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With gas prices down, why is diesel so high. It was 35 or 40 cent more than regular, now it about 75 or 80 cent higher.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2854343/a-u-s-startup-is-selling-your-hacked-stolen-data-to-anyone-with-50.html

Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

In an industry once known for cushy perks, some founders are now asking staff to commit to a 72-hour weekly schedule. You’re either in or you’re out.

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule/

AI bubble will inevitably burst, with huge risks for world economy, says writer of OpenAI book

In her new book, journalist Karen Hao describes ChatGPT developer OpenAI as an «empire.» She portrays its CEO, Sam Altman, as someone who cannot be trusted. The AI sector's thoughtless race to be first is creating avoidable economic and social dangers, she says.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/ai-bubble-will-inevitably-burst-with-huge-risks-for-world-economy-says-writer-of-openai-book-ld.1894493

I read a memoir written in the French and Indian war period by a captured French solder about those falls. He described the falls as having hundreds of eagles soaring and picking up the fish that were killed at the bottom.

Greetings from the heat dome, dead center