Thursday, May 29, 2025

No one understands and explains the Age of the Business Idiot better than Ed Zitron

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Zitron is one of the essential critics of the AI bubble. He is the essential critic of the business and finance side of the story which is ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Well, you have to admit, he can make things disappear.

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BREAKING: Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after an internal investigation found evidence of potentially bogus sales and the company re...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Trump, the Court and the Calculation: They will do anything for love, but they won't do that.

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When I try to guess how Republicans—excluding True Believers and those who have left the party on principle—will react to Donald Trump, I al...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day Repost

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A good day for a recommendation There is, of course, no such thing as the military perspective -- no single person can speak for all th...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Any excuse to post this video

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The dirty little secret of the generative AI bubble is that no one has come up with a business model that justifies a fraction of a fraction...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

When they really want to tell a story...

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Honestly it’s malpractice [image or embed] — Kai Ryssdal ( @kairyssdal.bsky.social ) May 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM I'm going to have to be ...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Humanoid robots are the blockchain of 2025

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There are numerous reasons why a company will jump on a hype bubble. It tends to be good PR and projects an impression of forward thinking. ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Coming to a vineyard near you...

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When you get away from the humanoid personal robot bullshit, the real research is really cool. Evan Ackerman writing for IEEE Spectrum :  Th...
Monday, May 19, 2025

It's almost as if, bear with me here, it's more cost efficient to reduce the amount of carbon you're putting into the atmosphere than it is to try to capture it after the fact.

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I keep being drawn toward the idea of using biochar to simultaneously dispose of forest waste in the West while also creating a carbon sink....
Friday, May 16, 2025

Criticism vs. Reviews vs. Meta-Reviews vs. Non-reviews

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As part of our ongoing thread on critics and reviewers, here are a couple of relevant and enjoyable videos from Bob Chipman. The first is a ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

More on humanoid robots -- who ya gonna believe?

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According to Elon Musk (whose fortune now largely rests on the perceived earnings potential of robots and AI), humanoid robots that can imme...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Possible Papal Posts

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      Anti-papal Catholics I've been talking about this for years now, and I was sure that I had written numerous posts on the subject, ...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

“How come I can’t breathe at home and y’all get to breathe at home?”

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Ariel Wittenberg writing for Politico .  MEMPHIS, Tennessee — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollutio...
Monday, May 12, 2025

A leftist filmmaker is interviewed in a leftist magazine about his recent pro-nuclear documentary

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Another one that got somehow left behind in the queue.  I'm not going to go into the merits of the arguments or of the film itself, othe...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

How can we say that Flow is a bad idea if Andreessen Horowitz invested a third of a billion dollars in it?

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“Here’s my idea for a new business.” “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. The business model is crap. The potential market is tiny. ...