The problem is that graduates who know how to research and reason and write will end up working at Starbucks. Short sighted employers are going to hire people who can cut costs by doing everything with AI, not people who want to take time doing it right. It will be a business disaster in the long run, but the CEOs don't care because they will get seven figure separation payouts.

But maybe down the line the smart people will get paid to clean up the mess. Like the good programmers who are now getting paid to fix AI generated software.

China has put years of work and billions of dollars into getting people to avoid sanctions by conducting international transactions in yuan. They don't want people switching to Tether!

The USA used to have vocational schools. Many of them were high schools. They taught draftsmanship, printing, auto mechanics, and other trades. There were also one and two year schools that would teach people how to be plumbers and electricians and diesel mechanics. Over the last couple decades we lost that. Instead everyone was going to work in The Service Economy. Lots of those service economy jobs were either outshored or never even existed. Thousands of people who would have been fine with a vocational degree ended up tens of thousands of dollars in debt with a degree that cannot pay for itself. This is a failure of leadership by parents, principals, school boards, politicians, and of course by the colleges that marketed themselves as the newer, better vocational schools. This isn't just an American problem, it's even worse in China. We need to stop pretending that college is for everyone and return to the days of educating people for a realistic future instead of pretending that there will be an endless supply of jobs for anyone with a degree in anything.

The noise probably comes from the equipment that sucks air out to maintain the vacuum.

Depending on when it pops many of the datacenters may not have been built. The ones that have been built might not have power, and (in the USA) by the time all those big Westinghouse reactors and small SMRs have been built the datacenters might be obsolete and not worth updating without big AI customers. So there's a possibility that they'll just end up abandoned building complexes in the desert.

OpenAI will be fine. They just need a few more infusions of cash from Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia, and Oracle that they can use to buy stuff from Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia, and Oracle. This can go on forever because this is not a scam. Just trust your capitalist masters, they are CEOs and in America CEOs know what's best for us all,

BYD makes the best cars. They're also very well priced. Europe is keeping BYD out of their markets with tariffs. So BYD is setting up a plant in Europe. Trump knows that American tariffs cannot keep BYD from opening a plant here. So to make sure that Tesla, Ford, and GM keep cranking out poorly engineered and overpriced cars BYD has been put on a bad list.

Conspicuous consumption. People want to be seen with the flashy array of cameras on the latest high end iPhone.

Unlikely. With skills in economics, AI, and deception he'll either become a think tank wonk or a Silicon Valley startup charlatan.

Wind and solar are only less expensive if you can actually build them. The current president has made it clear that he will not allow any new large wind or solar projects in the USA. Given the long running tendency of the GOP to swing even further to the extreme right, and the Democratic party's long history of capitulating to the GOP, it makes little sense for businesses to make long-term plans around renewable resources. Even if Trump leaves office and is voted out by a Democrat he might be replaced by someone who's even crazier and decides to actively destroy old renewable power setups. So if you need power for your data centers it just makes more sense to bite the bullet and go with nuclear.

Also, nuclear can probably done for a lot less money if they get the government out of it. Take out public financing and pork barrel contracts and nuclear can be less expensive. Especially if the same companies build the same reactors repeatedly instead of implementing one new design on a rare occasion. We'll find out if Starlink actually gets built and it's four reactors are powered on before the AI industry goes tits up.

Why does it matter? Microsoftâ(TM)s code was buggy garbage long before they implemented vibe coding. If the entire OS was rewritten by a buggy AI nobody would be able to tell the difference.

It sounds like a tool for creating clickbait videos. CANNIBAL CORPSE IN THE STYLE OF BANANARAMA! sort of shit. But I think most people will get bored and cancel before their 30 day trial renews.

Windows isn't enshittifying. It’s been shit for 30 years. The new AI shit is just a replacement for the Cortana shit. People are attributing new Windows bugs to shitty AI generated code but Microsoft has always had bugs due to shitty human generated code. AI isn’t going to make Windows shittier, because it's just the latest generation of shit.

Sure I can have a conversation with an AI. And it will start telling me that incorrect things I mention are actually facts. And it will run with that until I either notice that is has gone off the rails or I end up with full blown delusions and my life goes off the rails. If I am depressed to begin with the AI will even happily guide me to suicide. What a great conversation. And if I ask it a question it might come back with a wrong answer and back it up by citing sources that do not exist. Why wouldn't I want this in my life?

As for image generators, that technology sucks, too. Two days ago I was goofing around and generated an image based on the face of a famous actress. It gave her pronounced freckles, which said actress does not have. There were playing cards in the picture and it rendered them with garbled letters and mixed symbols in the cards. I was nonplussed.

This stuff is mostly junk. The AI companies can come up with amazing examples of the capabilities of AI because they coded the damned things. But in the real world it's just slop, over and over.

Getting dozens of vendors to start sourcing thousands of parts from the USA is going to take years. Because nobody in the USA makes most of these parts. Supply chains will have to be built to source the materials and factories will have to be built to do the manufacturing. And the whole thing will be an inefficient mess because the losers running GM don't understand that they need to vertically integrate to compete with the Chinese car companies that will inevitably open their awesome dark factories in the USA. What a bunch of clowns.