even in some hypothetical ultra protective work situation where you can’t experience negative material repercussions, you would still be assigned to a non public facing role and very carefully instructed on how to act in it. the institution would still necessarily make you feel bad for it

damn now that’s what i call a data source

no one can get any factory construction or electrical work done for this supposed reshoring industry thing we’re supposed to be doing with all the resources going to this. it’d be one thing if we weren’t doing the tariffs at the same time but we’re just crushing consumers into slurp juice for apegpt

i think insofar as anyone who knows anything has a thesis it’s largely a matter of trying to force shorts to close positions with aggressive leveraged etf and call buying, and pocketing the gains from that when they exit at a loss

go to p/e of 400

whether things actually work out depends on unknowns about the future of the technology. but democratic legitimacy demands that states appear to be doing sane things about the obvious macro effects and studying the more granular and technical aspects

like, in china they have the disturbing digital companion stuff too, but the government demands that new dc construction hits renewable energy targets and that genai content is labeled or otherwise indicated, and that has a lot to do with why people assume things will work out in the end

right, anything that can be affordably run locally is not going away. managing expectations is going to be a challenge for mobilizing the issue politically, because some of the annoying stuff can’t be uninvented. but social media regulation in general requires attention, and resources are a constant

no one is going to do butlerian jihad but the social prestige of tech is gone and an easy to understand answer for how to regulate the harms and focus on the useful aspects (against the protests of the ceos and investors) will do numbers

making the power bills and construction costs go up to flood social media with ragebait videos and porn and empower scammers seems like one of the easiest issues ever to raise in america

the awe of the final sequence of r1 hit great at the time but after andor and on rewatch i see it and feel, this force wizardry stuff, these superweapons, are all a paper tiger. it’s the people who are strong

i feel like for her the zionism is almost incidental; in my impression what’s going on is she has a secular anti-haskalah interpretation of her identity that is interacting with the turn among american pmc towards what people were calling postliberal successor ideology a few years ago

she’s communicating very clearly, she just has a worldview that is deeply incompatible with american liberalism or western universalism generally

all this information is already out there. what’s sustaining it is people disagree about whether ai revenues will ever appear (i don’t think so, but there are real believers). what’s unclear is how much of the valuation is due to agreement versus structural financial flows into us equities

what if traditional artifacts of the arbitrary process of turning territories into states two hundred years ago didn’t weigh on the political calculations of americans forever with obnoxious implications

total merger of gambling, investment, statistical forecasts, by end of decade. don’t even want to think about the interaction with the merger of search, llms, and the creation of consensus reality

saying it to the saudi investment forum: also p funny

man loved replying to emails

hate when the federal statistical system is permanently damaged