• Why does so much new technology feel inspired by dystopian sci-fi movies?  (New York Times)  (archive site)
  
  You mean like Escape From New York?
  
  Because the people who wrote those movies were inspired by people, and people do dumb things.
  
  
  
• It's a cookbook.  (CNBC)  (archive site)

  Microsoft has formed a superintelligence team under AI chief Suleyman 'to serve humanity'.

  Hey, I've seen this one.  It's a classic!
  

• After more than 200 years, the 2026 edition of the Farmers' Almanac will be the last.  (Farmers' Almanac)
  
  You can pick up a copy on Amazon.  Probably.  They won't ship it to me.
  
  
  
• Google is planning to build a huge AI datacenter on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean occupied entirely by crabs.  (Reuters)
  
  If you're Australian or just generally geographically minded, you may have just thought Christmas Island?
  
  Yes, Christmas Island.
  
  
  
• No we're not.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Google is involved in construction of an undersea cable from Singapore to Australia via Darwin, and Christmas Island is just a convenient midpoint.
  
  Sort of.  It's directly in line from Singapore to Perth, but for a cable to Darwin it just avoids routing directly through Indonesia.
  
  
  
• Suck it, Delaware: Tesla shareholders have approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  To reach that level would require the company to reach a market cap of $8.5 trillion, up from $1.5 trillion today, which would require the bubble to inflate for at least a couple more years.
  
  
  
• Sam Altman says he doesn't want a government bailout, after the government said no bailout would be forthcoming, after OpenAI's CFO said she wanted government guarantees for the quintillions of dollars in loans Sam Altman is fast-talking is way into.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Just so everyone is clear.

Posted by: cxt217 at Saturday, November 08 2025 08:02 AM (ZLF73)

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