BREAKING: Tempe, Arizona permanently shuts down its Flock cameras & ends its contract with the company, citing concerns over misuse of the technology.
@hipurpledino@elextra__ I’ve seen left leaning ppl say gen AI finally “gives everyone access to art by allowing their visions to come to life especially for those who have attention disabilities who can’t build the skill” or “for those who can’t afford an artist” and what not.
@hipurpledino@elextra__ For all ppl ? Or certain ppl?
I’ve seen American workers forced to train their foreign H1-B replacements and if they didn’t they wouldn’t get their pension. I’ve heard major execs say they lobby for illegal immigration so don’t have to pay Americans. Progs support this.
@elextra__ Uhhh it was just a common sense observation but you felt the need to be an asshole about it for some reason. God, Ppl like you are so annoying
California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.
These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.
For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.
This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.
By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.
Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.
What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.
The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.
Dumbest shit take.
It's the people who don't know how to create who need AI to do it for them. Those of us who do know how to create don't want our work stolen from us by tech companies profiting off our work to erase the future for young artists for the rest of history.
@LiesDestroyLife@RobSchneider No it’s not the real Mel. It’s an African scammer trying to impersonate him. Don’t like or share anything from that channel unless it’s to expose him.
Also note, he doesn’t care about any of the topics he’s posting about, he’s just a predator trying to lure his prey.