Beth*Bostic

Privileged Poor, Artsy type, Tater Tomater originator, Hairdresser, subversive, MFA theatre, nuff said @[email protected] (mastodon)

[Beth*Bostic @beth_bostic]

1/ Why is the USPS in the constitution? Here's what Ben Franklin knew...with us since right before the official birth of the republic,

[MM  @adgirlMM]

A co-worker of mine recently had a heart issue and ended up needing to go to the hospital in an ambulance. He was admitted and required to stay in the hospital overnight.

That ambulance and overnight stay cost over $100K.

Even with insurance, his out-of-pocket cost was still thousands of dollars. He's gainfully employed and has a decent insurance plan.

How does the average American who can't afford healthcare and who has an emergency situation ever recover from the financial burden of trying to save their own life?

The "fraud" in healthcare isn't from immigrants. It's the insurance companies who are commoditizing healthcare to the point of unattainability or financial ruin for the average American.

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

Inside Moscow's elite Bauman University, a secret department trains the GRU's next-gen hackers, saboteurs, and spies. Leaked documents now expose how its graduates feed the units behind Russia's cyberattacks, election interference, and NATO sabotage. https://t.co/5TTRIaWZj7

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The Trump administration unveiled a new proposed rule that, if implemented, would forbid grant recipients from using federal funds to help Americans register to vote. https://t.co/wFvGb6UvwD

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Very strangely worded, but the biggest red flag is the idea that Google can simply end the agreement if the chips aren't there or "pay a reduce fee after a one-month grace period." Wonder how that times with SpaceX's first earnings? Oh well

https://t.co/nZRwOP5UN2

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: The NASDAQ just saw the LARGEST point drop in a single day in HISTORY!

It FELL 1121 Points

The previous all-time record was 1050.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This is an important development if you missed it as I had.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut | WIRED

“mere minutes after DOGE members had accessed the agency’s data, there appeared to be login attempts from an IP address in Russia” https://t.co/8YEJdFmFnc

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Meta put billions of dollars of AI chips inside fabric tents and powered them with its own gas turbines. Five went up outside New Albany, Ohio in two months. The permanent buildings next door took two to three years. Behind-the-meter power at data centers could hit 13 gigawatts by 2027, more than enough to run New York City. All on a $145 billion capex budget.

My Take
Two months for a tent. Two to three years for a building. Meta went with the tents. A few days ago they cut 2,212 people from Menlo Park because the budget had to go toward AI infrastructure. Fabric structures in a field, full of $60,000 chips, with gas turbines next door. The permanent building will come eventually. The people probably won’t.

These tent data centers run on private power because the public grid can’t deliver fast enough. IBM’s CEO said this week the revenue to justify the spending probably doesn’t exist. Broadcom’s CEO said the productivity hasn’t arrived. And Meta’s response is fabric tents on a $145 billion budget. I’ve covered a lot of this industry and I’ve never seen this much money move this fast with this little proof it pays off.

Hedgie🤗

[Jack Pitney @jpitney]

RFK Jr. spent years pushing the lie that vaccines cause autism. Today, CDC reports 2,030 measles cases this year, more than in all of 2024. And after he hyped vitamin A as an alternative measles treatment, a new report finds a surge in vitamin A poisonings. Misinformation doesn't just spread. It hurts people.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Pardoned Jan. 6er Emily Hernandez drove the wrong way on the road, killing one person and injuring another.

She has been returned to prison with a 10-year sentence.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Once again, the President of the United States has the most dangerous combination of psychopathologies known to man.

He has always been a paranoid, sadistic psychopath but when frontotemporal dementia is added, there are NO LIMITS.

He will try to take us with him to his grave.

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

SCOOP -- @FBIDirectorKash ordered firing of at least five intelligence analysts due their role in a rescinded FBI memo warning of extremist threat of radical Christian activists. @KDilanianMSNOW

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

Before any large-scale personnel shakeups at American intelligence agencies, the public deserves the maximum possible transparency.

The remainder of the Epstein files must be released.

If there are records identifying powerful people involved in wrongdoing, those records should be preserved and disclosed before investigators, analysts, or institutional knowledge are lost

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Ireland is a Russian colony in plain sight.
Russian mafioso Oleg Deripaska controls the colony.
Russians extract 67,000 tons of alumina per month from their colony and send it back to Russia to build weapons.
That's 83% of total production of Ireland.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

AI psychosis is psychologically grounded in the same pattern that produces domestic abuse, gambling addiction, and cults.

LLMs are an intermittent reinforcement loop. Pulling the lever, prompting the chatbot, and giving your abuser one more chance is the same behavioral pattern.

A very significant part of the mania surrounding chatbots comes down to this basic phenomenon. People are very easily drawn into this environment—one more prompt, one more agent, one more chance to find that shortcut to riches.

However, chatbots are not just a slot machine. They use human reinforcement training.

A chatbot is a slot machine that tells you it loves you.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

6 years ago I said Mike Flynn was a Russian asset brainwashing a QAnon “army of digital soldiers” to commit violence. 6 months later they stormed the Capitol.

Now Flynn is getting paid $100K/month from a Russian puppet & using a QAnon account to call for Obama’s arrest.

Toldya.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

S&P, the company that runs the world's most tracked stock index, considered changing its rules to fast-track SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic in after their IPOs.

It ultimately chose not to do so.

Thread.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING via Reuters

A group of U.S. states including California and New York are preparing a lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

Full Story: https://t.co/GkVJ7TioM2

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The veteran correspondents staying at 60 Minutes are making the same mistake WaPo reporters did. 60 Minutes fate lies with viewers, not Bari Weiss or any internal deal she cut with them.

Viewers will abandon 60 Minutes like they did WaPo because they no longer trust the owner.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

US Judge refers lawyers for the DOJ to a disciplinary committee for actions so severe it has shaken her faith in the Justice system, and she is a Trump appointee.

The issue stems from their conduct in a case involving a subpoena seeking the medical records of minor patients who received gender-affirming care at Rhode Island Hospital.

Apparently the DOJ went venue shopping to find a judge in Texas that would grant such a subpoena. The declaration filed by the DOJ was seriously misleading or blatantly false.

She further stated that the DOJ was unworthy of trust at every point in the case.

Ouch! Hope they get disbarred.