More people do office work than ever before.

This story is so old it was the reason for Unix. Once the platform controls the essential business process, it owns the business. You work for them now, and all your aspirations are moot.

It's not like you can't use another model to validate the results you got with one model. That's a step you should be taking anyway. It's actually built into the system for test/dev of the agent and inference model itself. Active supervision, sandboxing and all that.

It seems so. Although Netcraft confirms it is (ahem) a rounding error.

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I remember when they introduced that. That was hilarious.

What would you expect the CCIA to say? Vibe code the replacement?

Their servers go down because they DDOS themselves demanding more cert renewals than they can support. The blog certificates expire and browsers refuse to load your cat memes.

I ran this through the translator. "Having a dedicated home with Prime Video allows us to build on that legacy with unprecedented global reach and a broader commitment to the Television Academy and our mission throughout the year."

It came out "Jeff offered more money."

This is all about getting us to have warm fuzzy feelings for our Flock protectors. Probably so we are willing to report the vile criminals who vandalize them to steal the valuable metals and precious SSD, HDD and memory components inside.

you're right - I still encounter numerous people blaming the grid failure on renewables that I read it into your reply.

Though my snow & ice covered solar panels and PowerWall kept my house running.

Electrical generation failures were widespread such as Texas natural gas production dropped in half

A large portion of the decrease in natural gas production was from declines in Texas, which fell over 10 Bcf/d during the February 8–17 period

The South Texas Nuclear Power Station, about 60 miles southwest of me, lost half it's output

One of two reactors shut down at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station an hour southwest of Houston, knocking out about half of its 2,700 megawatts of generating capacity.

Also part of the natural gas failures were self induced A giant flaw in Texas blackouts: It cut power to gas supplies

Producers who depend on electricity to power their operations were left with no way to pump natural gas. And that gas was needed more than ever to generate electricity.

And despite some frozen turbines, wind was generating more than expected at the start of the outage:

Power supplied by wind (green) is coming in ahead of forecasts. ... An ERCOT director told Bloomberg that problems were widespread across generating sources, including coal, natural gas, and even nuclear plants.

So blaming the grid failure on renewables is is either ignorance or deceitfulness.

The longest outage I've experienced was 3+ days after Beryl blew through the Houston metro. I slept in my Model 3 to have AC during the night, without any risk of being asphyxiated in my garage, then recharging it during the day from my panels.

Just noticed the 11717 MW was lower than the 17,000 so took a closer look, while that axis article was updated August 14, 2026 it used data from 2024:

according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s State Energy Data System for 2024

More recent data from July 2026:

Texas has now passed California to lead the country, at 17,082 MW against 15,698 MW.

Texas has 7,905 MW of battery storage, putting us at #2 in the US behind California's 11,717 MW, and I'm paying 12 cents a kWh.

Check the Previous Day on ERCOT's Fuel Mix you'll see the same thing is happening in Texas, though ERCOT's graph shows the sun in orange instead of yellow and our battery storage is shown in maroon instead of blue.

Their latest Flash model goes live tomorrow. Price for cached tokens halved, other prices lowered. Since it outperforms their latest Pro model they will reroute pro requests to it until the pro version launches. It does seem to be a frontier model in every way except price.

About 90% of doctors consume alcohol.