Economic #bubbles keep rising one after the other, wiping off people's savings and investments as they pop. Why won't these corporations ever learn? Looks like they do! Guess who pays for their #bailouts? You, of course! They private the gains and socialize the losses. It's all by design!
The only way to rein in this madness is to tell these billionaires that they're on their own, the next time. Move your savings somewhere else, where it can't be just handed over to them.
Tom’s Hardware: IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — says there is ‘no way’ that infrastructure costs can turn a profit . “IBM CEO Arvind Krishna used an appearance on The Verge’s Decoder podcast to question whether the capital spending now underway in pursuit of AGI can ever pay for itself. Krishna said today’s figures for constructing and […]
" ... historically, the U.S. has been very good at #speculative #bubbles. This is one of our main core competencies here. They tend to be about real estate, or they tend to be about #technology, or they tend to be about loose #credit, and sometimes they even have a #government role with respect to some kind of perverse incentive that was created. This is the first #bubble to have all four. We’ve got a real estate component, we have a loose credit component, we have a technology component, we have a huge government component, because we’re told “we’re in an #existential #crisis with #China, and we must win this at any cost.” So all of those forces together means that you have people looking at it through four different silos and lenses, rather than just saying, like in the global financial crisis, “it’s always about real estate and credit.” Or in telecom, “it’s about technology and loosely some credit.” This is the first one where you end up in the rational bubble theory of all of this, where everyone feels like they’re doing something rational. Yet in aggregate, all of these different people who are looking at the problem through their own lenses are actually profligate contributors to the problem, because it’s the first one that combines all of the forces that historically have made some of the largest bubbles in U.S. history."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-paul-kedrosky
Mirror effect, bubbles reflects the sun.
#mirror #mirroreffect #bubbles #sun #trees #woods #scenery #reflections #ReflectionsInWater #water #air #soul #love #life #lessons #PhilosophyOfLife #ourdoors #abstract #abstractart #NatureIsArt #naturephotography #nature #time #direction #fun
NYC done up for the holly-daze! The jewelers would love for you to come buy some shiny baubles. This is diamond alley or the Diamond District, 47th & Ave of Amer.
The line to get in, this time, was really short. People are selling their old gold jewelry!
#NYC #Diamond #District #gold #silver #platinum #shiny #baubles #tiny #bubbles
Cleo of Mako
https://comms.centaurworks.art/
https://ko-fi.com/A8852D7
https://centaurworks.art/#linktree
Character (Cleo Sertori) © Jonathan M. Shiff
As voted by my Monthly Supporters, I drew an image of Cleo from H2O: Just Add Water. The theme for this poll was based on different IPs that helped shaped me like The Clone Wars and Madoka Magica and h2O was one of them that made me more recognize mermaids thanks to it's premiere on TeenNick here in the States, with Cleo being the one I related to the most. I wanted to make sure I did the character justice with my art style as I don't often do real life to anime art pieces. The magic was more just something for her to do and the mako mermaids always make me worried I get it right until it's shaded. The real challenge was the background as I wanted to both capture her underwater and the moon pool with the moon creeping over the abandoned volcano. It's probably my favorite part of the piece. So here's to you H20, being one of the IPs to help mold me into what I am today.
#MastoArt #mermaid #makomermaid #h2Ojustaddwater #watermagic #moonpool #brunette #bubbles #CleoSertori #art #art2025 #digitalart #digitalartwork #artwork #CentaurWorks #fanart #anime #animestyle #animeartstyle #clipstudiospaint
![Cleo ([She/Her]) inside a moon pool within an island, practicing her Hydrokinesis. While doing so, the moon is slowly going towards the opening in the mountain/extinct volcano as bubbles begin rising up.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/658/119/682/083/713/original/0e187f50bf32b1fd.jpg)
From the archive:
“Berlin Sky” — Bubbles and clouds above Berlin. (https://https://gdanmitchell.com/2019/03/07/berlin-sky/)
Photographed while walking in #berlin a few years ago.
