"OpenAI has now made multiple egregious, ridiculous, fantastical and impossible promises to many different parties, in amounts ranging from $50 million to $400 billion, all of which are due within the next five years. It will require hundreds of billions of dollars — either through direct funding, loans, or having partners like Oracle or NVIDIA take the burden, though at this point I believe both companies are genuinely failing their investors by not protecting them from Clammy Sam Altman, a career liar who somehow believes he can mobilize nearly a trillion dollars and have the media print anything he says, mostly because they will print anything he says, even when he says he wants to build 1 Gigawatt of AI infrastructure a week.
Today, I’m going to go into detail about every single promise made by Sam Altman and his cadre of charlatans, and give you as close to a hard dollar amount as I can as what it would cost to meet these promises.
To be clear, I am aware that in some of these cases another party will take on the burden of capital — but these dollars must be raised, and OpenAI must make sure they are raised.
I’ll also get into the raw costs of running OpenAI, and how dire things look when you add everything up. In fact, based on my calculations, OpenAI needs at least $500 billion just to fund its own operations, and at least $432 billion or more through partners or associated entities raising debt just to make it through the next few years.
And that's if OpenAI hits the insane revenue targets it's set!"
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OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years
Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capacity that OpenAI has promised.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
This is so actually genuinely dystopian - the Department of Homeland Security and The White House apparently posted a video on Twitter of ICE cunts kidnapping people to Pokemon music 'Gotta catch 'em all'. Fuuuuuuuuuuuu.....
Also anyone still on Twitter is a shitty person. Bar none.
Pokemon pushes back against ICE deportation video - joining list riled by Trump administration
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Pokemon pushes back against ICE deportation video - joining list riled by Trump administration
Multiple artists and brands have publicly spoken out after their images, songs and voices were used in government or political videos during Trump's campaign and presidency. Here are some of the most notable cases.Sky News
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Five Longevity Secrets From an Elite Concierge Doctor
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Festa del donatore a Spianate. Aggregazione e convivialità
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Why international students are rethinking the US
For years, the US has been the dream destination for the brightest young talents worldwide. But rising visa hurdles and political uncertainty are making students reconsider their future. Could Germany – or Europe in general – become the new top choice?
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Antti Heiskalalle Music x Media -tapahtumassa jaetusta palkinnosta syntyi erikoinen vyyhti. Toimitusjohtaja Jani Jalonen myöntää, että kotiläksyt tehtiin huonosti.Anton Vanha-Majamaa (Yle Uutiset)
Caption the photo. Mine is "Why doesn't this escalator work? It's a conspiracy!"
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Trump’s incoherent harangue to the family of nations put a spotlight on America’s self-inflicted, abject isolation.Jeb Lund (Truthdig)
My ultra-geeky childhood programming story:
When I was a small child in the 80s, we had two computers in the house. One was the usual kind of 'your child can learn to program on this!' 80s home computer, in our case a ZX Spectrum. And I did learn to program on it. But the other one was the interesting one.
My dad worked for DEC, and had brought home a DEC Robin. (I think officially a VT180? But Dad always used the internal codename.) He would use it to work from home, by dialling the office on the phone, and running a VMS shell session directly over a 1980s modem. I'd sometimes sit and watch him work, and of course not understand very much.
When Dad wasn't using the Robin, I was allowed to have a go on it. It ran CP/M-80, and had a BASIC interpreter called MBASIC. So I learned that dialect in parallel with Spectrum BASIC.
On the Spectrum, my toy programs would often use the Spectrum's graphics, to draw pictures or weird interference patterns or whatever. But the Robin only had a text mode (or at least, if it did have graphics, I never found them). What would be fun for a child to do on that?
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I was unsatisfied with how text was printed. When I used the MBASIC "print" command, the whole line of text I printed would appear on the screen at once. But when Dad worked over the modem, text would appear one character at a time. So I arranged for my imitation DEC work environment to print one character at a time too, and tuned the delay loop until it was printing at about the right speed.
I remember that I had the idea that printing one character at a time was _better_. I didn't see the slow printing as a flaw that I was faithfully imitating: rather, printing one character at a time was more like how _grown-ups_ used computers, as I saw it. I had the vague and confused idea that when I was grown up, _I'd_ use systems that did it that way too.
(I just now wrote a similar delayed-print function, and tuned it until it matched the printing speed I vaguely remembered from being 7. It turned out that speed corresponds pretty closely to 1200 baud, so I guess that's what Dad's modem must have been at the time.)
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From one point of view this sounds like about the geekiest thing ever. But I think on its own terms it makes perfect sense.
