At least on bluesky people are actually *angry* at perceived fascism. A special horror comes from making an *obviously* outrageous comment in jest and receiving a bunch of "how do you do, fellow Nazi?" responses.

Crypto was pitched to investors as "digital gold" but when there is real uncertainty precious metals skyrocket instead.

This was also a point he made in his Davos speech.

Basically the fires are rarer, but extinguishing them is hard. Interesting read on the topic: www.evfiresafe.com/risks-ev-fires

At this point it is best to assume we're all some kind of bot.

Man, if you thought that was bad, don't go look at the YT comments trying to argue that windmills run on fossil fuels because moving machines need lubricant.

It is sad that a solar roof doesn't work out because of the installation costs. The intrinsic cost is the technology plus the land, and your roof is basically free land. Maybe prices will come down if retrofitting becomes more common.

OK but Anthropic does LLM stuff. Military AI is mostly automated image recognition/classification. Why does the Pentagon need a chatbot?

This is recession downsizing. "AI" is a smokescreen.

I feel quite certain that Trump did not watch the speech and received some filtered/exaggerated version indirectly. His comments at Davos don't make sense otherwise. My guess is that Carney refuted the imaginary speech in Trump's dementia-addled brain.

I don't believe Trump watched the speech.

People seem to forget that the price of minerals is equal to the cost of extraction. Why would a mining company choose Greenland over Ontario, which is sitting on the same rocks?