Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦

Screenwriting professor at the University of Iowa. I write novels, screenplays, play D&D, and try not to drink too much caffeine.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@Sneketoshi These are fantastic!!

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@atrupar What a boot licker!

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders brutally mocks billionaires over his proposed wealth tax: “Poor Elon Musk would only have $737 billion left!”

Sen. Bernie Sanders just delivered one of the funniest, most savage takedowns of billionaire whining in recent memory.

While pushing for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy, Sanders mocked his opponents who claim such policies are too harsh on the poor, suffering billionaires:

“My opponents claim that this legislation is punitive and confiscatory. Oh, we’re just picking on these poor billionaires. I mean, my God, how cruel can you be?”

Then came the punchlines that had the room laughing:
“If that bill were in effect this year, Elon Musk would pay $39 billion more in taxes. This confiscatory, terrible, drastic, radical piece of legislation would leave Musk with just $737 billion left to survive on.

Now, I know you’re worried about him, but what do you think? Think he can make it on $737 billion?”
Of course, Bernie couldn’t let the Amazon and Washington Post owner off the hook:

“Jeff Bezos would owe about $14 billion more in taxes, but he would still have $265 billion to put a roof over his head.”

The crowd loved it. And seriously, who wouldn’t? The idea that taxing the richest people in human history a little more is somehow cruel while millions of Americans struggle to afford groceries is peak billionaire propaganda.

Bernie was referring to the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, which he and Rep. Ro Khanna introduced earlier this year. The bill would impose a 5 percent annual wealth tax on the roughly 940 Americans with a net worth of $1 billion or more.

Economists say this would raise trillions over a decade to fund direct payments to working families, expanded healthcare, affordable housing, and other priorities, while leaving even the richest Americans with hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth.

Bernie’s point is crystal clear: the ultra-wealthy have more money than any human being could possibly need in multiple lifetimes, yet they still cry victim the second anyone suggests they pay their fair share.
The ultra-rich can absolutely afford to pay more, and pretending otherwise is getting harder and harder to take seriously.

If you are on board with Bernie and his 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires, like and share this post.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@elonmusk @paulg Learn some freaking history and learn what words actually mean.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@Michell8632484 @LqLana @sawyer_kat18846 I'm not sure he knows what is right or wrong at all. But I think he knows he could get in trouble over it.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@DeborahAnnWoll Great job with the hubad training scene in DDBA! That takes practice!

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@floraselvatica @unlearn16tweet Achilles is barely in The Odyssey. Its just his spirit in the underworld.
It's Matt Damon as Odysseus you would be starting at for two hours.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@DavidMAntonelli Exactly!

[Ansley Brown @Ansleysgarden]

Today I went out to Fayette County where the SAME project that is threatening my moms property, is threatening many other home owners! Georgia Power wants to put their easement 25 feet from her home destroying EVERYTHING she has built since 2002. Save GA homesteads!!!

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@annamlulis @elonmusk You misspelled "human shield".

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@unlearn16tweet Original theatrical release all the way!
I do this w my college students too. We need to teach them what's important.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@unlearn16tweet This whole thing is so insane, it took me a minute to get the coral/seashell joke!

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@unlearn16tweet I think it's time for a lecture on different styles of pizza.
The research would be fun!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

@TheresaLubowitz I was supposed to leave Rise in Integrity….but that was not something I was going to do. I stuffed that little guy in a dry bag we had in our survival kit and hooked the bag onto my pressure suit.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@FurkanGozukara I like your posts and analysis, but please stop saying everything is an Absolute Bombshell. It's getting very overused and it ends up diluting the impact of the biggest news.

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@unlearn16tweet Gen X to Gen X, teacher to teacher...you are awesome!

[Bruce Elgin 🇺🇦 @BruceElgin]

@dieworkwear I'm of Scottish descent. Do you have any thoughts on kilts?

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@HQNewsNow Evil. It's pure evil.