Steven Stempel

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@joni_askola Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, Thomas Dewey, Jacob Javits, George Romney, Margaret Chase Smith….that Republican Party is gone.

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@TheRealThelmaJ1 @drnanjo Is this the kind of wrestling where they wear superhero outfits and bash each other with folding chairs?

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@DrDan65 @omgsidewalks Funny story - I did exactly what Bezos did in 1997. Started on online book store. Did great. $100k in sales by 2000. Then Amazon put me out of business.

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@StaafJackie @FurkanGozukara Example of theft: “OpenAI and Meta downloaded illegal, pirated digital copies of books from shadow libraries and systematically stripped away the copyright pages and ISBN information, before feeding them into their AI training.”

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@FurkanGozukara It’s odd that $1,500,000,000,000. for the War Dept never gets mentioned in these conversations.

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@omgsidewalks Certainly true for the 33% of billionaires who inherited the money. They didn’t do anything.

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@David__Osland @roryontour Reagan and Thatcher dumped decades of demand side Keynesian economics for Chicago School/Milton Friedman supply side neoliberalism. Both countries are now at the end stage of that catastrophic decision.

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@Strandjunker “Federal law (the Thayer Amendment of 1866) strictly prohibits the portrait of any living person from appearing on U.S. paper currency.”

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@ProudSocialist “Federal law (the Thayer Amendment of 1866) strictly prohibits the portrait of any living person from appearing on U.S. paper currency.”

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@OrevaZSN Walmart: starting pay is $14 an hour. National average is $18. Corporate profit is $20 billion. Instead of looking for another job, how about paying the workers more?

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@ProudSocialist The care and pampering of the top 1% is now the only function of the executive and legislative branches. The 99% are not in the picture anymore.

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@FurkanGozukara A drunk teenager smashes a store window. He is caught and must pay to replace the window. AI smashes the white collar workforce. Must AI companies pay to replace what they destroyed?

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@JOKAQARMY1 We mustn’t fight horizontally
The battle is vertical.

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@ProudSocialist Divide Brin’s wealth evenly among Google workers.
It comes to 1.6 million each.
For that bonus check they’d probably work 65.

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@420GHz Excellent article.

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@MetamateDaz Hunter-gatherers worked about three hours a day to meet their needs.
Now we’re up to eight minimum. Progress!

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@OrevaZSN @mabian Speaking of AI “art”, the major music labels are suing Suno, Udio and Anthropic for ripping off their copyrighted real music.

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@ProudSocialist @charise_lee The Rubio dream - A Trump hotel/casino in Havana where the employees have no health insurance, they are paid $3 an hour and their new American landlord wants $1,500 a month.

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@ProudSocialist @mabian Important to know that this is state monopoly capitalism. The state has fused with corporations and the wealthy. The American citizen is completely irrelevant. Not even an afterthought.

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@MichaelS1966ms @brucefenton Please post your address, DOB and drivers license number! 🤪