AI is too competitive for anyone to make money at it. Last year OpenAI made a browswer to get ChatGPT traction, and Google “had to” do AI mode. “Making an extra $B is not cool, you know what is cool? $1T eyeball/query share”. There’s too much “hype metrics” focus to juice stock/IPO values, and AI bubble pop needs to shift from circular financing to outright cannibalizing each other.

Deepseek is an incredible lab, and Xiaomi espcially and several others from China, surprising. US models are good too, but the overspending has no competitive chance vs open models, or China’s hardware advantages and progression.

had founded a translation startup

Doesn’t Cisco know any networking and firmware experts, with extensive legacy code knowledge, who could vibe code through a well thought out plan?

Trump has boasted twice in campaign appearances recently, as he did at start of war: America (big oil) is getting rich off of global energy destruction. Screw all y’all.

I still lean towards it all being a bluff that just has US leave region, and get some extortion from allies before doing so. Couldn’t do it before mid terms, or at least Israel elections, because of embarrassment of defeat. I lean towards this just because “insane” negative consequences to world. But, sure, maybe $200+ oil is a “good thing” in his mind, and the stupid during campaigning is to avoid promising a smooth end of the war.

US head of military planning was fired this week for no reason.

destruction of our commitment to the rule of law

Means mass civilian/infrastructure casualties. Beyond evil, the insanity accusation is Iran’s strong retaliation capability which can delay “normal energy supplies” for another 2+ years.

There is still a likelihood that it is a ploy to extract more benefits from “GCC allies” for Trump+cronies to avoid their devastation. This has lasted 6 months though.

There does need to be 67 senate votes to convict on impeachment. In investigations of cabinet officials, they could accuse each of them of perjury for disagreeing with 25th amendment mental capacity of Trump. They could recommend to military to do a coup. Budget/war powers can add an impeachment or other containment clauses.

US spent 20 years demonizing the party and army in Charge of Venezuela. Kidnapping president, and providing enough bribery to VP to pass down to army, while opposing elections where their puppet opposition that even gave Trump their nobel peace prize. There never was any freedom ideology whatsoever. Only colonialism.

Solar heating input is 10000 times larger than all energy consumption. Solar energy is also net 0 thermal emissions, and less net thermal gain at low albedo solar capture, than fuel based energy. The problem with GHG emissions is that they reduce the heat loss of the planet. Albedo (white roofs and ice caps) help with global cooling too.

Epstein’s Mossad role is also why we’re in a war with Iran. Netanyahu has video and other proof, and possibly the pee tape.

The 3 strategies if not sharing electricity is overproduction in summer used to make/sell H2 from surplus, and backup energy in winter (can come from H2/ammonia), and throttling down usage on some winter days.

That first strategy (overproduction) is helped with any size wire for export/import. Southern US has less seasonal production variation than north, but the solar sizing formula is based on maximum summer production day. (datacenter + electrolysis gw * 24) / maximum sun hours. Very heavy electrolysis permits free power for one datacenter, and high power ROI for providing power to an equal 2nd datacenter. Reason is simply that electrolysis power sink costs $300/kw, while datacenter power sink is $50k/kw.

The trick is to go much huger than your suggestion. Massive batteries support either longer H2 electrolysis use in summer, or night/duck curve electricity delivery. Unilike utility hookups, transformer capacity, solar and batteries, with Chinese supply chain that can include domestic manufacturing is a quick/solved high capacity/quick development path. Solar, batteries, electrolysis can be deployed in 100s of mw per month that match gpu installations instead of a monolitic power plant.

Some models for Nebraska and Phoenix: https://lemmy.ca/post/63402719

A $300/ton carbon tax (with dividend) = $3/gallon tax on gasoline, would be a zero cost solution to global warming. Encourages carbon capture after renewables/H2 economy. There are snowpiercer solutions, but snowpiercer consequences are concerning.

This year, Nino surface temperature (index basis) has spent about double the time over 29C as all previous years combined. It is now over 30C (big record) during what is a seasonally low period. Over 3.5C seasonal average.

It’s practical, and much cheaper/quicker power, but they need to move further out, and lose the water supply for “modern” datacenters, and fiber connections require longer lines. Using more land solves all noise issues for any neighbours as well.

DOJ (Trump submissive) tried to argue that Musk/Xai should not be liable for pollution from their BS unpermitted gas turbines on wheels that have stayed longer than “temporary allowed” duration. They said national security importance of AI means that neither removal nor damages to population affected should be considered. Judged called BS, but that is what DOJ tried to do. DOJ is likely to pay for Musk/Xai defense for appeals to SCOTUS.

There are still enough vultures that can take assets from bankruptcy. In their byline, coreweave is at head of domino chain. Nvidia is at the end. It definitely would be disgraceful to sink “all our money” into protecting stock values behind skynet, but the most obvious means of propping up the bubble is for skynet project to buy all the tokens.

Anything except banking

Quick add AI to your bittorrent clients, and take deposits for your crypto/gambling exchanges!

Because its now called super intelligence, we have to trust it to build skynet. Before Trump, some people might have had concerns.

Rex Tillerson was Exxon CEO (still heavily invested) before taking the job. While US has always been heavily involved in creating Gulf/middle east division, US/western oil majors have always benefitted/encouraged OPEC cartel supply cuts, that tend to benefit UAE/KSA the most. So Tillerson would have needed to start hating UAE for this to happen, and I don’t remember any indication of this.

This is a very big deal. Industry largely pushed to accept this regulation. Natural gas is already worse than coal for emissions when exported accross an ocean, even when methane leakage is accepted as minimized (pipe connections are tested/replaced instead of presumed to be 0 leakage).

Natural gas prices are low despite datacenter demand, and extreme disruption of global supply, and high US export capacity utilization, because maximum drilling for oil produces a lot of “free” natural gas. Regulations in question force to capture that natural gas and use it for something. Natural gas prices would skyrocket if rules removed, increasing Americans/global heating/electricity costs significantly, and at $100/bbl oil, more oil drilling incentives are not needed.

This is more of “Global collapse is making our oil companies $100s of Bs” mission accomplished speech, but adding that more wealth needs to be transferred to them.

you’re advocating petty vengeance

punishing specific evil is less petty vengence than generalizing on savings accumulation choices.

the existence of billionaires is itself an abomination of a broken economic system.

the broken system is direct evil corrupting social governance. Money=speech means money= fraud, theft, terrorism, genocide. But it is the latter application of money that is evil rather than money. It is cause for liberating the evil from their money. Your view is simply dead wrong.

The only path to wealth is accumulated propensity to savings. Extremely large yacht and epstein island orgy budgets, and MC hammer entourage hookers and blow, is wealth avoidance path. These lifestyle choices are the only path to trickle down, but you might hate them too, perhaps for the one trick “billionaire haters” hate.

but with the top rate at upper-middle income. You’re basically targeting doctors and lawyers as “the wealthiest”, when they also earn next to nothing compared with actual wealthy

Progressive taxation stays, its just added to investment income (capital gains deduction no more) as well. It’s enough because its $3T additional revenue before carbon taxes. Billionaires “only” own $8T or so, and a wealth tax that applies just for them would need to be 35% of wealth every single year to raise the same amount. The $16m~ wealth level (top 1%) would need a 5% wealth tax every year to raise the same amount.

The far more important social governance objective, is distributing social revenue to people as dividends is far more helpful than raising more revenue to pay oligarchs more for more wars. The goal shouldn’t be to generate anger at a group just because they saved wealth, it should be to maximize shared prosperity.