The Daily Show interview with Mark Cuban is fantastic. I agree, I agree, AI agree.

He really nails the problem with the post-2008 Silicon Valley rise of fascist bro culture. In particular he correctly points out Musk and Thiel types want to end democracy and flip the U.S. into a corporation, buying themselves a seat on its board of directors (e.g. oversee and give orders to a puppet President).

He also explains the opposite, how corporations playing fair can do good, delivering ethical values (e.g. transparency and accountability), making so many lives better. The proof… being his own new tech company rapidly fixing American healthcare.

And then his response to the hate spread by Musk is a master class in being a joyful leader.

It’s been a bit of a mystery, but Germany seems ready to make a case.

German authorities have issued an arrest warrant over the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines nearly two years ago, according to German news outlets ARD, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit.

In an investigation published Wednesday, the outlets reported that the suspect is a Ukrainian diving instructor, named only as Volodymyr Z. for privacy reasons.

Buried lede? You have to love German privacy laws. That’s a subtle dig on dictatorships like Russia where there is no real justice or law, just obedience.

Dan O’Dowd built his reputation on software safety, and then created an advocacy group The Dawn Project.

He has repeatedly and correctly flagged Tesla AI claims as a total fraud, a clear and present danger to society.

Now he’s expanding the criticism (PDF) to some other known dishonest big tech brands, such as OpenAI.

Each time a $10 billion Al face plants, its promoters say: “nothing is perfect, it’s young, it needs time to learn, these are early innings, it needs more data.” Sam Altman (whose Al couldn’t correctly list US states that ended with the letter Y) wants investors to give him $7 trillion to build a super Al.

The problem isn’t the tech, if you read between the lines, it’s the people running these companies. Why can unrepentant liars be CEOs in America?

Finally a good story for the mostly useless and infamously dangerous technology. Ukraine reports they have successfully deployed a Toyota hydrogen cell into Russian forces as a tactical explosive.

Ukrainian Forces use salvaged hydrogen fuel cell to decimate Russian position in Vovchansk

Toyota just a couple years ago had announced the design of a super light weight high density triple tank holding 5.6kg (670 megajoules) of hydrogen.

The fuel cell stack uses a solid polymer, as in the current Mirai, but has been made smaller and has fewer cells (330 instead of 370). Nonetheless, it sets a new record for specific power density at 5.4 kW/l (excluding end plates). Maximum power has thus risen from 114 kW to 128 kW.

That’s a lot of explosive danger, as Hindenburg might say. Who knew hydrogen tanks were so primed to be huge bombs?

Related: Hydrogen fueling stations, let alone distribution, are a total farce. Petroleum companies cruelly promoted hydrogen as a political tactic, knowing it was terrible for the environment, simply to slow or stop electric vehicle adoption.