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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a ...

Ed Zitron argues the AI boom is a bubble based on three arguments

1) Nvidia’s stock price hinges on FAANG’s endless GPU buying spree

2) Big Tech is spending 10x more on AI infrastructure than they earn

3) AI startups like OpenAI & Anthropic are making billions but are burning even more billions.

Substack just suspended Mosab Abu Toha for posting about what Israel is doing to Palestinians www.instagram.com/p/DLvd_KmSRZ...

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.

I was deported by the U.S. for reporting on the Columbia University student protests.

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Israeli strikes have killed nearly 600 in Iran, human rights group says A human rights group says Israeli strikes have killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others.

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 585 people and wounded 1,326 others, a human rights group says. Iran has only acknowledged 224 deaths so far.

Caitlin Flanagan: Thank you to people - well person - for pointing out that the Ayatollah Khameini is long dead (he's really, most sincerely dead) but for whatever reason On Twitter the account is Khameini. Lydia Kiesling: You are talking about two different people. Flanagan: I think they speak through history with one voice

just remembered the funniest ever attempt at a save

I wrote about this back in April: Places like NYC becoming unaffordable is a *huge* problem for Democrats nationally. If Cuomo wins the mayoral race, it's much likelier the electoral college becomes nearly unwinnable for Democrats in 2032. amandalitman.substack.com/i/160446970/...

I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...

The Times questioning Zohran’s experience kinda just boils down to ideology & racism but the idea of 33 being too young to hold a major political office is so funny. If he was a CEO of a startup that produced something worse than nothing they’d write a glowing feature on his new bold ideas.

Before parroting Israel’s talking points on Iran, know this:

🚨 Israel bombed Iran first
🚨 Iran hasn’t invaded another country in over 200 years
🚨 It signed the nuclear deal—Israel opposed it
🚨 U.S./Israel backed Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war
🚨 Israel has nukes, Iran doesn’t

The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.

They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:

Using Signal groups for activism Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...

I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...

A Gazan’s honest answer to the question, “How Are You?” Every time someone asks, “How are you?” I feel a sharp twist inside. That simple question drags me back into a place I desperately try to avoid. The truth is, I am not fine. And neither is anyone…

Every time someone asks, “How are you?” I feel a sharp twist inside. That simple question drags me back into a place I desperately try to avoid. The truth is, I am not fine. And neither is anyone else in Gaza.

Question - why is bluesky so f ing boring. Why don’t I see any Palestine content while there’s something worse than a genocide happening in Gaza? Why does this place feel like the pink p*ssy hat convention of 2016? Where do I find the ppl who are happy Biden is going to d** soon

Graph titled: Multiple chronic medical conditions are increasingly common in state & federal prisons

Incarcerated people have more chronic medical conditions than ever

Yet healthcare behind bars is blocked by expensive copays, limited resources, & understaffing – creating a situation in which each year spent in prison takes *2 years* off an individual’s life expectancy

Everyone should use the platform they have to speak up. For some that’s a stage in front of thousands of students for some it’s bluesky

What Google’s largest-ever acquisition of an Israeli software company tells us about Big Tech’s complicity in genocide Google’s acquisition of Israeli software company, Wiz, for $32 billion shows just how much Silicon Valley is invested in Israeli tech. The problem is, almost all of Israeli tech is first developed by…

Google’s acquisition of Israeli software company, Wiz, for $32 billion shows just how much Silicon Valley is invested in Israeli tech. The problem is, almost all of Israeli tech is first developed by a genocidal army.

Free Palestine! A Reading List Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Here, we pres...

Free Palestine reading list

Graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries.

The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration.

Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

A new paper using administrative income data finds evidence that Medicaid expansion differentially increased income among low-income adults in expansion states

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Ultimately the corporate overlords don’t care if we compete with china. They only care that they can accumulate more wealth.

Extremely disturbing….

Donate to GAZA journalist Mohammed Arab & Wafaa's family, organized by Amanda Gray I’m Amanda, a Brit, and have become close to Palestinian journalist Mohamme… Amanda Gray needs your support for GAZA journalist Mohammed Arab & Wafaa's family

“I kindly reach out with an urgent humanitarian appeal. My family is going through a difficult and critical situation, and we are in desperate need of support and assistance as soon as possible. Sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone who can lend a helping hand.”❤️

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Unique Chicago museum showcases the history of public housing through its residents A one-of-a-kind Chicago museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America. The National Public Housing Museum is a former public housing complex that underwent a $17.5 million transformation and showcases recreated apartments from three eras.

A one-of-a-kind Chicago museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

The only visible light in Gaza is coming from Israeli bombardment Israel resumed its genocidal war on Gaza by cutting off water and electricity to 2.1 million Palestinians, threatening a humanitarian disaster.

The only light in Gaza right now is from Israeli bombs.

Israel has cut off electricity and water to 2.1 million Palestinians — resuming its genocidal war and pushing Gaza toward total humanitarian collapse.

The Times has to issue a correction here. An Executive order can’t “require” any such thing. Calling it ‘an aggressive push to catch” fraud is bad editorial judgment. The first part is demonstrably false. Those who have any voice to the Times need to demand this. Might as well say pigs fly.

Wow, so uh, that sure seems like an actionable threat against US students on US soil?