If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days.
A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years.
But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
Kudos to the Verge calling it as it is. Their boss Nilay Patel @reckless.bsky.social has been also surprisingly one of the biggest AI industry sceptics and calling it essentially a scam for a while now. Exactly the energy we need rn.
Thanks to Estonia for a lovely few weeks once more. Visited lovely Tartu for the Anarchist Bookfair, spent magical time with pals in my beloved pine woods by the sea, yes made cold borscht soup, was mesmerised by white nights in Tallinn. 💗
Next stop in a few days - Venice Biennale!
"We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...
Marijam Didžgalvytė
Marijam Didžgalvytė
paulkrugman.substack.com
With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX
Musk's $1 trillion valuation will probably land at about $200 billion in the next 2 to 3 years, but America's $40 trillion debt will have increased to $50 trillion. The latter deserves more breathless media headlines than the former.
This is a very angry essay. Goddamn fearless.
It will transfer the wealth from pension and index funds - that are obliged to buy SpaceX whether they want it or not - to Musk.
SpaceX IPO is a scam of unprecedented scale.
ryan cooper
Happy #IndieBookshopWeek! To celebrate I’ve put together a starter pack of all the indie bookshops in the UK and Ireland that I’ve found so far on BlueSky.
Let me know if there’s any more I should add.
#BookSky #IndieBookshops #KidLitUK #ChildrensBooksIreland
go.bsky.app/Ro4BskK
"Backrooms". WOW. Went in with expectations to see cool, pretty, but naff horror movie. Left overwhelmed, deeply moved, with a feeling akin to a rich therapy session; strip away all the "horror" stuff, it's one of the most astute portrayals of psychological patterns, trauma reflexes & anxiety.11/10.
Marijam Didžgalvytė
SpaceX nonsense is so glutinous and perverse. World's economy distilled - a fake lottery ticket set to make an immature fascist a trillionaire with indeed Marvel-like power vis-à-vis actual values. Sad.
