This is heartbreaking.
Women's alcohol deaths are increasing - my daughter died alone after fighting for decades.
What do we do to create pain and suffering?
Is it insecurity, anxiety, industry profits, lifestyle, advertising, lack of support?
All avoidable.
Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro.
It's a loss for Trump.
For Musk.
For Milei.
For Netanyahu.
For Farage.
For Meta and Zuckerberg.
For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters.
And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face "death and consolidation" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)
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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management)
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Greta Thunberg comes out to support Lula "If Bolsonaro wins, it will be a disaster for the entire planet... Latin America is not for sale. The eyes of the world are on you Brazil, we are counting on you."
The protests have spread to Serbia.
That is
Spain
France
Italy
Albania
Greece
Turkey
India
Indonesia
all protesting at the same time.
It's time to force the billionaires out of power.
UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you get universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance.
Court order not needed. You won't be told, can't appeal.
Same won't apply to enablers of illicit financial flows.
No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.
The TV will tell you violence is evil.
But demand you cheer every illegal invasion.
Ignore Genocide.
They will tell you this violence is good, ESSENTIAL.
The only violence they don't like, which they are scared of is yours.
The French trashed the McDonalds, looted the Apple Store and Luis Vuitton's hand bags.
All run by global billionaires.
But they left the French Chicken shop untouched.
More record breaking crowds in Brazil for Lula today.
Tonight at 8pm (11pm UK) the final debate between Lula and Bolsonaro is held.
Bolsonaro will get embarrassed.
And in exactly 1 week the final vote.
Vote Lula.
Protest are also taking place in Milan, Italy. As people there are crushed by the enormous 'costs of living' which are just huge profits for billionaires.
In this week's Better Offline monologue, I talk about how Anthropic’s big Q3 revenues underwhelmed an already-nervous market, and how the more of the real numbers we learn about AI, the worse things seem to get.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...linktr.ee/betteroffline
Pele is a fast, beautiful, open source renderer for Mermaid diagrams we created for the next version of Obsidian.
You can already try it in the Pele playground and integrate it into your own apps! 🌋
pele.run
This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax.
- 100-500× faster than mermaid.js
- 6× smaller bundle
- No dependencies
- Easy to theme
- Responsive to device width
- Open source (MIT)
Try it at pele.run
Here's how Capitalism works.
Netflix made a record profit this year, $426,000 per employee.
So they fired 1/15th of their workforce who helped make that profit.
To make even more.
The system needs to be destroyed.
Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax, which is a Green Party Policy, with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%.
That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.
The French Police are fighting the Firefighters now, who have joined in the protests.
These thugs need to be careful they are outnumbered 50 to 1 and if the people actually fight back they are...
Baisés
As the French call it.
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium.
People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
Surprised more people aren’t alarmed about the financial condition of Oracle.
Revenue flat for 15 years adjusted for inflation, only real growth engine is unprofitable AI data centers, future entirely tied to OpenAI and the most ambitious infra projects in history. It’s dying!
Tools in our SadServers stack that we love:
- @tailscale.com : simple VPN
- @sentry.io : application alerts, metrics and logs (especially vs datadog pricing)
- @plausible.io: awesome Open Source Google Analytics alternative
- Sqlite3: fast database in a file simplifies a lot of things
Four users so far have been able to solve the super-hard "Cadiz" SadServers scenario. Not for the faint of heart; here's the comment of one of those special users:
love.sadservers.com/t/5d5b11fc-d...
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Our hardest #Linux scenario yet, expecting very few people to solve it (AI agent couldn't after millions of tokens). Thinking of giving out a prize for defusing the bomb 💣 : sadservers.com/scenario/cadiz
Free newsletter: The AI bubble bears remarkable similarities to the great financial crisis - AI startups are the NINJA borrowers, and Anthropic and OpenAI's $1.3tn in compute commitments are the adjustable-rate mortgages set to explode starting in 2027.
www.wheresyoured.at/concentration-risk/
New #kubernetes SadServers scenario "Kyoto" . Investigate and troubleshoot why a recent change is making an API fail, and fix it.
sadservers.com/scenario/kyoto
Docker healthchecks can be confusing, we explore them in this new SadServers scenario "Spa": The Docker Compose healthcheck that does not heal
sadservers.com/scenario/spa
Here's this week's Better Offline monologue - I run through how 80% of Anthropic and OpenAI’s enterprise revenues come from the top 1% of its customers, and how the entire AI bubble is a series of concentration risks supported by VC and debt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9sF...linktr.ee/betteroffline
Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers.
Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself.
Textbook corporate greed.
Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about my piece about what happens if OpenAI dies, and how the signs are there that the collapse has already begun.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=53fs...
(maybe naive) GitHub outages seem to come from load and they have a built-in agent (Copilot) that easily writes a lot of code and Actions tests. Possible mitigation is making Copilot work less by 1) making it more expensive 2) capping its use and 3) tweaking it to be less verbose