“Before we begin, we acknowledge the indigenous peoples whose ancestral lands this data center occupies.” … now, please explain to me why y’all think they guys are the ones that are going to AGI into existence.
Let’s just take a moment to enjoy the demise of an irredeemably stupid product. Fresh off of his bruising defeat in the midterm elections, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the carmaker is winding down production of one of his most beloved pet projects, the Cybertruck. https://futurism.com/future-society/tesla-winding-down-cybertruck-production It’s hard to overstate how perfect an avatar…
“No more Mr Nice Guy unless you’re nice to people.”
One of most mentally disturbed tech CEOs Alex Karp is first cab off the ranks: Alex Karp, CEO of US spy-tech company Palantir, used this week’s historic US midterm election results to claim an unlikely mantle for a military software supplier: pioneer of an antiwar movement. https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/04/palantir-ceo-says-its-pioneering-an-antiwar-movement-while-happily-accepting-defense-dollars/5307605 Silicon Valley CEOs, just like tech VCs, are…
MAGA got curb-stomped last night. As Churchill was reputed to say: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.” Enjoy the win… you so so deserved it. Blue Texas… so so pretty. The real work now comes – MAGA was a symptom of something far more…
Mr Seymour is an extremist and an ideologue. Now National is facing the blow back for supporting him and his ilk.
Facebook is hosting a large number of accounts dedicated to AI-generated content depicting coaches inappropriately touching young female athletes — and Meta isn’t taking them down, even when they’re directly reported by users. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facebook-ai-coaches-inappropriately-touching-young-athletes “Because everyone uses it” is not an excuse. Pedos use it. Do the mahi to move your communities off. The longer…
After a very heated argument yesterday about Musk’s BS about space data centers I thought I’d note this down for future reference. Putting a data center in space is a dumb as putting it in a thermos. This doesn’t even cover things like the importance of node interconnect latency… but that’s more college level compsci.
So Tesla stopped paying for referrals that require selling a car, and started paying for the ones that move the number in Musk’s pay package. We think that tells you a lot about where the company’s priorities are right now. https://electrek.co/2026/10/30/tesla-referral-program-fsd-car-rewards-dropped/
The vision-only case always rested on a tidy idea: humans drive with two eyes, so cameras and enough AI should do the job. But humans crash in fog and glare too, and the promise was always to be far safer than humans, not just as good. https://electrek.co/2026/10/29/ex-tesla-autopilot-head-vision-only-weird-religious-stance/
The most important consequence of the agricultural revolution was not that farming became more efficient. It was that most people were liberated from the necessity of farming, allowing entirely new kinds of economic and cultural life to emerge. Likewise, the most important consequence of the AI revolution may not be that intelligence production becomes more…
Cal Newport does a good job of covering why Silicon Valley is broken…