What’s sad about this reporting is that it 1) is years late in reaching a mainstream outlet, 2) doesn’t properly contextualize Butler’s cult as a RU influence operation, which it ultimately is. Once again, we are left to believe this is just “wacky people” vs an assault by an adversary.
@CaliforniaLabor@TheProspect The timing of all this seems so weird... This drops right around the same time that Ezra Klein's name appears with Dialog?
BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.
More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.
@Jason@BeckyHammon This is so tired. Sucks for Becky to have the quote attributed to her, she literally just stated league consensus since day 1. The national player of the year and 2 time tournament champion doesn't fall to 33 without that being the consensus view.
Brunson showed the world
@Osint613 I know logic need not apply but kind of funny to turn this into a daily show/snl style sketch of like "this deal is great, we failed at every level and to only have to entirely withdraw our regional footprint and pay 300 billion in concessions is a steal!"
@davetroy@hughes_craft Dave, would you say this extends to Thiel/Yarvin as well? It's a question I've pondered several times... Where does their philosophical alignment end and formal collaboration begin
The entire financial system is at fault for letting this happen. This is pure fraud. Hoovering up people’s life savings based on total science fiction.
They’re all in on it. Goldman, JPM, Fidelity, Google, Blackrock, NASDAQ… It’s just theft. They should go to prison.
Masa can hype AI all he likes, but apparently he can’t even get a loan on his OpenAI shares. 🤔
But I actually half agree—and it might surprise some of my critics to hear this, especially those who haven’t listened carefully—with what he said below: AI *will* be huge. Maybe 50x Dotcom. like he says.
But I think Masa bet too early, and on the wrong horse.
Too much on LLMs; too much on Sam; too early.
Better AI will definitely come.
This generation of AI, however, won’t live up to expectations. The fundamentals aren’t sound.
CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD
https://t.co/Dz1WySs2E8
Long story short, a global network of tech-religious autocrats wants to accelerate the world into 'the singularity' because they think it will be cool (and they will be in charge), and they want to delete anyone (the antichrist) who thinks this might be dumb and wrong.
This thread is worth the quick read. It's also important to note that this is a standard Thiel operating procedure – utilizing the scape goat mechanism. Channel the public ire into one thing and then resolve it, pacifying the reaction to other poison pills
You really should have just told him, "no way are you invited to this". I hate Knicks fans more than most, but this is beyond a betrayal of your fan base
Every single one of these banks propping up this crime against American citizens should be shut down.
This is fraud based on the science fiction of a Nazi conman.
We are not angry enough with these greedmonsters for forcing people to buy this garbage.