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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio…

Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token budget on trivial tasks like converting PDFs to presentation slides

Sounds the people they hired to do the shit work don't actually want to do that type of work. I, for one, am shocked. Shocked I tell you!

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SpaceX stock tumbles 23% from its high, as average investor sees gains wiped out

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It used to be that new stocks with a high enough value had to wait several months to a year before they could be included into index funds (index funds are collections of stocks that try to mirror the performance of certain markets). Recent rule changes removed that waiting period so some (maybe even most, though not all) index funds bought SpaceX, automatically, within days of it coming on the market because that's just how they work. So if SpaceX tanks, many retirement plans will take a hit.

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Shitlib magical wand nonsense 🙄

This viewpoint is flawed and dangerously naive.

The damage is not as superficial as a name or a building. The USA allowed this to happen. The checks and balances that were supposed to be built into the system have failed. The United States of America, it's government, and it's whole social structure is no longer reliable. It does not end with the removal from power or even the death of Trump.

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Ted Cruz Exposed as a Scammer in Embarrassing Debate Smackdown

“He has introduced this new kind of ‘angertaiment’ where you just get people upset and then you podcast about it, and you write a book about it, and you make some money on it, but you’re not actually there when people need you. Like when the lights went out, when 30 million Texans were relying on a senator to spring into action, he went to Cancun. That’s who he is,” Allred said.

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It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers?

You're having a rough day. Seems like everybody wants a piece of you and they aren't kind about it. So you put on some ear protection, grab your leaf blower and step outside. Nobody bothers you out there. The leaf blower yells nonstop the way you wish you could and even though you aren't doing the yelling, there is still something cathartic about the noise. It creates a bubble where you are left alone. As the minutes pass and the debris collects into neat little piles, you can slowly regain your calm. The urge to explode, unleashing your anger and frustration, in an irreparable way ebbs and you feel like you can hold your shit together for a little while longer.

Or they are in a feud with their neighbors and are trying to piss them off.