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The Physics Behind the Thumb Trick
Have you ever filled a bucket with water from the garden hose? It’s kind of a slow process. Or at least it feels slow while you’re standing there waiting. If you played with a garden hose at all, you know the trick of putting your thumb over the end to get a stronger jet. Obviously, the water is flowing faster with your thumb on than off. So if you do that - put your thumb over the end of the hose - to fill your bucket, do you think it’s going to fill faster, slower, or take the same amount of time?
Horseshit
celebrity gossip
Musk
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Musk vs. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all
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All left of center parties in Germany are advising their members to leave X
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SEC and Elon Musk agree to settle lawsuit over Twitter buyout in 2022
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Musk Settles SEC Suit for Underpaying Twitter Investors by $150M for Just $1.5M
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Remember when Musk bought Twitter and everyone was laughing at how much he overpaid?
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Musk promised his data center would reuse water. That's now stalled
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Developer re-enables features that Bambu Lab disabled, BL threatens legal action
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"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original
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Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts
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The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It Harder to Archive the Internet
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Former Nintendo of America President Warns Devs Mass Layoffs 'A Red Flag'
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Shortages push long-term supply agreements for SSDs and HDDs to record 5 years
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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OpenAI co-founder discloses nearly $30B stake, financial ties to Altman
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Google, Microsoft and xAI Agree to Share Early AI Models with U.S.
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Google, xAI and Microsoft agree to US national security reviews of new AI models
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US Government expands vetting of frontier AI models for security risks
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US moves further into AI oversight, will test Google, Microsoft and xAI models
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U.S. ramps up frontier AI testing as White House pivots toward safety
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Ahead of Race to IPO, OpenAI Discussed Spinning Out Robotics, Hardware Divisions
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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
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US State Dept orders global warning about alleged AI thefts by DeepSeek
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What Silicon Valley layoffs hide about the future of the job market
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Anthropic Unveils $1.5B Joint Venture with Wall Street Firms
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Fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
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OpenAI has added pet companions to its Codex programming assistant.
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Microsoft Committed to Doubling AI Infrastructure in Two Years
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Years ago, Altman did seem to generally agree with the folk consensus that AI’s purpose is to make most or all humans obsolete; in 2014 he warned that we could be faced with “a new idle class”, and explored the idea of Universal Basic Income as a remedy. In 2021 he wrote that “The price of many kinds of labor…will fall toward zero.” But in recent years, Altman has consistently stated that although AI will destroy many occupations, it will create new tasks for humans to do.
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AI data centers appear to be creating their own microclimates
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AI firms should face 'minimum wage for robots' to limit job cuts, says tech boss
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A bill banning AI companions for kids could usher in widespread ID checks online
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VC fired all analysts, is using AI to help run deals for its new $75M fund
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Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
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I Asked ChatGPT to Manage a Stock Portfolio. Here’s How It Did.
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Congress Is Doing Little to Prepare for Potential A.I. Job Losses
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Humane AI Pin hacks turns the gadget into a standalone Android-powered gadget
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Flattery jailbreaks Claude into giving bomb-making instructions
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Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors
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Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
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Apple to let users choose rival AI models across iOS 27 features
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Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
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Math long resisted a digital disruption. AI is poised to change that
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Blackstone, KKR in Talks with Google to Bring AI Models to Portfolio Firms
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Apple Reaches $250M Settlement Over Claims It Misled People on A.I
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
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Fears erupt over 'tyrannical tool' as it could control your spending
Known as a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), or 'digital dollar,' the form of money would be issued and regulated by the Federal Reserve. Formal discussion regarding CBDC intensified around 2020.
Economicon / Business / Finance
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GameStop offers $56B for eBay, struggles to explain how it'll pay for it
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Apple Explores Using Intel and Samsung to Build Main Device Chips in the US
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Cerebras targets $26.6B valuation in US IPO as AI chip demand surges
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Meta stock might look cheap if it weren't for Mark Zuckerberg
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California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military
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SEC Proposes Amendments to Permit Semiannual Reporting by Public Companies
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Democrats
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Indictment of SPLC draws RNC attacks on Sen Jon Ossoff over past ties
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WaPo Admits Many Democrat Voters Can't Prove They're Citizens
Ayres and Slaughter estimate that Democrats are 13 percentage points “less likely than Republicans to hold qualifying registration documents” in New Mexico. And while Ayres and Slaughter estimate the passage of the SAVE America Act would only have “modest” consequences for the midterms because those currently registered to vote would be “unaffected,” “as more people would need to register after moving, changing their names or reaching voting age, this document shortfall could flip New Mexico to an electorate where Republicans have a 3.3-percentage-point advantage.” Ayres and Slaughter see the GOP having a similar advantage in the battleground state of Nevada. Their research shows that Democrats are 5.3 percentage points less likely than Republicans to have the required documents, and they project that passage of the legislation “would push [Nevada] from battleground to comfortably Republican.” “Nationally, the overall effect leans Republican: Eight of 15 swing states show rightward shifts, and the only statistically significant results favor Republicans,” Ayres and Slaughter wrote.
Left Angst
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Trump's proposed NASA budget is a 'horrible threat to our future' in space
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DHS Demanded Google for Data on Canadian's Activity, Location over Anti-ICE posts
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US Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui told alleged wannabe killer Cole Allen, 31, he was sorry that the suspect had been held under suicide watch despite a mental-health exam finding he did not pose a threat to harm himself, according to Politico.
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The global energy transition — the shift from fossil fuels to electrotech, which uses solar, wind and batteries to power an electrified economy — is accelerating. It’s now clear that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz marks an inflection point: the global green energy curve, which was already on a rapidly rising trajectory, has suddenly become even steeper. “Investors,” reports the Financial Times, “are piling into clean energy funds.” This acceleration isn’t just a consequence of soaring fossil fuel prices. It is also the result of the worldwide realization that, with the end of Pax Americana, depending on imported hydrocarbons is a risk not worth taking. The United States cannot be relied on to keep sea lanes open when cheap drones can take out an oil tanker or a major pipeline. Even relying on oil and gas from America itself is dangerous, since one never knows when an erratic U.S. government – now under the control of a twice-elected malignant narcissist — will try to use energy as a tool of coercion.
- Shouldn't leftists be happy, then? They've wanted fossil fuels gone forever and the end of the "Pax Americana" for even longer. Trump has accomplished goals they've held for decades in a year or less.
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Trump spent nearly $2B of taxpayer money to undo wind projects underway
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Trump's AI Oversight Plan Is Everything VCs Claimed to Hate About Biden's Plan
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Was the Declaration of Independence Better Before the Edits?
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The Impossible Things We Have to Believe
In a time of energy shortage and, as noted, climate challenges, we have to accept that the world is going ALL IN on massive AI data centers that slurp up our water and emit vast amounts of CO₂ and gigawatts of heat. Apparently THIS is a priority! Meanwhile, a total lunatic is in charge of the US nuclear arsenal, and he starts random wars with no plan, and there is zero indication that the military or courts or congress are inclined to stop him in any way. We have to pretend this is all fine to get through the day. One day I hope things will get better. And in the meantime, it is them that are wrong, and not you.
- If you keep shouting, reality will go away and you can live in the media's fantasy world in peace.
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FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe
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RFK Jr. launches plan to curb 'overprescribing' of psychiatric drugs
World
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Britain now down to five operational frigates.
HMS Iron Duke has been stripped of her weapons and sensors and has not been to sea since October 2024, with no formal decommissioning announcement made despite her effective removal from the fleet.
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Rice cooker leads to £260k payout to sacked university cleaner
A part-time cleaner has won more than £260,000 after an employment tribunal found she was unfairly dismissed by a university following a dispute over a rice cooker.
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Tokyo workers asked to swap suits for shorts to combat energy costs and heat
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For All the EU and USAID Machinations to Install It, Romanian Government Collapses.
Iran / Houthi
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Emergency brakes: How to limit temps long before last resort of geoengineering
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One of California's Ritziest Beach Towns Has a Problem: A Tsunami of Raw Sewage
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Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to 'raw sewage'
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Chaotic whale rescue shocks marine biologists
It was presented as a triumph. On Saturday morning, Timmy, the 12-meter-long humpback whale that lay stranded off Germany’s Baltic coast for more than a month, was released from a water-filled barge that had transported it to freedom in the Skagerrak, the strait between Denmark and Norway, capping a rescue operation that had captivated the public in Germany and around the world. A video showed Timmy spouting water from its blowhole, in what one German tabloid interpretated as a playful goodbye to its rescuers. But 2 days later, it’s unclear whether Timmy—called Hope by some—is still alive. The privately funded rescue team has fallen apart amid bitter recriminations, attempts to track the whale appear to have failed, and some scientists say the rescue traumatized the animal. A drone video of the whale on the day before its release, struggling and banging against the sides of the barge as the crew apparently tried to pull it out, has shocked researchers. “It’s very hard to watch,” says oceanographer Burkard Baschek, director of the Ocean Museum Germany. “The animal must have suffered greatly.”
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be part of a hidden problem
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Microplastics have been found to interact with the gut microbiome
