I’m probably gonna get yelled at for this, but this largely isn’t because of data centers, it’s because of inflation.

Today I'm thinking about the fact that the first Black person elected to Congress, John Willis Menard in 1868, was never sworn in and seated. He won a special election for the US House in Louisiana after the previous rep died, but his white opponent (a Democrat, of course) contested the election.

I think there is technical risk as well. What if AI can be done without such immense computing power? A similar thing happened in the dotcom bubble. Sudden technical improvements meant that fiber could carry vastly more data and the value of existing cable plummeted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelen...

This phase of the AI boom: -Oracle capex/negative FCF guide -Oracle/OpenAI deal -NVIDIA/OpenAI deal -OpenAI/AMD announcement feels unstable/fragile in a way the hyperscaler capex/NVIDIA phase didn’t.

I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.

They're also "roundtripping" with nVidia, with nVidia paying billions of dollars to OpenAI that OpenAI will use to buy nVidia chips. That's a sign that the bubble will burst soon.

Today would be an excellent day to cancel your subscription to the holy goddamn New York Times

Ben Thompson argues that OpenAI commuting to spend $1 trillion dollars over the next five years on AI infrastructure and investments makes them the Windows of AI. Honestly this sounds more like being the FTX of AI by spending money they don’t have to prop up the ecosystem.

JUST IN: Nvidia, $NVDA, is an equity investor in Elon’s xAI, per Reuters

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

Evil Andy Rooney

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Oct. 7 said those who built Nord Stream 2, not those accused of sabotaging it, "should be ashamed and remain silent," adding it is "not in Poland's interest" to hand over the suspect.

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

It's Dems fault because they're not willing to throw their voters under the bus and capitulate.

For your laptop, you can use VeraCrypt to encrypt your hard drive and create a decoy operating system which you can boot into based only on which password you use, so CBP won't even be able to tell there's anything else on the computer. veracrypt.io/en/Hidden%20...

And distressed farms are bought up by a JD Vance investment opportunity at pennies on the dollar. acretrader.com

It’s ironic that these people are literally in the “you reap what you sow” business.

Open Printer: an open-source inkjet printer with no DRM, no subscriptions, and repairable parts. Sometimes the best innovation is just making things work the way they should have all along.

Ingen skal si at Sylvi har en annen standard overfor partifeller enn overfor seg selv, når hun mente d var "helt nødvendig" at PWA gikk av som justiskomite-leder etter å ha kommet m "totalt uakseptable" utsagn på FB, men at 19 måneder er en passende karantene før han kan få bli komiteleder på nytt.

Hoo boy. 🙈

Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But it certainly feels like we're in the final days of the internet as we know it. A year from now, we're logging on to a dramatically different and much worse information environment. It's a haunting feeling.

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition? JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back R: Why not now? J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

As masked ICE thugs?

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan. “Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations." Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

Burde egentlig skrive en hel bok om hvor på gal kurs databransjen alltid har vært pga at en del av bransjen alltid lager bobler. Og hvordan dette både er skadelig for bransjen, miljøet og en viktig del av grunnen til at så mange av de som lager boblene også vil fjerne demokratiet.

I do love Tech people telling me that they don't have a eugenicist problem when its bascially the current epicenter

US President Donald Trump may have forgotten about Greenland for now, but he will be back, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen warned today.

Ways to resist fascism

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking crimes will return to the Capitol to hold another press conference demanding Congress force a vote to release the Epstein files. No paywall link or sign up archive.today/IVBcb

WE ARE SO BACK!

The age of search engines is over The time of the webring has come

“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision." - IBM training manual, 1979

Thanks, New Yorker

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

The answer to “what is the president not allowed to do” seems to be “nothing” but our institutions are trying very hard to just not mention that fact, pretending each new thing he gets to do represents some heretofore undiscovered new nook of constitutional authority, uncovered after 236 years

He’s propped up a new fiscal order entirely on the basis of conservatives, businesses, media, and even many Dems being scared to actually describe what he’s doing and willing to pretend he’s not doing it. Literally governed by an unmentionable new constitution that everyone is afraid to talk about

Yeah what’s remarkable about Trump’s tariffs is that he’s both implementing them by executive fiat and then spending them by executive fiat, both of which are profoundly, extremely, couldn’t-be-more unconstitutional

He’d hate them and also he’d show up on them with cigar, insult everyone, and there’d be 30 second reels titles “Orson WELLES DESTROYS Theo Von 🔥🔥”

"Ekte AI har vært 10 år unna i 30 år" er nå en 30 år gammel vits.

Og der virkelig morsomme er at ML og statistisk prediksjon i mange år aktivt unngikk å kalle seg KI for ikke bli assosiert med forrige oppskrytte KI-boble på 80-tallet. 😃

Synes du kan rante mer om dette, da både maskinlæring og semantisk søk hsr gjort store fremskritt, men nå blir sammenlignet med å generere svada i Word

A/KI-ml?