Mamdani in 2025: 'I will arrest Netanyahu if he ever comes to New York'
Mamdani in 2026: 'I will give millions to create Zionist Gestapo agents to protect West Bank land sale auctions in New York'
"an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device."
"an infinite slop machine, a portable casino, and a 24/7 surveillance device."
"are you getting it?"
Anyone playing Metal Gear Solid 4 for the first time today should legaly be required to watch a hour video of Old Snake smoking a cigarette before they can play.
It was a tallboy that had 12% alcohol and 156mg of caffeine per can. We would drink two of them, vomit different colors of the rainbow, and then black out, as was the style at the time.
Two economists mathematically proved that AI will destroy the economy.
Researchers from Wharton and Boston University published a terryfiying paper called "The AI Layoff Trap."
They mapped out the economic end-game of the AI transition, and it exposes a fatal flaw in competitive capitalism.
When a company replaces a worker with AI, it captures 100% of the wage savings.
But that displaced worker is also a consumer. When they lose their job, they stop buying things.
The company gets all the savings, but the loss of consumer demand is spread across the entire economy.
If there are 20 competitors in a market, a CEO only absorbs 1/20th of the economic damage their layoffs just created.
So every single rational CEO has a mathematical incentive to automate as fast as possible.
They can literally see the cliff approaching, and they still step on the gas.
It triggers an unavoidable Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you don't automate, your competitors will, and they will crush you on price.
It doesn't just hurt workers. It destroys the businesses, too.
The economy gets trapped in an automation arms race. Companies fire their workforce to stay competitive, until the entire consumer base is completely hollowed out.
At the limit, the paper concludes: “Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”
And the scariest part?
The researchers mathematically tested every popular fix.
Universal Basic Income? Fails. It raises the living standard but doesn't change the corporate incentive to cut jobs. Retraining? Fails. Worker equity? Fails.
The paper proves that more competition actually makes the collapse happen faster. And "better" AI makes the damage worse.
The only thing that mathematically stops the collapse is a targeted automation tax, forcing companies to pay for the purchasing power they destroy before they automate the job.
the DSA has announced that they have run out of Fell For It Again Awards, but they've agreed to enter into an exciting new public-private partnership with private equity-run fabrication facility to produce more.
Mamdani just confirming that 'democratic socialists' are not socialists: promoting FDR/the New Deal, which did what capitalism always does before a World War - providing enough crumbs to enough workers while overall wealth concentrates into fewer hands https://t.co/ACQaI0qbMT
This is how the Dreamcast startup sequence is made: the text appears hidden inside a white cube, and the spiral is simply a texture covered by a bunch of white polygons that gradually disappear inside the cube. 😆
because I would say it’d be helpful going over similar bourgeois aligned redistributionist minded “socialisms” of the 20th century, but baby steps, I guess, bc apparently first we’d have to spell out the pitfalls of “building a mass movement” around the legacy of Obama…