holy fucking shit

2025 Fertility Rate (OECD countries) 
Replacement level = 2.1 children per woman 🇰🇷 South Korea — 0.7
🇨🇱 Chile — 1.1
🇮🇹 Italy — 1.2
🇱🇹 Lithuania — 1.2
🇯🇵 Japan — 1.2
🇪🇸 Spain — 1.2
🇫🇮 Finland — 1.3
🇵🇱 Poland — 1.3
🇨🇷 Costa Rica — 1.3
🇦🇹 Austria — 1.3
🇨🇦 Canada — 1.3

Michelin stars are useful as a blacklist for restaurants: chefs trying to impress other chefs, & insecure newly enriched New York private equity pple or Ukraino-Russians fooled to buy modern art thinking it is art and who believe that decorative modern art can be edible.

How stock market bubbles work:

Very interesting data about US / China & Taiwan: - Energy Constraints: Data centers represent only 4–8% of US energy demand but account for 67% of future growth. OpenAI's partnerships require 30.5 GW of new capacity, equivalent to 75% of US nuclear peak output, yet the US added

Germany has made what may be the biggest, irreversible mistake in modern European history. To make matters worse, the decision was taken to dismantle critical infrastructure as quickly as possible, ensuring the choice could never be undone. When ideology, politics, and

One of the most underrated risks out there #fragility

fiat money Fucking amoeba it is about the turkey not the country Türkiye.

To those concerned about US tech dominance in Europe: I have some news. - Practically all .COM domains are managed by Verisign (USA) and subject to US laws - The .AI domains are managed by Anguilla, a tiny island in the Caribbean. 😉

This is nearly inconceivable that one of the most powerful economies on Earth would do this intentionally to itself This is why policy is so important When you make bad decisions, even if motivated by "good" intentions, they can have existential repercussions

French police is currently raiding X’s office in Paris. France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.

IF AI is a deflationary catalyst. As productivity sky-rockets, valuation multiples will compress alongside P/E ratios. IF SO THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IS DOOMED When every human can potentially become a "software house" on their own, the traditional rules no longer apply. Maestro

He's wrong, specifically in SMB SAAS, margin will be so compressed there that literally everyone will build his own SAAS.

#saasmageddon #defaltion

Dan Code itself will go away in favor of just making the binary directly. The next step after that is direct, real-time pixel generation by the neural net.

With all of the SaaS they have on their books, this is slowly going to get worse

Anthropic press releases are the new Trump tweets

Someone asked me "what is China's optimal strategy?" My answer: having a cup of tea to kill time.

What are the future technologies that could potentially replace Neural Networks and LLMs? The one and only Donald Hoffman (the scientist behind the theory that what we see isn't real and that space and time can be avoided in new mathematical models) thinks that, thanks to 'trace