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Judge Orders Greg Abbott to Hand Over His Communications With Elon Musk (Michelle Del Rey/The Washington Sun) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
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Brilliant
"In 2027, the all-new Ford Fathom™ electric truck will be the first EV from a U.S. automaker with an MSRP below $30,000 that does not need a separate wall-mounted inverter to supply over a projected 10 kW of AC power to a home." #alwaysbecharging #battchat www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articl...
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The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...
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Mark MacCarthy of Georgetown University warns “the overexpansion of AI data centers is so large that the contraction is likely to have substantial macroeconomic consequences.” He says Congress should still act on ratepayers, safety, liability and AI misinformation.
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American workers' piece of the economic pie is shrinking. By one official measure, their slice is the smallest in almost 80 years. https://cnn.it/4yNqckO
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An edition of Cady Noland's 1989 sculpture Oozewald was stolen from Paula Cooper Gallery in 1995, and there is a dwindling 2.5 inch STACK OF WANTED POSTERS for it in her new Gagosian show. While I never regret not going to an art fair, I do wish I was in London rn greg.org/archive/2026...
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Anthropic is clear that data centers will run on gas, to the company’s own detriment. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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* HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH @bloomberg.com
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And yet, they're still... techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/s...
No rise in productivity due to AI, according to that great Luddite institute, Apollo Global Management. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
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A new peer-reviewed estimate of what data centres will pump out in climate pollution - Between 300 to 1,300 mtco2-e per year, by 2035 (IEA scenarios) Mckinsey scenarios: - 3,000 by 2035 - 30,000 by 2045 arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14421 limited.systems/articles/ai-...
“Zelfs de uitstoot volgens de conservatieve IAE-scenario’s met beperkte groei ligt in de orde van grootte van 1 GtCO₂e per jaar en is onaanvaardbaar in het licht van het wereldwijde koolstofbudget”, schrijft [professor Wim Vanderbauwhede] in zijn paper. 48hrs #Climate #AI gift link:
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That's over a quarter of the company's global workforce.
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The chief economist of Apollo, the asset management firm w/almost $900 million of assets: "Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech." www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
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I feel like the type of personality that trusts predictions markets as 'real info' and the type that trusts chatbot output are.....the same person Someone shallow and interested in the aesthetic of empiricism and grammar, not in the sweaty hard work of trying to be as right as possible about things
How pathetic. This pro-Bolsonaro Brazilian official relied on the Thiel-backed prediction market (Polymarket) to suggest that Flavio Bolsonaro had won his debate against President Lulu (who just defeated Bolsonaro in the election.) Because Polymarjet is “real” info. 🙄 1/ x.com/delegadorama...
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The Teamsters are fighting anti-union Amazon and the battleground is New York City streets.
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With 83% of the vote counted nationwide, Lula has stretched his lead to 2.8 million votes. That's a lead of 51.4% to 48.6%. That puts him on track for a victory that could be larger than his 1.8% win four years ago, which would be an immense comeback. He's even up in Minas Gervais now, by 0.6%.
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Rep. @chrisrabb.com , a socialist from Philadelphia, traveled down to Brasil to show solidarity with Brazilians as they faced massive election interference from Meta. “Brazilians need to see that Americans are not happy with the “bro-oligrachs" says Rabb.
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The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.
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I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account
hooooo boy we don't like this no we don't > If you don't speak English, you need to find a different community. We cannot distinguish between AI-written and AI-translated. Since you don't speak English, you can't even verify yourself if it translated correctly. www.reddit.com/r/opensource...
He was trying to do what new crimes now?
Decision time for Israel in Tuesday’s poll: ‘The right course of action for the Israeli economy is to preserve economic relations with our primary trading partners and to focus on preventing sanctions and their negative impact on the economy,” the central bank said.’ www.ft.com/content/39e4...
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SLOK: “.. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. .. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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New tonight from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...