Data centers are central to Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s plans to dominate AI. Meanwhile, the newspaper Bezos owns just called Bernie Sanders “part of the lunatic fringe” for proposing a moratorium on AI data centers.
I was watching a video about CERN testing that antimatter containment unit by transporting 19 antiprotons. One of the comments I saw was just "who wants to brake check the antimatter truck" and I found that profoundly funny.
People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do
Says Neal Stephenson who first coined the term “metaverse” This revelation came soon after Meta canceled the Metaverse. My thought was immediately, will Meta rename itself back to Facebook? We'll get to that soon, but first let's look into Neal Stephenson's mea culpa: When I was working at Magic Leap, and people asked me why I thought that was a good idea, I would ask the rhetorical question:…
Says Neal Stephenson who first coined the term “metaverse” This revelation came soon after Meta canceled the Metaverse. My thought was immediately, will Meta rename itself back to Facebook? We̵…
if you could stroll around shenzhen you would probably find a cardboard box full of them on a table amid boxes of thousands of other ICs. it would be labeled 'warm fan master' or something
@chris haha Their future might look like: your AI reading your colleagues or friends AI text and then sending a reply based on your browsing history ;) @socialmedia
The existence of toblerone implies the existence of related triangular hydrochocolate chains such as the base alkane (toblerane), as well as the closed ring form (cyclotoblerone)
Split off the side chain to yield tobleral, reduce the carboxyl of that to yield toblerol, or oxidise the hydrogen to yield tobleroic acid, react two equivalents of toblerol under dehydrating conditions to form ditobleryl ether...
It has been obvious that Epstein was an information broker hooked up with multiple intelligence services, most likely those of Israel and Russia. The pedophilia was just part of a larger whole; a gross, horrible part to be sure, but there is a much larger story here and we always focus on only a singular part.
This isn't conspiracism, it's just fucking obvious.
HMM's union, which fiercely opposes the relocation, held a press conference on Tuesday, the day before the meeting, and has announced a general strike ...
"It turns out that there isn’t a ratings bump for MAGA capitulation. ...
Status’ Oliver Darcy got ahold of some CBS News ratings data from the first quarter of 2026, and it is brutal. CBS Evening News has lost 7% of viewers year-over-year, placing it 'on track for its lowest-rated first quarter of the 21st century in both total viewers'" (continued in /2)
"'and the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic,' while CBS Mornings plummeted 13% and 'is pacing toward its lowest-rated quarter on record in both total audience and the key demo.' Meanwhile, the audiences of competitor shows at ABC News and NBC News grew over the same period."
"The ratings collapse is a devastating indictment of the strategy Ellison and Weiss are executing at CBS — and a blaring warning for CNN if Ellison is able to complete his takeover of that network and let Weiss run the same playbook there."
"The story of CBS and the Washington Post over the last two years is a cautionary tale about right-wing branding. The country does not have some huge untapped well of underserved rabid fascists; Trump’s narrow 2024 victory did not herald a massive cultural shift for all time. Oligarchs and their minions who ignore that truth are going to lose (a lot) of money and (even more) status."
"And yes, billionaires hate to lose money and status. Not enough to admit they’re wrong, perhaps. But enough to take it out on people like Bari Weiss."
"A recent report from the Alliance for Audited Media found that WaPo’s circulation decreased by 21 percent, while the LA Times’s is down by 19.8 percent. At the same time, Status’s Oliver Darcy reports that every news show over at CBS, recently purchased by David Ellison — the son of Trump’s billionaire buddy Larry Ellison — is also tanking in the ratings."
"The idea that what those people 'really' want is slightly right-leaning but mostly normal news is absurd. Almost more absurd than the idea that these people 'lost trust' in the media due to inaccuracies or actual bias."
"Or that those people ever wanted 'free speech' for all beyond just wanting it to be socially acceptable to use racial slurs or were upset about 'cancel culture' for ethical and philosophical reasons beyond just wanting to be the ones who canceled people themselves."
Sorry this is true, but billionaires no longer buy media to make money. They buy media to control the public. Look at how much Musk has lost on Twitter. He made it all up in SpaceX contracts with Trump, but a key platform for dissent is dead. And that was the point.
A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.
You know what would be cool? If people would acknowledge that Microsoft has no fucking idea how their own shit works and stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially with things like consent and AI.
In just a matter of weeks, the Middle East war has taken on enormous significance for Russia’s leadership. After the first two months of the year, the country’s federal budget deficit had already spiraled out of control.
"So it is absolutely clear that it would not be fair for biological males to compete in the female category. In addition, in some sports it would simply not be safe."
What are they doing to make it fair to trans women? Anything at all?
"Not be safe"? Can they give even one example where a trans woman harmed other women?
As some of you may know, I do tech support for a living. I've been helping someone this afternoon who was unable to close an app on their mobile device.
It's people like this trying to regulate the Internet and technology. It's grim.
At 4am yesterday morning I was awake. Luckily so, as I checked my email and saw a warning that my VPS had been running at 199% CPU for two hours. I went into my office and checked the logs. Someone had been hammering this site with HEAD requests since just after midnight with nearly 30,000Continue reading
At 4am yesterday morning I was awake. Luckily so, as I checked my email and saw a warning that my VPS had been running at 199% CPU for two hours. I went into my office and checked the logs. Someone…
We've seen this movie before. In 1973. And 1979. And in 2022, when #Russia invaded #Ukraine.
Some places got smart, and began to work on ways to free themselves from dependence on dictator-controlled fossil fuels by investing in sustainable transport.
if you can hold out for about a generation of ai "success" simply knowing how to do anything will make you a fucking necessity, youll be worrying about getting kidnapped and enslaved by the cartel for knowing how to bake or fix a toilet
One thing that absolutely should stop happening is naive liberals thinking that cops are going to impede, arrest, or investigate ICE instead of helping ICE and arresting protesters.
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