For those who haven't got the backstory here, a GenAI company basically pre-ordered 40% of the world's RAM to lock out competitors... then Micron, who make their profits by making RAM, decided to also stop making RAM to chase GenAI fad.

So now PCs and servers are basically unaffordable. Nobody is quite sure what will happen.

$3k RAM running Chrome.exe, might sell my PC and buy a car

the ram in my gaming PC is worth ten times how much I paid for it a few months ago

RIP CIO IT budgets, just as a spoiler - they'll burn through it in the next few months.

Also RIP their blood pressure when they get their Azure bill and E5 renewal quote.

Other fun fact: Italian immigrants were lumped in with immigrants from other “undesirable” nations like… Russia and Poland.

To these prejudiced Americans, my people were considered the same as people from Italy and Spain! They talked about “South and Eastern Europe” as if it were one region with a homogenous culture or political landscape. Ridiculous!

I’ve been researching #Italian #immigration to the #US for my #novel and every other primary source I open from 1890-1915 gives me major Déjà vu to how the #Republicans talk about immigration today.

“They aren’t white enough”, “they are a drain on our resources”, “deported because they would be a public charge”, “uneducated”, “barbaric”, “increasing crime”.

All the arguments are the same. Some of the laws are the same. And yet people in 1890 were arguing about the lack of race purity and “dirty blood” of people from Europe who the current conservatives would wholeheartedly consider white Christians and part of the great West or whatever.

Really makes you see as clear as day how BS and arbitrary all of this racist and anti-immigration rhetoric is. It’s nonsense. Always was. Always will be.

People deserve dignity and respect. Immigrants deserve to be welcomed in and accommodated.

US media inching closer to admitting that the country is running concentration camps.