"We're Really In Uncharted Territory..."

Tuesday’s direct talks between Israel and Lebanon were held with a lot more fanfare than they had consequence, and ended without a meaningful deal being agreed, and with Israel not even really slowing their attacks while the conversations were ongoing, let alone after. Continuing Israeli attacks deep into Lebanese territory, inflicting civilian casualties, are fueling […]

Israeli forces have continued to directly target Lebanese ambulances, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, and those attacks resulted in at least two paramedics killed Sunday and five others wounded. The paramedics were targeted in Qallawiya and Tebnine, and the Health Ministry said they were deliberately and directly targeted in violation of international law. The […]

Without Subsidies, Is AI Unaffordable? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Let's pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users' costs. What's already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity and requires such an immense scale of costly processing and memory capacity can be low-cost, never mind free. The major AI platforms and vendors are subsidizing corporate...