Weeping for the Mathematicians

Before we get into AI stuff, I do want to talk a little bit about AI stuff today.

Before we get into it, I want to talk about Russia-Ukraine because...

Stuff's happening in that conflict as usual.

We had some big news of the last week.

So President Trump has decided to basically import directly Russian diesel fuel.

The U.S., as you may know, Marcus, is having some high energy costs here.

And if you ask the Trump administration what is causing those high energy costs, they will say – I don't know, Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil, which we're not supposed to be importing anyway, I guess.

But whatever.

So it's clearly the issue is Russia somehow.

So in order to solve the problem of very expensive diesel fuel, this has nothing to do with the Middle East.

In order to solve this problem, we have to directly import... or at least remove sanctions on Russian diesel, which will reduce the overall price of diesel generally, and then also we're going to import some directly ourselves, thus funneling US dollars directly to Russia, right? This is like, let's just write them a check kind of a situation.

And so that happened.

Congresspeople on both sides of the aisle have, I think, widely condemned this idea

as a bad idea.

And then at the same time, President Trump is criticizing Ukraine for having been attacking Russian energy infrastructure.

President Trump said Ukraine needs to get a new leader, someone who's willing to make a deal.

This comes, of course, as Russia is escalating its energy infrastructure attacks on Ukraine.

There was a big strike last night as we're recording.

I think maybe the largest ballistic missile attack on Kiev since the war began.

Plunging much of Kiev into darkness, no power.

These are attacks on energy infrastructure primarily as we get into the winter months or we start to move toward the winter months in the region.

At the same time, Marcus, issues with Starlink.

Did you see this?

No, I missed that one.

What's happening with Starlink?

Before we get into AI stuff, I do want to talk a little bit about AI stuff today.

Before we get into it, I want to talk about Russia-Ukraine because...

Stuff's happening in that conflict as usual.

We had some big news of the last week.

So President Trump has decided to basically import directly Russian diesel fuel.

The U.S., as you may know, Marcus, is having some high energy costs here.

And if you ask the Trump administration what is causing those high energy costs, they will say – I don't know, Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil, which we're not supposed to be importing anyway, I guess.

But whatever.

So it's clearly the issue is Russia somehow.

So in order to solve the problem of very expensive diesel fuel, this has nothing to do with the Middle East.

In order to solve this problem, we have to directly import... or at least remove sanctions on Russian diesel, which will reduce the overall price of diesel generally, and then also we're going to import some directly ourselves, thus funneling US dollars directly to Russia, right? This is like, let's just write them a check kind of a situation.

And so that happened.

Congresspeople on both sides of the aisle have, I think, widely condemned this idea

as a bad idea.

And then at the same time, President Trump is criticizing Ukraine for having been attacking Russian energy infrastructure.

President Trump said Ukraine needs to get a new leader, someone who's willing to make a deal.

This comes, of course, as Russia is escalating its energy infrastructure attacks on Ukraine.

There was a big strike last night as we're recording.

I think maybe the largest ballistic missile attack on Kiev since the war began.

Plunging much of Kiev into darkness, no power.

These are attacks on energy infrastructure primarily as we get into the winter months or we start to move toward the winter months in the region.

At the same time, Marcus, issues with Starlink.

Did you see this?

No, I missed that one.

What's happening with Starlink?