It's very natural for children to mimic what adults do in general. Many children's toys are sold for just this purpose, e.g. toy doctor and nurse outfits, and props like toy stethoscopes, to play at being medical professionals. And if the capitalist economy won't sell you the props for whatever game of that kind you want to play, children are also perfectly capable of making their own.
But to mimic what my father did, I didn't need physical toys, because I could use the actual same computer he used. Only the _software_ toys were missing – so that was what I had to make myself.
Even that weird idea that printing your text _fast_ is some kind of childish thing that you put away when you're grown up. There _are_ a lot of situations where adults take longer to do a thing, because they have to take account of stuff that children don't yet have to worry about. (Like, a child can just run out of the house any time, but an adult has to go round making sure the doors and windows are locked.) Doing things the simple and quick way _can_ be an aspect of childish naïveté!
Of all the code I've ever written in my life and lost, this suite of toy VMS simulations is perhaps the thing I'm most sad about. If I could go back in time and snag a copy off my floppy disk, I'd have great fun going through it all again and reminding myself of the bits I've forgotten.
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@fishidwardrobe the parallel hadn't struck me, but perhaps the modern analogue of "slow because you're doing it over a modem" is "slow because it's running in a browser rather than natively, and the cloud provider has downloaded a metric ton of Javascript bloatware to your tab".
In my office we have one slightly spreadsheet-shaped tool which is just _unforgivably_ slow to respond. You move the cursor into a cell, start typing, and half a second later the spreadsheet finishes processing the cursor-move event and resets the field to empty, losing the first half of what you'd already typed. Ugh. If I wrote that in plain JS I'd struggle to make it that slow on purpose. It must be because the real version is built out of loosely bolted-together third-party libraries none of which is really suited for the job it's doing.
Then again, it sounds as if in your case the animation is deliberate, rather than just a consequence of terrible performance!
Roma, il tempo dell’orgoglio: Arcigay festeggia 40 anni tra memoria e futuro
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Roma, il tempo dell’orgoglio: Arcigay festeggia 40 anni tra memoria e futuro
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🔔 Update 📢 🕯️ Medical sources: 51 Palestinians, including a #journalist, have been killed by Israeli gunfire and ongoing bombardment since dawn on Saturday #gaza
🔹 27 were killed in #GazaCity alone
🔹 In #KhanYounis, #civildefence and emergency crews recovered three bodies after an Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle
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Jordan Mechner - Video games, graphic novels, and movies
Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, screenwriter and video game designer, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia. Follow his latest projects here.jordanmechner.com
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Il ministro Antonio Tajani, ha dichiarato che Forza Italia voterà per la revoca del’immunità all’europarlamentare monzese. In un discorso aberrante, ha dichiarato che “voteremo per la revoca dell'immunità, perché i reati sono stati commessi prima di diventare europarlamentare. Noi siamo garantisti sempre, ma proprio perché siamo garantisti rispettiamo le regole.” Ma se sono garantisti perché la definiscono colpevole di reati per cui deve ancora essere giudicata?
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How do you handle complex emulator controls when using a controller?
One thing I've run into as I've been playing some of my retro games is that, when using a controller with an Nvidia Shield + Moonlight or even with just a Steam Deck, the emulators often have a massive amount of controls that I can't really interact with. All of the controls are hotkey based, for save states, loading states, etc.
Most of the games I'm wanting to play are controller based, but it feels like the tools to enjoy them are all keyboard based. Do you just use the built in save functionalities? How does it all work?
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Qualcuno conosce siti dove artisti vendono wallpapers per desktop/mobile? O anche liste di artisti che ne vendono, o artisti singoli
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A Uno Mattina dibattito su "riconoscibilità" dei gay, è polemica - Tv - Ansa.it
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A Uno Mattina dibattito su "riconoscibilità" dei gay, è polemica - Tv - Ansa.it
Impazza la polemica, e non solo sui social, sul "siparietto" andato on onda a Uno Mattina: "ma il gay come si riconosce?". A formulare la domanda agli ospiti in studio, Alessandro Cecchi Paone e Concita Borrelli, è la giornalista Ingrid Muccitelli.Agenzia ANSA
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Hungary: Hate speech and media pressure in election run-up
Thousands of Hungarians protested recently against hate speech in public discourse. But the government of Viktor Orban continues to rail against his critics — and the election campaign hasn't even got off the ground.
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I occasionally cat-sit my friend Merlin, who lives next door to me with his humans. This was taken a few years ago and he’s older and thinner now, but he’s still a big sweetie. A big, grumpy, hissing, complaining, okay-fine-I-guess-I’ll-settle-down-next-to-you sweetie.
