Ed Carlevale
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Exposing Israel First network at MIT (2004-2026)
I won’t be surprised if we later find out Flock paid a bunch of “influencers” for these posts.
Look I think I've figured this whole thing out. Follow along as I try to steelman, and tell me where I'm wrong. OpenAI guys on the TL believe that if they can't sell metered inference tokens at a sufficient markup, then they will not have enough of a business to fund the next big training run. They are surely correct about this. They believe that if people release powerful open models, this will probably fatally impact their ability to sell inference tokens at enough of a markup to fund the next big training run. They are surely correct about this, too. They also think that if they cannot fund the next big training run (again, by selling inference tokens at a markup), then NOBODY will be able to fund the next big training run because it means there's no money in it. This last bit seems to me & many others to be not just wrong, but totally bananas in a "guy, have seen the actual software industry and how it works in real life?!" kind of way. There are a lot of ways to monetize software out there in the world. Insofar as inference can add new capabilities to software, there will be lots of ways to monetize it. In other words, if you're telling me, "we can't have a business selling inference if X or Y thing keeps happening," then my only response is, "ok well that sucks for you... sounds like that's a terrible business." But if you're telling me that "selling metered inference tokens is a terrible business" is tantamount to "nobody will fund big training runs that are upstream of more effective & economically valuable inference tokens", then I think you are extremely wrong and should get out more and learn about other parts of the software ecosystem. Workplace automation is huge and will be even bigger in the future as models get better. You can sell workplace automation very profitably in lots of different packages (depending on the workplace and the type of automation). Like, I'm sorry that you really really want to be in the metered inference token business and not the workplace automation business, but them's the breaks. The market wants what the market wants. We all need to live in reality and not beg for Uncle Sam to save us all from open source -- because that was already tried and it didn't work.
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It’s time for Congress to come together on permitting reform so we can build the energy infrastructure Americans rely on as demand grows.
New: Britain’s drinking water supply has been officially rated a “catastrophic” national risk on a par with a pandemic, according to the Government’s own National Risk Register. The 2026 register, which was published earlier this week, shows the risk of “water infrastructure failure or loss of drinking water” has jumped from the bottom of the Government’s risk matrix last year to the top of the danger zone this year – the category reserved for the gravest threats facing the country The likelihood of a catastrophic impact on supply is now assessed at up to one in four. In the 2025 register, the same risk to water supply was rated low likelihood and minor impact. In the new edition, it has been rescored to sit alongside pandemic as one of only two risks rated highest for both likelihood and impact – the register’s most severe possible combination. The reassessment covers a scenario in which one or more water treatment works fail, cutting off piped supply to a region or degrading it so badly it is unsafe to drink even after boiling, with knock-on disruption to schools, hospitals and prisons until alternative supplies are restored. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/46521…
Not to go full Romney but how will the auto bailout be looked at in the future? Detroit didn’t fundamentally retool their companies in any way and now they’re going to be stomped by the Chinese.
AIPAC has cut off contributions on its political web portal to House Democrats who voted this week to end U.S. aid to Israel, per NYT
