Cyberpunk Dystopia Review

AI’s race for US energy butts up against bitcoin mining

Ukraine drones set oil depot ablaze in Russia’s Rostov, attack distant Kirov region

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Starlink emerges as fresh battleground between Musk, Brazil

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Tensions between Brazil and Elon Musk’s business empire ratcheted up further as the country’s telecoms regulator threatened to sanction his satellite broadband company Starlink hours after its top court stood behind a controversial decision to ban social network X from the country.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also backed the top court’s Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ decision to suspend X. The judge found that X allowed postings of hate messages and falsehoods about the country’s electronic voting system that undermined Brazil’s democracy.

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Just like having everyone have real names only has prevented all bad actors on social media sites.

Biggest stumbling block here isn’t availability of GPUs (like the article suggests), but rather, trying to define what “good behavior” is.

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Trump's New Crypto Project Is a Type Linked to Organized Crime and Terrorism

Microsoft Secretly Selling AI to Fossil Fuel Companies While Bragging About Environmental Progress

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It will be renamed the Crane Clean Energy Center

if you ignore all that pesky radioactive waste . . .

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…safe, reliable, carbon-free electricity…

Referring to nuclear energy as “carbon-free” is like referring to candy which is 99% corn syrup as “fat free.”

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