@cwebbonline Have you been to Regan’s museum? Or Clinton’s? Or LBJ? Truman’s? JFK? Ford? Carter? Both Bush? There’s an Oval Office in all of these places.
@DuneAwakening Removal of PvP instead of repurposing it as a way to get PvP players and PvE players to work together in a dynamic economy. Burrrr. Another burnout from Funcom.
@DuneAwakening Once sold as a MMORPG survival. Now simply Survival builder. Can’t deny that with the massive empty cities and auction houses. The trade posts with nothing to trade or do. Piss poor endgame specialization loop and very little diversity in placables. Such a sad decay.
@niccruzpatane Of all the BMW, you select the XM which is nowhere near the worst. Pick from the 2 series carp grille, the x2 with the Chevy rear, the neue klasse ix3 pause button face.
Artificial Intelligence is built on the creative work of millions of writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary people. That work has been stolen by Big Tech oligarchs.
Now's the time to reclaim it and ensure AI works for ALL, not just the few.
Bro, I'm so tired of this AI bullshit.
You work hard for years to learn a real skill. You fail, you learn, you get good. Now this AI makes the same thing in 5 seconds and everyone is cheering like it's amazing. This is not help. This is just making real talent worthless. We're destroying our own value and smiling about it.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies.
The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.
We are now in a weird era where a guy gets publicly shamed for running his sprinklers on a Tuesday, while a data center the size of a Costco quietly drains a reservoir so AI can generate a picture of your cat as a medieval knight. And the data center gets a tax incentive for it.
@Rep_Stansbury Yall care so much about raising money for shit that never sees the light of day. Aside from the trash UFC party all you and your cronies do is block real brick and mortar change including that ballroom. Meanwhile under your friends our roads crumble and ai takes over. Focus.
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.
Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.
The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."
An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.
Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.
The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.
No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.
Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.
Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·