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OMG, what torture: supper-club blind dates, retreats, & excursions with Free Press readers. I'd rather be marooned on a germ-filled cruise ship.
Bari Weiss: Think For Yourself, Not By Yourself
https://www.thefp.com/p/free-press-community-launch
Australia Sues 3M for $1.4 Billion Over Defense Site PFAS
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/australia-sues-3m-for-1-4-billion-over-pfas-at-defense-sites?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@n_dimension I believe you are confusing -- or consciously conflating -- understanding with ability.
By crude example, one can readily understand θ=cos−1(A/H), without having the ability to calculate it in one's head.
Thanks for the explanation.
My current #vibecoding project uses JavaScript.
My skill in JavaScript is precisely 0.
My ability is 0.
But my understanding is sufficient to design and implement a working system.
Daily train service in Canada. For clarity, the operative word here is DAILY. The lines exist but there is no longer a daily service.
(via Threads user: @uptheroader)
https://www.threads.com/@uptheroader/post/DLqj7iNygSZ
@infobeautiful Sure would be nice if we didn't septopple down on oil and LNG in the middle of an oil and LNG shortage
Unnamed TNG skant beefcake
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The AI Bubble: disturbing post on the leveraged financing of the AI infrastructure buildout from No One's Happy, a new anonymously-authored blog https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble/
This is how the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue
There is no conceivable way to break even for the AI industry—let alone to repay an investment that requires $2Tn a year from now to the end of the decade. That's about 3% of the entire planetary GNP. Just to break even.
my crystal ball sees data centres pivoting to crypto after being bought up cheap post collapse, with cheap power and water part of the steal.
@evan It has to be taken on a case-by-case basis. There would almost certainly be a financial price to pay, but if the cultural motivation is strong enough, it might be worth it.
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
They did, from day one. They serve the TESCREAL elite that want to deskill everyone, get us all addicted to the sychopanthic ego stroking machines, so that they'll own everything, and would generously let us rent our lives. It's not a mistake they pumped trillions of dollars into these companies.
...but that's likely not what the article says1, nor the comments2. But we ain't here to read slop, are we?
@simonzerafa No, it'll burst sooner than that. Once SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI have IPO'd the big hypemongers will take their loot and run away, very fast, leaving the shareholders holding the bag.
Back in '99-00, the dot com bust followed a wave of IPOs as founders cashed out …
I honestly thought the bubble would pop January or February this year.
Last December there was finally reporting in the financial rags digging into AI corp financials and revenues. Anyone with half a brain and a spreadsheet (for example, me) would very quickly come to the conclusion the capex *would never pay off* because they couldn't charge enough for the services.
And some did! Michael Burry and Ed Zitron, for example. But the rest of them just kept investing…
USA being a #worldcup cohost country wasn't the smartest idea to begin with. But we're weeks away and that orangetan keeps scaring tourists, from all countries.
Now even the national teams are debating whether to hold base on US soil and just fly from Canada/México when required.
Your country is literally treated like we're flying into a warzone.
Alex Akselrod
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Russia’s FSB head claims Finland and Estonia are violating border agreements. He alleges Finland has built unauthorized barriers and Estonia is deviating from water boundary protocols in Lake Peipus and the Narva River.
@elebertus @da_667 NetBEUI was great - it broadcast just about every packet, so it couldn’t be routed
Man accidentally brought $40m in gold bars home from work. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-cia-official-gold-bars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l1A.MBmZ.kIxBVy-OWqEF&smid=nytcore-ios-share A commercial 400-oz gold bar is $1m, so that’s 10,000 pounds of gold in that closet.
@carlmalamud We've all probably brought home the occasional ballpoint, the spare pad of note paper, the odd gold bar. But this seems a little over the top.
Russia’s FSB head claims Finland and Estonia are violating border agreements. He alleges Finland has built unauthorized barriers and Estonia is deviating from water boundary protocols in Lake Peipus and the Narva River.
Mike Masnick
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Every accusation is a rationalization. Trump & his allies were investigated for actual crimes, therefore it’s OK for Trump’s DO”J” to indict his enemies list for imaginary crimes.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post/3mmuqqtjvos2f
"Scan to Prove You're a Sucker", it should say 😕
Hisham
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The new CEO of Wikipedia worked at J.P. Morgan and Lehman Brothers. The Wikimedia Foundation has now fired the a longtime lead developer and disbanded the team whose job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. Sign the petition if you've edited Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity
