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it's a cliché to apologize about this before saying it so ill just say it CAN YOU IMAGINE if this was happening under biden?
George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterdayhahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
Semafor@semafor.com · yesterday🟡 SCOOP: Paramount executives have discussed asking Elon Musk for an equity investment as it looks to firm up its financial picture to digest Warner Bros. Discovery. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
We're six weeks out and Trump is under 35% approval. I think it is safe to say that we're firmly in 2006 territory, and an even bigger wave than 2006 is on the table. We haven't felt the end of the fuel shock, and who knows how Trump will attempt to make himself the center of attention.
Like Tom in the 90s cult comedy classic PCU, Trump is speed running pissing off every constituency in the whole world that didn’t already despise him: Farmers US Military US Oil producers Small businesses Canadians Europeans Africans KSA, UAE, etc US legal immigrants US Hispanic population
In primaries this year, Democratic turnout utterly dwarfed Republican turnout. But does it mean anything for November? It turns out the answer is very much yes. A new analysis from @donnermaps.bsky.social suggests that Dems are on track for a 13-point blowout in the House vote. Here's why.
Massive primary turnout points to biggest year for Democrats since Watergate
There’s a remarkably close correlation between the primary vote and the House popular vote
the-downballot.com
And it's not even because I personally care about the film/TV industry (I do, and this is an apocalyptic turn for that industry). It's because this is part of a massive right-wing media consolidation project, akin to Orban's takeover in Hungary, and any Dem helping that project is an enemy. Period.
This should end Gavin Newsom’s career in Dem politics.
Nick Field@nickfield.bsky.social · 4d agoThe State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
This îs not a state-wide poll. It's just one district. But it's a Trump +17 district (from 2024) in the DFW metro.
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
Conditions don't work to fix the problems caused by media consolidation, especially at the hands of authoritarian zealots. They rarely are meaningful or consistently enforced. this is why, as they say, we can't have nice things
Paramount and state AGs will settle lawsuit, allowing Warner Bros. merger to proceed, reports say
The antitrust lawsuit threatened to delay Paramount's acquisition until mid-2027 and to cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in fees.
cnbc.com
Using AI chatbots to address financial questions could risk large losses, with models from a range of providers giving wrong answers most of the time. The most popular AI models from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Grok and Gemini provided wrong answers to financial queries 57% of the time on average.
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’
Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules
ft.com
It appears the analyst in question didn’t even bother to check his own work or the conclusions reached by the chatbot
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 6d agoOkay, so this isn't just dumb, it's scary scary bad bad. We came within a hair's breadth of seizing a Chinese ship in international waters which could have easily spiraled into a war.
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
orlandosentinel.com
it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last yr.This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
Again, absolutely wild that Republicans in Congress, so recently just spluttering mad about Hunter Biden, have decided that the most blatant corruption imaginable is in fact legal for this one guy
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last wk.Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
🚨 BREAKING — The Supreme Court will not allow the Trump administration to enforce new nationwide mail-ballot restrictions. The new USPS rules will not be in effect for the November midterms.
Just so we all understand the play here. Release initial polls showing Senate Dem candidates with modest leads. Release more in coming weeks showing the races "tightening," and their candidate gaining and ours losing ground. It's 2022 red wave, redux. No one should fall for it this time.
BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Gallego says he supports tearing down Trump's ballroom and arch and explains why
I saw a post earlier saying I need to integrate AI into my workflow as an artist or I'll be left behind. Sure I've seen dozens of posts like this before, but I'm really seriously thinking about it now and I am at a total loss as to what it would possibly do to improve my work.
Senate polling update, per Nate Silver: ALASKA 🔵 +1.2% FLORIDA 🔴 +5.3% GEORGIA 🔵 +8.4% IOWA ⚪ +0.0% (TIED) KANSAS 🔴 +3.6% MAINE 🔵 +4.0% MICHIGAN 🔵 +2.9% MINNESOTA 🔵 +4.8% NORTH CAROLINA 🔵 +8.7% NEBRASKA 🔴 +0.9% NEW HAMPSHIRE 🔵 +3.1% OHIO 🔵 +4.1% TEXAS 🔵 +2.4% GENERIC BALLOT 🔵 +8.1%
Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/
Getting kinda nuts tbh. I don’t think anyone is used to the type of tail outcomes you get when the national environment is +9, 10, 11 in either direction
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I stood with a face full of shaving cream smearing the phone as I reassured my brother-in-law in Japan that my wife was in the other Tower. Her family were worried over the breaking news they were getting from across the Pacific. We watched together ... 1/
🧵🧵🧵Here's a thread with 10 questions the news media should ask Republicans at their “Trumpapalooza” convention in Dallas this Wednesday and Thursday. 1. Did you avoid driving to Dallas because gas is too expensive, or did you avoid flying because airfares are up so much?
