Not getting any sunlight until past 10.00 AM is so annoying,

Well not getting any sun past 4:30 in the afternoon is also so annoying.

Gosh, it's almost as though people in different geographic areas have different needs and desires. If I didn't know HOW IMPORTANT it is that we all be forced to do everything the same, I would suggest that timezones be regional, agreed upon by local governments. But of course that's heresy since not every local government would make the exact same choices.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

While Paramount claims they cancelled Colbert as a cost cutting move, that makes no sense since other late night shows on other networks with smaller audiences continue. They must make some sort of financial sense.

It is widely understood, though not provable, that the move was a bribe to Trump in order to get the merger approved. Trump has had a longstanding dislike of Colbert because of his commentary on Trump as a person and as the President.

When is a hard question. Rationally it should never have blown up this much in the first place (some expansion would be rational, but not like we've seen). Clearly the minds driving this are not rational.

Insanity is notoriously hard to predict. That's why short selling is so risky. The market can clearly remain irrational longer than most people can remain solvent when betting against it.

Good question. Their POWER series of CPUs were not insignificant in capability, their chip designers were clearly technically sophisticated, and GPUs are just specialised vector processors with a few extra bells and whistles - stuff IBM is extremely familiar with.

It would not have been difficult to release a GPU or other LLM-specific processor to go along with the POWER11. They'd been working on the POWER11 for 4 years, they knew in 2020 that LLMs had a strong potential to be significant for Big Data processing - an area you use big iron for, they're not rank amateurs, they have plenty of reserve, they could have assembled an emergency team to build a vector processor that was custom-designed for just LLM work, and released an LLM processor card that could run circles around nVidia.

They didn't. Because, as has happened before, their management is simply too stupid and too slow.

Addendum: checkout new artists instead - local bands, small venues, etc.. somewhere between free and cheap. And buy a shirt or CD.
This goes for all of the arts.

You could delete all of that and AI companies would still need/want nearly as many new data centers. Besides, pictures are real things, made by people, capturing a moment in time - what else is as deserving of that space? Meanwhile, a single tiktok can be 20mb-500mb, while the average iPhone photo is 3-4mb (and uploads thereof are usually MUCH smaller).

If the governor wants New Yorkers to be able to get cheap RAM at AI bankruptcy auctions, shouldn't they build the datacenters now?

If you wait a year to give permission, the bubble will have popped long before any hardware ever gets shipped, so the bankruptcy auction won't have anything to sell.

and fix known bugs. Search can some later. The "Backroom" panel that interrupts Save operations is an example. I want to see File Explorer and only File Explorer, not your damned Spam Panel!

Even if the bubble bursts, AI will still be radically more powerful in a decade

The bottleneck may be training data, only so much can be wrung out of it even with hyper-training. Until bots actually understand shit, this may limit them for a good while.

Many of them can be checked: https://www.quiverquant.com/Do...
I thought I'd just scroll back to Aug 2025 and see (I don't see a search by date), but there are way too many to go though.

Simply eliminate recommendation systems. All of them; social media, news, shopping, the lot.

This kills doom scrolling, this kills these weird echo chambers where people look up a topic, and end up in a doom feedback loop most cults would be proud of.

If you don't search for it, you don't see it. Full stop.

This would pretty much break the back of the US tech firms in many areas.

I read an article from long ago in the very earliest days of youtube where they came up with a simple new recommendation system and it increased the chances of someone watching another video by something like 17,000%.

That was a simple one to drive traffic. But now, it is getting far more insidious. If you are a man looking at comments on a he said she said relationship video, you will generally see comments supporting the man's side. If you are a woman, you will see comments supporting the woman's side.

Just kill this sort of algorithmic behavior.

These dark patterns are nasty. If you go to that big shopping site, and look up something like, "replacement battery for pixel 7 pro", you will get a screen mostly of the correct item. If you sort by price (the last thing they want you to do) you will get a screen full of spatulas, insoles, and things which they very much know you are not looking for. They want to train you to not sort by price.

These algorithms are toxic to human society. They are a huge reason we are seeing such insane polarization in things like politics, but also why you have people feeling marginalized and attacked, when it is just influencers telling them that this is the case. I live in a place where certain very tiny group rights are not very well respected. I had a member of this group telling me they are going to leave before the government kills them. WTF? While my local government doesn't particularly like them, it isn't sending out death squads. Not only is their mental health more threatened by this sort of social media crap, than by the behavior of the government, the government itself is responding to people who are doom looped into hating this particular group.

This sort of crap is poison all over the world. Under 16 bans and other crap is a tiny step, but the reality is that if the poison is there, it is still bad, and teens will still end up accessing it in droves. If the poison is removed, the age ban largely becomes moot.

Your link - seriously?

"Tobacco giants say"? Dude, they said that smoking is actually healthy for a few decades. I'd trust my cat around buckets full of her favorite treat more than those companies.

Correct.

In trumps first year back in the WH, he disclosed more than 21,000 securities trades.
All of Congress made only 13,324 trades last year.
Biden made a total of 13 during his entire tenure.
Obama made zero stock trades during his entire 8 years.

On the same day that the White House unveiled its "AI Action Plan" on July 23, 2025, Trump purchased between $1-5 million each in six companies -- Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia -- whose work with AI was directly impacted by the policy.

He'll grift whenever he can. Over $100,000,000 went to cheating at golf, and much of that at his own courses (IE: he's pocketing the money). There's no end to corruption.

I am not sure it would be considered a "third party JavaScript tool". Once you gave the key to your domain to cloudflare, the domain resolves to a cloudflare IP and cloudflare act as a reverse proxy contacting to your site thus enabling them to inject any javascript without being viewed as third party.