Tim Hogan

Writer, Filmmaker

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

In Spain, an 87-yr old woman was evicted from her rent controlled apartment and THOUSANDS of Spaniards protested in the street. Now Parliament is about to pass new laws!

But the elderly get evicted everyday in America and ppl just ask “Why didn’t she buy a house?” 🫤

[David Dayen @ddayen]

OpenAI’s unlawful incidents are piling up. I’m not talking about the models, but what its executives are accused of doing to steal data to create the models.
AI is following its creators down a road of deceit, without accountability for those responsible.
https://t.co/nW9W4JeJm8

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. https://t.co/6tV30STfyc

[Y Disassembler @loomdoop]

It's so obvious what this is.

Anthropic, Open AI, and Republican mega-donor Ripple don't care about transit. But austerity is killing it, and they want to head of the conversation about taxing them if it fails.

So this is a ballot measure to put the funding burden on renters.

[Taniel @Taniel]

50,000 South Dakotans have health care coverage because voters expanded Medicaid in 2022. The initiative passed with 56% of the vote.

So this year the GOP has put 2 measures on ballot:
—one to roll back Medicaid expansion
—another to require future initiatives like this get 60%

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

Amorphous things that do cause economic outcomes: ideology.

Amorphous things that do not cause economic outcomes: technology.

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

New technology deployed according to the contours of existing political economy rather than autonomously causing anything, news at 11.

[arne ness @arne__ness]

recent health study put the public health burden of data center dev at ~$10-20 billion in 2028. some of the biggest burdens will be put on rural WV counties still firing a lot of coal to power data centers in VA

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

Car dealers are sort of emblematic of a big share of the US economy: middle men who add a lot of time and cost but no value and use the power of the state to protect their position.

They’re also the backbone of MAGA FWIW. Huge donors.

[Laura Palmer Raids @Marxicology]

I would say that talking to Rahm is like talking to a mayor who helped the police cover up the murder of Laquan McDonald.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Trump, somewhat sheepishly: Miriam Adelson gives me a lot of money and so I do what she wants.

Economist Jeffrey Frankel: There's no statistical evidence this legalized bribery is having any impact

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

they’re calling it the most ethical industry of all time

[csz @cszabla]

it’s going to be devastating when jake sullivan gets his inevitable promotion to secretary of state in a future dem administration

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

Derisking demand for private builders instead of building public housing, where did we hear this before ?

[carl beijer @_carlbeijer]

Maybe we don't need a second consecutive president whose most well-known character trait is "gargantuan asshole"

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

wait until Americans figure out who owns half of the datacentres and finances the other

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

The idea that this is some galaxy brain way of increasing efficiency is absurd. This is a slash and burn project to defund the tax police
https://t.co/Jxm1l8Q6oe

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

The most relevant AI use case - the one driving every data center build-out - is that it makes everything more expensive. It maximizes corporate profits and zaps consumer surplus. It's a generational wealth transfer.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Yes Amodei saying AI “may be deserving of important rights” and—when asked about Anthropic’s role in the Minab school bombing—saying it was “a use case that doesnt even violate our red lines” perfectly captures how our ruling class thinks about human welfare in the coming decades