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I run Palestine’s first brewery in the West Bank – this is what it’s like
A store in the village of Taybeh where the Palestinian beer is being sold (Picture: Taybeh Brewing Co)
Across the street from her home in Ramallah, Madees Khoury runs Taybeh Brewing Company, a microbrewery that her father, Nadim, opened more than 30 years ago.
At the age of 39, she is the West Bank (and the Middle East’s) only female brewmaster, carrying forward his dream of making craft beer for his Palestinian Christian community in the Taybeh with the blessing of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Authority’s first president.
For the past two years, she has faced her hardest test — an intensifying Israeli occupation that has made every shipment of water, grain, and bottles to the community almost impossible.
Over the past four months in particular, Ramallah has faced increasing attacks from settlers.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in July two Palestinians were shot dead and dozens were left injured after settler attacks on the outskirts of Sinjil and Al Mazra’a ash Sharqiya towns.
It’s one of many attacks that took place over the summer.
Madees has been informally working in the brewery since the age of nine (Picture: Taybeh Brewing Co)
‘They set fire to cars in the middle of the night, next to the church ruins from the 5th century,’ Madees told Metro.
‘They paint graffiti on houses, attack water pipes for no reason. One man from a nearby Israeli settlement comes on his horse – armed with an M16 assault rifle – and just walks through town to scare us.’
On Thursday, Israel shut the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and neighbouring Jordan, stopping more than two million Palestinians from accessing the outside world.
‘Imagine not being able to get out of your neighborhood,’ Madees said.
Like many Palestinians, Madees feels there is nothing she can do to defend herself.
Nadim Khoury who launched the brewery in 1994 with his brother (Picture: Taybeh Brewing Co)
Since 1967, when Israel launched its occupation in the West Bank, Israeli military authorities consolidated complete power over all water resources and water-related infrastructure.
This worsened in recent months, with Amnesty International stating that mass-starvation and dehydration is spreading across Gaza.
‘Even the Internet is not in our control. We still have 3G in Palestine as the Israelis won’t allow Palestinians to have 5G,’ Madees said.
The brewery has struggled with obtaining export permits needed for international shipping through Israeli ports. But Madees hasn’t let this stop her.
In August, the Taybeh Brewing Co announced it would be teaming up with Brewgooder to produce and distribute a new lager in the UK.
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Sun & Stone lager, which is brewed in Scotland, has been distributed among 1,600 Co-op supermarkets, with all profits going to aid Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Madees’ family could have opened a brewery in the US, where her father and her uncle studied, but they chose to keep the beer ‘100% Palestinian’ to carry the ‘resistance, resilience, love, passion, sweat, tears, blood’ of people in the West Bank.
The brewery opened right after the 1993 Oslo Accords, a pair of interim agreements that promised to bring about Palestinian self-determination, in the form of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
‘My grandfather told my father and my uncle, David, “You know, we don’t have a brewery in Palestine, why not open one?”‘ Madees said.
A Palestinian man walks towards Israeli soldiers during a raid at the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank on August 11, 2025 (Picture: PA)
‘They challenged him, saying that if he can get them permits and licences, they will move back.
‘Immediately my grandfather got the land, built the building, got the permits and even the blessing from Yasser Arafat at that time. That is how it all started.
‘My father then named the beer Taybeh because he is proud to be from the village of Taybeh.
‘He even keeps a picture of the family tree, which goes back 600 years, on his home.’
Madees grew up in the brewery. From the age of nine, she watched her father and her uncle run the business; her childhood memories pinpricked by recollections of Israeli checkpoints and security installations being planted in her hometown.
Aftermath of an Israeli raid on the village of Kafr Abush, located south of the city of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, on September 10, 2025 (Picture: Getty)
Her family was among the few that stayed during the Second Intifada – a major uprising by Palestinians against Israel and its occupation that began in September 2000 – and continued to run the business ‘regardless of how difficult it was.’
She briefly left to study in Boston, but later returned after graduation and moved back to Taybeh to work with her family full-time.
Just as her father did, Madees sees the brewery as a symbol.
‘It is a message to the whole world that Palestinians are like anyone else – we do drink beer, we do make beer, we do work and try to live normal lives,’ she said.
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What does it mean to recognise Palestine as a state? List of countries for and against the move
The UK will likely recognise Palestine as a state today - but what does that mean for Israel's war in Gaza?Sarah Hooper (Metro)
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Quais são as histórias em quadrinhos mais longevas do mundo?
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