When a group of his AI company’s investors sue to block the AI company’s purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.

Mercator Projection

Or

He’s surrounded by a bunch of people who play HoI for the wrong reasons.

With his drinking, he might just be Sterling without the plot armor.

They’re larping James Bond/Jason Bourne/Jack Ryan, they are the government, and they’re coming across as more Other Barry/Len Trexler (post Ludovico technique)/Nikolai Jakov.

‘After [current guy], our turn’, while a nice sentiment to avoid giving up entirely, does not have enough historical evidence to support it as a strategy.

If you’re planing to ‘invest’ your lunch money and get returns big enough to pay for the lunch too, you don’t have a plan, you have a gambling addiction.

But we’ve made every payment on that debt since we started borrowing. If lenders can’t count on those debt payments, they lose some faith in the currency that undergirds the world economy.

This is quite bad, regardless of where you live.

Future borrowing, both public and private, becomes more expensive (higher risk demands higher returns). This is bad if you live in the US.

People involved in international trade start questioning if the USD is really what they want as the reserve currency (the Dollar is the go between for all other currencies, so if you’re in Europe trading with Japan, you exchange euros for dollars for yen, which while a bit cumbersome, is wonderfully predictable) and what they might want to use instead (euros? renminbi? rubles? The chaotic world of direct exchanges of currencies?). This is bad if the country you live in imports goods that you need or exports goods that other people need.

Then, to borrow a phrase popularized by one of the names they’re probably highlighting with a Sharpie, lock them up.

If missing $400 million would have them shut down, what’s that $14 billion endowment for? Show? It accrued 11.5% last year. That’s three times what Trump was threatening to not give them

It’s about the same number of incidents (plane crashes, death agnostic), it’s just that a week into the new admin, one of them had the most deaths since the autopilot that aims for the ground crashed those planes in 2019.

But since the other side is willing to just outright lie, it’s not exactly a high crime not to highlight that technically it’s the same number of crashes.

The optics the recently indicted (and later hastily pardoned) mayor being one of the guys perp walking the sympathetic suspect probably didn’t help them either.

You want to know why there are Germans? Seems like we should be asking you that question, Quintili Vare.

Too late. I already jumped ship because of Copilot’s “Recall”, and I’m not interested in going through a round of partitioning the hard drive and installing a new OS so soon.

Oh, that’s a good one.

The way all these companies have ditched gay rights really clarifies how much of an empty gesture the month of rainbow banners was (and how much of an empty gesture this probably is). But I think I liked it better when they did an empty gesture in support of gay rights rather than against them

“They” is the car manufacturers. And yes, they were promised by Apartheid Willy Wonka.

And they fell for it. Partly because this happened back in like, 2010, when tech still felt promising and fun and partly (mostly?) because they wanted to.

Ehh, they were promised that full self driving was only a few years away. If that had been the case, touchscreens would be perfectly fine. But a decade of “only two more years, we swear” later, it’s time for the manufacturers to get back to work on AM instead of FM.

If he had just never started posting, he’d have such a better life.

What’s the matter with this hypothetical place?

Biological AI?