Electric cherries ?!
An orchard that stopped burning #diesel (80 cents/kWh) and bought #electric #tractors (7 cents/kWh) !
#FullyElectricShow in #NewZealand
Probably the best #NBIM "In Good Company" #podcast ever !
@NicolaiTang1 interviews nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
about nostr:npub16fhh3ev4gytmt3jn3gkkez9z99kxtspcwupen4cxn2tcym4sd22surn62p @Visa #bitcoin #NOSTR ++
#fascinating, learned a lot
via @YouTube
. @perplexity.ai :
Core Components of #Project2025
1. Government Overhaul
* Personnel Purges
* Executive Power Expansion
2. Economic Policy Shifts
* Tax Reform
* Federal Reserve Changes
3. Social Policy Agenda
@theguardian.com
#FoodForThought
Have you tried to ask #DeepSeek about the life and career of #Ai Wei Wei
@aiww
?
The #LLM starts answering, but then interrupts itself, deletes what it wrote, and says "let's talk about something else" ...
@GaryMarcus
?
“..He is withering in particular about #consultants who advise #pension #funds on #investment decisions and
“rely on backward looking data which is definitely shown to be completely and utterly useless as a source of #prediction..”
#pensjon
https://www.ft.com/content/073e016e-125f-4287-b327-39e62ab92ecb via nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy
#mustread
"The United States dropped more than 1,000 #bombs in a place it never needed to be. Instead of winning hearts and minds, the Americans unwittingly sowed the seeds of their own demise here in the Waygal Valley — just as it did in much of #Afghanistan — then stayed for years to reap the harvest"
".. #Norway has, through increased oil and gas revenues, as well as arms sales, earned more than 2000 billion kroner from this war.
And then we babble about what crumbs we should give to those who fight?
This is beyond stupid .."
@FerdOwner to @e24 about #Ukraine and @elopak
"Users of today’s wallet apps are dependent on Apple and Google to get new features..
By contrast, if Inrupt’s wallet caught on, nobody would be dependent on one company for its functionality.
Instead, anyone could build apps on top of it, including useful stuff that nobody’s thought up just yet"
@inrupt @timberners_lee #EgneData
https://www.fastcompany.com/91231379/tim-berners-lee-solid-inrupt-pod-digital-wallet
"When there is an excess of energy, finding ways to use it or store it is important to ensure clean energy is being used as efficiently as possible..
@TEPCO_English is using excess clean energy to power the energy-demanding #bitcoin mining"
@YahooNews
https://www.yahoo.com/news/japans-largest-electricity-provider-makes-110018400.html
".. 37 studies and found that even after adjusting for fat, sugar and salt upfs were still strongly linked to poor health. That suggests there is more to their harm than just a poor nutrient profile"
@KevinH_PhD nostr:npub1fxuzuvxl9wx8qzf50nnwmu6wfzg4unc67drl0t9rsv9325xnjh6qnqm52n #UPF
"..#UPFs are merely a public relations problem and not a public health problem.."
(!?)
"#Inflation targeting was supposed to boost #productivity through reducing uncertainty and encouraging #investment. But trend productivity has actually slowed since the early 1980s.
Companies boosted #profits, not #growth, by cutting investment, increasing #dividends, and prioritising #buybacks"
nostr:npub14ksegjfnvcaptrannd5j34qw0hgz6d4n5vssuca96vpyvhswpkfswwakrn
https://www.ft.com/content/fb325e0f-f344-4c09-a23b-15cb0de149d1
"..Authoritarians manipulate the Financial Action Task Force's (#FATF) forty recommendations for stopping money laundering and terrorist financing to justify financial repression..
..Yet #Bitcoin and freedom technologies are only a part of the solution"
"Africa’s biggest phone company by market value Vodacom Group Ltd. posted an 18% drop in first-half net income after currency devaluations in Egypt and Ethiopia proved a challenge"
#inflation #devaluation #bitcoin nostr:npub17f2qe8ycpd56p6clc0d6l6kqxfr696xaq5c7d4w53c04xdm3lzvs4dtwjc
"Scaling was always a hypothesis. What happens if suddenly people lose faith in that hypothesis?"
#AI @GaryMarcus
"..US #stocks and other risky assets rallied on Wednesday after Donald #Trump decisive election victory, but bond investors highlighted why euphoria could be shortlived if the president-elect’s campaign policies drive up #inflation..
..The #Russell2000 index of small-cap companies rose even further than the S&P, leaping 5.8 per cent to its highest level since 2021. The advance reflects a belief that small companies, which tend to be more focused on their domestic market, have more to gain from #tax cuts and less to lose from a trade war. The Russell 2000 is also heavily weighted towards financial stocks, which investors are hoping will benefit from looser #regulation and an increase in dealmaking..
.. Invesco’s Hooper said: “I think we are getting much closer to the potential for ‘bond vigilantism’.” This is when bond investors try to force governments to change policy by driving up their borrowing costs. “A showdown could certainly be hastened because of this #election ”
nostr:npub14ksegjfnvcaptrannd5j34qw0hgz6d4n5vssuca96vpyvhswpkfswwakrn
https://www.ft.com/content/49c08af1-e928-4df0-b5a1-a8662c382a8d
#foodforthought from @lessig @TEDTalks #Berlin about threat to #democracy
Relevant, irrespective of who will be the next @POTUS
https://youtu.be/OjuYFNR1aWo?si=XPuInmtkR_UZbqCy via @YouTube
".. @Finansdep anslår nå at det ekstra overskuddet var på 992 mrd kr i 2022 og 278 i fjor"
"Nylig foreslo regjeringen i statsbudsj å øke Norges støtte til #Ukraina t minst 135 mrd ..fordeles min 15 mrd kr per år fram til 2030"
@Nettavisen @Aftenposten
"Cartwright, #pensjon -spesialisten for ytelsesbaserte og hybride ordninger, kunngjorde i dag en banebrytende [3%] #bitcoin allokering i investeringsporteføljen til en britisk pensjonsordning"
#tankevekkende