Jo Giant 🇬🇸🏳️‍🌈🌵🌳🌴

Gay girl in the country. Beginner Gardener.

[bread 🟥🟩⬛️ @_breadcapital]

Is he a good Prime Minister? no. But is he in charge of his own government? Also no. Can he read a room? Clearly not. Does he even want to be Prime Minister? no, not really. But does he atleast learn from his mistakes? Also no. But does he have a plan? Not at all

[Purplereign @Angiemut]

GOOD POINT👇👇👇
To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate 'Self Check-outs'....... You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Yesterday I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone.
I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already filled my trolly, emptied my trolly and scanned the items, refilled my trolly and so I just skipped the exit line and left.
I heard her saying "Umm - Excuse me “ as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store.
You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be.
• I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you.
• If you want me to be a cashier with no training then that's your problem not mine.
• Keep employing young people and give them job opportunities.
YOU DON'T PAY ME TO SCAN MY OWN SHOPPING.
YOU DON’T GIVE ME STAFF DISCOUNT FOR WORKING FOR YOU.
Signed ......All of us
People we need to share this statement its basically about PROFIT to the stores AND putting People out of a JOB....!!!

[Eileen Kiffin. @KiffinEileen]

An excellent letter to the editor of The Taranaki Daily News. John speaks for so many of the people

[Catherine @MrsMacNZ]

Doesn’t the last paragraph hit the nail right on the head.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This is the most aggressive government seizure plan since World War II.

Bernie Sanders just proposed taking HALF of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI's stock.

Yesterday he published an op-ed in the New York Times announcing the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.

The bill would impose a one-time 50% equity tax on the largest AI companies in the country, paid in stock, not cash. The federal government would get voting shares and equal board representation at every company targeted.

He named OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI specifically.

The government would have the legal power to block corporate decisions that harm citizens and to force policies that benefit the public. Revenue from the fund would go directly to Americans as payments and toward healthcare, education, and housing.

This landed the same day Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO. OpenAI's S-1 goes public in August. SpaceX, which merged with xAI in a $1.25 trillion deal, filed for a $1.8 trillion listing on May 20 targeting June 12.

Sanders dropped this bill at the exact moment every major AI company is most vulnerable to public narrative: Right in the middle of their IPO roadshows, right when investor sentiment is everything.

But here's what makes this genuinely insane...

Every single company he named has publicly ENDORSED the exact idea he's proposing.

OpenAI published a paper calling for the creation of a "public wealth fund that provides every citizen with a stake in AI-driven economic growth."

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei publicly backed "national sovereign wealth funds with stakes in AI companies."

Elon has called for "universal high income via checks issued by the federal government" as the best way to deal with AI-driven unemployment.

Even Trump signed executive orders gesturing toward creating an American sovereign wealth fund.

Sanders took every statement these companies made when they were trying to sound responsible and turned it into legislation.

He is literally using their own words against them.

And now every single one of them will lobby against the bill they publicly asked for.

OpenAI will say it threatens innovation. Anthropic will say the timing is premature. Elon will call it communism on X.

The same executives who published white papers about sharing AI wealth with humanity will spend millions making sure it never actually happens.

That contradiction is the entire story:

These companies understood years ago that the public would eventually demand a share of AI's wealth. So they got ahead of it with carefully worded statements about sovereign wealth funds and public ownership that sounded generous but carried zero legal weight.

It was PR, positioning, and designed to delay exactly this moment.

The bill almost certainly won't pass. But it forces every AI CEO into the most uncomfortable position possible:

Publicly arguing against the policy they publicly endorsed.

And every word of that argument will be on the record right as they're asking public investors to buy their stock.

What do you think?

[Richard @ricwe123]

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.

They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.
Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.

The result is simple: the public pays.

Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.
The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.
Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to households.

When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers, and failing services.
Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.

The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.
The investors have already taken their returns.
And when the system finally reaches breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.

Privatise the gains.
Socialise the losses.
That is the business model.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Hanuman @HanumanJiKiJ]

@TaxpayersUnion NZ government gross debt has increased by $71 billion since coalition government came to office and under Nicola Willis as Finance Minister.
November 2023:
Gross Debt: $157 billion (39% of GDP)
May 2026:
Gross Debt: $228 billion (51% of GDP)

Prudent financial managers❓

[Elephant in the room @LuxonNotMyGovt]

A second term national led government will

Privatise our

Health
Education
Water

Asset sales

Kiwibank
All city council assets
Air nz
Power companies
Conservation land
Maori assets

More tolls
More user pays
More fees

Judith collins from the law commission will make it legal

[Merissa Hansen @merissahansen17]

This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.

[Jo Giant 🇬🇸🏳️‍🌈🌵🌳🌴 @jogiant]

@r0ck3t23 @seeby This is myopic. I am many labels. Many nouns apply to me. Not just my worklife role. Other nouns include sister artist musician gardener friend lover cousin allie neighbour and customer but less and less will I be a consumer AND THIS IS THE CRUX OF THE AI REVOLUTION

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Woman who lives only 1.6 miles from the META Data Center in Wisconsin speaks out

She says their water system has been completely destroyed

She says there is discharge that turns the entire river white like milk. She paid for testing and found extremely high heavy metal levels

“I live on a horse farm and I am an educator. I, for almost four 50 years, a natural creek has flowed through my property. It's 20 feet wide, up to four feet deep. It has persisted through drought, flood, seasonal change. It's part of a connected system. Groundwater, tributaries, watersheds, aquifers ultimately flowing into Beaver Dam Lake. Until construction began upstream on the data center, its behavior was stable and predictable

After construction started, all of that changed. Here in Beaver Dam, the creek began to stop flowing entirely without rainfall. It would abruptly return off in cloudy and opaque like milk, with enough force to cause drastic erosion and damage — Water testing on my property shows elevated strontium, a very dangerous metal, and other indicators consistent with deep groundwater influence”

[@heroesatwork @heroesatwork]

What happened to all Luxon's plans to make NZ great again? Highest unemployment, highest number of homeless, highest number of bright things leaving for OZ. His idea of 'winning' are not MY idea of winning

[Jo Giant 🇬🇸🏳️‍🌈🌵🌳🌴 @jogiant]

@Becs @JohnOSullivan36 Didn't you read the article? Normally I'd agree about corporates especially overseas owned corporates not caring about jobs in nz but the article also points the finger at competition from cheap imports and cheap house brands, and bully retailers throwing their weight around.

[Jo Giant 🇬🇸🏳️‍🌈🌵🌳🌴 @jogiant]

Whoever figures out how to speak to that roughly one‑third of voters who think the system is rigged will change New Zealand politics. #nz #pol @q #opportunityparty

[Bryce Edwards @bryce_edwards]

https://t.co/JjAtMsptnP

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

“Katie Johnson “ was just 13, looking to be a model in New York. Ghislaine Maxwell lured her to Jeffrey Epstein’s 71st St townhouse, where Trump raped her in 1994. It’s all there in the Epstein files. She was interviewed by the FBI. They covered it up.

[Jo Giant 🇬🇸🏳️‍🌈🌵🌳🌴 @jogiant]

@Lovable I need help with managing duplicate accounts/ multiple log ins that I have unfortunately confused in my enthusiasm at SheBuilds. How can I get help. I'm about to publish and only have a few mins left to do that before SheBuilds finishes