Elon is a Fraud

Hoop fiend since '92; neo-Nazi/KKK/Confederate hater since birth

[Mason @brxxklynbxby__]

Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining whatever’s “cool” until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die as fans lose interest or the ability to participate.

[TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog]

"small potatoes"

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

.@AOC is right about this.

"On taxing tips, as one of the few here who lived on tips, I want to tell you the scam...The cap is $25,000 while raising taxes on people earning under $50,000 across the U.S.... while kicking them off Affordable Care Act."

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A company in Riga, Latvia is paying a 300,000 dollar monthly budget to overseas contractors, told explicitly to hide their location with US proxy servers, to post clips designed to look like ordinary Americans spontaneously praising the GOP. The campaign's own instructions state the goal in writing: so that republican win in USA. No disclosure that the poster was paid, no disclosure it is coordinated. The money trail traces to Blake Wynn, 26, nephew of mega donor Steve Wynn, whose company's employees uploaded the campaign's source videos.

Wynn has said he regularly talks to FBI Director Kash Patel, sat next to Trump on Election Night 2024, and was close with Charlie Kirk. The campaign's own banned topics list is its own tell, no Jan 6 videos, no Trump family crypto, no RFK Jr, careful image management dressed up as spontaneous grassroots enthusiasm. When the Atlantic's reporter contacted everyone involved, the campaign folders and Discord listings started disappearing within a day.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Absolutely ridiculous….talk about waste, fraud and abuse

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Lmao holy shit

[Superman @thesupermanmx]

MIT mathematically proved that AI will destroy the democracy.

A Nobel-winning MIT economist published a terrifying paper called "Automation and Repression"

As AI and automation replace human labor, wealth concentrates heavily in the hands of a tiny group of capital owners. Inequality skyrockets.

When inequality hits a critical mass, workers realize they are being crushed and the threat of a popular revolt spikes.

Faced with that threat, the ruling elite are forced to make a choice.

They can redistribute the wealth through taxes, or they can use force to keep people down.

The paper mathematically proves a dark reality: there is a direct, inescapable link between automation and political repression.

The more capital accumulates through AI, the more the elite prefer repression over redistribution.

Why? Because sharing the wealth cuts into their power. Funding a police state protects it.

It gets worse.

The authors modeled what happens when an economy starts inside a clean, stable democracy.

As automation advances and capital concentrates at the top, the math shows that the elite eventually find democracy to be a liability.

They stop supporting democratic systems. They back a coup. They install a repressive system just to protect their automated wealth.

Nobody is voting to end democracy.

The technology’s economic incentives just make authoritarian control the logical next step for survival.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Took $64,000 from DTE.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

I still think about the guy who pointed out that "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." Rarely have I seen Al described so succinctly.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Somebody at the Postal Service could have kept their head down and collected a paycheck through November.

They drew a diagram instead.

https://t.co/cAX5Ms34S9

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Finally, we get the explanation for the data center push

[Awesomust @awesomust]

Aaaaaaand THERE you go. What we all knew this was about. Like every authoritarian surveillance dystopia, it’s not about behavior or crime, but opposition to tyranny

[Cowboy Beans @ande56495]

Can’t wait for this country to grow some balls again and wipe the stupid fucking smile off this pedophile’s face.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that the House just declared a recess partly to prevent the new Epstein petition by Massie from being discussed before midterms, should be a bigger story.
The fact that Todd Blanche keeps refusing to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story.
The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and then we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup that should be a holy shit story, most significant of all.
And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - his panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should have ended his presidency, and at any other moment of our last 250-years, it would have.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

It’s just wild how 70-80 year olds are generally seen as unemployable due to physical and mental decline BUT we're allowing them to run our ENTIRE country.

[Thomas Hawk @thomashawk]

Found Ektachrome Slide Dated, January 1972, State Street, Chicago, Illinois

I pulled this one out of the box and just sat there. Some slides you glance at and put back. This one I couldn’t stop looking at.

Christmas time on State Street, Chicago, Illinois

Bond’s big red neon is burning on the left. Wieboldt’s is packed, people inside grabbing last minute gifts and staring at the Cinnamon Bear displays. Burton-Miller and Cole’s signs are glowing too. The whole block is alive with shoppers going in and out of the stores that used to make this the greatest shopping street in America.

Way down there you can just make out the Chicago Theatre sign. And even farther, those two round towers sitting on the river are Marina City. Bertrand Goldberg designed them in the early sixties. They were still new then, these giant concrete corn cobs with apartments and a parking garage and a marina underneath. Everybody in Chicago knew them.

Richard J. Daley was mayor. He had just won his fifth term that spring. The machine was still running strong and downtown was still the place you went at Christmas. The suburban malls were starting to steal customers but on a night like this you wouldn’t have known it. State Street was lit up and full of cars and people.

And those cars are all boats. Full size Chevys and Fords and Dodges with chrome bumpers you could land a plane on. Vinyl roofs. Bench seats. That yellow one is a Checker cab. Two lanes of American steel rolling under Christmas lights.

This slide is one of the ones that makes the whole collecting hobby worthwhile. This is not AI. This is 55 year old historical authenticity.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Unearthed video: Leaked Flock webinar reveals Flock employees teaching police how to surveil anti-Trump No Kings protestors and track their vehicles.

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

Amazon pulled in $62.6 billion fucking dollars this last QUARTER alone in net income, a 245% INCREASE year over year. But yeah, workers demanding a fair wage and safe working conditions are the problem. Everyone needs to start demanding higher wages.

[Fight for a Union @FightForAUnion]

Corporate profits have doubled from 6% of GDP to 12.4%. That's roughly an additional $2 trillion that historically would have gone to paychecks that is now being routed strictly to shareholders and CEOs. I wonder why we can’t afford anything anymore.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lutnick: Data centers don't use water. This is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down.

Lutnick last year: These AI things suck water. They need water.