Journalists are part of the problem | @destiny
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... and in #GoodNews;
"BYD recently revealed new fast-charging technology that can add 250 miles of range with a 5 minute charge. Significantly faster than Tesla and matching the convenience of a regular [ICE] car."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
"President Trump replaced a number of government officials who had been overseeing many of these investigations, and according to the Washington Post, Elon Musk's DOGE was able to lay off staff at a number of agencies that regulate his businesses."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
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"Tesla ... faced a criminal fraud investigation, and a related SEC investigation, into exaggerated claims about the full self-driving capability of it's vehicles. It faced a joint investigation by the DoJ and SEC into misuse of company resources, over plans to build a private residence for Musk using company funds."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
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If Trump installs a loyalist as Fed Chair... 😬 | @destiny
"The takeaway from this video is that it's an oversimplification to say that all regulation is good, or that all regulation is bad. Regulations are usually put in place for food reasons. But over time it makes sense to revisit them, analyse the outcomes, and see if the regulations are providing the benefits that were promised. And if they're causing any unforseen problems or costs".
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
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"Thanks for tuning into this week's podcast. If you found it interesting, please send a link to a friend. As there's no podcast algorithm, and they just grow by word of mouth."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
Same with blogs, and fediverse accounts. For me, the absence of those algorithms is a feature, not a bug.
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"DeepSeek used a 'mixture of experts' model. Which means rather than training one large model, they trained tens of smaller ones, on more specific data, that then gets switched on and off as needed."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
To the degree that #MOLE Training will be a useful technology in the long term, I think this is how it will be used. Models that are intensively trained on narrow areas to create niche expert systems. The AGI talk is pure sales hype.
great video from #PatrickBoyle about #TrumpCoin, Javier Milei's #LIBRA, and the general scourge of #memecoin grift plaguing the world.
"Instead, many countries have adopted lopsided industrial policies that allow them to export much more than they import. Their objective is not to raise the standard of living of their citizens. But to accumulate power and wealth by buying assets abroad."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Trumps-Tariff-Wars---What-Happens-Next-e2ulbbc
This was a key part of Reaganomics. Huge chunks of the NZ economy ended up owned by US capitalists by the end of the 1990s. Now China is following a similar playbook.
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"North American car manufacturing is highly integrated between the three countries [US, Canada, Mexico], with parts going back and forth across borders as many as seven times during the production process."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Trumps-Tariff-Wars---What-Happens-Next-e2ulbbc
Why all this back and forth? Surely it would use less resources to produce a complete vehicle at one manufacturing complex? Even if you're importing specialist parts, they only need to cross the border once.
"Mexico provides almost 2/3 of all US fruit and vegetable imports. So food prices would be hit right away"
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Trumps-Tariff-Wars---What-Happens-Next-e2ulbbc
If we're talking about fresh fruit and veges ... why is the US importing these at all? Especially in enough volume for trade issues to affect prices.
Surely you get fresher produce when it's grown as close as possible to where it's eaten? Not to mention healthier local economies, more resilient supply chains, and lower carbon emissions.
Intriguing. Patrick Boyle did a good analysis of tariffs late last year, looking at both potential pros and cons, and busting a few common myths;
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Can-Trumps-Tariffs-Work-e2s4ab3
Yet here, only 2 months later, he's back to singing from the neoclassical songbook;
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Trumps-Tariff-Wars---What-Happens-Next-e2ulbbc
Eg assuming that tariffs will raise prices. Which is not a given, as he said in the episode at the first link.
"Now we might need to fact-check some of what Marc [Andreeson, VC, of Andreeson-Horowitz] just said."
#PatrickBoyle, 2024
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Yotta-Bank--The-Problem-with-Fintech-e2rnc0h
You could. Or you could save a lot of time by assuming that if his mouth is moving, he's telling blatant porkies, like the grifter he is.
DeepSeek - How a Chinese AI Startup Shook Silicon Valley - Patrick Boyle
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Tech Bro Innovation
Patrick Boyle in “Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist”Zum Jahresende ist an sich immer eine gute Zeit, sich über das kommende Jahr Gedanken zu machen. Und nicht nur das, auch zurückblicken ist auch immer eine gute Idee, damit man die gleichen Fehler im neuen Jahr nicht wiederholt.
Da ich ja nun in Tech arbeite, habe ich Tech-Jahresrückblicke geschaut. Und ich bin bei diesem Video von Patrick Boyle hängengeblieben. Wegen dem Titel, “Tech Bros inveting things that already exist”.
Patrick ist zwar im Finanzsektor beheimatet, aber er fasst ein Phänomen hervorragend zusammen, das ich bisher im wesentlichen nur als Bauchgefühl mit mir herumgetragen habe: dass viel Quatsch erfunden wird, der bei Lichte betrachtet schon existiert. Eine Saftpresse, Trinkflaschen für die es Apps gibt, solchen Dinge. Ich bin ja selbst nicht unschuldig daran, dass es Smart Lighting gibt.
Gerade weil Innovation oft nicht gleich als “Disruptiv” zu erkennen ist, wird das Wort viel zu inflationär benutzt, noch bevor eine Innovation sich als solche bewiesen hat.
Und im Rückblick fällt dann auf, dass viel vermeintliche Innovation oft einfach nur eine schlechte Wiederholung ist. Tech macht halt nicht alles besser.
Even though Patrick Boyle starts with some *very* different assumptions to mine about political economy - Boyle is still wedded to the founding myths of the Washington Consensus - this is a remarkably thoughtful and well balanced analysis of some of the pros and cons of the US imposing tariffs on selected imports;
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pb183/episodes/Yotta-Bank--The-Problem-with-Fintech-e2rnc0h
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Patrick Boyle does a good job giving #a16z chief bro and Nerd Reich mastermind Marc Andreessen a hard time for the insane statements made by the latter on the Joe Rogan Experience a few days ago.
tl;dr Andreessen claimed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needs to be eliminated because it's "Elizabeth Warren's personal agency that exists to terrorize fintech companies to prevent them from competing from the big banks" (I'm paraphrasing).
Conveniently unmentioned is that one of #a16z's big fintech investments, #Synapse, has lost something like $50-100 million in customer funds and is exactly the kind of company the #CFPB just announced it would try to regulate.
Andreessen's whole performance on Rogan was truly disgusting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAFlRSftffc
#JoeRogan #MarcAndreessen #fintech #Trump #Election2024 #ElonMusk #TheNerdReich #Yotta #PatrickBoyle
#Humor about the hypocritical "Dept of Govt Efficiency" given:
1️⃣ Govt Accountability Office already finds inefficiencies
2️⃣ Having 2 leaders makes dept inherently inefficient
✅ Can #ElonMusk Cut $2T From US Budget? - #PatrickBoyle
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5fvDfDDZ4Ms&si=oP3jzkVPvfC42LDT
Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist - Patrick Boyle
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