"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Apple are again behaving in a dodgy manner with Apple Intelligence.
Again full screen prompted to enable it on latest security update on iPhone.. the only other option is “Set up later”, and they disabled screenshots of the prompt.
This is the kind of shit Microsoft pull to try to make Bing happen. It’s really disappointing"
"@jpaskaruk@growers.social
I've been paying Google for 100GB storage for quite a while. Just got notification of this year's pending charge and cancelled the sub. Now purging the large collection of frivolity I have amassed on their hard drives, downloading most folders as zips just in case but it's mostly just junk like mp3s I wanted to share or whatever.
Divest from Silicon Valley now!"
Lei: "Despite record-breaking financing in Hong Kong and the announcement of ultra-fast charging technology, China’s leading EV maker is likely to follow the same trajectory as [China's Evergrand], due to its 'high debt, high turnover, and high leverage' growth model. In China, BYD faces mounting quality concerns. [Here] are [the] hidden risks threatening its future:
- Lack of technological innovation
- Hidden debt
- A fragile supply chain"
Battery-electric tech suffers from diminishing returns. Faster charging brings in more complexity and degrades the battery faster. You can't beat physics. Electric tech can never beat the speed of energy transfer via physical molecules.
March 13: Fast supercharger! (shares go up). March 20: Earnings report! (shares fall). #BYD
Morningstar: "BYD's Shares Drop After 2024 Earnings Results"
Allowing massive concentration of wealth is like allowing people to yell out "fire" in a crowded theather... These are both examples of self-reinforcing feedback loops. Panic can build on itself and spread like wildfire dwarfing everything else, same thing can happen with massive wealth concentration, it will build on itself, grow and grow, eventually taking all assets from the middle class and even from the government itself. At the end, every one except the top will end up poor.
"Hard Truths" he says... the title of his book. It reads like the B-movie screenplay.
MW, in his book, calls US not responding "properly" to Russia as "[a] feckless response to Russia’s taking of Crimea" in 2009. Should US have gone to war with Russia over Crimea? I don't think this guy gets it. Your oligarchs were running Ukraine, ultra-nationalist you sponsored were provoking Russians in the East... And you complain about Crimea?
Wiki: "[Mike Waltz] served in the Bush administration as a defense policy director in the Pentagon and as counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney"
Breaking Defense: "'It is Russia that has the initiative in the war,' Swedish defense minister Pål Jonson stated"
Antiwar.com: "The US launched dozens more airstrikes on Yemen on Sunday as the Houthis claimed more attacks on US warships and fired another missile at Israel... The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have shown no sign of backing down in the face of the US bombing campaign, which began on March 15. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree reaffirmed Sunday that Yemeni military operations will continue until 'the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted'"
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