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I’m sweaty

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.

All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The top 6 health insurers reported $15.4B in profit for Q1.

UnitedHealth: $6.28B
CVS Health /Aetna: $2.94B
Elevance: $1.76B
Cigna: $1.7B
Centene: $1.54B
Humana $1.18B

They raised premiums, cut benefits. narrowed networks and exited markets to satisfy Wall Street.

Their profits are your denied claims and coverage cuts.

Demand Medicare for All.

[carter hambley @carterhambley]

sad to hear. crab fishing has brought me and my wife closer than ever

[kmarc @KeithMarcoccia]

@FanaticsCasino Gunther!

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Any DC consultant who says we should throw trans kids or immigrants under the bus should be purged from the party payroll.

We do not sell people out. Because a politics that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out.

[Spider-Fan77 @spider_fan77]

@PanasonicDX4500

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

There is no “good” ICE. Every Democrat should take the position of abolishing it, replacing it, and prosecuting their crimes to the fullest extent of the law.

Systematic murders cannot be reformed.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is a high-coherence whistleblower post confirming what many suspected but couldn’t prove:

That food delivery apps are algorithmically exploiting both drivers and customers through engineered psychological manipulation and concealed systemic fraud.

Here’s the structural breakdown:

1. “Priority Delivery” is algorithmic gaslighting

•The fee does not increase delivery speed.

•The app slows down non-priority orders to make paid orders appear faster.

•The value is created by worsening the baseline, not improving the premium tier.

•Psychological manipulation is sold as a service.

2. “Desperation Score” is weaponized behavioral profiling

•Drivers are scored based on how quickly and consistently they accept low-paying orders.

•Those who accept garbage orders are labeled as “high desperation.”

•Once tagged, they are withheld from better-paying orders to extract maximum labor for minimum cost.

•It’s a digital caste system governed by internal compliance.

3. “Benefit Fees” are semantic laundering

•Regulatory fees framed as driver protection are redirected to anti-union legal funds.

•Customers believe they’re helping drivers.

•They’re funding corporate legal defense.

4. “Tip Theft 2.0” is legalized predictive exploitation

•Tip data is used to lower base pay predictions.

•The algorithm predicts what you’ll tip, then reduces the company’s contribution.

•Generosity is used as a subsidy mechanism to shift wage burden to the customer.

•The illusion of transparency replaces actual fairness.

5. The internal schema dehumanizes

•Drivers are referred to as “human assets” in system architecture.

•Language reinforces the view that labor nodes are expendable game tokens.

•Planning meetings optimize for fractional margin gains over human dignity.

6. The strategy is denial-of-agency through opacity

•Everything is legal because nothing is disclosed.

•Fees, scores, dispatch logic, and base pay algorithms are black boxes.

•Drivers and customers are both blindfolded while the system feeds on behavioral data.

7. This is not an exception. It’s a blueprint

•This pattern matches what’s happening in rideshare, gig writing, content moderation, and customer service.

•What looks like a scam is actually a platform logic: monetize desperation, mask extraction, externalize moral cost.

This is a glimpse into the structure of algorithmic exploitation as it currently operates:
•Incentive distortion
•Asymmetry of information
•Exploitation masked as choice
•Optimization that crushes the human variable

This leak is coherent with every other structural exploit we’ve detected.

It is not anomalous.

It is the system.

[aLec robBins @alecrobbins]

resolutions

[kmarc @KeithMarcoccia]

@SaffronOlive

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

An extraordinary thing to say after we had a Dem trifecta a few years ago and its center-left agenda was dutifully backed by Bernie and the left and tanked by two intransigent centrists. This scenario literally *just* happened and it didn’t produce the outcome you’re predicting!

[trash jones @jzux]

they should invent a reverse gift card you can give to your enemies. eat shit Ron now you owe Applebee's $50

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

If the Stranger Things writers wrote Lord of the Rings:

GANDALF: OK, so we've got to put the smackdown on this Ring thing. It can only be destroyed -

GIMLI: Don't worry - I got this. *hits it with an axe and falls* Ow.

GANDALF: - in the fires of Mount Doom.

BOROMIR: I just don't get it. Why can't we just fire this bad boy up and use it against Sauron? Boom. Headshot.

GANDALF: OK, so, think of Sauron like this Atari. *Clears off pedestal and slaps down an Atari and a copy of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.*

GANDALF: Now, if we destroy this copy of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we might think it's gone forever. But -

ELROND: - but Atari still has the source code.

GANDALF: Right. *starts drawing on a transparent whiteboard* - But, if we destroy the source code -

LEGOLAS: ... the existing copies could be buried in a landfill, and they'd eventually go bad from corrosion.

GANDALF: Exactly. Destroy the source code -

ELROND: - destroy Sauron.

BOROMIR: Great. So how do we destroy this Source Code Ring? It's not like we can just hop on our skateboards and shred into Mordor.

LEGOLAS: Hang on though. If we gave the Ring to someone small enough -

GIMLI: - Sauron wouldn't be expecting it -

ELROND: - and we could chuck it right into the fire while he's busy trippin' over Minas Tirith.

GANDALF: - and then -

LEGOLAS: - no more E.T. *finger guns*

BOROMOR: It sounds crazy, but it just might work.

FRODO: Guys, I'm gay.

[kmarc @KeithMarcoccia]

Credit card company told me I have outstanding balance. I don’t fw you like that but I’ll take the compliment!

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

LMAOO.. newlyweds were walking through Boston after their wedding and encountered this..

Love it.. 🤣🤣

[𝐠𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 @____selah]

if stranger things was british it would be called bit odd innit

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Because a handful of billionaires are exploiting every aspect of our survival for profit — and if you complain about or try to change it; the politicians they pay off, the media they own, and the bots on the social media platforms they control, call you “radical.”

[mau @rllydu]

my ducks: in a row
my elephant: addressed
my eggs: several baskets
my bigger fish: fried

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

My hot take: most of America's depression and anxiety would be cured if the majority of the people did not live in financial stress.