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Followed almost exclusively by Chinese bot farms.

[eric @elalonde]

Too many horror stories.

[Live Action @LiveAction]

Brittany was 24 weeks pregnant with a surrogate baby when she discovered she had cancer.

Then things got worse.

The gay couple the boy was intended for wanted him “immediately terminated.”

Brittany refused abortion, and the couple threatened to abandon both the surrogate and the baby.

They threatened lawsuits against Brittany and the hospital.

Her team was even afraid to treat her without consulting lawyers.

When adoption was offered, “the fathers stated they didn’t want their ‘DNA out there’ being raised by someone else.”

They wanted a “death certificate.”

Ashley was ultimately induced early at 25 weeks, and the baby boy died shortly after because his male purchasers refused to give him life-saving care.

Ashley said the experience left her feeling like a “rented-out uterus.”

She said she would have given the baby “every chance of survival.”

This horrifying story reinforced how inherently exploitative surrogacy is.

Ban surrogacy now.

[No context Hazz ⛩ @HazzimIO]

No comments.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Slave Owners: "They're not people."

Nazis: "They're not people."

Abortion Activists: "They're not people."

[Alex Pfeiffer @AlexPfeiffer]

In the WSJ today

[eric @elalonde]

@sunnyrain5555 @googleearth You are as bold as you are unwise.

[litquidity @litcapital]

Everyone saying Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire is conveniently ignoring the entire country of Zimbabwe

[eric @elalonde]

Worth a read.

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

What comes next:

The govt will rollout an emergency citizenship program for any foreign-born employee working in a lab contingent on them immediately moving to the U.S.

Everyone will be heavily vetted via the same screening construct already utilized by the defense primes.

Google will have to move the entirety of DeepMind to the U.S. and fire whoever refuses to relocate.

People will gleefully assume Demis will just start his own UK lab instead before realizing the next step is the US is about to gut foreign “unmonitored” access to compute.

You can pull a LeCun but you won’t have sufficient compute to do shit.

Greencards will be given to family members too.

Foreign govts will freak out when they realize what is happening. We are gatekeeping and hoarding intelligence preemptively.

Why? Because by GPT 7 France will be like “oh you just destroyed our services sector we are going to tax the labs to pay for the necessary benefits to prevent riots” and it’s a lot easier to do that if labs have critical employees based in Paris. Ditto for every other foreign nation.

Anyone acting like this is surprising is simply incapable of thinking four steps ahead.

We are going to see industries nuked over night. There will be civil unrest. The only way to navigate that is to tax and gatekeep. The only way you can tax something is if it lives in your borders. We are repatriating exposure points preemptively.

Compute gatekeeping comes next.

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[eric @elalonde]

@MikeWingerii Sir, is this your idea of a Sabbatical? 😀

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

This is just an incredible interaction lmao.

[eric @elalonde]

Fill ‘er up.

[icebergy ❄️ @Icebergy]

they're offering spacex ipo at the grocery store checkout

[eric @elalonde]

@BowTiedBroke 788 feet

[Into the Memory Hole @frogNscorpion]

Weimar 2.0 is here I guess
Get your wheelbarrows ready

[spor @sporadica]

every so often, for a fleeting moment, through an inconspicuous tweet here or a simple reply there, the heart and soul of this website is evidenced to still be alive and well

[River @River]

We have beef with how inflation is calculated.

[brian @brianonhere]

Damn — that’s what i purchase my stuff with!

[eric @elalonde]

@Joe546740735666 @pmtiegs Shawn had full control of the things that are now destroying him.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

The palisades fire being an act of left wing terrorism is not being discussed nearly enough.