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[not a cat @markmark206]

It is quite easy to support the Ukrainian army with a credit card.

[Ukraine / Україна @Ukraine]

2. Donate money to support the Ukrainian Army. You can transfer money to the following accounts:

🇺🇦 https://t.co/XXCiLUgMOv

🇺🇦 https://t.co/1Cr5CAEilv

3. Organize street protests in your city to support Ukraine and condemn Russian aggression

[not a cat @markmark206]

@cmkshama In 2024, Sawant campaigned hard to defeat Trump's only feasible opponent.

Workers, immigrants, climate, affordability, my trans neighbor's rights... In effect, Sawant campaigned to maximize harm to every cause she claims to support.

[not a cat @markmark206]

@GergelyOrosz “We were building tools for the surveillance of others. We were not supposed to be the subjects!”
— facebook employees

[not a cat @markmark206]

Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight (2020):

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump said he demanded unconditional surrender, we just didn’t know he meant America’s.

[not a cat @markmark206]

@Kasparov63 I feel like we've known for a while.

Sarah Kendzior, Hiding In Plain Sight:

[not a cat @markmark206]

"That's just vertigo," they said. "The gravity has NOT reversed," they said.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

Exactly. Incompetence and malice are not mutually exclusive, and Trump displays both https://t.co/4fW9wAWqut

[not a cat @markmark206]

a more hopeful time.

back when we thought rule of law was maybe still a real thing.

[Hamlet Nalbandyan @hnalbandyan]

The front page of the @latimes for Jan. 7, 2021. "Trump-incited mob storms U.S. Capitol."

[not a cat @markmark206]

@StanWillenbring @Kasparov63 Sigh. I really wish @Kasparov63 didn't sloppily conflate social safety nets with authoritharianism.

[not a cat @markmark206]

lol "2,224 posts" "@markmark206 hasn't posted"

[not a cat @markmark206]

@GeoRebekah @SenSchumer “UFOs have not been receptive to my growing financial needs.”
— Schumer, staring his SuperPAC donors in the eye

[not a cat @markmark206]

@Grady_Booch lol oh no

[not a cat @markmark206]

@levie “privatizing gains, externalizing risks” is the name of the game amirite

[not a cat @markmark206]

@levie ‘You become a person whose default mode is "well, think about the risks."’
don’t worry about it, when did injecting more risk into an already increasingly unstable environment hurt anyone? the more we do things whose consequences we don’t understand, the better off everyone is.

[not a cat @markmark206]

@P_Kallioniemi Is Julian back at RT?

[not a cat @markmark206]

@GergelyOrosz his was (still is?) required reading in one of the operations management courses at the UW MBA.

[not a cat @markmark206]

This is the world of Paul Graham’s design. He funded and scaled a system that selected for future-faking (aka “deception”).

"If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.)" pg, 2008

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

[not a cat @markmark206]

@RonanFarrow @NewYorker @andrewmarantz This is the world of Paul Graham’s design. He funded and scaled a system that selected for future-faking (aka “deception”).

"If you're Sam Altman, you don't have to be profitable to convey to investors that you'll succeed with or without them. (He wasn't, and he did.)" pg, 2008

[not a cat @markmark206]

@PattyMurray "Democrats have tried to pay TSA 8 times. Republicans have blocked it every time." is there a place, an easy to read "feed" where i can see all of this activity?

[not a cat @markmark206]

Interviewer: “How does Russia launder money into America?”
Michael McFaul: “Hehe. Everything I know that’s interesting I can’t tell you.”
- Active Measures, 2018

“They feign shock to avoid accountability.“
- Sarah Kendzior

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Russia is Irans closest ally in the world. So why does Trump keep treating Putin like a friend? I don’t get it .

[not a cat @markmark206]

@SenSchumer Is Congress not a thing anymore? Too much PAC money?

[not a cat @markmark206]

be best wrecking ball kopek can buy

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Russians celebrating today, as the US hands billions directly to Putin's war machine.