"Said another way, up to 74 cents of every dollar a billionaire donates would otherwise be paid in taxes."
What's in it for the billionaire? Every dollar they *don't* donate, they pay 74 cents in tax and keep 26 cents for themselves, so they're better off paying the taxes.

"Oracle will "buy $40 billion of NVIDIA chips for it," which would work out to 400,000 GB200 GPUs."

$100,000 per chip?

Brian Thompson would still be alive if they gave him more than 5 minutes of morphine at Cedar Sinai :'( xox

@ketanjoshi.co @emigtz.bsky.social is Michaux captured by the fossil industry? He's been a guest on Nate Hagens' podcast, and he wouldn't be the first guest I've had issues with.

I'm torn between not wanting to be a doomer, but seeing Ecomodernism as magical thinking.

Woof. My leftie brain sees "taxes" and "donations" as basically the same thing - broadest shoulders, and all that.

I'm happy for the state to deal with distributing my taxes, and feel like in an ideal world, charity wouldn't be necessary. Dark to think of ppl happily transferring it to the right!

I'm still confused. In the no-donation scenario, a total of $40K would leave your bank

In the donation scenario, a total of $100K would leave your bank.

Is the appeal the ability to give more money to the far right (and not the exchequer), not saving money per se?

in Disconnect you say
"[Microsoft] now has more than 5GW of installed server capacity, which is more than Hong Kong or Portugal’s annual energy consumption"
It's only equal to Portugal's consumption (4.8GW*h*) if they run those servers at full tilt 24/7 (24*365.25*5GW = 4.38GWh)