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And there it is.
After today’s market crash, CNBC pundits discuss how an AI government bailout will happen for national security.
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It needs to be stated Scott Galloway calling for the death of Elon Musk isn't normal commentary, he appears genuinely mentally disturbed and in need of psychiatric help. I don't understand how he still has corporate sponsors or gets invited to speak at major events
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Yep. 💯 this was about oligarchy vs people. And a metric on gentrification.
On average, Supervisor Connie Chan earned the votes of lower-income and working-class parts of San Francisco — but more ideologically leftist areas actually leaned toward Sen. Scott Wiener. sfchronicle.com/election/art…
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It's the last thing Dems want to hear, but a winning election message is one that co-opts the best parts of the Trump agenda -- border security, no racial preferences, tough on public safety, prosecute gov fraud -- plus traditional Dem ideas of safety net, tax the rich, end war.
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Last night was a referendum on the Iran war. The American people have emphatically rejected it, and the results at the polls confirmed what we’ve been warning about for months.
President Trump needs to understand that he still has the option to course correct on Iran. End the war now. Walk away, and commit the rest of his term to improving the lives of the American people.
Trump still has the power to do the right thing. He can still avert the disaster of a catastrophic escalation. He needs to focus on taking care of his fellow Americans if he has any hope in salvaging his legacy.
End the war. Put the American people first.
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Cornel West talks about the settler mentality of talking about a "nation of immigrants"
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Thankfully, @DSA_SF cares more about organizing the working class instead of YIMBY/TECHIE/Bike culture bullshit.
The people in the avenues are fighting gentrification & tech oligarchy. Socialists & San Franciscans who care about the working class shouldn't oppose them.
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The most relevant AI use case - the one driving every data center build-out - is that it makes everything more expensive. It maximizes corporate profits and zaps consumer surplus. It's a generational wealth transfer.
The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
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If The Atlantic magazine is doing guilt by association, here's a pic of its owner, Laurene Powell Jobs, with Ghislaine Maxwell.
In Defense of Guilt by Association:
Judging people by the company they keep is actually a very good determinant of their character.
Latest me, for @theatlantic:
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Stanford using AI to race-swap looksmax its students, Dartmouth provost writing AI essays, French literary community lauding an AI novel
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It's somehow appropriate that a guy from psychology, a field with a research study replication failure rate of between 60 and 80%, has appointed himself the watchdog of scholarly integrity for a dozen fields he knows nothing about. thenerve.news/p/steven-pinke…
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Finally, the truth is out. Anthropic wants an antitrust exemption so it can collude with OpenAI to deal with its burn rate.
Anthropic statement re the last 24 hours:
“We have always been transparent that AI will bring both enormous benefits and unprecedented risks. To address these risks, we continue to build models with some of the strongest safeguards in the industry. Anthropic has been a pioneer in mechanistic interpretability, the science of looking inside AI models to understand how they work, which is now being used to analyze and prevent incidents of AI misalignment across the industry. We were the first lab to publish a Responsible Scaling Policy, a public framework dedicated to mitigating catastrophic risks from AI models, and we continue to aggressively test our models for dangerous capabilities in areas like cybersecurity and biology, and publish what we learn for scrutiny and research. This work is also why we believe the world would benefit from the industry adopting a lawful, verifiable way to work together to pace how we release powerful models." - Anthropic spokesperson
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oh yeah Wiener’s whole base is like that pretty much. “we are ok with more dead Palestinians and Anthropic spying on leftists because zoning reform which Congress barely does anyway.” they don’t care about anything else
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When I think back on 9/11 25 years later, I remember this brief moment where a united people seemed possible again. The flags, the 90% approval rate for Bush, a palpable sense of solidarity.
And then a reckless administration smashed it all to pieces with an expensive, destructive foreign policy; open borders and amnesty efforts that damaged solidarity and impeded assimilation; terrible fiscal policies that included waging wars while cutting taxes at the same time (taxes went way up in WW2, that’s what you do when you fight a war); promoting an ‘ownership society’ that involved strong-arming banks to provide mortgages to people with bad credit, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; and then bailing out the banks that mostly caused the crisis, even making sure rich bankers got their bonuses, while people lost their homes.
In short - the Bush administration was the worst of my lifetime, and it squandered an incredible opportunity after a terrible tragedy. Everything we’ve seen since - the massive national debt, the divide and conquer racial politics of Obama, the Trump backlash - it all goes back to the Bush administration.
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George Washington on gambling: 'This is a vice which is productive of every possible evil...It is the child of Avarice—the brother of inequity—& father of Mischief—It has been the Ruin of many worthy familys—the loss of many a mans honor—& the cause of Suicide"
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Lololol someone built a website tracking Scott Wiener’s donors and dark money PACs.
Great work!
whoboughtwiener.com
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As an LA native, street vendors are not part of LA culture. That shit started like 10 years ago and natives fucking hate it
NEW: L.A. mayoral candidate @nithyavraman spoke with me one-on-one about the growing fight over street vendors — and how the city should regulate them.
Raman says vendors are part of L.A.’s culture and economy.
But there’s a major permitting gap: @FOXLA found roughly 50,000 vendors are estimated to operate across L.A., while just 687 had active permits as of Sept. 2024.