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jackofalltrades@mas.to

<p>I&#39;m here to learn about the world and work through my climate grief.</p><p>I post about politics, climate change, economics, philosophy, being a father, programming, games, and more.</p>

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    &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot; Because the company is making so little money at the moment, it is absolutely dependent on capital raises to survive. The company, for example, highlights $125.2 billion in upcoming lease payments for Broadcom over the next 5 years, which excludes interest, an obligation alone that is six times the company&amp;#39;s revenue, and it&amp;#39;s just a fraction of the total upcoming obligations. So, if there&amp;#39;s any slowdown in revenue growth or any drying up of...

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    &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot; On the earnings call, executives admitted that Google&amp;#39;s Gemini-powered AI mode search queries make less money, at least right now, than traditional search. Google search users are actually spending more time with AI mode, but that isn&amp;#39;t converting to revenue for search in the way that it used to pre-AI mode. And this is the argument that Google executives were making, which is, yes, we&amp;#39;ve lit the search business on fire because of AI mode, b...

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    &amp;quot;&amp;quot;&amp;quot; The question looking ahead is whether, even as models become commoditized, mainstream corporate America can turn increasingly cheap intelligence into higher revenue growth and higher profit margins. That may be harder than it sounds. AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgment. Judgment depends on context, and the answer varies with which human or which model you ask. Perhaps most importantly, AI does not understand accountability...

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    Another day another purge. https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/30/china-ruling-party-says-eliminated-dangers-after-expelling-record-33-top-officials/ #China

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    &quot;&quot;&quot; The European Union has unveiled proposals that would slow cuts to businesses&#39; greenhouse gas emissions limits, as part of a major climate policy overhaul. &quot;We are adopting a more business-friendly and, may I say so, savvy approach,&quot; said EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra. Responding to the proposals, Polish climate minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska said Poland would push to weaken the policy further. &quot;&quot;&quot; https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgv0...

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    Our house is on fire, and here we are frantically running around trying to figure out how to make throwing buckets of water profitable. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #capitalism #neoliberalism

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    Fairphone 3 is being retired. 😢 https://www.fairphone.com/stories/celebrating-seven-years-of-the-fairphone-3 Not sure what to do once August rolls around. Install LineageOS on it? #fairphone #lineageos