to know how gullible his fan club is. He's discovered that he can convert bits and pieces of 1960s sci-fi novels into easy money and online adulation.

I suspect SpaceX would be putting a lot less money and effort into mitigating the negative effects of its data centers if their host states had remained red. Regulation of the AI industry is already having a positive effect, and it hasn't even been written yet :)

Whether SpaceX's current efforts will be enough to mollify their new blue overlords remains to be seen.

It's now more accurately known as Microsoft 364.

HI capital (with his connections in particular) will probably get the returns where it already is - building out AI infrastructure (starting with making chips) for which is this is unjustifiable demand still for the next little while anyways.

The spy is more worrying. US Gov and a lot of other big customers would not find that funny at all. I'm still surprised though... he made so much $$$ for everybody. This could be the black swan that brings the long-awaited AI market collapse.

All of summer vacation is about farming, originally

Unless the award is carrots. £1 / lb, all the time.

Dunno why everyone thinks Terminator is prophetic. If you want to see robots hunting people down, there's plenty of footage of that coming out of the Ukraine already, and none of it involves humanoid robots. If you want to know what getting hunted down by a robot will be like in the future, imagine a swarm of mosquitoes coming for you, except instead of trying to extract a little blood, they're trying to inject a little cyanide. No self-respecting military is going to buy expensive human-sized killbots when miniaturized ones do the job better and quicker at 1/1000th of the price.

Energy is at some point causal, but that doesn't have to mean oil in all cases.

What would Iran gain from messing with France?

I'd think Mr. Putin would have more of a motive, since France (along with most of Europe) is supporting his opponent in Ukraine and he seems to be trying to probe their resolve by "accidentally" sending drones into their airspace from time to time.

What it is is a possible contender to claw away at NVIDIA's history-making margins and profits, slashing AI compute cost and resources through efficiency gains. That's a big deal.

Pfft, buncha Manga-adjacent animation fans turned around 360 degrees by the anti-AI fad. AI, it's a form of animation. If somebody decided Zombee Lovers 2 was going to just be straight CGI or hand animation nobody would say the cast was "replaced" by animators.

To that point, I used to spend a fair amount of time on salon message boards. It was around the height of gay rights around maybe 2005? I remember scrolling down their page, every single 'story' was on gay rights... I checked, one after another... gay... gay, gay, gay. 30 stories in a row. I'm sympathetic to the issue and not averse to the stories but salon.com actually ceased to function as a general news and politics site.

All news outlets report mostly true facts. The most subjective and important act in writing news or history is deciding which facts are 'newsworthy' and deserve reporting on. Salon decide once and for all what side to take on all future issues a long time ago.

"This is why people who do real work don't take kindly to urban midwits telling them they could be forced to buy electric vehicles instead." I feel increasingly that way about taxpayer-funded oil wars. It doesn't seem like oil needs to be this huge, world-controlling thing of the world any more. With any EV you plug in you car, it drives around, no more gas station any more. It's great. I still use my SUV for trips and towing but those are luxuries, I do because I want to, I don't have to.