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Jake Gronie

@jakegronie.bsky.social

Very left of center. BA History Kent St MS Int'l Studies St. John Fisher. Aspie. An odd fellow who steams a good ham. Rochester,NY. #BillsMafia Cavs Kent State Orioles Flyers Arsenal BVB Amerks Cubs Cuse #MACtion

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Jake Gronie@jakegronie.bsky.social · 6d ago

fark.com/14154184 --Fark headline: Many have gotten a favors, from fat government contracts to pardons just by sucking up to Trump. Tate's lawyer, however, is choosing a *different* approach: Publicly threatening a "reckoning" if Trump doesn't help Tate

Many have gotten a favors, from fat government contracts to pardons just by sucking up to Trump. Tate's lawyer, however, is choosing a *different* approach: Publicly threatening a "reckoning" if Trump...

Many have gotten a favors, from fat government contracts to pardons just by sucking up to Trump. Tate's lawyer, however, is choosing a *different* approach: Publicly threatening a "reckoning" if Trump...

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Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 6d ago

the current left/liberal position on ai feels a lot like the liberal position on talk radio in the mid-80s to early 90s: ignore it, it will go away, nobody pays attention to that. fast forward to 1994 and newt fucking gingrich is speaker of the house.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 6d ago

And I worry that there are a lot of people on the left who don't care about this problem because they hate AI. But the truth is that as this technology continues to get jammed into everything from customer service to banking to fast food orders, having built-in fair right bias is bad.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/

CECO Latin America is becoming a laboratory for tech-supremacism share.googleMilei introduced the Super RIGI project in an op-ed for The Financial Times, opening with praise for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), a corporation that fused corporate and governmental power. It was granted a commercial monopoly, its own army, currency and legal system, and the power to declare war. It built its wealth on colonial exploitation and the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people. In this sense, the Super RIGI is the legal framework for a foreign-flagged VOC to operate on Argentine soil. Milei celebrates the VOC as the birthplace of limited liability, "the invention that allowed capitalism to develop its full potential", a supposed gift from the West to the world, upon which Western superiority rests. Shortly before Thiel's arrival, Argentina's Ministry of Human Capital announced on social media the creation of a social information integration platform called the "Social Digital Twin" (Gemelo Digital Social), de-