Either way, it is just the usual clown act of relentlessly pandering to the nastiest instincts of the most selfish, spiteful and wilfully dense sections of the public, and then being very surprised when doing that makes the country much nastier, shittier and unpleasant for everyone.
It was the Busta Rimes, it was the Wusta Rhymes.
one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
An Iran war deal seemed close. Then Trump started posting on social media The presidents public comments add to the uncertainty around US-Iran negotiations
NO IT FUCKING DIDN'T, CNN!
Trump has been THE SINGULAR fucking source for every bit of coverage for the 'imminent peace deal'.
Any person w/ two brain cells and that followed the line coming from Tehran, WHICH NEVER FUCKING BUDGED, could tell you that this was NEVER GOING TO FUCKING HAPPEN!
how is this literally happening in real life
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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I would like to take some time to address the crayon-scribbled 'Manifesto' that Palantir dropped today;
A document which reads like it dropped directly from the id of the Billionaire class and their Conservative & Neoliberal flunkies.
Here is a full rebuttal, point for point. (🧵1/22)
I 1985 ble strålingsmaskinen Therac-25 lansert. Den «var tryggere», da den var 100% software-basert uten de mekaniske sikkerhetsmekanismene tidligere modeller hadde.
6 personer døde av overdose pga en kodefeil.
Historien blir fortalt i bransjen som en advarsel om å ikke stole blindt på teknologien
Norske medier har så langt vist liten vilje eller evne til å gjenkjenne og avdekke astroturfing, lobbykampanjer forkledd som grasrotaksjoner og ment å gi inntrykk av bred folkelig støtte når det egentlig er snever sektorlobby.
I Australia ruller mediene nå opp fossilbransjens spill. Big time 🧵
I'm gonna be honest I think it's probably bad that we're trying to give this extremely obviously nazi company all of our health data.
This is a pretty solid example as to why I think the whole system has to break beyond recognition for the good of humanity.
There will be pain, but we stand to lose far more by continuing a Status Quo that has complete capture of all airwaves and screens to create completely alternate realities.
A line of Nazis at the Nuremburg rally, throwing Nazi salutes. Their backs are to us. Facing them is a hand-tinted group of child laborers from the early 20th century, squinting suspiciously at them.
I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes our "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in the history of the human race.
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Ruter vil droppe nattruter hos tbanen, fordi det viste seg å være dyrt. Selv om reisende elsket det, og benyttet seg av det, og det rapporterte tallet uønskede hendelser gikk ned.
Men dyrt. Ruter har ikke råd.
De har derimot råd til 500 mill på AI, kvantedatautvikling og selvkjørende biler...
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social
And I’d add: the figures the guests are reading out here are death for Sensible Moderate Politics of the Tony Blair genus. Just forget it: unless something truly wild happens in the next ten years, that shit is *finished* in Britain, probably forever.
It might just be normal adult politics to the lads but to the kids, all this is absolutely fucking depraved. And I mean, I am old as hell but I think it’s the kids who have the more accurate perceptions here.
Why do young women hate men? Daily Politics Politics from the New Statesman > -..... • 5m For years, we have wrung our hands about the manosphere: the misogynist influencers like Andrew Tate exploiting a generation of disillusioned and impressionable lost boys. But what about radicalised young women? New, exclusive polling for the New Statesman has uncovered a huge difference in the political, economic and social outlook of women and men under 30 in Britain, created largely by women turning to the left. Should we be worried about the "femmosphere"? Joining me to discuss is Scarlett Maguire, founder and director of polling and research company Merlin Strategy, and our online editor Emily Lawford, whose brilliant report about this phenomenon will be out in this week's issue of the New Statesman.
Listening to this has done very little to dispel my perception that what’s happening here is: young women have been paying attention to what has been happening in politics and internationally, in a way that young men have not.
Cumberland Blues!
Not that I really want to travel to the US at the moment, but I’m still *very* jealous of the people who get to see this tour in person.
Jonas Sjöstedt säger: jag tycker vi gör ett byte. Vi ger bättre lön åt undersköterskor och sjuksköterskor och höjer skatten på kapitalinkomster och så ger vi kapitalägarna en applåd istället
Funkade under covid och funkar fortfarande
Gravy a song:
These boats were made for gravy
🎶 (Ozzy voice)
We’re going off the rails on this gravy train
Like, all of these grifts are interchangeable, because they are directly appealing to an audience who *falls for all of them*
The same guy, falling for grift after grift no matter how seemingly contradictory they should be
One grift collapses, they just dive into a side grift: ah damn being a transphobe isn't profitable anymore better switch to race science.
And very strangely, the audience for the new podcast or substack remains the same.
It's interesting that grifts are completely fungible nowadays. There is no real memory left, grifters can leap from one grift to another with barely a hitch.
Like, it's easier than ever for someone to Shaun King themselves constantly through every possible snake oil and woo and scam demographic
So, what would MS advice as the best strategy to reduce the risk of AI agents causing runaway license costs? Avoid the use of MS software, avoid the use of MS AI agents, or both?
Tom the Dancing Bug comic by Ruben Bolling from 2003-03-27, pointedly illustrating the principle of double taxation as a conservative talking point. THE BUSH TAX PLAN PROPOSES TO ELIMINATE THE INSIDIOUS DOUBLE TAX! THIS DOUBLE TAX OCCURS WHEN INCOME THAT'S ALREADY BEEN TAXED GETS TAXED AGAIN WHEN IT'S TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER PERSON OR ENTITY. Look at the following chain of transactions, and.. CAN YOU SPOT THE DOUBLE TAXATION? (A) EMPLOYEE receives paycheck and is taxed on the income. (B) EMPLOYEE uses some of that income to pay his PLUMBER, who is taxed on that income. (C) PLUMBER uses some of that income to buy DVDs from SHOP OWNER, who is taxed on that income. (D) SHOP OWNER uses some of that income to make a car payment to his BANK, which is taxed on that income. (E) BANK uses some of that income to pay a dividend to STOCKHOLDER, who is taxed on that income. (F) STOCKHOLDER uses some of that income to tip CADDY, who is taxed on that income. THAT'S RIGHT, THE ANSWER IS (E) - the transaction that involves the laxation of WEALTHY PEOPLE! THE PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS IS THE UNIQUE PHENOMENON IN WHICH THE I.R.S. TAXES INCOME THAT'S BEEN PREVIOUSLY TAXED BY ANOTHER, SEPARATE PERSON OR ENTITY!
Jepp
Neste ukes sak: Neida, jeg er ikke rik, faren min kjøpte bare noen enkle aksjer i et attraktivt selskap som senere har blitt masse verdt.
economists struggling with everyone feeling poorer despite good economic indicators while sociology has pretty easy answers for this one: everything has been in crisis for 6+ years and no one is confident about being able to afford to live in the near future, which is just what being poor feels like
🎵I wanna loppis night and day (bop bop, bop-bop)
You know my sjarm will not fade away (bop bop, bop-bop) 🎶