Entraining Bubbles
Every time I fill a glass at my refrigerator, I watch how the falling jet creates a cloud of bubbles. The bubbles form when the impacting water jet pulls air in with it, though, as this video shows, the exact origins can vary. Here, researchers take a closer, slowed-down look at the situation; they connect disturbances in the jet and waves at its base to the entrained bubbles that form. (Video and image credit: S. Relph and K. Kiger)
#2024gofm #bubbles #entrainment #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #jets #physics #science
Reminder for anyone making lists of technologies which were deemed "inevitable", and seemed hard to avoid hearing about for a year or two - until they practically disappeared without a trace:
3D TVs
Add that to Macromedia Flash/ActiveX, UML diagrams, the metaverse, blockchain, and NFTs.
Macro bubbles
#photography, #365photodgraphy2025, #potd2025, #photoaday, #everydayphotographer, #photooftheday, #pad2025-334, #macro, #bubbles, #tinyspheres, #infiniteworlds
TechSpot: Nvidia denies Enron-style accounting accusations amid AI bubble fears. “In a recently uncovered memo to Wall Street investors, Nvidia rejected multiple accusations that it is mismanaging stock, misrepresenting the long-term usefulness of its chips, and cooking its books in a way similar to disgraced energy company Enron. Although Nvidia’s defense appears sound, the allegations […]
Audio-Streaming
Über TuneIn (oder ähnliche Dienste) und die Idee, das Streamen neu zu entdecken. Dabei denke ich an einen ähnlichen Effekt wie ich ihn durch den Weggang von amazon erlebt/erfahren habe. Als ich den Schritt von amazon weg ging, war da zuerst wirklich die Frage und durchaus auch eine gewisse Angst, ob ich nun manche Dinge einfach nicht mehr bekommen würde. Nach einer kurzen Zeit, in der ich Quellen nicht sofort ersetzen konnte, stellte sich ein Effekt ein, der mich bis heute in seiner vollen Umfänglichkeit und Komplxität, überrascht. Ich fühle so etwas wie wie eine Befreiung.
Und heute habe ich was ganz ähnliches gefühlt. Ich hörte beinahe den kompletten Tag BBC Radio 3. Beinahe keine Unterbrechungen durch Werbung bzw. Nachrichten. Wenn es Moderartion gab, wurde zur Musik gesprochen. Da wurde manchmal nur angesagt, manchmal wurde eingeordnet, manchmal fand einfach wohlwollende, nicht anbiedernde Bewunderung statt. Eine innere Stimme meldete sich und fragte mich, ob es nicht genau dieser Gedanke nicht selbst bestimmten Zufalls war, der Musik auswählte und den ich mal als den Radio-Moment beschreiben mag. Ich meine, was ist Audio-Streaming normalerweise? Wir hören spotify o.ä. vielleicht hören wir auch eine CD oder eine Platte. Immer hören wir etwas bewusst Ausgesuchtes. Die (Innen)Wand der eigenen Bubble ist unüberwindlich. Das mag manchmal, vielleicht sogar oft, angenehm sein. Aber, fehlt da nicht was? Brauchen wir nicht ab und an mal Stoß-Lüften? Brauchen wir nicht ab und an mal Dinge, die passieren und die uns mit Neuem versorgen, die uns überraschen und die uns im besten Fall zum Staunen bringen? Für mich kann ich sagen: Ja, das fehlt mir, bei aller Bequemlichkeit, die ununterbrochenes Dabei-Sein in der eigenen Bubble auch bedeuten mag. Immer nur Gewohntes wahrnehmen nimmt vielleicht sogar auf Dauer die Fähigkeit, sich auf neue Dinge einzustellen. Aber, brauchen wir nicht exakt diese Fähigkeit gerade heutzutage am Meisten?
Vielleicht ist das auf lange Sicht gesehen der Weg raus aus der Bubble, raus an die frische Luft. Ja, klaro, das kann auch mal nach Künstdünger riechen, aber, das ist eben so. Nicht alles, was uns erwartet, ist angenehm, wir müssen aber in der Lage bleiben, damit zumzugehen. Und auf lange Sicht hält uns das vital und (geistig) beweglich. Denke ich.
✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨
Such an amazing idea and magical!
Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!
#FotoVorschlag
'Eisige Zeiten // Icy times'
Detail einer gefrorenen Pfütze mit eingeschlossenen Luftbläschen
// Detail of a frozen #puddle with trapped air #bubbles
#Winter #Outdoors #Snow #Frozen #WinterVibes #Nature #Eis #Photography #Fotografie
