@WesleyLowery My deepest condolences. I was at a banquet in Memphis some decades ago where he was the guest of honor and speaker.
I recall his opening with a smile. The punchline, โOh, that's Charlie. Charlie got the hot sauce.โ
Rest in peace, Mr. Brown.
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@timruss2 Stop chasing these administrationโs squirrels.
#USAF General Daniel โChappieโ James, Jr. earned his place in history.
His portrait will be raised again, and remain long after they all are dust.
History is not as malleable as they think.
#Lawrence#Ilhan#RepAOC
@TheRealThelmaJ1@RepBeatty This adjudicated rapist T****; so ignorant as not to realize his name on federal buildings is fleeting. When Congress has the political ability, it will erase his name where needed. It will amend laws to remove his name, if only under the excuse of a missing comma.
@Lawrence
@allenanalysis Immediately, when the Democratic Party takes control, the Republicans will begin shouting and screaming about the national debt. Whereas now you donโt hear a whimper?
@Lawrence@Ilhan@RepAOC
A retired lawyer in the U.S. was watching the news when he saw the story about the new Trump commemorative coin and something immediately didn't sit right with him.
So he did what lawyers do. He went digging...
And he found it. A federal law passed in 1866 that explicitly prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency. It's not a grey area. It's not open to interpretation. It's been sitting in the books for over 150 years.
The last time this actually happened was 1926 when a coin featuring Calvin Coolidge was minted while he was still alive and serving as president. The backlash was immediate. The coins were pulled. And the law was reaffirmed...
Now this retired lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Mint not because of who is on the coin, but because the law says it simply cannot be done. Full stop...
No political agenda. No protest. Just one guy, a dusty legal statute, and a federal case that nobody in Washington apparently saw coming
Mo Gawdat spent years inside the machine at Google X.
Now he is saying out loud what the economists will not.
Gawdat: โThe very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.โ
That is not a prediction. That is a coronerโs report on a system that has not stopped breathing yet.
Capitalism was never about innovation. It was about one equation. Buy human time cheap. Sell the output high. Pocket the spread.
Every empire. Every fortune. Every supply chain on Earth was built on that margin.
AI just closed it to zero.
A humanoid robot now costs $9,000. It does not sleep. It does not negotiate. It does not quit. It runs every hour of every day at a quality ceiling no biological worker will ever touch.
When production costs fall to nearly nothing, the entire pricing structure of the global economy falls with it.
But here is what every CEO celebrating margin expansion has not thought through for five minutes.
Gawdat: โEven if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobodyโs able to buy what youโre making.โ
That single sentence should end every strategy meeting on the planet.
Capitalism is a closed loop. You pay workers. Workers become consumers. Consumers buy products. Revenue funds the next payroll.
Cut the worker and you do not just eliminate a cost. You eliminate the customer.
Every company racing to automate headcount out of existence is quietly engineering the death of its own demand.
They are building the most efficient production systems in human history to sell to a population that no longer has income.
50% unemployment is not a recession. It is the demand side of the economy going permanently dark.
You cannot push infinite supply into zero purchasing power. The math does not care about your earnings call.
Gawdat: โWealth is going to have very little meaning for most of us in a few yearsโ time.โ
This is where it turns on the people who think they are winning.
If production approaches zero cost, scarcity begins to dissolve. And scarcity is the only reason money holds value in the first place.
The billionaire class is stockpiling a currency that is quietly losing its reason to exist.
Gawdat: โSo the entire capitalist model has to be rethought.โ
He is right. And nobody in power is doing the rethinking.
Every board meeting about efficiency is a conversation about dismantling the very economic engine that made the board meeting possible.
The question was never whether AI could produce enough.
It was whether capitalism could survive its own success.
The machine does not just replace the worker. It erases the consumer.
And a system that can produce everything but sell nothing is not an economy.
It is a machine that perfected itself into extinction.
As spoken in the movie, The Ten Commandments,โ Let the name of Trump be unheard and unspoken; he shall be stricken from every book and tabletโฆ he shall be forgotten.โ From the Mummy, โSo it is written, so it shall be done.โ
@Lawrence@Ilhan@RepAOC@nytimes
When Trump leaves office:
The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department.
The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center.
The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico.
The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom.
Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired.
The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president.
Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference.
The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies.
The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists.
Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it.
The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters.
U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators.
And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.
@POTUS DJ T***** wants other nations to clean up Straits of Hormuz after a U.S.-Israel attack they did not choose. #NATO allies are not obligated to rescue #Netanyahu from the consequences.
Israel is not in #NATO.
@Lawrence@Ilhan@RepAOC@nytimes
Trump threatened further strikes on Iran's Kharg Island oil export hub and urged allies to send warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran vowed to step up its response and the war showed no sign of coming to an end https://t.co/XYJO7zAXXx
@Microsoft@Google
Regarding your authenticator apps: due to the ease that #PII is sold and reports of credentials being hacked, include URLs in #2FA requests. Then we can police attempts without subscribing to a company that claims it can wipe PII from the .
@Yubico
I just received an email from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
There is no identifier in the From line as though there is only one Holocaust that requires no clarification.
Interesting how specificity appears in some headlines and disappears in others.
@Lawrence@Ilhan@RepAOC
@AnthropicAI
Being banned by an adjudicated rapist, narcissistic grifter thug; have earned you my badge of honor.
Does @claudeai have an import API for current plus and pro users of @OpenAI LLM?
If not, code one ASAP, I feel a stampede.
@Lawrence@Ilhan@RepAOC@nytimes
If itโs true that @OpenAI has succumbed to T****, even addressing it with bent knees, #DoW.
Time to test another LLM and begin exporting work from the only one Iโve used.
Change is tough; at times, a must.
@claudeai, youโre up.
@Lawrence@Ilhan@RepAOC@AnthropicAI@nytimes
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