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A supporter of the progressive ideas of our founding fathers working toward a more perfect union free of conservative power structures because we are all equal.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

No lies detected.
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[Donaldo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Stornoway_Cove]

True, and funny … 🤣

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

It's almost like vaccines are safe and effective...

[Kanika @KanikaBK]

Oxford researchers just published a paper arguing LLMs cannot invent anything. Mathematically impossible.

The reason is simple and brutal. A model trained to predict the next word can never believe something the existing data says is wrong. And every real breakthrough in history started with exactly that belief.

In 1903 every prediction machine on Earth would have told the Wright Brothers that human flight was one to ten million years away. Nine weeks later they flew. Not because they had better data. Because they had a theory the data hadn't caught up to yet.

That is the gap between AI and human thinking. LLMs mirror the past. Humans reason into a future that doesn't exist yet. Oxford just proved mathematically that those are two different things.

I use these models every day. This matches what I see. The new stuff always comes from the human at the keyboard who decides the data is wrong.

LLMs don't think. You do.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Not all heroes wear capes

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

Really great to see this: six Nobel Prize-winning economists (Duflo, Krugman, Diamond, Banerjee, Acemoglu and Stiglitz) just came out in favor of the California billionaire tax.

You don't have to be a radical leftist to see why it's a good idea. First, look at the numbers: ten years ago, the richest 0.001% of Californians were worth $700 billion. Today, that same group (about 250 people) is worth $2.3 trillion.

From 2019 to 2025, their wealth grew by $1.4 trillion. The California income tax they paid over that period was just 1.6% of that gain. A nurse or a plumber pays a higher state tax rate.

Yes, many of these people built great companies, and they've made a lot of money in the process. Good for them! The problem is that wealth on this scale stops being just money. It becomes extraordinary power.

In 2000, billionaires accounted for about 1% of all donations in federal elections. In 2024, it was 19%. The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the platform you're reading this on: all owned and controlled by billionaires.

Now add AI. If you think power is concentrated now, just wait five years. It's going to get much worse.

So, what does Prop 40 actually do? It's a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of California's billionaires. That would raise about $100 billion, enough to offset the federal Medicaid cuts.

"But they'll all leave!" the critics say. Nope, they can't. The tax applies to any billionaire who lived in California on January 1, 2026, and the initiative only became public about five weeks before that.

"But it'll kill Silicon Valley!" Uh no, that won't happen either. Since the tax was announced, California's share of all new US venture capital has gone up, from about 50% to 80%. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who would be one of the biggest payers, said he would be "perfectly fine" with it and had "not even thought about it once".

Sure, some other billionaires can't stop thinking about it. Sergey Brin has already spent more than $100 million to defeat the proposal. At a holiday party in December he pulled Gavin Newson aside and said 'he could not stand the state’s proposed billionaire tax', because he thought the 5% tax would turn California into some kind of Soviet Union.

That is, of course, nonsense. This is not going to be some kind of socialist revolution. The proposal is about restoring balance to a mixed economy. You could even argue it's about saving capitalism itself from oligarchs like Sergey Brin. I think that's exactly why Nobel Prize-winning economists are coming out in favor of this tax.

If Prop 40 passes in November, it will be the first tax aimed specifically at billionaire wealth anywhere in the world. I think it could be the start of a global movement.

Anyway, read the whole letter here. It's really good 👇 https://t.co/cFUtgzfoLy

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Care to comment MAGA?

Trump’s very own posts….

Go ahead MAGA, defend this.

[Nancy Crouse @Nancy_Crouse]

I see Peace by Chocolate is now selling the new Lake Ontario Chocolate bars.
Their Chocolate is delicious. Buy some please.
The family is a true motivational story of Syrian refugees taken in by Canada and they've built a thriving Chocolate business based on the one they had in Syria.

[FeelGoodThoughts @feelgoodtale]

A Chicago teen kept breaking into the X-Sport Fitness Center and using its equipment. Management warned him they were going to turn him. But he kept finding ways to get into the place. Police were finally called in to deal with it.

Officer Mario Valenti learned that the 15-year-old previously had a membership to the facility, but his mother could no longer afford to pay for it. And all he wanted to do was play basketball there. But instead of charging the youngster with breaking and entering, the officer handed over $150 of his own money to buy the boy a membership that would last about 4 months.

When the owner of the fitness center contacted his corporate office about what was happening, officials there were so touched by the officer’s kindness, that they extended the youngster’s membership for two years.
Says Officer Valenti: “At the end of the day, it’s not about gratitude. Most of us took this job to help people, not to hurt them. The job can be negative. For the most part, the job is dealing with good people having a very bad day, so you’re not seeing the best side of people…. I’d rather have him playing ball than being on the street and possibly getting into trouble.”

Photo courtesy: Mike Isaacs / Pioneer Press

[Michael Salfino @MichaelSalfino]

This was as devastating a political interview as I can remember.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

This is what I’m talking about.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Of course

[tern @1goodtern]

"There’s Nothing Wrong With Anyone, And The Things That Aren’t Wrong Weren’t Caused By That, And Even If They Were, They’re Good For You, And Your Fault, And Inevitable, And Anyway It’s Time To Move On."

I think that sums it up. 🔥
@TheVertlartnic

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

We're never getting out of the Iran War with Susan Collins and her husband profiting off it. She voted five times against resolutions that could have ended the war. Vote her out.

[Larry 🙂🌴🍍(Not indicted, not on the list) @Dolphinlarry]

Traitor47 is dismantling decades of diplomatic progress and undermining our global alliances.
The rest of the world is moving forward without us, and honestly, who can blame them?
https://t.co/JtD2ybsRSY

[Donaldo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Stornoway_Cove]

They didn’t leave.

Hegseth and Trump pushed them out because they didn’t like what they were being told by the Generals.

[Political Watchdog @PoliticalWatchD]

This video was deleted yesterday from Twitter by Elon Musk.

You know what to do ‼️‼️‼️