@edzitron.com - I forget, is this in line with your estimates of their quarterly losses?

Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss : Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised

The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Riga is the Capital of Latvia; Tallinn, Estonia's; Vilnius the capital of Lithuania, next Eastern European countries on Putin's expansion dreams through brute force, with the blessings of the Trump admin. and the help of another dictator, Aleksandr Lukashenko.
Trump is a danger to the world.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of you all supporting us with your time, resources, and energy.

Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities.

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BREAKING.

From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

YouTube video by Netflix LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS VOLUME 4 | Official Teaser | Netflix

Oh, hey, will you look at this.

youtu.be/fnvke44Rps4

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with your allies, and that’s fighting without them.”

—Victor Hugo

We’re entering the “worse” phase.

Where the heck was this level of spiciness before he was elected, huh, @usatoday.com?

Tweet from Rob Wiblin that reads, "Seen on Slack." Below it is a dark gray text box with white text that says, "Perhaps Trump meant liberation in a Buddhist sense – Liberation from my material possessions."

As a Buddhist I reject this interpretation.

They spent a decade screaming that they will not be silenced, yet now all the free speech warriors are CHOOSING to be quiet. Interesting.

Screenshot of a Signal message from Pete Hegseth: "More to follow (per timeline) / We are currently clean on OPSEC / Godspeed to our Warriors."

"we are currently clean on OPSEC", you write to the group chat with the journalist

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

Great @npr.org article on the vital work that our friends at the @archive.org are doing to preserve online history against political attacks.

Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

Circling back on this…

Currently watching a Trump-supporter (in denial) trying to explain in a cryptography/privacy forum, how the whole Jeffrey Goldberg/Hegseth/Signal debacle couldn't possibly be real and how we should trust government officials more than journalists.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I feel like I am going to regret asking this, but could anyone explain to a grizzled old 30+ year-old software developer what "vibe-coding" is?

Lawd have mercy

A screenshot of an X post by Olga Diem (@OlgaDiem ) posted 4 hours ago on March 7, 2025, with Ukrainian and U.S. flag emojis. The post contains a political cartoon titled "Topple the dominos," depicting a row of dominoes labeled from bottom to top as "Tesla," "Elon," "Trump," "Republicans," and "Russians." The Tesla domino is shown being pushed over by a crowd of small figures holding signs that say "FUCK TRUMP," "FUCK ELON," and "FUCK NAZIS," symbolizing a chain reaction leading to the fall of the subsequent dominos.

Everyone together now!

What is happening is shocking, in a way. But if anyone is not surprised, it’s tech reporters who saw, over the past decade, what these people were becoming. Musk’s behavior is emblematic of tech’s most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms. They denigrate media, science, activism, and culture, and spend their time bellyaching about the “woke-mind virus” and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Those programs, despite their occasional annoyances, were directionally correct. As I often point out, the opposite of woke is asleep; the opposite of DEI is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion. That’s just the way an increasing number of techies want it and, with Trump and Musk at the wheel, the goal toward which they are now reengineering our country.

Kara Swisher is a cretinous, deceitful tech booster attempting to rewrite history, pretending that she didn't deliberately elevate tech executives like Elon Musk right up until the last minute. A truly grotesque figure

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Said another way: Most people are stupid, but are also exactly self-aware enough to be ashamed at their stupidity and seek out 'smart reasons' to mask the stupid beliefs that drive them.

Fundamentally, the world divides into THINKERS or BELIEVERS. Thinkers are superior, Believers more numerous.

Rapidly coming to the conclusion that the most effective way to protest everything going on in US politics is to redouble my efforts to consume as little as possible, and convince everyone I know to do the same, thus weakening US economic leverage for these idiotic acts.

Huh... I wonder where all the "free speech absolutists" are in response to this?

#Truth

I THOUGHT I WAS EXAGGERATING

SoftBank is contributing $30bn to OpenAI's funding round, they're also committing $3bn in revenue a year to OpenAI, also they're contributing $18bn to Stargate, which is now the only way that OpenAI can expand their operations. SoftBank is getting $16bn loans and only has $32bn TOTAL CASH!

yeah the question is more about why so many people don't seem to realize it despite most of us calling it out years ago