People are talking about Index and Pension funds having to buy SpaceX stock because of it getting listed on the NASDAQ but a lot of these funds have ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) exemptions that let them back out of investing in harmful things like tobacco, arms etc
When Elon rolled twitter into xAI into SpaceX he brought along some baggage: notably a massive class action suit against xAI because Grok generated tens of thousands of CSAM images in a couple weeks. If this isn't an ESG exemption I don't know what is
https://t.co/Yna2hMHV1L
All 3 Toronto cops charged in the alleged sexual assault and assault of a sex worker in Spain are now back in Canada, suspended with pay: chief https://t.co/ym5HUpQl3g
@DungeonNoir To be fair For All Mankind starts off fine it just gets really goofy, which makes sense since it's Ronald Moore of Battlestar Galactica fame.
We're getting a Neuromancer and a Blade Runner series in a few months though so there's hope!
Taiwan is literally East Asian Israel; a quirk of history that came about because China, Japan, and America all found the island strategically useful. The majority of people who live there are settlers who displaced the natives in living memory!
This paper (Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens, 2014) has one of the most damning results I've ever seen. They looked at 1,779 distinct policy cases from 1981 to 2002, who supported them and the result
https://t.co/HMeYCQ8LLz