NicPRossier

Faith, Conflict Resolution, Conservation
Films on Haiti, SA, Identity, DYSTOPIA...
Advocate for Traffic&Pedestrian Safety.

[NicPRossier @NicRossier]

@dubeyamitabh It was a silly request. All are competing hard to make 1984 a reality - of course, they won't hold hands. Who are they? Innocent kids?
Villains don't hold hands like it's a 3th-grader's birthday party.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the american dream used to mean
you could start with nothing
and build something.
now more americans think the game is rigged.
that changes everything.
@gzeromedia

[Jackson Chabot @chabot_jackson]

Thank you @ShahanaFromBK for championing a car-free Carroll Street bridge! This is a joy.

Thank you,@RacioppoMike, @NYC_DOT, @BrooklynCB6, @EricMcClureBK, and many more, for making it happen, too.

@OpenPlans @StreetsblogNYC @Streetfilms

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

One of the most mind blowing 10 minutes of video Christianity has ever produced.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

My mayor still Muslim
My bagel still Jewish
The pope’s on our side
Knicks in🖐️

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

technology used to be more advantageous to open societies.
now it benefits closed ones.

i explain why with @ezraklein

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The Trump administration is dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a key monitoring system for tracking the climate crisis.

Policy expert David Helvarg calls it "the most advanced system for understanding the deep ocean," which was set to continue operating for at least another 15 years. He says the Trump administration, however, is more focused on oil drilling and deep-sea mining, treating the ocean "as a gas station and a garbage dump."

[NicPRossier @NicRossier]

@democracynow @elonmusk, you're happy now?

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Author Quinn Slobodian says Elon Musk's business empire and his work for the Trump administration are intimately connected.

DOGE was not about demolishing the government, but a way to "refashion and reformat" it so that Musk and his companies become "an indispensable part of the infrastructure."

[NicPRossier @NicRossier]

@itslaylas Jokes about rapes are bad taste, whoever the victims!
@Tribeca @TribecaFilmIns
Should make a strong statement against this idiot!

[Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @ChakhoyanAndrew]

Toxic rain is falling on Tuapse (75 miles from putin’s summer residence in Sochi) coating cars and streets in oily grime.
A once-picturesque Black Sea resort town is now choking on the fallout of a war that has come home to #russia
My latest op-ed in a Thread 🧵
1/21

[NicPRossier @NicRossier]

@mp3michael @realBigBrainAI It's not IMO

[NicPRossier @NicRossier]

@Acyn If everything is rigged, why wasn't 2024 rigged as well?

[NicPRossier @NicRossier]

@mp3michael @realBigBrainAI it's not fair use

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Bestselling novelist David Baldacci on how AI companies deliberately stole every book and academic paper published in the last 70 years:

Baldacci is a named plaintiff in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alongside John Grisham, Scott Turow, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen.
They're also representing roughly 60,000 unnamed plaintiffs.

He explains how AI companies arrived at novels as the key ingredient for building superintelligence:

"The AI community searched the world. How do you create superintelligence? They tried everything to try to figure out, how do you do this? They fed dictionaries into it. They did lots of stuff. They finally found the only way to create super intelligence that they needed was to feed novels into the large language models. Novels worked, finished products of storytelling with characters and dialogue and research and events and interactions. That was their Holy Grail moment."

Baldacci points out the obvious path the AI companies could have taken —negotiating with the five major publishers, each of whom represents around 100,000 writers.

Instead, they chose theft. @davidbaldacci continues:

"They decided we're just going to steal them. I'm not saying anything out of school. They've admitted this. They got most of the books from a Russian pirate website where they would go and download the books from there. And they didn't even want their software programs to know they were stealing the books. So they had the software program that would scrape off the copyright page, scrape off the ISBN number on the back, and just download the book itself."

The scale is staggering.

Over the last eight or nine years, every book and every academic paper published in the last 70 years worldwide has been ingested into the large language models at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta.

Baldacci testified about this on Capitol Hill in July.

He describes the personal toll of being a named plaintiff:

"I've had to give them all of my materials, all of my financial information I've had to give them, let them come in and do a complete scrape on all of my emails, all of my communications. I sat through a nine hour deposition like I've done something wrong. They said, yeah, we've taken your books, we haven't paid you a dime and we didn't ask your permission, but we should be entitled to do it because AI is so cool. That's basically their legal argument."

The parallel case against Anthropic in California has already settled for $1.5 billion, to be paid out over two years to 50,000 writers. The OpenAI and Microsoft case is now past discovery and heading toward a settlement conference.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 TERRIFYING: Shawn Ryan confirms tech elites are secretly buying underground bunkers to prepare for societal collapse.

He reveals AI will trigger over a MILLION massive layoffs by the end of the year, while ordinary Americans are left completely defenseless! on Shawn Ryan Show

[Argemino Barro @Argemino]

La primera ministra de Dinamarca, Mette Frederiksen:

"Existe un vínculo totalmente establecido entre el poder político, el capital, los gigantes tecnológicos y la IA. Y el propósito de todo esto es socavar la democracia. Ese es el objetivo".

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

A Texas anti-data center organizer just described what happens when communities try to fight billion-dollar tech expansion projects:

there’s nobody left to call.

She says EPA and FEMA complaint systems are now a shell of what they once were after cuts pushed by Trump and Musk-era DOGE policies.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This is how political coalitions collapse.

A lifelong Texas conservative just looked straight into the camera and basically said:

“I’d rather hand Democrats the Senate than let these corporations turn my community into a giant AI server farm.”

That is a MASSIVE warning sign for Republicans.

This is the Republican base revolting against Trump-backed Ken Paxton over data centers swallowing land, water, power grids, and entire towns.

And once rural conservatives start breaking rank over corporate overreach, property destruction, and quality-of-life issues…

the map changes FAST.

Republicans have held that Senate seat since 1993.

Now you have conservatives openly saying:
“Red or blue, if you stop the data centers, you get our vote.”

That is how realignment starts.