“How do LLMs affect productivity and quality? (Much like leaded petrol. There’s some potential benefit for individual users with literally decades of expertise, provided nobody else uses LLMs. The results are catastrophic when everybody is using them.)” #AI #empireindecline #trumpregime #oligarchy #petrodollar #IranWar #petrostate #shitholecountry

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/

Demand destruction, a beautiful phrase when applied to the oil & gas sector.

There is a workaround and China will continue winning as long as the US continues down the #petrostate dead end and stifle innovation.

How about that #EV program Jim Farley? #Ford time to get off the ever larger #SUV mill

#electrifyeverything #electrostate #EmpireInDecline #cleanenergy #Rivian #Tesla #Lucid #cleanenergy #slate #tello #Mullen #Harbinger #evwest #Rizon #Xos #Also

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/13/the-strait-of-hormuz-oil-crisis-is-the-biggest-ever/

It happened. Microsoft brought GitHub to #ZeroNines.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#Microslop #AISlop #EmpireInDecline

“When the dollar gets challenged, we break the challenger. Both parties have done it. The rules-based order we like to lecture other countries about has a pretty big asterisk on it, and the asterisk reads “except when it touches the dollar.”” #iranwar #venezuela #petrostate #trumpregime #endoilandgas #climatecrisis #china #EmpireInDecline

https://www.americasundoing.com/p/to-war-or-not-to-war