Fran Lebowitz on the billionaires: “Every time someone suggests [a wealth tax] they say I’m moving. Go! They add nothing to New York. In the 19th century, those robber barons, they employed people. All this money magic employs no one. Goodbye, go. We don’t need you”
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
On avait Piatti, Drogba, 10k billets de saison, un stade vivant, on haïssait réellement Toronto.
Faut vraiment avoir un don d’auto sabotage pour être capable de tout scrapper ça en 10 ans. #cfmtl
Let me get this straight…
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.”
Then he raised billions of dollars.
Then he closed the source code.
Then he converted to for-profit.
Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.
Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models.
Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter.
He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it…
Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…
This is what triggered Trump this morning.
Bill Maher: The country of Canada, also known as Canada, has treated the United States very unfairly for decades. Now Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan... The first thing China will do is terminate all ice hockey.
EDWARD NORTON: “I’m sitting here talking about movies while an illegal army is being mounted against 🇺🇸 citizens. These are not normal times… what they’re doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand — we should be talking about a national general economic strike.”
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.
how fucking stupid is it that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing all our data to sell us ads.
Something has happened to humanity. There has been a consciousness change but I can’t put my finger on it.
A massive shift has happened the last 6 years.
The youth has changed.
Vegas is dead.
Clubs and lounges are closing everywhere.
People don’t interact the same.
It’s eerie.
.@ezraklein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”
@JamesTalarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks. They have created for-profit platforms that divide us on an hourly basis — by party, by race, by gender, by religion. They elevate the most extreme voices very strategically to provoke our outrage, because that leads to more clicks, which leads to more money for them.
They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.
And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”
Letting tech people touch the arts has to be one of the worst mistakes humanity has made. They have such deep contempt for creativity, ownership, and shared experiences. Life itself is an enemy. They will strangle every industry to death to have each cough up an extra dollar.
this winter, dress like Samuel Beckett: chunky, textured sweaters, merino turtlenecks, long raincoats, textured sport coats, tweeds, and warm shearling overcoats
Trump gave Amazon a $16 billion tax break to accelerate its investments this year.
Now, Amazon will replace 600,000 workers with robots as Jeff Bezos accelerates his plan to automate warehouses.
No. Corporate tax breaks do not trickle down to workers. Never have. Never will.