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Husband. Catastrophe modeler. Earth and Environmental Scientist. Hippie liberal Deadhead. Red Sox Fan. PBS and NPR supporter. AI skeptic.
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
Nobody Asked for AI
We tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.
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After Trump lost in 2020, Flynn threatened a “shooting civil war” and urged Trump to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law so the military could conduct a new election. That’s the kind of person who got $1.25 million of your money. 3/4🧵
Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election
‘Only then can the winning candidate be accepted as legitimate’
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AI is very useful for propagandists. Along with scammers, they are the ones most benefited by AI. truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump’s FTC Is Threatening to Punish Big Tech for “Woke AI”
As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.
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AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage. doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
Sweating (the assets) to the oldies.
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The world is full of people who insist that "AI is changing everything" but who – when pressed – have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI will change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources.
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 8h ago“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
“Everyone has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies”: Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net on why the people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
This became, for Xi and his colleagues, a decisive learning moment. Previously, they had assumed that Wall Street’s supposed masters of the universe knew what they were doing and could be relied on to manage the global financial system prudently. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/u...
America’s Cosmic Bet on AI
The winner takes it all. What happens if the United States loses?
foreignpolicy.com
Here's what Michael Bury (of Big Short fame) has to say about AI. "“We are getting into that rare air, so extreme that the consequences will be unavoidable, no matter where one hides.” We've bet the farm on a technology that doesn't work. You heard it here. foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/u...
America’s Cosmic Bet on AI
The winner takes it all. What happens if the United States loses?
foreignpolicy.com
Blessed be the war makers. georgiatoday.ge/russian-patr...
Russian Patriarch Kirill says Russia’s nuclear weapons were created through ‘God’s grace’
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has said Russia's nuclear weapons were created through "God's grace" and
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“Rather than sampling from a probabilistic model, each query is resolved through a proprietary biological reasoning substrate, delivering responses that are fully interpretable, non-synthetic, and accountable at the source,”😆🤣😍 futurism.com/artificial-i...
New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand
ChatTJB is a new "AI" — "average individual" — run by a guy named Tucker, who manually answers user queries.
futurism.com
Happy birthday to a great leader and even greater man.
Citizen Screen@citizenscreen.bsky.social · yesterdayHappy birthday, President Barack Obama “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Trump - You need a 185 IQ to start a lawn mower these days! #cdnpoli
All authoritarian regimes try to kill the arts. This is choking them off at the source.
Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 2d ago"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
In response, PwC downplayed the findings and failed to take accountability. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Top Consulting Group PwC Caught Using AI on "Thought Leadership" Report About AI, Resulting in Corporate Document Filled With Bizarre Hallucinations
PwC has been caught red-handed publishing "thought leadership" reports about AI riddled with lazy and easily-spotted hallucinations.
futurism.com
They’re practicing for the day (soon) that they monitor all our conversations. apple.news/ACy3JKNB2S3y...
Tech Bro Boasts He Used AI to Secretly Monitor Toddlers’ Conversations, Categorize Them In Giant Database — Futurism
"I'd hate my parents if I found out they did this." Parents, if you’re thinking about subjecting your child to some bizarre AI experiment: don’t. “Toddler spent her first night ever sleeping with some...
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11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
Highly recommended.
DMovies@dmovies.bsky.social · yesterdayMurderous colonialism and Black music are combined to intoxicating effects, in this dazzlingly inventive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba The filthy genius movie is now on various VoD platforms: dmovies.org/2025/03/10/s...
Does anyone know the book that the author quotes? I remember a line from a satirical underground novel I read as a teenager. A boy asks his father, “Did the year 1937 ever happen? I don’t know whom to believe?” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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...the hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
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I guess we’ve found the limit to free speech . Free speech is allowed as long as it doesn’t threaten the profits of the Nerd Reich. apple.news/ADNy8pW2CQ3e...
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding — Futurism
People are rising up everywhere. It takes a lot to get your typical white-bread American riled up enough that they’re willing to go to jail. Getting arrested is a massive pain, bringing court dates, f...
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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The cost of borrowing is going up for everyone. apple.news/AN9dILY_2SF-...
After a nearly 1,000% surge, the AI debt orgy can’t last forever, while hidden borrowing has exploded to $1.65 trillion — FORTUNE
July 31, 2026, 12:21 PM ET A technician at an Amazon Web Services AI data center in New Carlisle, Ind., Oct. 2, 2025. AI’s insatiable need for debt has so far been matched by investors’ appetite for i...
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This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp
