The state of Yankland in one photograph: View quoted note →

Spoiler: "Most people who saw the clip probably did not watch the rest of the episode, which is a shame, because later in the conversation Zuckerberg said something that matters a great deal more for anyone trying to understand the AI buildout than his reaction to an Irish stout. "At some point the GPUs will be fully depreciated, but we're probably still going to be using them for a while, because the value of even an H100 at this point is higher than it was last year... compute continues being constrained." In other words, the CEO of a company running one of the largest fleets of Nvidia chips in the world said on camera that a used H100 has gone up in value over the past year, and he said it almost as an aside while making a separate point about why Meta owns its own data centers." View quoted note →

Lovely weekend yall 😃 View quoted note →

Oh, Canada. 🙄 View quoted note →

British innit View quoted note →

Very interesting. "A new Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory model finds that heating plasma first and compressing it second could sharply cut the energy needed to reach fusion ignition. Tungsten at just one part in 10,000 could double the pressure ignition requires, a red flag for the dozen-plus next-gen machines built with tungsten walls. The findings are theoretical, but a liquid lithium coating could keep tungsten out of the plasma as AI-era money keeps pouring into fusion." View quoted note →

Btw, all you huUUuman account users out here ought to enable proof-of-work for posting and reposting notes as a way to clearly differentiate yourself from spambots. 20 bit POW difficulty in Amethyst is essentially unnoticable, 24 and 28 are noticeably slower, but tolerable since your client just posts the note in the background. #pow #amethyst

She lasted a mere four days. View quoted note →

So, they're banning Netflix? View quoted note →

All the data on web connected systems everywhere is getting nicked because the systems are full of security holes that are left open due to incompetence of the operators or due to the programmers never finding their own bugs. Prepare for some wild fishing times ahead in any case. NEVER BLINDLY TRUST NO EFFING ONE. View quoted note →

THE UNHOLY MEAT OBELISK View quoted note →

Yeah... 🤤 View quoted note →

Coreweave data centres knew that the business was bubbling, thus they bailed while there was still cash to grab. View quoted note →

If you or your family use Windows, be aware: View quoted note →

New York will self immolate soon. View quoted note →

Seemingly everything in Yankland is in a state of disrepair. View quoted note →

I will never knowingly install a piece of Microshoveware on my Linux systems, lest they become smitten by the unholiness. View quoted note →

So... even if that hypothetical $5,000 bribe does materialise in the event of a Republican midterm win*¸ in effect each voter (or rather, household...) will only receive a net $3,000, though in reality a figure even lower as the war still drags on and likely will for the foreseeable future ( since bc 🍊 guy thinks it's a "small price to pay"), Americans would see closer to zero than 5000 USD when the dust eventually settles. Why? Because, apart from that the war expense meter is still running, that the current US military adventurism in the Gulf is indebting your country, and the interest rate on that debt is currently rising. (Kevin Warsh who took over the FED Chair after Jerome Powell at the behest of 🍊 guy, has so far declined Trump's insistence on lowering the guidance rate, he has done quite the opposite in fact 😅) The interest payments on the debt accrued now looks like it will be accumulating forever, insofar as you may be aware, the US is not paying off it's federal debt, it is accumulating fresh debt at a record pace. This will most likely end in a hyperinflation scenario for the US, which 🍊 guy also implied in a response to the press last week. ('That debt will be inflated away quickly' -DJT). America will come to an end by way of monetary debasement, because there is currently no plan to pay off that debt, and there is indeed no WILL to pay off that debt. But, in the frantic years leading up to the coming hyperinflationary event, you will all become impoverished by last-minute desparate moves to right the listing ship with higher taxes and reduced welfare spending. #us #politics #econ (*) Win, defined *how exactly*? *Please Zap ⚡ me if you found this post informative. Thank you.* View quoted note →

The EU has finally found its balls. Intresting times ahead, indeed... View quoted note →

Unless you have an extremely good reason to be on anything Meta, *YOU DO NOT NEED TO SPEND TIME ON A SOCIAL MEDIUM WHICH PURPOSEFULLY INDUCES ANXIETY IN ITS USERS* . You are literally consenting to being tracked in your every move and click on that infernal site. You are merely feeding an addiction. Everyone else are there too because they are addicted to scrolling and synthetic feedback. Escape! View quoted note →