Mere hours after the American annexation of Venezuela, Trump has stated that the US will be strongly involved in oil extraction there - and will run the country, apparently?
How surprising! Nobody could've seen this coming.
Congratulations to Exxon and Chevron shareholders - you get Venezuelan oil at a discount now. But please don't blow this up into a regional crisis.
We really do have enough problems as-is.
Happy New Year from "America's backyard" 🎉
Whatever the US does in Venezuela, we'll be left to deal with the inevitable refugee crisis in Brazil. We'll help everyone we can, but we're not a rich country.
Under Maduro's awful regime, this already happened. But with an active war, it'll be worse.
Got into Battlefield 6, but whatever they're doing with Frostbite causes my screen to go black for 10 seconds every 2-3 mintues. Weird and unplayable :/
Whole bunch of people on AM5 about to remember how annoying it is to configure the BIOS here.
I tweak Secure Boot once and now my computer no longer computes.
> be me
> Larry Ellison
> own a database empire, a sailboat, and a disdain for poor people
> OpenAI wants to build AGI
> needs compute
> *a lot* of compute
> like “$300B GPU cluster in a volcano” levels of compute
> "Hello. I own Oracle Cloud. Also, I’m rich."
> sign $300B GPU hosting deal with OpenAI
> nothing ships. no GPUs installed. no fans spinning.
> Oracle stock: skyrockets to the moon
> my net worth: +$100B
> GPUs? still imaginary
> OpenAI raises a $1 TRILLION round
> yes, with a T
> investors lining up like it's a Taylor Swift concert
> I invest
> where’d I get the money?
> from the $300B deal *I signed with them*
> yes.
> OpenAI takes my $300B investment
> uses it to pay *me*
> for the GPU deal *I offered them*
> Oracle stock: skyrockets again
> I make another $100B
> invest it back into OpenAI
> round and round we go
> I pay me to pay me to invest in me to boost me to get paid by me
> call it a "strategic whatever"
> call it “AI innovation”
> call it what it is:
> infinite money glitch
> mfw i built a recursive economy where i am the only customer and vendor
> mfw GPUs are optional
> mfw capitalism is just a well-placed loop with exit liquidity
It's so weird how Minecraft has been a part of my daily life for 13 years now. And for the last 5, my daily, 9-to-5 work. Yet nobody at Mojang has any idea I even exist. And I'm not alone in this.
What an amazing game. Truly limitless and timeless.
He is the creator of linux, the open source operating system which powers 96% of all servers on the planet.
To facilitate the development of linux, he created a side project called git. Today, git is the most used version control software in the world.
What an absolute legend🫡
@ChShersh If you make a free service awful enough, any paid service can be made to seem like a good value in comparison. But, in truth, it’s just an awful free service.