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Contract prices for DRAM and NAND have risen steeply through 2026 as AI server demand outran supply, pushing memory makers toward 40% to 50% operating margins on NAND in the first half of the year.

So, does that sound like a functioning market?

I’m sort of torn:

Is Whitaker just pandering to the reliably-votes-R base? Is this, the world-famous Buc-ee’s and Chick-Fil-A freedom, really going to impress them as a sacred principle that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Bill of Rights? Maybe!

Or is Whitaker pandering to the king, signaling that he (Whitaker) has just as much contempt for the peasants as anyone? “Look at the amazing slop you’ve inspired, sir, look at the peasants gobbling it up, sir,” he says, with a tear in his eye.

1080p stream in acceptable bitrate is around 1MB/s.

I think most of the privacy-violating and abuse-facilitating scenarios that we’re all too plausibly imagining could be served by the transmission and storage of even a single photograph per drive.

Why would car manufacturers even consider doing that? What is the purpose?

All of the existing consumer-surveillance tech seems to be focused on 1) Finding ways to make your attention more valuable to advertisers and 2) Selling information on your movements and proclivities to interested governments.

Pictures from inside a car could fit right in with those priorities. They could tell car makers, advertisers, insurers, and governments a lot about who really drives the car the most, that person’s demographics, taste in clothing, driving ability, distractability, fatigue levels, health issues, etc.

I should be clear: I’m absolutely speculating. But I don’t know how anyone might look at the landscape that exists today, with surveillance in our phones, our televisions, our music players, and our cars, and think that such speculation is far-fetched or unrealistic.

Her kids died over a year ago. Police said “the incident is being handled as a homicide” at the time. The kids’ autopsy was scheduled for over a year ago.

They only arrested her last week.