Christian 🌹

there's some pretty good content on this site.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

A reminder that one of the hesitations Democrats had with canceling student loan debt is they said Republicans might insist Dems were trying to "buy" votes. Something to think about.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

This is pretty catastrophic and I'm not sure how either of these companies reverse the trend. It really appears the AI bubble is based on the whims of maybe a few hundred companies spending money on two companies to justify five companies spending money with one company

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: What do you say to voters who fear that democratic socialism could turn into communism?

FRANCESCA HONG: No. This is a state where we will still have a $2.33 tipped minimum wage and $7.25 minimum wage. It's gonna be hard to turn that into socialism soon, but what we can do is make sure we fight for policies that put working class people first

[Medic Kim @medickimw]

I had less peer pressure to try drugs than I do with AI 😒

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Holy shit a politician actually has a meaningful challenge to NSPM-7 👇

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

AOC: "Ask Peter Thiel, ask Elon Musk, ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard.

Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these data centers here on this committee, please raise your hand...

So I think what people are asking for in their basic protections is not too much to ask ... I think it's not unreasonable for the working class people that we are elected to respond to, to ask questions and to deserve and feel entitled to a response from their elected officials."

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Yeah so I think the ad for our AI company should open with an ominous shot of a burning house. And then when we raise the question of stopping a dangerously powerful superintelligence we show 300 American gravestones for half a second

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

It is, unfortunately, very real.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

There is no "value," nor are there "profits" to share from a company like OpenAI. The only reason that the entire tech industry is focused on AI is because they're completely out of hypergrowth ideas.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

"I... I never thought in a million years that we would be in a situation like this. It's coming to a neighborhood near you, chat. Remember. Join your local @DemSocialists. Join @YDSA_ if you're young." 🤍🌹

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

“Most of the damage inflicted on Iran was directed to military targets. Why would anyone want to help Iran rebuild its military capabilities?”

This man has access to a wider and deeper amount of information than at any time in human history and yet he remains unaware of what’s happening at the most basic level in the world in which he lives. Utterly fascinating.

[Elmo @elmo]

Elmo hopes both teams have fun! 🏀🏀🏀🏀

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Elon Musk wants a SpaceX IPO valuing the company at upwards of $1.75 trillion.

To get there he got the rules changed so that index funds, with millions of Americans' retirement savings, are forced to buy in.

Retirees could take huge losses, while insiders cash out.

[Christian 🌹 @_christiandrew]

What

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies ​and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.

These "legal entities" and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town.

In total Delaware has far more ​corporations chartered in the state than residents.

Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that "entity" or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Yet, a bright possibility emerges: that of building together, of transforming diversity into a resource and of making listening and dialogue the common ground upon which to cultivate justice and fraternity.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

you were investigated by the feds for doing medicare fraud. if i got investigated, it would be for delivering medical supplies you demon.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the american govt would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we’ve starved, than punish the epstein class.