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[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Make no mistake: The US government will socialize the immense costs of subprime AI. They will force us all to eat the losses, while the perpetrators of the biggest fraud in history abscond to private islands. Be ready, because a deliberate rug-pull is the plan.

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

This is clear discrimination and political interference in sport. No team should be made to compete under conditions no other country would ever accept.

FIFA has a lot to answer for.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Scalia died in February 2016. It took Obama a full month to nominate a replacement and then he used no leverage and barely lifted a finger for Garland; the party was more focused in the moment at making sure everyone understood how racist and sexist Bernie Sanders was.

Plenty of Obama aides were actually glad when Dems lost the senate in 2014 because they were sick of Harry Reid pushing Obama to be more assertive and fight more.

They lost the Senate in 2014 largely because of Obama’s capitulation to/obsession with austerity and reducing the deficit.

He constantly insisted he had no real power — Neera will probably respond by saying he had no power — which Trump has proved totally wrong.

And when RBG died in September 2020 Trump nominated ACB the next week. They play to win.

But sure, a 5 minute segment from @chrislhayes would’ve made the difference. (And I’m sure he did do a bunch actually.)

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A professor in the U.S. was suspended for mentioning Palestinians, just days after Hasan Piker was barred from the UK for condemning a genocide.

Your rights are being stripped away in service of Israel’s impunity.

[o @UTDFats]

Iraqi striker Ayman Hussein flies 12 hours to the United States, lands in Chicago, and is then detained for 7 hours by authorities for questioning.

Not a single news outlet sharing this btw

Everyday I read something that makes me less excited for this World Cup. Shame on FIFA for picking such cruel and greedy hosts.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Can you imagine how explosively the right would shit themselves if a group of Muslims were driving around London impersonating police officers and intimidating non-Muslims under the justification of countering Islamophobia? The shrieking about "Sharia law" would shatter glass.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

The BBC make me physically feel sick.

BBC News is running a strapline: "Israel and Lebanon agree ceasefire if Hezbollah stops attacks".

Which is astoundingly dishonest framing.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Needed to pull out an important part of the interview.

AI is often justified by comparing it to Amazon Web Services' ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) losses, when its costs/losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse.

There'll also be little useful infrastructure left behind.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Democrats will of course not use this to their advantage

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

The % of Dems who have a positive view of Israel is at 13%—less than the % of Dems who support full abortion bans & prayer in schools. Here I ask why US media keeps insisting support for Israel is “dividing democrats” when—in reality—it’s a fringe position https://t.co/61BRqAQQwo

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Blah blah blah where’s your product

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're going to have to repeat a lot that many Jewish people don't support Israel's genocide.

Criticism of the Israeli Government and their war crimes has nothing to do with who is or isn't Jewish.

To conflate them like this is both harmful and antisemitic.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Inertia is working in their favor (because they support Israel and Trump’s support for their endless regional slaughters) but have to vaguely gesture towards opposition so all they have—again—is quibbling over process and paperwork

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Has anyone in Dem leadership—Jeffries, Schumer, anyone—spoken out on defense of Tlaib and Hamawy after the racist attacks targeting them yesterday? Any major pundit, liberal nonprofit? Any editorial board? Republicans smearing Muslim electeds as “terrorists” is simply a nonstory

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Like I said, every single Muslim elected to congress is treated this way. This man literally saved the lives of Marines in Iraq and they’re still basically calling him a terrorist.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

for anyone curious about this dynamic, it's very much a quantitative phenomena. Post Oct 7, despite university and nonprofits finding roughly equal instances of antisemitism and anti-Muslim racism, the former was covered 9X-31X more in US media, depending on how it was measrured

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy served as a combat surgeon in Iraq, which we invaded based on lies told by Ari Fleischer. Hamawy told me yesterday that on heavy days of battle he’d operate on as many as 30-40 American servicemembers, triaging where he had to.

Ari bears significant responsibility for every single one of those maimed men and women that Hamawy worked to save.

Now to have the balls to link him to Al Qaeda is not remotely the most shameful thing he’s done in his life, but it has to be in the top ten.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Went on Bloomberg - Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t IPO. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks.
AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS/Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story.
https://t.co/ROww0H5ugs

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The IDF has been accused of horrific war crimes in Gaza by the UN Human Rights Council & Amnesty International.

It is just common sense that those involved in war crimes should be held to account.