In Our Glorious AI Future, There Will Be No Such Thing as Money (For You) “In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money.”

Hard to read on a Monday morning… www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you’re “not all men,” maybe be especially tender and accommodating toward women until further notice. Or, depending on your proximal women, get out of their way, or take up arms with them. Ask them what they need right now and do it. We are not ok.

Kash has always been Kash.

New euphemism for "pure, unadulterated horseshit" just dropped

The Shocking Truth About This President That We’ve Been Sitting on for Months Is Now Available for Preorder “The suggestion that one has ‘sat on’ revelations of grave public importance until they could be accompanied by a handsome dust cover, embossed serif typogra...

"This line of inquiry fundamentally misunderstands the role of political access journalism, publishing, and, perhaps most critically of all, some pretty sweet jacket design."

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

BRENNAN: Did they mine the strait? Because Trump also said they might not have TURNER: You'll have to ask the president BRENNAN: That's the point. Congress hasn't been briefed TURNER: It's his tweet B: You're a member of oversight and armed services TURNER: You'll have to ask the president

WELKER: Would you support military action in Cuba if that were the way to lead to regime change? BYRON DONALDS: I'm not going to step in front of the president and any decisions he or Secretary Rubio are going to make on this front

Democrats should seriously consider a national ad campaign with clips of Republicans refusing to do their jobs, demanding they repay their congressional salaries.

Yes, should be noted that when Vance joins Kushner and Witkoff he is not joining a team of negotiators but a pair of war profiteers.

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell:

Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad.

The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Trump displaying exactly how much he cares about workers. I’m betting some Trump donor owns a bunch of nursing homes and doesn’t want to pay a fair wage.

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Trump admin temporarily blocks MN nursing home wage floor www.minnpost.com/state-governme…

The Costly Tax Loophole Atrium Health Is Too Chicken To Talk About A fried chicken restaurant in North Carolina operates on hospital-owned land, raising serious tax questions. This is a story about a loophole Atrium Health is too "chicken" to explain.

Hey Bluesky! My name is Zach. I just published an investigation into a hospital land tax loophole in NC involving a fried chicken restaurant and $110K+ in avoided taxes. I would really appreciate a repost so this reaches Atrium Health and state lawmakers! Thanks!

open.substack.com/pub/zachkahn...

Polls are open for Wisconsin's Supreme Court race. Here's why it matters for the whole country. Judge Chris Taylor's victory today will have national repercussions through at least 2042.

HEY: If you, or anyone you know, can vote in Wisconsin, this is the day to cast your ballot for Chris Taylor. The consequences of this election will echo for years.
www.benwikler.com/p/polls-are-...

Bernie Sanders on Lebanon

#ethniccleansing #landgrab #warcrimes #Netanyahuisawarcriminal

“We’re talking about young children in pigtails walking to school, witnessing their neighbors getting aggressively taken. Fear enveloping their whole little selves as they sit by the window on the bus, only to see hard-working neighbor put in handcuffs while his wife screams in desperation.”

Donald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Trump described to me on Air Force One on January 10, 2019 a way to casually crucify migrants on the border wall.

He’s not Christian. He’s inhuman.

His threat today on Easter to bomb Iranian civilians is consistent with his character.

People on here rightly are pissed by the way Democratic politicians post as if they are witnesses to what's happening instead of ACTORS in what's happening. It's absolutely pathetic and weak.

Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You'll Have to Pay for It Big box stores are happy to cram AI agents down your throat, but they absolutely will not be responsible for it when it messes up.

How to make a brand you’ve trashed even trashier. Because we weren’t already hating Target enough. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.