Russia is an economic afterthought. They pale in comparison to our historic allies, and they are meaningless as a counterweight to China. We are destroying good relationships for no benefit.

www.techcanbebetter.com/trump-foreig...

I wrote some words about rescue dogs and our dogs — www.techcanbebetter.com/dogs/

History doesn't repeat but it rhymes -- "...the beauty of the Nvidia model is that while the chip in this system is about 1/40th as powerful as the GB200, it’s still the same architecture that runs the same software." -- stratechery.com/2025/nvidia-...

"To me, it's less about the price itself – though it is way too large of an increase to do in one jump – but more so because it points to Google clearly not understanding what people grew to hate about cable.

Part of it was price, sure, but just as big of a problem was the lack of choice."

I give Pat Gelsinger a lot of credit for trying to save the company he loved. He was probably never going to climb that mountain -- Intel was in a tough spot in the industry, and never made the aggressive moves over the last 20+ years that might have given them a path forward.

Now that college football is overrun with media money and semi-professional athletes, I guess we will have to turn to high school football for the true spirit of amateurism -- www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/exc...

VW’s Rivian partnership is so smart. VW gets a great software asset at a time when Rivian needed money. The costs have just gone up dramatically for every other legacy automaker. Where are they going to get their software asset now?

Media and politics are deeply intertwined on the right. Donald Trump owns DJT, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News and Wall Street Journal unabashedly support Trump and the Republican Party, and Elon Musk’s X amplifies right-wing narratives without hesitation. (1/7)