wow that’s terrible, would never happen in an enlightened western country like the UK https://scheerpost.com/2024/08/30/human-rights-activist-sarah-wilkinson-arrested-by-uk-police/

Thanks for providing an example of an opposite.

Tbf California, unlike China, does use slave labor https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-investigation-c6f0eb4747963283316e494eadf08c4e

everybody should be concerned about a rabid chimp with a hand grenade

I think the goal is to provoke a war with Iran. Netanyahu just got back from US where he presumably got the green light for it.

California isn’t a private company, but it relies on private capital to do infrastructure development. Hope that clears things up for you.

If you bother to RTFA then you’ll see that they mean it’s useless from investor perspective because it uses a lot of energy, and there are limited practical applications for it. AI services that companies like MS and Google are offering are being subsidized by these companies, and they’re subsidizing them because they expect that they will be able to make them profitable somehow going forward. If they can’t then the bubble will burst because investors and shareholders aren’t gonna keep dumping cash into this tech. The hype cycle around AI isn’t new either, we’ve been here many times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter