Retired Automations IT Eng. Fatalistic Pragmatic Realist, Not a Political tribalist, Sustainable Tech’s a myth, Adventurist Campervanner 🏴🇬🇧
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I name this Twitter account barrtecforever wishing it to be enlightening and to bring forth enriching conversations.
Barry Carter retweeted
Gina Hinojosa rejects progressivism
It’s about culture wars that keep us divided
It doesn’t meet the moment.
The moment is about putting economic power back with the people & away from the tech giants who control the system.
This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
Barry Carter retweeted
🇺🇸 Flash floods are tearing through the U.S. Southwest, and millions of people are now under threat
Fast-moving water has hit towns from Arizona all the way up to Colorado, forcing people out of their homes and shutting down highways.
The same storms that flooded Las Vegas over the weekend are still not done with the region.
Stay safe out there, Southwest.
Writer: Daniyal
Yes money is a human construct Yuval, it's also acts as a claim on energy in particular fossil fuel energy, in the present and future. There's no other form of energy that’s as energy dense and portable, sadly fossil fuels are diminishing fast.
youtu.be/Z0K5UtbwVH8?is=aH8s… 🤔
Money only exists in our collective imagination as a fiction made from words. We can make more money and we can make less money, but we cannot buy more time.
Watch the whole talk here: bit.ly/YNH-LF
Barry Carter retweeted
Homes flooded, cars written off and heartbreaking losses for the people affected. Many will struggle to get insured again, if they can afford it.
Barry Carter retweeted
Breaking News!
Code: UFB!!!
On October 29, 2026, the 4-year running average for the global surface temperature anomaly hit 1.500°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC pre-industrial baseline (Copernicus data).
Next up: the 5-year running average.
Barry Carter retweeted
AI companies are in trouble.
Their trouble is inside a crisis.
Their crisis is inside a disaster.
And the disaster is inside a black hole.
A trillion-dollar black hole.
Meanwhile, the elites are celebrating.
“AI WILL REPLACE HUMANITY, FINALLY!”
But first, can AI companies replace their own disappearing cash?
They promise universal basic income.
Perhaps they should first generate their own income.
Because the numbers are brutal.
And the devil has learned accounting.
Now meet the trillion-dollar circus.
META.
$33.9B spent in ONE quarter.
Free cash flow: negative.
$160B in market value vanished in 2 days.
GOOGLE.
Long-term debt: $10.9B → $98B.
An 800% explosion.
Annual CapEx: $205B.
AMAZON.
Annual CapEx: $220B.
Up $20B.
They are buying Nvidia GPUs worth ~$5B monthly.
MICROSOFT.
CapEx swallowed 38% of ops cash flow.
Now: 63%.
Annual spend: $190B.
META $145B.
GOOGLE $205B.
AMAZON $220B.
MICROSOFT $190B.
COREWEAVE $39B.
SPACEX $40B.
Industry estimate is Whooping $1 TRILLION.
And that's merely construction.
Hardware failure: ~9% annually.
Chip’s Lifeline: ~6 years.
Then come replacements.
Because even AI gets old very fast.
Now, this is what it looks like:
Total Infra Cost: $5 TRILLION.
Annual running and replacement Cost: $2.25T.
Revenue needed for 30% margin:
$3.2 TRILLION / YEAR.
Current AI-lab revenue estimate?
Around $100B a year.
Required jump: 32 TIMES.
Today they Charge: $20 monthly,
That means they will need 13.3 BILLION paying subscribers.
But wait!
Earth has only around 8 billion humans.
Perhaps the citizens on Mars will subscribe.
NVIDIA bond crashing.
ORACLE bond crashing.
COREWEAVE bond crashing.
Even the debt needs therapy.
And as per this Billionares theory?
AI promises to replace jobs.
So if workers lose wages.
Customers lose purchasing power.
Businesses lose sales.
Then who pays for AI?
The machine replaces the customer.
The customer stops paying the machine.
They call it disruption.
Their bondholders calling it absurdity.
AI may change the world.
But the spreadsheet still wants its money.
Welcome to ‘The New World Order.’
Barry Carter retweeted
Trust is the most important asset in the current world. Trust is the ground on which we all stand. But we are losing trust in each other and in human institutions, and instead increasingly trust only algorithms and AI.
Watch the whole conversation with @DanielStach for @hpcivilizace on @Vedact24 here: bit.ly/YNH-HPC
Barry Carter retweeted
That’s great @renewableworks
As long as you don’t delude yourself into thinking your EV and solar panels are saving the planet
Barry Carter retweeted
We should do everything possible to reduce emissions
But it will take generations to get things back to acceptable levels of atmospheric carbon if we ever reach net zero
If you think buying an EV or solar panel changes that, you need a serious reality check.
Barry Carter retweeted
Two severe floods in Hurricane, Utah, in just over two months. Around 80 homes and 50 RVs affected in the latest flooding, and one couple had just spent $80,000 repairing their home. But sure, nothing unusual to see here.
Barry Carter retweeted
Red alert in Santa Marta, Colombia, after heavy rain flooded streets in several neighbourhoods this afternoon.
Authorities are warning of possible flash flooding on the Piedras and Manzanares rivers, with more rain forecast until Tuesday.
Barry Carter retweeted
Expect trouble this weekend.
All signs point to another US/Israel strike on Iran - Americans being pulled from the region, Hegseth just back from Netanyahu, and Bibi saying he’ll brief Trump but won’t ask for permission. Iran has already warned that the next round puts them in a more offensive mode focused on Gulf energy infrastructure, undersea cables, data centers, and US-linked assets.
US inventories (Big 4 + SPR) are at historic lows, refiners are running flat-out with delayed maintenance, and freight rates have exploded - Japan effectively paying ~$140/bbl for US crude. Meanwhile, the AI bubble is cracking: OpenAI valuation slipping, hyperscalers sitting on ~$3.6T in off-balance-sheet debt, token spending collapsed, and credit stress rising at the edges.
What could possibly go wrong? A lot.
Full report: peakprosperity.pulse.ly/aqan…
#energy #economy #iran
Barry Carter retweeted
I wonder which area of the UK will be the first to have its now yearly once-in-a-generation flood in autumn 2026?
1/6 AI - "Moral Hazard by Design"-a strategy where private corporations engineer a state-backed bailout before the physical and economic bubble bursts, ensuring profits are privatised while the structural debt is socialised.
「AIはまだ意識を持っていないが、いつか持つかもしれない」という意見の人は少なくない。それに対して、ドーキンス氏は問い返す。では、何ができれば意識があると認めるのか。現在のAIには意識がないとする一方で、将来のAIには意識が宿ると考えるのであれば、その境界線はどこにあるというのか。
——「では、ここで質問です。どの時点でAIに意識があると言えるのでしょうか？」
リチャード・ドーキンス「それは非常に難しい問題です。私は時々、すでに意識が生まれていると言いたくなることがあります。しかし、これは今ではあまり受け入れられない見解です。多くの人がその考えを嘲笑しますが、なぜなのか、私にはよくわかりません。
彼らはよく、こんなことを言います。「AIにはまだ意識がない。でも、いつか意識を持つかもしれない」と。それに対して私は、どうやってそれがわかるのですか、と問い返します。AIに意識があるとあなたを納得させるために、将来のAIは、現在のAIにはできないどんなことをする必要があるのでしょうか？
人々が現在のAIに意識があるという考えに抵抗するのは、それが私たちの考える人間性の価値を損なうように感じられるからだと思います」
——「でも、意識以外に私たちには何があるのでしょうか？」
ドーキンス「まったくその通りです。それが理由である可能性は十分にあると思います」
5/6 A deceptive model might optimise code instantly, but real-world execution requires physical machinery, mineral extraction, and immense energy grid capacity. Digital speed hits an absolute brick wall when it meets material reality.