This 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 about 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 midterm 👏🏼 elections

It’s all a sham and a foreign influence operation as we have been saying on @pivotpod.bsky.social for a while now.

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots

This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons.

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Today marks Fibonacci Day (11/23), a date that reflects the famous numerical sequence 1, 1, 2, 3. This sequence appears in mathematics, nature, architecture, and many scientific phenomena, reminding us of the elegance and order underlying complex systems.

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

Anand G. >>> Douthat
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This is an AOC style burn! 👇👇👇

This past week, the Chinese learned

1) exactly where Trump's pain points are;

2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches;

and

3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president.

Highly useful information.

Trump’s tariffs pushed the U.S. uncomfortably close to a financial crisis before pause The bond market movements raised fears that investors were ditching U.S. government bonds amid a gathering panic over Trump’s assault on global trade.

It was the bonds and not any alleged Trump plan — he got spooked and rightly so www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bingo

Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments to Unify Data to Feed AI Oracle Corp.’s co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison said governments should consolidate all national data for consumption by artificial intelligence models, calling this step the “missing link” for t...

Always always always the real game, as I have said. They want the data, as dangerous as this will inevitably be. They don’t care, these ceaseless borgs. trib.al/ctRDVKs

Literally have been telling this dude this for a very long time. Keep up, Chuck. Also: WTF are you going to do about it?

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

The FBI is now “functionally decapitated”—all of its senior leaders have been removed. The agency’s last line of defense against this ongoing purge is its field agents.

How on earth are they gutting an agency whose job is to keep America and Americans safe?! 😡🤬

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@murray.senate.gov explain to me, like I’m 5, how billionaire civilian from South Africa, who illegally overstayed his student visa, has total control of the United States while our leaders just sit there, watching it all burn to the ground. #usaid #treasury #musk #fraud @housedemocrats.bsky.social

WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in DOGE

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#Musk and his team at #DOGE now have control over the US government’s payments system (which is responsible for disbursing federal funds like grants, SS & Medicare benefits, etc.) and the financial information of ALL Americans—including our Social Security numbers. (1/2)

From r/fednews

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

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These are the dems that voted to confirm the guy that just handed the Treasury to Musk:
Blunt Rochester
Booker
Cantwell
Coons
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Hickenlooper
Kaine
Kelly
King (Independent)
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner

This is like watching the Russian bureaucrats fall into line. Except this one is especially stupid.

I was four when the Bicentennial happened, so I don't remember any of it. I only hope the country is recognizable for the 250th.

The language of birds and comparative death studies What does the natural world care about elections and other human activities that feel so consequential to us? Two recent New Yorker articles about animals captivated me; they hit on similar themes …

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A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.

This is what oligarchy looks like.