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@Steve-Miller said:

The future consists of AI agents selling advertisements to each other …

… using your electricity and passes on the costs to you one way or another.

When I go, I also hope to go quickly with just enough time to say proper goodbyes and with no to little pain.

This society needs to grow up and pass some practical euthanasia laws.

First installment: Canva, 2026 Q4; 1,271 people affected (22% of pre-layoff headcount)

https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/canva-team-update/

• 6 months of salary
• 12 months of healthcare
• 10,000 USD a piece for those who want to start their own business or doing something meaningful for their local community, and Canva will not take any equity in what they build
• Continued access to Slack and email until end of week so people have time to say proper goodbyes

As far as layoffs go, this is pretty generous and dignified way of doing it.

Ironically, the insurance companies haven’t figured out how to give you a safety discount for having such a high tech marvel that is auto breaking.

All I did was traveling outside the country for a month and see what happened!!!
(If you like what happened, you should pay me to travel again in 2028. )

For a bit of fun, try to guest where I visited with the pictures below.

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Hhmmm … it seems @jon-nyc is pretty excited about this election.

The market has seen fit to reward SpaceX with a ridiculously high share price, it’s only rational that SpaceX uses it to buy other assets.

Was visiting the Porsche museum and learnt about this piece of pre-1900 EV history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egger-Lohner_C.2_Phaeton

The Egger-Lohner C.2 Phaeton, erroneously called Porsche P1, is an electric vehicle built by Egger-Lohner. … It is powered by the "octagon" electric motor, that Ferdinand Porsche designed, which took its name from the eight-sided design of the motor housing. The electric motor can produce an output of 3 hp (2.2 kW) at 350 rpm and, for short periods of time, up to 5 hp (3.7 kW) with a top speed of 35 km/h (22 mph) by overcharging it. … On September 28, 1899, Porsche drove a C.2 that was entered in the Berlin road race, where it won the gold medal and crossed the finish line 18 minutes before the second car. It also came out on top in the efficiency test, where it was recorded as the lowest energy consumption vehicle in urban traffic.

AI feng-shui should be fine, I think. Feng-shui is about the physical placement of things in relation to the environment, no empathy or soul-level connection needed.

Pope Leo votes by mail … so do millions others.

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It seems to me a high proportion of women in Lisbon have toned beautiful legs. I suspect that’s attributable to the very hilly topology of the town — it’s like doing the steps machine every time you walk around town.

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NYT or not, I can believe that the Democrats can do something like this.

@Daniel said:

That's fine.

But what about the other things generated?

I believe these things might include toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution.

The thing I linked to would simply replace the heating coil in otherwise typical water heating tanks. No reason to expect "toxic waste water, toxic air, and noise pollution."

The concept is quite simple: bitcoin mining generates heat (do it in server farms and you have to find ways to dissipate all that heat), you also need heat to heat your water. So just do the bitcoin mining in your hot water tank so the heat generated from bitcoin mining is used to heat your water (as oppose to dissipated into the environment as done by most server farms today).

Heck, my birthday is closer in time to Pearl Harbor than today.

Simple idea: bitcoin mining generates lots of heat, might as well use it to heat your water ️ repackage bitcoin mining hardware into heating element that fits in the otherwise typical electrical hot water heater/tank.

https://heatbit.com/

Can probably do the same for AI or anything that is compute-intensive.