https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/tesla-has-reportedly-been-using-bots-since-2013-to/424590 (from typing the headline into a search engine)

Zuck and Pinchai right now googling “Ursula von der Leyen inauguration fund”

Okay, there’s also this.

Elon today announced in a more concrete way that he will step back from DOGE, and more soon-ish than it was previously assumed, iirc.

Seriously, I was thinking about getting evaluated, and this gives me the chills. I will not be seeing an evaluation at this time.

A lot of people are probably going to make the same rational decision — which, of course, will make the number of issued diagnoses go down. These fuckers will most likely try to take that as evidence that their policies worked.

Well, shit. But at least there’s this:

It’s also far from clear that the tech industry will prove to be as hungry for fossil fuel power as some predict. First, advances in AI technology could drive energy consumption down. Concerns are emerging that the technology may not fully live up to the hype, at least from investors’ standpoints, with Alibaba Group chairman Joe Tsai telling a Hong Kong investment summit in March that data construction may have already reached “the beginning of some kind of bubble.” Plus, the Trump tariffs have injected extraordinary levels of uncertainty into global markets, leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.

Sicher, aber genau darum ist es eine gute Idee, auch zu wissen, wie die Hersteller von KI ticken und wohin die Reise noch so hingeht, wenn’s nach denen geht.

Ableist title.

Das Zitat ist von relativ weit drinnen im Artikel. Da ist der Kontext nicht Verbrenner-vs-Elektro, sondern ökologische Transformationsmaßnahmen die einen außerhalb der Arbeitszeit betreffen. Man denke an Wärmepumpen und sonstige Bauvorgaben, Tempolimits, “Klimakleber” etc. Habe jetzt im Post ein paar Absätze mehr zitiert, um den Kontext klarer werden zu lassen.

Nice! (Musste mich zurückhalten, direkt irgendwo “Was letzte preis ?” zu fragen.)

Wichtiger Einwand. Man müsste da auf jedenfall einiges berücksichtigen. Eventuell kann man die Ersatzteilverfügbarkeitsgarantien der Autohersteller der Form nach als Vorbild nehmen.

Klar, aber im Artikel stehen ohnehin eher seine 5 Millionen aus dem Blinkist-Verkauf im Fokus.

Rupert, Lachlan and their allies are trying to do that in the Nevada courts currently. But the first lawsuit ended with a judgement that upheld the rights of the three liberal children. He is now preparing to appeal that. However, if I remember correctly, the entire arrangement only applies if Rupert Murdoch dies before 2030 (or so), so if he lives longer than that, he may be able to arrange his legacy in whatever way he desires.

Ein Zwangsopensource-bei-EOL könnte ein interessantes Modell sein. Entweder verpflichtend, oder im Gegenzug für Anreize (bspw. geringere Besteuerung)

Control over Rupert Murdoch’s media empire will probably pass to four of his children, with equal voting rights for all of them. Only one of them (Lachlan) is as right-wing as he is. The other three are comparatively liberal, e.g. they consider man-made climate change a threat. Long-form story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/

People with your attitude are a significant reason why people decide against Linux. It’s doing Microsoft a service.

Good, but mainly because the opposition can now focus on the more heinous crimes of this administration.

You’re correct about Heidelberg – at least as far as socializing and learning together go. You may occasionally need to speak German when you’re shopping or what not. By extension, the experience should be similar (although not quite as pronounced) in most other university cities with a similarly high proportion of students and university alumni. Finding a place to live will be a challenge though, and rather expensive.

Guter Punkt. Vielleicht sollte man in Amerika auch die Botschaft senden: “Leute, ihr wisst, was im Gange ist. Mit einer Berufung auf Unkenntnis werdet ihr weder jetzt noch später durchkommen.”

What’s caste blind social security system?

I am thinking of a social security system (or welfare system, or redistribution scheme, or tax scheme) which does not take caste into consideration, but only factors such as income, wealth, parental income and wealth, illnesses and disabilities, …

In Europe and other Western countries, discontent about immigrants (and their descendants) is on the rise because people who struggle give them the blame for their own hardships, and a lot of politicians gain power by appealing to these sentiments, yet the policies that they then enact just make the rich richer and the poor even poorer.

Could something analogous be going on in India (with the lower castes in the place of immigrants), in that the ultra-rich people manage to avoid paying taxes commensurate to their wealth by making public policy debate focus on DEI or affirmative action programs?