Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Donald Trump Offers Eight-Month Buyouts To All Federal Employees
January 29th, 2025Via: USA Today: The Trump administration is offering buyouts to all federal employees who don’t wish to return to work at the office, in a push to significantly reduce the size of the federal workforce. The offer, outlined in a memo the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sent to employees Tuesday, would give federal workers […]
OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Gov for U.S. Federal Agency Use
January 28th, 2025Via: NextGov: OpenAI unveiled a new chatbot service specifically tailored to federal agency workloads, announcing ChatGPT Gov on Tuesday as the latest artificial intelligence solution intended for government operations. ChatGPT Gov, a large language model similar to the company’s original ChatGPT software, specializes in providing U.S. government agencies with a chatbot service specifically tailored to […]
Chinese Open Source DeepSeek AI Model Rivals Best from OpenAI, on 95% Less Compute
January 27th, 2025Update: Is It Actually As Efficient As Claimed? Not Yet Sure, But Probably Via: Matthew Berman: — NVIDIA down over 11% pre-market. For the hosted version of DeepSeek that’s available for free, think of it as ChatCCP. Perplexity: Tell me about how DeepSeek R1 censors information about China: DeepSeek R1, a Chinese-developed AI model, incorporates […]
Has the Freefall Collapse of San Francisco Slowed?
January 25th, 2025Meanwhile, Oakland looks like it was hit by a neutron bomb: Via: Metal Leo:
Trump Signs Executive Order To Ban Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
January 24th, 2025Except to the extent required by law… [???] Via: Bitcoin Magazine: Today, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, titled “Strengthening American Leadership In Digital Financial Technology”. This EO officially banned the creation and issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the United States, defining a […]
Trump’s New Presidential Actions and Executive Orders
January 21st, 2025I’ve just started looking through Trump’s new Presidential Actions. I’m trying to pick the most important ones to read first because… There’s a lot. Trump took many emergency and executive actions within hours of the start of his second term, some of which are extremely significant: GUARANTEEING THE STATES PROTECTION AGAINST INVASION DESIGNATING CARTELS AND […]
Donald Trump Inauguration 2025 in Washington DC
January 20th, 2025It was astonishing to hear Trump’s withering remarks on the disastrous state of the U.S. right in front of Biden and Harris. Trump is going to sign hundreds of executive orders in the coming hours. He is going to declare two different national emergencies related to illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and energy supplies. […]
Trump Unveils “Official” MemeCoin Late Friday; 12 Hours Later It Is Up 16,000% To $30 Billion
January 18th, 2025At first, I thought his Truth and X accounts had been hacked. Nope. Via: ZeroHedge: My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW. Go to https://t.co/GX3ZxT5xyq — Have Fun! pic.twitter.com/flIKYyfBrC — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, […]
American ‘Oligarchy’ Decried by Biden Gained $1.5 Trillion in His Term
January 16th, 2025Tell us another one, Joe. Via: Bloomberg: The very richest Americans are among the biggest winners from President Joe Biden’s time in office, despite his farewell address warning of an “oligarchy” and a “tech industrial complex” that threaten US democracy. The 100 wealthiest Americans got more than $1.5 trillion richer over the last four years, […]
Tucker Carlson and Michael Shellenberger Break Down the California Fires
January 14th, 2025If you happen to be trying to wake someone up in Los Angeles, the fires might represent a teachable moment. Shellenberger comes from the left, so that might make the medicine more palatable, in general, to people in that area. On a much different topic, if you stick with this to the end, it appears […]
