If Alphabet thinks that people in Maryland, Virginia, and DC are going to leave off their air conditioning in August for a paltry payment to keep data centers running then they're fucking insane. Not using much power when it's 105 degrees and humid outside is not something most people will do so Gemini can summarize other people's email.

Theyâ(TM)re synergizing paradigms. A goal of many tech companies in the 1996-2000 era. Elon might finally achieve the dreams of the companies that brought low the NASDAQ. Or the market will finally realize that heâ(TM)s full of shit and TeSpaceXSI is just as overvalued as Worldcom.

When it comes to cars that most people could actually use Tesla has nothing to offer. Chinese car makers are light years ahead of Tesla. And CATL sodium ion batteries that blow away Tesla's batteries will be in Huawei cars next year. The USA is the only country that will keep China out of its markets, especially now that Trump has shown the world what a Middle East shit show does to their petrol powered economies. But Tesla is fucked in the USA because the ruling party in the White House and half the states is owned by Big Oil. All Tesla can do now is dream up stunts that will prop up the biggest meme stock's silly share price

$2,000 and up for a computer that can only run software some rich tech bros in Silicon Valley think it should. This is what the paranoid GNU advocates warned us about decades ago.

Iâ(TM)m old and not worried about giving up MacOS over this. Apple will add a cryptic CLI method for disabling this that normies wonâ(TM)t have a clue how to do themselves. As always, Iâ(TM)ll do whatever I want with my Macs and my kid wonâ(TM)t have a clue how to fuck up hers.

There are enough intelligent people at these companies to create a real air gap for these test systems. They are not doing it because the goal of these incidents is to advertise their products by making them look better than even the best humans. If the USA had a decent government the Department of Justice would have sent out subpoenas already.

The fee is meant to stop small employers from hiring foreign talent. Small startups canâ(TM)t afford to pay over $100,000 to hire programmers, scientists, and engineers who just got an advanced from an R1 university. But the magnificent seven companies can. This protects their oligopolies and ensures that they will make big donations to the GOP for decades to come in the same way oil companies have had a relationship with the GOP.

ust because a book is scarce or rare does not mean it is useful or desirable. There are big city book dealers that throw out dumpsters of books every day because they are of no use to anyone. The same is true of libraries: they have to unload old books to make space for new ones.

There have been myriad books published by small presses, or self published, in issues of a few hundred. The information in them may just be pulled from better books, be medical quackery, pseudoscience, alien autopsy insanity, etc. Nobody wants this crap no matter how rare it is.

SpaceX was a pump and dump because Grok is garbage and space datacenters are bullshit. But Anthropic makes a product that is actually useful to a rapidly increasing pool of customers. Once they figure out how to make Claude stop hallucinating it's going to be incredible. And worth lots of money.

Most popular subreddits are overrun with bots. r/politics and r/conservative are notorious hives of bots regurgitating talking points at each other. Discussions of Israel and China are always hit by bots spreading the same propaganda. And every little sub is getting hit by bots recycling old posts. If reddit is supposed to be a place for humans then the company sucks at it.

Keeping social media from harming kids requires curbing the use of dark patterns in software. It would have to apply to the operating systems, web sites, and thousands of apps on every app store. Few politicians are willing to fight tens of thousands of software and gambling companies. The lobbies that would create would make combined militarism contractors, the drug industry, and the oil industry look like ants.

If I need to know something and I search with Google it kind of sucks. Half of the articles are clickbait, written by non-experts or a shitty AI that was given a garbage prompt. When I go to the web site I immediately have to jump through as many as three popups about cookies. Then, ten seconds after I start reading, a full page popup appears compelling me to sign up for a mailing list. If I am on a mobile browser with an ad blocker the page may refuse to load. On desktop I might get a popup telling me to disable my ad blocker. After all that shit it turns out that the garbage article does not even answer my question. So I have to keep doing this with every link until I either find an answer or give up.

But if I ask Claude it will usually give me a great answer. Sometimes it gives an entire essay. The writing is much better than the garbage I would get from a Google search.

But lately I have taken to just looking it up in books. This month I bought a big Merriam Webster dictionary along with the Oxford dictionaries of economics, finance and banking, and politics and international relations. It's great! Entries are short because Oxford is not cooking up five+ paragraph articles to put ads into. The writers were experts. And they were human. I still resort to Claude at times, and it can be faster, but I like ink on paper.

Ukraine goes out of its way to not target civilians. That is the opposite of terrorism.

Somehow I doubt that the Emirates are going to extradite a guy to a country that is currently moving drone and missile components from China to Iran where they are used to attack targets in Dubai.

It's both. The robots are going to be trained to do human tasks with machine learning. Instead of writing complex scripts for every task a robot does the AI can be trained to do ten thousand similar things ten thousand times in a simulation. Which is a pretty smart way to make robot hands pick up arbitrarily arranged objects in a box, or to sort different kinds of boxes in a UPS sorting center.

Of course Tesla will need ten years to figure this out and by then Chinese companies will be five years ahead. Thus this new round of import substitution.