But what will be left after it bursts? At least in cause of the housing bubble - the houses existed physically - what will be after the AI crash? Lots of spare gear sold for cheap?

lack of transparency kills everything. especially when the government already has hostile reputation towards its citizens. which is weird because it is way easier to get reelected when you actually do something that makes life of your people easier and more self-sustainable. but that’s probably a bit too much to ask.

meanwhile on reddit the very same premise leads to Epstein files or something.

therefore - fuck all’em

it was fairly on the nose and I thought everyone will have a laugh about it. I was wrong

tough shit, me too. i guess we’re friends now.

Just try Star Trek.

Remember that weird ass stream of WWE 13 that used AI players and generative programming for everything else?

Narcissism is scary and ridiculous thing. I actually know a guy who desperately wants to get a Nobel Literary Prize because “he deserves it!”. Except no one rightfully gives a fuck. He’s an old timer who ended up migrating to US after WW2 with a whole can of worms and then some regarding his national identity. Depending on his mood he’s either Ukrainian or American, I’d say he’s 100% narcissist who is all about clout. Dude never made it as a writer and gained notoriety in Ukraine due to his outsider status first and yet he’s so vain it is kinda morbidly funny - like he insists he’s the most experimental Ukrainian writer (even though he disregards every other writer as primitive and retarded) or that he did this or that first (like who gives a fuck?). But even with all these “accomplishments” he struggles to publish anything in Ukraine because wants publishers to cover the expenses and give him “the bag” for their trouble and when he fails at that he blames it on “Ukrainian people being ungrateful”.

what baffles me is how blatant the big tech behaves. it is comically Bond villainesque. even big oil and pharma don’t act like that - at least they try to play-pretend they’re good guys (albeit everyone sees through their bullshit)

why go that far - how about the environmental impact of shelling the area with all sorts of munitions? Pretty much the entirety of russian-occupied territory since 2022 is rendered into a literal dead moonscape and even decades later (if this shit ever ends) a good chunk of that land will remain a red zone filled with all sorts of bad things.

In the end of the day the only thing that matters is how a bunch of old guys feel about the way that thing makes them look

that’s not how it works

I saw a custom smartphone used by the military - no idea what’s inside but it looked like a regular one with giant battery and with some different OS. It also had a kill switch button (or so I was told).

I don’t think arrogance is the right strategy to deal with economic bubbles. With that said, I fully support Amazon’s arrogance in the face of AI Bubble because they have it coming.

15 or so years ago our local historical library had a code breaking challenge - it had all sorts of classic ciphers including that the polyalphabetic substitution one similar to Enigma’s. And the texts themselves were mostly your mama jokes in Yoda speak (because the librarians are assholes) and I can’t describe the deflating feeling of spending a good couple of hours or so to decrypt YO MAMA SO FAT.

If that’s ain’t gaming system then I don’t what is

An easy solution to make renewable energy more acceptable by political and economic elites is to physically demolished the other energy infrastructure so that they will be left with no choice but to pivot towards renewables instead of big clumsy easy to hit power stations. Works like a charm but there’s a catch.

A colleague of mine had a habit of dousing espressos upon having anxiety episodes. Naturally, she ended up having a cardiac episode (not an attack but something similar) a couple of years later and now she doesn’t like any form of coffee

If it is just ID but on the phone then it is a sensible idea with a couple of millions precautions to take care of. Case in point - Diia is fine if flawed realization of Digital ID and digital governance application. You just need to get through a dozen or so data leaks because we got our pentesting permanently outsourced to guys up east but aside from that - it is broadly fine.