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ICE detained workers because a young republican claimed they are illegal. But, according to the business’ manager—all of them had work permits. I wonder why this kid thought otherwise…

I find it fascinating how many people drop into Elizabeth’s feed who think they know how journalism works or should work but have never spent any time in journalism.

Do they think that about all professions? Or just news because they read it (maybe).

And yes I worked in a news org for a bit.

A shildren’s book style image of “How the Grump Stole Thanksgiving” featuring and orange creature running away with a Thanksgiving meal on a golf course

Dow up 6% y/y
S&P up 11% y/y
NASDAQ up 19% y/y

So, no.

And you can’t buy groceries with your 401(k).

Yet again: it’s a problem with your president is completely out of touch with normal household economics.

Remember how much flak Bush got for not knowing the price of milk? Seems so quaint now.

My point is not to be critical: this is an individual, human choice that will aggregate into the communities we live in.

My point is to encourage people to step back and question the frame with which they are viewing this moment. This isn’t just a tool. It’s a challenge to who we think we are.

Third: We accept a different view, perhaps less western and capitalist, to see that it doesn’t have to be this way. AI is not set. Our use is not fixed. The outcome is not determined. The path is not inevitable.

But first we must accept that what it means to be human may change (as it always has).

Second: We can build fortresses around ourselves and our human experience (as some in this thread are). This maintains our feeling of exceptionalism yet risks limiting. We have never been alone—as individuals or as a species. Our knowledge is not our own but it is in our community.

Second: We can build fortresses around ourselves and our human experience (as some in this thread are). This maintains our feeling of exceptionalism yet risks limiting. We have never been alone—as individuals or as a species. Our knowledge is not our own but it is in our community.

There are at least three possible pathways:

First, we worship this new planetary scale intelligence that can know things we cannot, treating it as the god that some of the high priests creating it hope we wiAnd we will return to seeking order in the universe—not in the cosmos but in the AI.

And these comments too: bsky.app/profile/tres...

In our keynotes, I’ve been talking about AI as a threat to humanism. For centuries, humans have believed we are the only intelligent, self-improving species capable of finding certainty in the world. It’s deeply disturbing that this isn’t the case any more.

These comments tell this story.

Trump Blames Shutdown for Republican Losses on Election Day

Stop with this framing!

“…Democrats, who initiated the government shutdown to try to force Republicans to extend health care subsidies.”

Wrong.

Rs didn’t propose a CR that could get enough votes. Plain and simple. They are failing the country.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/u...

The Design Illusion of LLMs It’s easy to fall prey to the design illusion that because LLMs look sleek, they must be well-designed. But aesthetics alone do not equal design. As Steve Jobs once said, “Design is not just what it l...

More here—a bit dated but explains early thoughts on this idea. artificialityinstitute.org/the-design-i...

Yes and…Atlas extends the room masquerading as a window design problem. These tools are rooms where to stay to create and then take something with you. But they’re designed like windows that help you find something on the other side. So designed like a browser but more like photoshop.

So depressing

Is he so anti-PC that he can’t simply say: That isn’t what our party stands for and we won’t have any leaders—young or old—who support those views.

It shouldn’t be so hard to stand up for basic decency.

I agree we’re in bubble territory and I find echoes to the internet & cleantech bubbles that I was quite close to. But the analysis this article is referencing is kinda bonkers: an arcane methodology, smuggling unrelated stuff, from a commodities expert? Headline grabbing, yes. But relevant?

Points for novelty? Wide-ranging, albeit cherry-picked, cultural theory of everything as method of talking one’s book isn’t necessarily the norm.

This made my day. Thank you.

Perhaps we might use something other than humans as our design target? If people need a test, how about testing if it’s something humans can’t do? That might at least encourage creating additive things rather than replacements. (Still need to deal with the incessant desire to extract…meta…).

The Next Dust Bowl Driven by economic opportunity in the 1920s, American farmers expanded to the Great Plains. They replaced the diverse native prairie grasses with monoculture cash crops, perhaps unaware that the rich ...

Will the AI industry create a new Dust Bowl by replacing human labor with monoculture AI systems, plowing under the complex “root systems” of human connection from which our economy and society emerge?

artificialityinstitute.org/the-next-dus...

Side note: I wouldn’t put too much weight in the Apollo note referenced in the article. Comparing historical trailing P/E ratios isn’t useful when the market is now dominated by growth companies. Forward P/E or P/E/G is the only logical comparison.

Helps explain why so many who are not directly related to data center growth can feel that the economy is worse than the overall stats.

Good line from a Mafia boss on the witness stand…

@rollingstone.com leading the charge on investigative journalism to protect democracy and the world was not on my bingo card.

And please take this the right way. I love RS going back forever. But, seriously, this crew is far exceeding my expectations. And that rocks!

@timothysnyder.bsky.social On Tyranny is romantic!

By that standard, their office and home infrastructure is “worthless” when no one is present and their cars when they aren’t driving.

The project finance industry has been financing renewable projects in the US for decades. The math makes sense.