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Putting Armageddon on Autopilot: How Artificial Intelligence Could Make Nuclear Threats More Effective
Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons. Arms control agreements painstakingly built over decades have collapsed. Geopolitical competition is
Amazing.
All he had to do was create it without all the hideous tatts and without ear gauges...trim and NORMAL...and men will SPEND MONEY on the fantasy.
You'd think young women would notice...but, noooo...they're Woked.
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Corporate America has suddenly decided to stop blowing money on AI
Companies across the country are coming around to a radical idea with the potential to upend the industry powering the global economy: They don’t have to blow their budgets on AI.Fed up with ballooning costs, companies big and small are starting to use lower-priced models, including some built in China. In many cases, they are adding the new, cheaper models alongside OpenAI and Anthropic’s products, shopping a la carte for their artificial intelligence.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...wing-money-on-ai/ar-AA28DBlh?ocid=socialshare
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The AI bubble is far worse than I thought...
Nvidia is reportedly on the hook for $5 T worth of circular financing loans for its customers
Keep in mind, at the height of this bubble $NVDA's fiscal 2026 earnings is only $120 B
2000 bubble on steroids
The math ain't mathing....
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Your Peco bill could increase because of new hyperscale AI data centers. Here's how.
If you give a computer a task, it’s going to need electricity to perform it. The more difficult the problem, the more resources it requires. This is at the heart of the fight against the data centers behind AI – often an incredibly complex and power-hungry process.You might think that tech giants that build and use data centers would cover 100% of the costs. However, the knock-on repercussions of this heavy power drain could impact the amount you owe on your Peco bill. Let us explain.
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Pecos Bill was a cowboy raised by coyotes and rode a mountain lion.
I'm not sure how he is connected with data centers, though.
Sounds like the name of a power company.
Apparently Peco is the name of a utility company in Pennslyvania.
....and Bill is the guy they send to their customers to tells 'em how much they owe Peco.
I had to look it up.
yous ain't gonna get the answer from searcher
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It's an electric / gas bill people in my part of the state get.
My bill for June was 161.83 =
- electric 109.67
- gas 52.16
My new bill is about 30.00 higher. Probably due to the A/C. It was pretty hot here during that time period.
You can check out some sample bills here:
Come winter my bills will get higher due to gas. Heater, hot water heater, stove are all natural gas. I like the house warm in winter and I use the oven a lot.
Depending on the thread, I may post something in it, then split until I have something else to post in that particular thread. Case here.
good observation, but Orwell wasn't the only SF writer that 'documented' this decline.
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AI and the Risks of Tearing Down an Old System
Operation Epic Fury made clear that AI is now at the heart of American warfighting. Central Command used Claude through Palantir’s Maven Smart System
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AI Companies Are Buying—And Destroying—Antique Books. Here’s Why.
Aug 18, 2026 Forbes Topline
Authors, archivists, historians and bibliophiles have launched an online war against tech giants and artificial intelligence developers after an increasing mountain of evidence shows they’re buying rare and antique books en masse and feeding them to large language models—only to slice off their spines and destroy the original print copies in the process.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroel...
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Aug 18, 2026 Forbes Topline
Authors, archivists, historians and bibliophiles have launched an online war against tech giants and artificial intelligence developers after an increasing mountain of evidence shows they’re buying rare and antique books en masse and feeding them to large language models—only to slice off their spines and destroy the original print copies in the process.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroel...
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There an alert if someone responds to your post. You don't click it to go see what someone responded with?
ICE doesn't have anything to do with that. All they are doing is trying to enforce the laws that have been on the books for decades, and that no one ever used to complain about them doing.
Saw that too and was gonna post it, but you beat me to it.
Imo, it's kinda f'ed up for them to be doing that. Especially when most books are already in digital format. There's no real need for them to destroy actual books to do that.