Chris Fowler

just a guy trying to make sense of the world around him. love sports and food

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

🚨 HOLY SH*T: Fox News just cut one of their reporters off as they seemed to indicate the shooting was a pre-planned false flag.

[Chris Fowler @chrisfowler85]

@Super70sSports

[Cody Campbell @CodyC64]

The TV Networks (specifically Fox and ABC) are refusing to run this ad for @SavingCollSprts today during the games.

No good reason given as to why - just ignoring us or telling us to contact their attorneys. The General Council for one major network told me it was a “business decision”. This was AFTER we’d sent them a large wire to pay for the ads!

Why would the networks want to silence a legitimate debate around an issue that affects hundreds of thousands of kids and is existentially threatening to women’s sports and Olympic sports? What is the “business reason” that overrides the benefit and enjoyment that college sports provide to tens of millions of Americans?

What are they hiding??

If there was ever a question that money, control, and greed are being prioritized over student athletes, fans, and communities…Here you go!!

We all knew that the current situation in college sports seemed very slimy and was driven by people who couldn’t care less about the common good…. But we had no idea how bad it truly is!!

It’s become obvious…We have to drain the swamp that College Sports have become!!

This fight isn’t about me, and it certainly isn’t about TV ads - it’s much bigger. It’s about doing what is right and necessary to save a great American institution. I promise that I won’t stop fighting until we are successful in solving this problem, and I know I can count on many of you to join me!

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists would devote their entire lives to deceiving you, but a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

[Chris Fowler @chrisfowler85]

@Super70sSports

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The biggest issue of our time is wealth inequality & it is caused by capitalism.

Billionaires get rich not through their own labor—but by exploiting our labor.

Our labor creates wealth. Billionaires then steal the wealth that our labor creates.

Only socialism can reverse this.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Trump has shown Black people who he is, time and time again. Yet, you have many Blacks who still think he's a great president. My question is, how and why? How could a Black person vote to help him in any kind of way?

Trump's actual biographer said that Trump's stance on Blacks is "the world would be better off without them...." He actually said this. You gotta be a dumb glutton for punishment.

The first thing he did going into office was fire every last Black one of you in any high position of power and put a woefully unqualified Whiteman or woman there.

He immediately fired every qualified black person in the federal government.

He wiped out the Education Department of its Black leadership, especially high-ranking Black women.

Cut billions in spending from Biden-era HBCU funding and infrastructural initiatives.

Cut out $140 million in direct grants to HBCUs.

He pulled $10s of millions of funding from black museums and black art projects.

He fired the black joint chief of staff who was a decorated fighter pilot and a 4 Star General and replaced him with a retired 3 star general with less credentials and put a unqualified weekend talk show host as Secretary of Defense.

He just fired the librarian of Congress, a black woman who holds several degrees in Library Science, who even the Republicans didn’t think should’ve been fired.

He replaced her with his jack leg attorney, who lawyered him into 34 guilty convictions.

He has made it policy not to teach black history of any kind in schools or face no federal funding.

He discredited black and women’s contributions and history in the military until even republicans rebelled against that move.

He’s fired every highly qualified black person and woman in the military.

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

Let’s just call a spade ♠️ a spade.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Citizens. I’m going to say it again. This is fascism. MAGA can cry all you want but this is exactly what every fucking dictator in history wanted. Wake the fuck up.

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

it’s this ridiculously simple and screw€d up…

[Chris Fowler @chrisfowler85]

Where is @mikegolicjr review of these?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs has blocked the Trump Administration from revoking Harvard University's certification to enroll foreign students.

RETWEET to thank Judge Burroughs for standing up for our democracy!

[Chris Fowler @chrisfowler85]

@VanLathan Alright I’m with you on this. Dillion Gabriel is crazy!

[Chris Fowler @chrisfowler85]

Reggie Sanders

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Age yourself by naming a baseball player you watched when you were 10 years old.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

[Impeach Trump a 3rd Time! @Christo12919382]

Wanna see the dumbest fucking tweet of 2024?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

As over $3 trillion was wiped from the market today, Trump spent the day golfing at his West Palm course

His trips to his golf properties over the past 11 weeks have cost taxpayers $30.4 million in transportation & security, according to HuffPost analysis