Some details in this film were "borrowed," it seems, from what I wrote in my book about "Rocky," a retired Delta Force attack dog. In real life, though, the dog used its titanium teeth to eat human flesh and its handler, Billy Lavigne, moonlighted as a hitman for a Mexican cartel
The LA election discourse is a good reminder that Democrats are overly process focused and build well intentioned systems that move far too slowly, whereas Republicans are really stupid.
Don Draper drunkenly leaving work at noon and wandering into a Magic the Gathering tourney in a cafe, lighting a cigarette and whispering to some guy in shorts asking what’s happening.
On this day in 1944 Amon Carter presented FDR with the deed to the land that would become Big Bend National Park. Famously FDR had nothing else going on June 6, 1944, which you can tell from his extremely relaxed demeanor
The last place candidate in the LA mayoral race is a professional Roblox YouTuber who opened his campaign by making sure everyone knows he opposes Roblox’s age verification requirements
a critical moment for us media. this is exactly what happened in turkey with erdogans initial rise to power. regime loyalists bought up all the private media outlets.
Claudia Sheinbaum has approval ratings of between 70 and 80%, thanks to her progressive policies which have lifted over 8 million people out of poverty.
So of course the @NYTimes finds some reason to attack her.
They hate her because she shows what can be done.
🦔Google signed a deal to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs at SpaceX data centers. The contract runs October 2026 through June 2029, roughly $30 billion total. Google called it bridge capacity for surging Gemini Enterprise demand. SpaceX signed a similar deal with Anthropic last month, $1.25 billion a month through 2029 for all the compute at its Colossus 1 facility in Memphis.
Both contracts include 90-day cancellation clauses after December 2026. SpaceX goes public Thursday.
My Take
Google has more AI compute than anyone on earth and they still had to go to SpaceX for 110,000 GPUs. Their own buildout can't keep up with demand for Gemini Enterprise. They've committed $180 billion in capex this year and sold $80 billion in stock to fund more of it. And they still came up short.
This is the second deal like this in a month. Anthropic already signed for $1.25 billion a month at Colossus 1. Together those two deals put about $26 billion a year on SpaceX's books, right before an IPO where Goldman needs to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation on $322 billion in projected AI revenue. xAI built those data centers for Grok and lost $6.4 billion last year. So now Google and Anthropic pay rent on the hardware Grok couldn't use, and that rent is the AI revenue story SpaceX takes public on Thursday. I've tried to find where this stops being circular and I can't.
Hedgie🤗
@BartAndrews If the Nordic countries spun off their public insurer into a private entity and then changed their health insurance taxes into compulsory premiums that have to be paid to this private entity, would that reduce their taxes?
@BartAndrews Suppose the US spun off Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to a nonprofit corporation called Welfare Corp. It eliminated all of those taxes but created new laws mandating people pay money to the Welfare Corp equal to what tax would have been. Have US taxes been massively cut?