Musk is slowly arriving at the horrifying realization that actions have consequences.
When I was a kid there was a cartoon called Captain Planet.
The bad guys would build these factories that didn't seem to produce anything but pollution. Like, they would take in trees and sea creatures or whatever, and the only thing that would come out is smog and green water. It was very on-the-nose.
Bitcoin is a pollution factory.
The fact that Luigi has not been convicted seems to be being treated as an irrelevant technicality by the media in this matter. Interesting given how scrupulous they usually are in dropping "alleged" everywhere.
Next time they pick a patsy for a guy with distinctive eyebrows they should find a guy with the same eyebrows.
Saw an interview with a guy (on Bloomberg actually) who explained that "ability to pay" and "willingness to pay" are two different things and that the pricing system doesn't target people who have a lot of money ("ability to pay") but rather people who have fewer options.
Like, if the app knows that you don't have a car and this is the only grocery store you can walk to, you will pay a higher price.
I shop at Jewel (which is currently under threat of being taken over by Kroger) and they're now doing this thing where there will be, for instance, peaches, under a huge sign showing an incredible deal. Then you look at it and realize that the price isn't discounted at all unless you install a "Jewel App" and use it to "claim" a "digital coupon."
I mean yeah I don't think Chinese companies are going to have crowdstrike installed given that it's essentially a rootkit controlled by an American company. It'd be like American companies installing Kaspersky or Xuexi Qiangguo.
There was a time when America could reliably produce assassins who could kill both presidential candidates and even sitting presidents. What the he'll happened? Deindustralization? Too much porn and video games?
"You know what would be totally sick? What if we made our building's roof into a matrix of inverted metal parabolas?"
In 2004 I was a radical young man protesting for bikes and against the Iraq War. At one of the meetups another kid who had been at the RNC protest in New York showed us this software someone had hacked together overnight to broadcast SMS messages. Basically you could send an SMS to a VOIP phone number and it would echo the SMS to everyone subscribed. They were using it to communicate in the crowd at the protest and avoid police kettles. It was pretty cool but I admit I didn't really see it as being more broadly useful.
Later that night the group went for drinks and I was talking with one of the older radicals and he was telling me that the internet was too good and too powerful and they were going to shut it down. I thought that was absurd. How could they get rid of the internet!? He said they would figure out a way to shut it down, there's just no way they could leave it out there, it's too dangerous for them to do so.
Now I look at the thing we call "the internet" in 2023 and it looks nothing like that internet. The current internet is completely corralled, controlled and monetized. He was totally right. While they never "flipped the switch" on it they used salami tactics little by little until there was nothing left.
Ok but stay with me. Maybe the bombing was so good it blew up all the radiation?