@TMTLongShort The big question I have is why do I as an American need to run Deepseek V4 to be able to afford token costs for my side projects. K-shaped AI access leads us all to a K-shaped future we do not want.
@adamcarolla The media are a group of old-guard billionaires who hire and fire "correspondents" based on whether they carry the message. To secure their positions of power/money, they need to destroy the power centers that challenge them, notably the public and non-aligned billionaires.
Walmart, Circle K, and other low-cost gas providers simultaneously collude to raise prices overall while offering gas at the lowest end of the price range to consumers.
A new lawsuit shows major gas stations are using AI to drive up prices and coordinate price fixing
‘They're using an AI tool called Kalibrate to adjust prices based on confidential data. The lawsuit claims this has increased gas prices by as much as $0.30 a gallon’ in California
This is a proposed class-action lawsuit. Companies operating over 1,700 stations in the state, including:
BP
Circle K
7-Eleven
Walmart
Marathon Petroleum
Albertsons (and others/EG America/Cumberland Farms)
Kalibrate is also named as a defendant
I looked into this and it’s wild
The systems are using machine learning and algorithms to increase prices due to things like traffic patterns, time of day, competitor moves, weather, events and more
The system is being fed confidential, real-time data including their own costs, sales volumes, inventory, and historical pricing and then finds a way to take all this information and maximize profits
You already know this is going to be used in all kinds of industries to squeeze us for everything we have
@ctindale Awesome. How far are they from global roll-out, and what are the challenges? What is the production cost of electricity per kWh? If it's in the 2-3 cent range, that changes the world forever.
@levelsio This is the WEF plan. Poor powerless people are much easier to control and therefore the WEF-aligned remain in control without competition for their business interests. Mass uncontrolled migration is a great way to achieve this.
@adamtaggart The Europeans at the World Cup can't say anything political or they risk getting thrown in jail. Nonetheless, they are communicating loudly and clearly. The path of the WEF elites with its mass migration is poverty and tyranny. We should be very grateful in the US.
@StephenM The question I have is why Rs in Congress are reticent to pass the SAVE act??? It's common sense with 85% of voters of all parties supporting it. For those who don't live in DC, we need an explanation. And quick. Looks like we're not the land of the free with such degenerate rot
@adamtaggart@libsoftiktok@ArlingtonISD Because Soros and the Globalists specifically attacked the education departments of the US. Easy to manipulate with sufficient funding. Soros would have made the cost/benefit analysis decades ago.
@TMTLongShort We need direction on the whats and hows of this happening. I've been looking into acquiring robotics parts for my own projects. Robotics needs to fragment and commoditize to drive down margins. A good robot arm for manufacturing is ~$20k. Needs to be a fraction of that.