This headline caught my attention, since I’m always going to be very interested in anything to do with x.ai:
At first blush, it makes sense, because they’re powering it with diesel generators, which are famously dirty.
(more…)Reporting vs. Reality
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Reality Bytes
Here’s an eye-opening illustration of where Meta revenue comes from: virtually nothing (relatively speaking) from reality labs (stuff like the Meta glasses) and virtually everything from deliberately addictive stuff like Instagram.
Is It My Charting Videos?
ZH in a Nutshell
If a website can be a hero, Zerohedge used to be mind. When they started, they were basically a giant version of Slope. They despised the Fed. They considered Goldman Sachs to be a vampire squid. And they figured the stock market was doomed.
Some years back, for reasons I do not know, they flipped 180. These days, the essence of ZH is:
- They worship, and I do mean worship, Trump;
- They parrot everything Goldman Sachs says every single day;
- Unless the market is in a free fall, they are virulent permabulls;
- Their comments section is basically a hybrid of the Ku Klux Klan and the NRA.
It’s a real shame. I used to think they were the greatest, but now I consider them swill.
