This sounds like the VC money is running out

Nah. It sounds like they’re in the dump phase of the pump-and-dump.

And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works.

But Uber still isn’t any more expensive than contemporary taxi rides (which were already exorbitant thanks to municipal cartelization and bad urban planning). These AI services aren’t a problem as a function of cost (OpenAI and Anthropic are still both giant pits of burning cash) they’re a problem as a function of… function. Like, every agent still needs a professional babysitter or three. The tech debt these features generate often outstrip their real business value. And the tail risks are enormous.

I hail an Uber, I get in the vehicle, I ride to my destination, I pay the fee. That’s no different than a taxi service in any meaningful sense save the interface.

I install an AI agent, I issue a command, <???>, uh… profit? Apparently I can now cancel my Sales Force subscription because now I’ve got eighteen thousand automagically generated Power BI reports blowing up my email using info from databases that got organically spun up on my Amazon account to do god even knows what? Hooray! Optimized!

100k East Asian tech workers, sure.

AI = Actually Indonesian

What we lack in quality we’ll make up in quantity, I’m sure.

Israel serves a vital US interest. It operates as an enormous money laundering operation, turning billions of dollars in “aid” into campaign donations for the next election cycle. Then it helps justify the next genocide of Arab and Persian peoples in a region rich with cheaply extract-able petrochemicals.

To quote America’s Greatest President

I think Americans believe we should be treating Russian oligarchs with the same casual murderous disdain as Venezuelan fishermen. Like, the war-brain of English-speaking human can only look at a situation and conclude “we’re not killing enough people”.

Easier to bring the pedos to Dubai than Dubai to the pedos at this point.

American gas turbine manufacturer Mitsubishi Power Aero

A sales representative from MWM, the European arm of U.S.-based gas generator manufacturer Caterpillar

Langley Holdings was the only UK-based gas manufacturer mentioned.

But who is going to build the gas turbines? (Americans 😇)

Who is going to build the solar panels / windmills? (China 👹 )

They do and that’s kinda the point.

• Convince Europeans that data centers are a requirement for social stability in the 21st century.
• Install a bunch of gas powered centers on European territory.
• Build supply chain from the gas-rich Permian Basin to Europe.
• Profit.

Not unlike how the US has made it a policy to export gas-powered automobiles and trucks globally for the last 80 years. This all becomes leverage to extend the influence and profitability of the O&G sector.

Oil prices hitting a localized maximum, so no surprise Dubai wants to move more of it more quickly. Also, the war has wrecked hell on their tourism economy, so they’re probably staring down some ugly long-term financial projections.

Amazed the rest of OPEC didn’t simply loosen production standards in response to the war. Now seems like as good a time as any.

The market can remain irrational far longer than the economy can remain solvent.

I dunno how the Japanese and Koreans will do

They’re equally freaked out, as they’ve been lashed to the same Wall Street piloted sinking ship as the rest of the US periphery. If you check out the politics in Japan and Korea over the last fifteen years, its been on a reactionary bent of increasing domestic militarization amid a continuous “Why aren’t our naturally superior native peoples making more babies?!” eugenics freak-out.

You can throw in The Philippines, Taiwan, India, and Australia while you’re at it. None of these countries seem to have a serious long term plan for their economic futures. Everything revolves around “containment” of the Chinese super-economy, even as individual plutocrats demand carve outs for their own supply lines and revenue streams.

Okay, but have you considered that the Chinese Communist Party is ontologically evil? And therefore any amount of business (direct retail sale to consumers that sidesteps US rent-seekers) is in support of a genocidal regime of highly corrupt madmen who want to destroy liberty and justice across the entire planet?

We need to STOP CHINA NOW before they take over the damned world and ruin everything sweet and honest and pure that our glorious nation has created.

A system’s purpose is what it does.

This system appears to be functioning exactly as intended.

Oh ho ho. You thought they were just racist against Muslims?

Well, buckle up, buckaroos.

Probably (my guess) with the AI set to “if you lose connection, try to hit any humans in this area”

What could go wrong there?

Which one of these two do we think is going to run out first?

Setting aside that this is largely wartime propaganda horseshit - both militaries are relying on conscripts and mercenaries, both are heavily invested in cheap long-range drone artillery, both are saturated in “Victory is just around the corner” propaganda which has degraded support for their civilian leadership - Russia has 5x the population of Ukraine. If this really is just a Bodies-In-Spaces conflict, the Russians can drown Ukraine in their own blood over a long enough timeline. Ukrainians still need someone to fire those bombs and bullets, ideally before Kiev looks like Tehran.

But then nobody is “winning” this war in a material sense. Putin is shedding what political allies he has as the war drags on - Romania, Hungary, Turkiye, Syria. Zelensky is fully fucked the next time Ukrainians bother to have a domestic vote. Both of their economies have tanked, with further economic pressures coming from the conflict with Iran and the climate change threat.

The issue isn’t whether one runs out first. It’s how long the political leadership can drag this forward before someone pops them and brokers a settlement that ends the bleeding. Netanyahu is in a similar position in Israel, with endless war being the only excuse he has to stay in office. And domestic revolt might be what brings all these governments down long before the actual wars are ended.

If the worst thing they do to each other in the next few years is to exchange leaflets and trash balloons, I’d call that a win

Theoretically. But if Ukraine won’t negotiate without full return of territory (presumably even including Crimea, which is fully outside their political influence) and Russia won’t cede territory they’ve entrenched…

Feels like a North/South Korea situation is the best case scenario. They stop fighting but never really declare a peace.

I’m not entirely clear how you add Ukraine in the middle of a war, particularly when a chunk of the country isn’t even under their control. If EU states wanted to openly war with Russia, they’d have just done it already. Admitting Ukraine mostly means opening the doors to a massive migrant wave, which nobody else in the EU (particularly neighboring Poland) seems to want.

Of course, sending them €90bn in Russian assets so the Ukrainian government can liquidate it and send it right back to EU arms dealers? That’s a no-brainer.