The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.
NEWS β Trump coercing staff to wear the same black pair of shoes that he wears.
βEverybodyβs afraid not to wear them,β a staffer said, as some reportedly ditch their own footwear to comply with Trumpβs wishes.
Weβre officially in the dumbest timeline.
It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a βrealβ billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office
But actually being here only underscores this point. The vibe is inchoate, the goals unclear, and rallying on the sidewalk along a six-lane highway will never not seem silly.
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
