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It says a lot how much American media treats "politicians listening to people, promising to use their tax dollars to make their lives better" is treated as a crisis that needs to be stopped.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The dog has caught its tail. Candidates with big war chests are finding that ad buys don’t guarantee victory,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes of Democratic politics. “The people who are winning right now are organizing movements, not just raising cash.”
Part of the reason might be American undergraduate education is simply not very good. www.economist.com/china/2026/0...
Why ever fewer young Chinese study abroad
Those who do are more likely to return home afterwards
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I love a little poetry in the weekend. <reads poetry> Gotdamn that poetry got hands.
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know: propub.li/4g078bJ
I literally can't tell what's parody or not anymore.
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 6d agoOh my god I think I found the video.
Private equity gambles with your money, keeps the profits and passes the losses off to you.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · last wk.Private equity has been scooping up life insurers that provide "permanent capital." Private credit has been financing the AI infrastructure build-out. Those two come together, and the result could be a bailout paid by state taxpaers, according to a fascinating new paper. I talked to the authors:
My latest story has some intrigue. FCC finally released Chairman Brendan Carr’s financial report for 2025 late Friday. The report states Paramount gave him tickets to the gala worth $12,390. But he and his wife sat in skybox seats that sold for $125,000 a piece. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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The US, Israel and Morocco coordinated an invasion of Spain as retaliation for its criticism of fascism and genocide. Meanwhile, "centrist" European governments criticize Spain more than the countries behind the attack. This is how "centrism" shows it is ultimately an ally of fascism.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.The right’s exploitation of the Ceuta migrant ‘crisis’ almost guarantees that it will happen again | Ruben Andersson
"OMG a country is using IT workers to fund its weapons of mass destruction schemes! Anyways, here's Canada's latest contract with Palantir..."
Radio Canada International@rci.bsky.social · last wk.Canada and multiple allies released an alert on Friday detailing a North Korean scheme to fund its weapons of mass destruction program. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!
If there is in fact another economic disaster on the horizon, it's reassuring to know that at least there's a steady hand on the tiller at the Fed paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
The Bond Market Doesn’t Like Bullshit
Why Kevin Warsh just bombed
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I appreciate that the place they labeled "Cote D'Ivoire" isn't even touching a coast. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
U.S. government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
The State Department said that it took “full responsibility” for the confusion caused and that the map was produced by a team member who hastily changed the slide deck.
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Jesus christ those allegations are horrific. And not surprising in the slightest coming from the party of domestic violence.
Splinter@splinternews.bsky.social · 2w agoSen. Bernie Moreno vies to become the most pathetic man in Congress, ignoring his own daughter’s assault claims rather than criticize fellow Republican Rep. Max Miller. #MaxMiller #BernieMoreno #EmilyMoreno www.jezebel.com/bernie-moren...
New investigation from AI Forensics finds HuggingFace Spaces (which are subsidized) for "Image Editing" are primarily used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery of non-celeb real people, including CSAM, and lack even cursory "guardrails" (which are a scam). aiforensics.org/uploads/NCII...
I think he is being honest here, in a sense. It's just that "the genie" isn't "AI", it's the mass enslavement that will be made possible by an AI-powered surveillance state. And, his definition of "humanity" doesn't include anyone with a net worth of less than $100 million.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w ago“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
