CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@randahl Yes, except it took so long to reopen the Strait that most Arabic countries decided to give up on oil and instead realised - with a bit of infrastructure investment - they could export solar energy (and solar-charged batteries) a lot easier than the dead dinosaur goo.

@randahl At this point I assume Rutte is only staying in that role to further boost the sales potential of some biography deal he's got set up for when he finally quits/gets fired out of nowhere by tweet.

@GossiTheDog @jerry @SecurityWriter I can see the Daily Mail headline now: "Woke Leftie llama flouts UK laws"

@accidentalciso I thought everyone just worked while still lying in their beds these days??

@randahl You think he'd be able to spot money laundering better...

Oil price passes $100 a barrel for first time since 2022

If only there had been voices in society advocating against the continued need for pumping dead dinosaur juice out of the ground by a handful of very rich nations...

Someone in the #USA is going to have to explain it to me:

Tan suit on some random day is sacrilege... but a white, publicity-embroidered "USA" baseball cap when witnessing the repatriation of fallen service personnel is perfectly fine??

@GossiTheDog Sorry, I lie. I re-read the Anthropic/DoD story... apparently they're more concerned with fully autonomous and mass domestic surveillance.

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Does anyone remember the days when tech companies were actually concerned that their tech may be involved in killing people?

@GossiTheDog So the whole "Anthropic won't be used for targeting campaigns" line lasted less than a week?