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Here's why Anthropic and OpenAI are screwed: AMD just bought Taalas, a company that hard-burns AI models into silicon, completely bypassing all memory bottlenecks and allowing insane speeds like 10,000 tokens/second off your own machine (with just a PCIe card). This will… pic.twitter.com/aEEFzo7BYi — HealthRanger (@HealthRanger) September 13, 2026
US President Donald Trump has blamed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky for the ongoing diesel price shock, saying it was a result of Kiev’s attacks on Russian refineries. The national average price of diesel hit more than $6 per gallon on Friday, up from approximately $5.85 last week. The price has climbed some 60% compared to … Read more
Swedish voters have headed to the polls in an election that could bring a far-right party into government for the first time. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party, is seeking another four-year term at the helm of the EU nation, NATO’s newest member. Mr Kristersson has held office since 2022 in a … Read more
Police in Turkey have detained 47 people in a series of raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ+ activists, officials say. Raids took place in 12 provinces over the weekend as part of a campaign dubbed “My Family is Safe” that the Turkish government says has been designed to protect family values. One … Read more
Over 100 abandoned boats in Marina del Rey, if you’re wondering how the economy is doing pic.twitter.com/7GmiFkJs7X — Jim Garrison Keillor (@books_rum) September 12, 2026 Sean McCarthy, who owns Catalina Crew, a marine services and lifestyle business based in Marina del Rey, said some of the boats may have become too expensive to insure or … Read more
TVs were also said to be recording, scanning local area networks, logging data, and recording audio while in standby. In a statement to Tom’s Hardware, TV manufacturer LG has strongly denied recent claims that its smart TVs constantly log and upload data, record audio while in standby, while confirming they scan local area networks for … Read more
A passenger ship carrying 240 people vanished from contact in the Java Sea on Sunday local time, triggering an urgent search as Indonesian crews raced to locate the vessel. The Virgo Transport 8 was traveling from Surabaya, East Java, to Banjarmasin on the island of Borneo when communications with the ship were lost, the Associated … Read more
Sunday a Russian jet drone hit the engine of a Kyiv Warsaw passenger train near Yahodyn in Volyn. About 2 km from Poland. Passengers were pulled off about 15 minutes before impact. No casualties. Ukraine Railways said a diplomatic train had just been at the same station. On it were EU security advisers and former … Read more
Buckle up, folks. h/t daddysgirl794
OIL SURGES AS MIDDLE EAST STRIKES HIT SUPPLY FEARS Oil prices jumped more than $3 after fresh strikes in Saudi Arabia and near the Strait of Hormuz heightened supply concerns. Brent rose 3.5% to $108.23, while WTI climbed 3.2% to $103.20. With Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline… — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) September 13, 2026 OIL SURGES … Read more
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, AI can’t do our learning or thinking for us, but it excels at making us dependent on its substitution of learning and thinking, and the resulting state of helplessness when we have to think for ourselves. There are a number of things we already know about AI: one is … Read more
“While returning home from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day Dinner tonight, the plane I was traveling in lost power as we approached the Wausau Downtown Airport. The pilot made an emergency water landing in Lake Wausau. After landing, we called 911. As the plane began to submerge, we exited the aircraft and swam to … Read more
The Breakwave Tanker Shipping ETF (BWET) is up over 3,600% year to date, according to Morningstar, by far the best performance of any non-levered U.S. fund as the price of transporting oil has soared due to geopolitical shocks. Led by the U.S.-Iran war repercussions, there have been over 140,000 disrupted freight cargo vessels across the … Read more
The funniest part of the Michael Burry jokes right now is that everyone expects him to find another housing crash. AI looks expensive. Nvidia looks expensive. The AI infrastructure spending is getting ridiculous. So everybody wants the sequel. Burry shorts Nvidia. AI crashes. Credits roll. Except real life doesn’t work like that. The funniest part … Read more
That's a sign of a perfectly functioning market. pic.twitter.com/BYxcS7mKbl — Chris Snarksen (@chrisstets) September 13, 2026 Get out before the whole thing blows. Thats a HUGE stock sale. I’d be running away from $ORCL rn. https://t.co/tMjlk0I4wt — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) September 12, 2026 Why? You’ve got to be kidding me. AI is obviously becoming a … Read more
Look at what happened this week. Saudi Arabia shut down its East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack. The pipeline carries more than 5 million barrels of crude a day and was supposed to give Saudi Arabia a way around the Strait of Hormuz. Then the Houthis captured Mayun Island at the entrance to the … Read more
Gavin Newsom has spent months saying the DOJ investigation is really about one thing. He says Trump wants to damage a potential Democratic presidential rival. Maybe. But now the investigation is getting a lot more specific. Federal prosecutors are seeking six years of records tied to Newsom’s overseas travel and the money behind those trips. … Read more
Inflation Is Really 5.7%, Not the Government's 2% byu/gashtal_man inFluentInFinance Considering only 55% of americans have a basic understanding of inflation. Only 28% have a good understanding. https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/44286-what-americans-know-about-inflation-yougov-poll h/t burnthatburner1
The intelligence community is preparing a major false flag operation to be blamed on open source AI so they can justify banning it. Most likely target? The shutting down of a regional power grid, causing chaos and disruptions while the media runs the “open source AI is dangerous” narrative. The legislation to ban open source … Read more
Core inflation is 2.4% and long run expectations remain around the mid 2s, yet the 10 year is near 5%, which tells you this is increasingly about real yields, term premium, Treasury supply and expectations for future growth and policy. That can persist for a while, but if high energy costs and restrictive rates start … Read more