U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Priority Processing for API Customers This offering is available to Enterprise customers. Please contact our sales team⁠⁠ to learn more. Priority processing offers reliable, high-speed performance with the flexibility to pay-as-you-go. By choosing Priority processing, you can unlock: Predictably low latency: Priority processing generates tokens faster and at a more consistent speed than the Standard processing service, even during peak demand. Easy-to-use flexibility: Like Standard processing, Priority processing can be accessed on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis instead of requiring advance provisioning.

Priority Processing for API Customers Priority processing offers reliable, high-speed performance with the flexibility to pay-as-you-go. By choosing Priority processing, you can unlock: Predictably low latency: Priority processing generates tokens faster and at a more consistent speed than the Standard processing service, even during peak demand. Easy-to-use flexibility: Like Standard processing, Priority processing can be accessed on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis instead of requiring advance provisioning.

Hey, remember when I wrote about OpenAI jacking up prices by adding priority processing? And how it was just for the enterprise? Well as of today (or around today), priority processing is now for everyone. The throttling begins!

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www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/

Same. And completely agree

100% this. Leverage had swung too far towards the employee class. Pendulum *had* to swing back, hard.

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration

Flagrant extortion. Where is this money going?

Companies must realize there are no deals with 🍊💩. He’ll just come back for more. When the economics don’t work anymore, he’ll just take the company.

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government

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Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

Would be good if they followed traffic laws. Cars must too and if either don’t there should be fines.

E-bike riders almost always blow through red lights and regularly ride on sidewalks but sure, let them do it at 45mph

Just Texas? That’s a John Roberts special

Missouri runs on money injected from other states, but even more insidious, my state sucks all of the money out of our two metros, and then tries to delete their representation through gerrymandering.

Republicans can’t govern. They don’t even try. They are bums. Mooches. Lazy, second-rate scabs.

No pretense of maintaining the integrity and independence of DOJ & FBI. That’s all gone now. Trump has his private police force.

Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta

The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.

This is what every handshake with Putin endorses.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms. How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS: PragerU, a nonprofit organization that specializes in creating right-leaning educational short videos for adults and children. . It may already be in countless classrooms. www.vox.com/today-explai...

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

The lack of differentiation between trusted and untrusted state and input is endlessly devilish in trying to secure this technology. It completely violates all security paradigms we've tried to enforce for coming on half a century

The "Christian-Right" is neither "Christian" nor "Right" At the risk of losing all my followers and subscribers, I am going to let you know that I’m a Christian.

there are plenty of good and decent Christians out there.

you just won't see them on Fox News or working for this administration.

kellyscaletta.substack.com/p/the-christ...

Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

Men with big accounts get Vewwy Angery at me for noting that MAGA is a war of men against women, for which Trump has built a coalition of men across race, class & religion.

Anyhoo a Cabinet official supports the idea of disenfranchising the majority of Americans (women).
apnews.com/article/wome...

No Quorum, No Surrender: Texas Dems HOLD THE LINE! The Texas GOP is spiraling—and trying to appear dangerous.

We need to share stories of courage in the face of authoritarian threats.

GO TEXAS DEMS!!

Pass it on.

Trump threatened to arrest us.

Abbott threatened to remove us from office.

Paxton threatened to “hunt” us down.

Yesterday, we received a bomb threat.

But we will not back down.

UC says Trump demand for $1-billion fine would 'completely devastate' university system The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding at UCLA.

university presidents think they're cutting deals to restore their funding. i get their pressures. but this is what's happening: ramping up the extortion, creating homogeneous zones of government-directed curricula, shutting down campus speech.

I think the most ambitious Democrats are warming up to the idea, because after Trump is no longer in the White House, whenever that day comes, there must be a long period of purging in order to rid a government of, by and for the people of the stink of Trumpism.

The U.S. government is run by Stephen Miller, Laura Loomer, and whatever rando Fox puts on TV when Trump is watching

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

Please read this excellent, point by point refutation of the claim that there was a "Russia hoax"
From @noupside.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...

Five minutes after Maria Bartiromo covered Tom Cotton's criticism of Intel's CEO's "potential ties to communist China," President Trump called for the CEO's removal.

Left, Fox Business, 7:34 a.m.
Right, Trump, 7:39 a.m.

40% is still too high for the Roberts court, pathetic partisan hacks that they are.

If Dems ever get in power again they need to completely demolish scotus. Defund until number expanded and term limits added.

There’s only one type of American who still trusts the Supreme Court A new poll shows public support for the Supreme Court at its lowest point ever.

Public support for the Supreme Court at its lowest point ever www.vox.com/scotus/42259...

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing.

“I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”