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TIL that some select economies go like this in terms of nominal GDP:
USA - 30 trillion USD
EU - 21 trillion
China - 19 trillion
India - 4 trillion
UK - 4 trillion
Mercosur - 3 trillion
Russia - 2.5 trillion
EU candidates - 2 trillion (although most of it is Turkey)
EFTA - 1.5 trillion
As a comparison, the whole of Africa gets to about 3 trillion.

The Kremlin offered Trump $12 trillion as part of the STA (“selling air”) strategy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/the-kremlin-offered-trump-trillion.html

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- Christmas with Handel
Hannah French visits Handel Hendrix House to explore how Handel may have celebrated his Christmases in 18th-century London.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ng9x

"Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover"
#Cambodia #Environment #Oceans

Seafloor survey in Cambodia finds simple anti-trawling blocks help seagrass recover
A recent study provides the first detailed map of Cambodia’s coastal seafloor habitats and finds that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass meadows recover and support small-scale fishers in the Kep Marine Fisheries Management Area in the Gulf of Thailand. The study was published in Frontiers in Marine Science by researchers from Marine Conservation […]

Trump’s economic agenda has created a new level of volatility for the federal budget,
as the Supreme Court ruling against many of his tariffs appeared to create a trillion-dollar hole on Friday morning that Trump quickly said he could fill.
Mr. Trump has reshaped the country’s fiscal situation since he took office last year.
He passed an expensive income tax cut that economists warned could put the already-indebted nation on an even more perilous path.
But he also ins…

Tariff Whiplash Clouds Outlook for Federal Budget
The tariffs thrown out by the Supreme Court had become an important revenue source. President Trump said he could replace that money with other levies.

It's Wolfenstein 1D. A thrilling run, beating episode one in like, a minute 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvECzuaYn0

Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B in total compute spend by 2030, months after Sam Altman touted $1.4T in infrastructure commitments (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-resets-spend-expectations-t…

OpenAI resets spending expectations, tells investors compute target is around $600 billion by 2030
OpenAI told investors it's targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030, trying to clarify its plans after touting a $1.4 trillion figure.

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116109430224379547
A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?
There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”

Trillions of dollars are being invested in AI, while end users and consumers scramble looking for articles such as "How to turn off AI tools like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and more" https://www.consumerreports.org/…

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

Russia publicly pitches $14 trillion economic deal to Trump tied to lifting US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/russia-publicly-pitches-trillion-economic.html