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What’s worse is that President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho hired literally the smartest man on the planet to fix their crop problem.

So in a way, he was a more effective president than Trump. He was smart enough to know he wasn’t the smartest person in the room.

What we have now is, in a way, worse than idiocracy: we have kakistocracy.

The French students form of protest has already yielded concessions.

Some of us truly are.

It’s what the shareholders crave!

I agree, and it can’t be right - is this based on “projected utilization” or something?

My thinking is there wouldn’t be downward pricing pressure on data center compute if utilization was actually this high - it would mean providers could jack up prices and walk with larger margins rather than burn money for acquisition, right?

Plus the market wouldn’t increase the price of borrowed money if utilization was that high; they’d see the same signal. But the cost to borrow money for datacenters has roughly doubled year on year (might just be for riskier ventures? Buildings? Is this aggregate?) - those two signals wouldn’t disagree, it’s nonsensical (I mean, right?)

Edit: it’s just “the buildings”, and it makes sense: maximal utility comes from installing compute in a building already setup to house compute (cooling, infra, power). I actually take this as a negative signal: we’re seeing downward pricing pressure already, AND new projects aren’t fully booked, AND money is now twice as expensive. Somebody’s going to lose their shirt unless OpenAI’s Omnissiah comes online and converts us all.

We could create an open-source SETI@HOME but for training open source models?

Nah my bad, I should have considered that as a possible interpretation and I failed to. Have an excellent day!

You’d have to be very naive to think the “thing” they were pushing was the “recognition and honor of the indigenous people” and NOT the $4500 music production retreat.

They’re already starting state level charges against some of them. There’s definitely accountability coming.

Hopefully the midterms results in massive investigations of Trump and everyone in his orbit, but if we get “we all need to come together” faux-centrism I wouldn’t be surprised.

We need to fully destroy the notion the DOJ isn’t independent, and make a number of changes that bring us back to having a modern country.

Some of us want to nationalize these companies. What we’re not going to allow is landed gentry to profit for generations from stealing all the content they could scrape.

The lies Americans tell themselves to support their own exploitation will always amaze me.

"Fractally stupid" is a hilarious descriptor, as is "dam that's made out of failure modes".

No we use robots. It's 2026?

"Can you imagine trying to build a factory in the state with the most factory output?" - Yes, I can imagine that just fine?