BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per https://t.co/9Wr6itu0Jb.
The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each.
Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
Hoy, entre los bienes que están destinados universalmente a todos, debemos incluir también las nuevas formas de propiedad: patentes, algoritmos, plataformas digitales, infraestructuras tecnológicas, datos. En un contexto en el que la riqueza de las naciones depende cada vez más de conocimientos y tecnologías, cuando estos bienes quedan concentrados en las manos de unos pocos, sin adecuadas formas de compartición y de acceso, se crea una nueva brecha entre quienes pueden participar en la revolución digital y quienes permanecen al margen. #MagnificaHumanitas
NEW: It's now more lucrative to have a losing sports team than a championship team.
We examined the Boston Red Sox to see how private equity and cost cutting invaded sports.
In this era, teams want to sell good players for profit more than they want to have a good season.
I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights.
What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.
BREAKING: The Senate has passed the biggest housing affordability bill in 30 years, and it includes a ban on investors buying single-family homes.
The bill passed 89-10.
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people — was the result of a targeting mistake. https://t.co/88FIdIJOQi
For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.
A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.
Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in the hearing room to stand and raise their hand if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them does so. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize to survivors. Bondi responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.
Sanders: I'm going to introduce legislation for a moratorium on data centers. Data centers are the infrastructure of AI. We are totally unprepared for what is coming.
You are seeing now is literally a cognitive decline among young people in this country. Their attention spans are worse, significantly worse. I worry very much what used to be science fiction that the the computers will take over—there is now a legitimate fear that artificial general intelligence will not only become smarter than human beings, they'll be able to communicate with each other independent of humanity.
NEW: Walmart found a creative, illegal way to make sure they have the lowest prices.
They're forcing companies to raise prices on any competitor who dares to sell items at a lower price than Walmart.
They're using their size and reach to squeeze out stores across America.
NEW: People are spending upwards of $60,000 on Super Bowl tickets.
World Cup tickets are going for as much as $230,000.
The cost of going to a game is out of control. We investigated what billionaire owners don't want you to know — how to fix this mess.
💔 “The goalkeeper told me I’m an illegal immigrant even though I was born in America, and he said Trump was gonna get me and send me back. It makes me really sad.”
Our kids are watching. (H/T Hot Lou)