The irony of NY billionaires having existential panic over a grocery store selling vegetables for $3 less than market value to the poor. It is ok that they received government bailout in millions or took government contracts to stay alive.
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~Stoic thoughts on everything Tech ~Failed angel investor who lucked out ~Immigrant to the land of free ~Will oppose Welfare for the rich and rugged Individualism for the poor ~Centrist with a repulsion for liars
Not much news about Countries and funds hedging US dollars by moving to gold and other vehicles. This is the tectonic shift that will cause the devastating US financial earth quake. All this $ offloading actively being made worse with our tv hosts led, camera angle and daily optics focused agenda
In the 90s it was the IVR that was irritating to deal with Now it is the AI written mechanical email responses from customer support
Getting rid of party primaries for ranked choice voting is the butterfly effect that we need
Fauci has to explain serious allegations on why he allowed people in extreme red areas to die, while the vaccinated and masked survived. All data is available publicly. Response may not have been perfect but hindsight is 20/20 and these critics were not in in the arena.
Covid was first when we realized that being both stupid and educated was not an oxymoron.
Changing rules to include SpaceX into Index fund !! How the average 401k user is sucking up the fall, while the big boys booked their profits. This manipulation is flying under the radar !! Where are the investigative journalists ?
“You will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science” - Neil deGrasse Tyson — It’s already too late.
Destruction of rare physical books by Anthropic after obtaining it dubiously and feeding it into their LLMs is purely evil at a scale of crimes against humanity!!
Why dem consultants suck and were out of touch !! Discussion in neighborhood : Tell me something that T$ru$p did good for you Answer : he prevented Harris from becoming the president !!
Capping election funding, aka. containing Citizens United, should be front and center for 2028 That is the Disease i.e representatives not representing constituents interests Rest everything else are just symptoms.
37.5 Billion spent on a war that was never in the 2024 election manifesto. No clear outcomes and a mess of global supply chains. And then penny pinching on research grants and medical insurance coverage for the underprivileged !! Such incompetent bunch of Fox News anchors running the country
Testosterone and brute force was important in close combat wars when people fought with swords and bayonets. Now war is fought without facing the enemy. Your intellect, skills to use technology, and thinking is more important than those primeval attributes.
China is doing with AI, what it did with steel, tires or rare earth. Make it so cheap and dump it on your rivals, so that their industry can crash.
We need more of Thomas Messis and John Ossofs as lawmakers, than someone who lived through segregation and needs a dead man’s pedal
Chinese AI Models at par with our frontier models, at 1/10th of our cost, is an AI apocalypse The kicker - founder has a PhD from CMU (Carnegie) and went back to China - possibly not seeing a path to Green Card ! The irreversible effects of our inability to attract the best is yet to come.
An enemy of US could not have wished better Kill the one thing that has a domino effect on all good things Imagine the next mRNA or next AI or next Nuclear is invented in China and we are dependent on them wapo.st/4fwgGMw
Researchers worry a Trump rule could end U.S. scientific dominance
Research organizations warn a proposed rule for federal grants would upend the medical and technological advances that set U.S. science apart.
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Given the current state of our moral compass, Graham has a higher likelihood of winning the 2028 presidential election compared to serving as a Democratic senator.
The cruelty of passing the big beautiful bill and cutting lot of Medicaid AFTER the mid terms They can always muddy the water with the cult members on why they lost benefits
It really needs big anti science muddleheads to break the US weather forecast wapo.st/4vkNXyN
Analysis | We mapped weather forecast accuracy across the U.S. Look up your city.
Everyone complains about the weather forecast, but some people have more cause to grumble than others. Find out how accurate the forecast is where you live.
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Wonder when they will figure out a screen token aggregator for OTT platforms - versus buying individual subscriptions It’s a win-win solution
China's Open Source models are the pin that can burst the US AI hot air balloon and the stock market. 90% of the AI enterprise application does not need the super heavy US models Like the Chinese EVs, only the government has the power to stop them dumping those open AI models in US market.
Sneak into S&P index, if you have enough influence and let the pension funds bail you out Most of the 401k holders now hold SpaceX stocks !!!
Crazy to think about the amount of time Americans watch broadcast TV in this date and time So long the billionaires and industrial houses have control on this broadcast TV., The bottom of the pyramid will do exactly what they are fed.
The only bright things in your feed is seeing cute dogs and Mamdani jumping into pool In a suit. What a joy to watch him. With all the virtol sent to him, he seems just genuinely happy and having fun. We can chose Politics and Leadership to be this.
dichotomy of Google’s AI prowess An email from sam91842037@gmail.com with subject line “renew membership now" with a straightforward phishing link will land straight on your primary inbox and Gemini will summarize and remind you to renew that membership
JD and Rubio are now almost out of reckoning for 2028 c/o the war. Hard to convince the majority what they got of it. the billionaire propaganda machine will try to spin another doctrine like trickle down economics “You gave your today for the bright future of your grandchildren”
How many years- before an embedded AI chip can interact with our biological inputs Education and Learning will have a different meaning in a very short span Why spend the first ~18 years of your life learning facts and figures when they can be summoned them at will