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ICE: Remove your masks, surrender your guns, and march straight back to Mar-a-lago, stopping at every home you pass by to beg forgiveness for a year of kidnapping, murder and terrorism.

Dario Amodei of Anthropic claims to love American values, and I can think of nothing more American than competition. Yet his approach - masked as an "AI arms race with China" - is focused on crushing open source models that are competing with Claude at a lower price.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4d ago

Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software. youtu.be/8GWPjTDPVIM

The GOP economic advantage has always been vibes based. Debt and deficits have always ballooned under Republican presidents and the only people who’ve benefited were already rich. Republicans only care about fiscal discipline if a Dem is in office

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 5d ago

Republican pollsters and strategists tell The Wall Street Journal that they fear that under Trump, the GOP has thrown away its traditional advantage on the economy. trib.al/PGc1CZw

Even if you agree with this guy’s politics, it really feels impossible to imagine being an editor who can commission any nonfiction writer in America and thinking to yourself, “Let’s pay this guy to write his one column again “

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its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist

Many platforms are more afraid of being called woke than they are afraid of letting nazis in. The truth is that no one likes hanging out with nazis, not even nazis. If you give them Twitter and everyone else leaves, they would still not be happy. They will then want to go where everyone else is.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2mo ago

Yep. One of the most disgusting things about the US is that at most points in US history, white people could insult other white people, just by suggesting that they care about other people. So white folk deny it. "I'm not an n-word lover, but..." "I'm not PC, but.." "I'm not woke, but..." 🤷🏿‍♂️

Conor Lamb has spent the last four years putting together a dream team. Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer are rounding up their favorite oligarch donors to go to the mats for this nebbish. The Democrats are back, baby!!!

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2w ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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Being mortal creatures with limited time and energy, it is totally natural that human outrage is selective. If you tried to do work on every injustice and horror on this earth, you would collapse into an exhausted ball of trauma it is absolutely fine for you to select a cause that is yours

NEW: I dug into the court documents in the case of Andrea Shaw, the Idaho mother charged with killing her toddlers. Shaw insists they died following a set of vaccinations. I looked at how the anti-vaccine movement insinuated itself into this case and her life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

She's charged with killing her twins. The anti-vaccine movement made her a martyr.

Andrea Shaw is charged with suffocating her toddlers. Children's Health Defense says it was the vaccines.

motherjones.com

Though we have failed to rectify the material consequences of bigotry, the campaign to demonize bigotry itself has been a cultural success. It is the one charge so powerful that racists cry about reverse racism, and war criminals claim to be victims of hate speech for being called war criminals.

Netanyahu Accuses Mamdani of ‘Hate Speech’ After Mayor’s Video Address

The Israeli prime minister criticized Mr. Mamdani for releasing a video last week in which the mayor called for the federal government to arrest Mr. Netanyahu for war crimes.

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