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> MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake

Why should that surprise anyone? They engineered their virality, just like what Reddit did during its early days


It’s definitely not causing shortages of people, with tens of thousands and more getting laid off every month!

The AI boom is just like a conference- where new and shiny seems to do wonders, but when you come back to workplace, none of that seem to work or fit in!


The article was specific about where the jobs shortages are. Electricians, construction, mathematicians (?)(wasn't aware the was a lot of dedicated math work in a data center design and build). Lay offs have been in software, design, and elsewhere.

Yes, because the bigger issue is that the whole American system has been so dominated by the rapacious and parasitic mindset of the blob that may be grouped as the PE/investor class (which I also belong to and have benefited from, even though it’s been deliberately secondarily), which has been extracting/monetizing value and cutting real, human, long term investment in lieu of short term, quick, unsustainable outsourcing and resource extracting methods for so many decades now that it has now left America in a tight spot.

Unfortunately, though it has left mostly the Europeans, but all American vassals in an even worse position as the vampiric fake American ruling class, devours America like Saturn devouring his son, as famously depicted by Goya. The parasitic American empire is in a bit of a panic and it is pulling out all the stops to make everyone else pay for its failures, evil, and detrimental activities. That comes in the form of extracting value from Europe and damaging their economy in order to make them even more dependent vassals who still think they can rebel like a toddler threading to run away from home, and dominating the Americas that are effectively helpless in the face of Americas overwhelming position over them.

The anxiety and panic among the American ruling class is palpable among the clubhouse chatter. The empire is in a bit of a panic to sustain itself, just as much as it is also trying to devour what little value is left among the American pension funds and people to save itself; Saturn devouring his son for fear of the prophesy that his child would overthrow him.


It is a downside of being the world center of finance is that you have way too many well paid finance guys sitting in rooms trying to squeeze the juice out of everything on the market.

The opposite end of that is that this AI boom wouldn't have existed in America without the insane amount of capital these guys can put together.


> What would you suggest as an alternative?

Just keep trying, especially when others have given up

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/us/video/treatment-cure-disea...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fajgenbaum

> David C. Fajgenbaum (born March 29, 1985) is an American immunology researcher and author who is currently an assistant professor at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.[1] He is best known for his research into Castleman disease.

He spent years studying the disease as a researcher. He's an exception, really.


> evolution of the Tesla door handle

I really like Tesla's approach to door handles - it's clean, polished, and gives a fine and smooth look. But was surprised to learn that China will ban them beginning next year. Other countries might follow suit as well.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-hidden-door-handles-cars-...


The main purpose of a handle is to open a door, not look polished. Looking polished is not helpful when you're dead because you couldn't get out of that car in an emergency . So IMHO it shouldn't be surprising that they're being banned.

There are obvious ways to design a door handle which looks exactly the same, but isn't electronic.

Yes, but it is expensive.

How many people have to die for aesthetics?

Form over function is not the correct approach for designing something that can kill you if it doesn’t work when you need it to.

For now! They’ll get something from open market like the last time when Apple refused to decrypt (or unlock?) a phone for them.

Yeah this is low stakes stuff, Pegasus historically breaks Apple phones easy. Bezos's nudes and Khashoggi knows. (not really Khashoggi is dead)

Is the logic behind "Usage Forecast" and "Reorder Planner" hard-coded somewhere? I'm not seeing any configuration for that, so I had to ask the question.

Right now it's hard-coded. But based on your feedback I'm going to make some of it configurable

You designed and sold a lamp for $1500! You’ve won a lottery!!

Exactly! Right thrives on conspiracy theories, and being Rules and law advocates. All that sweet talk is only when they aren’t in power.


> the useful lifespan of the gpus in 4-6 years. Sooo what happens when you need to upgrade or repair?

Average life of starlink satellite is around 4-5 years


Starlink yes, at 480 km LEO. But the article says "put AI satellites into deep space". Also if you think about it, LEO orbits have dark periods so not great.

A better orbit might be Sun Synchronous (SSO) which is around 705 km, still not "deep space" but reachable for maintenance or short life deorbit if that's the plan. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/catalog-of-...

And of course there are the LaGrange points which have no reason to deorbit, just keep using the old ones and adding newer.


damn. at this point its not even about a pretense for progress, just a fetish for a very dirty space

It's essentially a military network (which is why other power sphere want their own) and a way to feed money into spacex


Stop linking this same Wikipedia page if you're not going to expound it with further details or evidence. I'm holding you accountable for following HN guidelines here.

They re-enter and burn up entirely. Old starlinks don't stay in space.

They won't if you "put AI satellites into deep space", as the article says.

So they pollute the upper atmosphere instead!

Down voting doesn't make that statement any less true…

> And don't get me started with all the paid express security lanes. Because of course only poor people can weaponize shoes and laptops.

It wasn't just pay for play! TSA-PreCheck and Global Entry approval requires a thorough background check of your residential, work, and travel history, also in-person interview. Unfortunately, some Privacy activists prefer not doing that over occasional convenience.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tsa+precheck+eligibility


Global Entry requires an in person interview, Precheck by itself does not

> Precheck by itself does not

Now! But, when it started it definitely required.


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