Alain Falardeau

[Dina Sayegh Doll @askDinaDoll]

NEWS. Instead of capitulating to Trump, BBC is demanding that Trump turn over his phone records and schedule as part of its defense against his $10 billion lawsuit. @MeidasTouch

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

"I want to drive housing prices up" is a hell of a sales pitch for November — and a direct quote from Trump today.

How many times and how many ways can he confess he wants to make America unlivable for almost everyone except his billionaire backers?

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

Lonely divorced man thinks he knows what makes women happy

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Angus: Kristi Noem's horrific human rights abuses as head of Homeland Security raises serious questions about why NovaRed Mining brought her on as the face of their BC exploration venture. Kristi Noem represents a clear threat to Canada's security and our economic independence.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This video of the “Great American State Fair” has been going viral

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are facing a new federal antitrust lawsuit in the US that accuses them of working together to keep DRAM production artificially low, leading to higher RAM prices.

The lawsuit claims the companies limited supply while demand continued to grow.
According to the complaint, this allowed memory prices to rise much faster creating a “RAMpocalypse.”

The lawsuit seeks class-action status and asks for damages on behalf of businesses and consumers who allegedly paid inflated prices for products containing DRAM memory.

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Who would have thought?

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un informe de la Universidad de Cambridge indicó que los centros de datos de Inteligencia Artificial generan un efecto de isla de calor, elevando la temperatura superficial del suelo en 2°C, detectable hasta 10 km a la redonda, con picos extremos de hasta 9,1°C.

El impacto medioambiental de los centros de datos para Inteligencia Artificial podría afectar a más de 340 millones de personas en el corto plazo.

Mientras las multinacionales contaminan masivamente y sin límites, a los trabajadores le dicen que se aprieten el cinturón y les prohíben ir al trabajo en su coche diésel en ciudad.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Sure

[GamersNexus @GamersNexus]

I mean yeah, that's literally just how business works though. If a taxi company in New York City buys a car, it's probably using it constantly. If you buy a car for normal commuting reasons, it sits for more than half the day. The difference is the taxi company isn't actively scheming to figure out how to convert all car drivers into taxi users while depriving them of supply (although maybe you could say eventually something else of a company like Uber or Waymo or something). It isn't revolutionary that the goal of a business is to have its expensive equipment constantly generating money. It's not unique to GPUs or data centers.

If I buy a paint roller to paint the walls of my house, it's going to sit on a shelf for possibly a decade before I use it again. A painting company will use the paint roller all day. But that doesn't mean we should come up with a new metric, like cost per effective gallon-hour of paint or whatever. It's not that complex. Businesses try to use their GPUs to generate money. Consumers use their GPUs to play video games to have fun and escape our fucked reality.

[China in English @En_chinaNewsX]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Peter Doocy claims "people are still coming out" to Trump's 250th fair -- even as the camera shot shows clearly behind him that almost nobody is there 😆

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

"Danielle Smith, she's no David Cameron. She's a lot more like Nigel Farage. She has pandered and built her political career working to the interests of the extremists and the separatists."

Charlie Angus points to several red flags and lessons from Brexit as Alberta prepares for its upcoming referendum.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Vassy: *reads Donald Trump's statements about Canada* If someone spoke to the US that way, would you be advocating for deeper integration?

Hoekstra: We wouldn't go to our largest trading partner and say there's a rupture.

(Trump literally ragequit trade talks over an ad)

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Ford admitted it had to rehire engineers after replacing them with AI systems that couldn't do the job. The company's VP of hardware engineering said they mistakenly believed AI and adjusted design requirements would produce a high-quality product. Ford has cut over 5,000 workers since 2020 and recalled more cars than any other US automaker this year. The company rehired, newly hired, or promoted 350 experienced engineers to fix the damage. CEO Jim Farley has said AI will replace half of all white-collar workers in the US.

My Take
Ford fired the engineers, the quality collapsed, and then Ford called the engineers back to fix what broke and train the AI that was supposed to replace them. The VP framed this as a lesson learned. I'd call it something else. Ford planned to use its own employees to build the system that would make them obsolete. The employees left before that could happen.

Ford now has the top spot in JD Power's quality ranking for the first time in nearly 20 years, but only after it brought the humans back. The company's response to the whole episode is to add 100,000 more AI-powered tests. Farley still says AI will replace half of white-collar workers. Ford just proved it can't replace 350 engineers without the product falling apart, and the CEO's position hasn't changed. That's the part I can't get past.

Hedgie🤗

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

@ryanvisconti Christianity was used to justify slavery for hundreds of years. Then it was used to justify segregation. Now it is used to justify bigotry against anyone who isn't a white "born again" true-blooded evangelical.

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

What the BBC did. They played clips of Trump out of chronological order. He complained. They apologised. That should have been it. But he sued them for $10 billion.

So the BBC is going to fully litigate all of Trump's actions surrounding the attack on the Capitol.

Excellent.