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Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.

"Tech now looks a lot like finance: power without accountability, & profit without purpose."
Would also add:
-Quid pro quos defined by the tech industry (ie give us your personal data - you can use our crappy functionality).
-Near total disdain for customers & users.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

We wanted to understand how women are ruining the workplace. So we talked to three unemployed Joe Rogan fans at a White Castle in Toms River.

Aka the last Mickey D’s White House delivery guy.

Tell us you’re unqualified without saying you’re unqualified.

He’s a penne in the arse.

Brava! ❤️

In a previous life, behold, the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Rick Scott:
“LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED
HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION”

www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into Scientific Publications Roughly three and a half million scientific papers are published globally every year in an estimated 47,000 academic journals. That’s an astonishing six papers every minute! Some are very good, some v...

Another in the long and ever-expanding list of societal problems created by AI companies, their funders, and their cheerleaders without having effective measures in place to prevent these kinds of problems prior to product launch.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

What's the "news" under Trump? Friends,

Unfortunately, MSM under the control of private equity and assorted billionaires are incapable of doing this.

robertreich.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.

Decima Technologies, Samaritan, and Vigilance IRL. Anyone know how to reach Mr. Finch?

theconversation.com/always-watch...

Statements that didn't age well:

"Without presidential immunity from criminal prosecution, there can be no presidency as we know it." - John Sauer, oral arguments, April 24, 2024

"We are writing a rule for the ages.” Neil Gorsuch, April 25, 2024

... along with every justice groomed and handpicked by Leonard Leo.

I know he won't (can't), but a girl can dream.

And women.

Sounds like she’s trying to rehabilitate her image, but the question is why. Future Georgia Senate race? Epstein survivors reality check?

“… a wildly corrupt, fascistic former game show host…”

… who acts like a petulant child.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong trolls the prediction markets | TechCrunch While Armstrong may have helped some Kalshi and Polymarket users make a little money, he was also illustrating how easily these markets can be manipulated.

This tells you all you need to know about:
1. Tech bros
2. Crypto companies
3. People who purchase prediction contracts
4. The dismal lack of regulation in the crypto "industry"

techcrunch.com/2025/11/01/c...

WaPo wants former subscribers to come back for $33 for the first year.

Oh, sorry, thought that was what you were going to pay me.

Still not interested.

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Opinion | This Is What Happens When No One Wants to Govern

Worth a listen. "...absolute total subservience of the majority of the legislative branch to the executive branch....That combined with an absolute abdication of the power of that entire branch of government." (Wished they had discussed the Roberts court's role tho.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

Indeed.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

An understatement to say this study will make you sick AND angry. New national report on systemic, disturbing elder abuse facilitated by social media, deficient nursing home oversight, supervisory failures, and a lack of accountability and consequences.
www.coombudsman.org/wp-content/u...

Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce As support for secessionist movements increases, it’s vital that political leaders reduce the divisions that threaten to tear the US apart.

"...without decisive action by political leaders to reduce polarization that threatens to tear the country apart, the U.S. is at risk of turning from one country into two."

One side is not serious about governing & one side has been operating in good faith....
theconversation.com/polarizing-p...

Would like to see the Venn diagram for "attended the ballroom shakedown" and "in the Epstein files".

A bit tamer than some commenters - as an undergrad I turned in a paper in which I had added “Mary had a little lamb” in the middle, just to see if anyone actually read it. (They had, and noted it with a “?”.)

Going no contact with someone with NPD.

“Trump suggests he’ll compete in the men’s giant slalom at the upcoming Olympic Games in Milano Cortina next year. ‘Giant slalom, why not? I got an A+ on my physical… training for days…Jan. 6th - one of my finest moments I must say…many fine…hamburgers and fries. Thank you for your attenti….who…?’”

1) Agreed, 💯
2) Voted for KH, but, selection process - problematic; not the right candidate for the moment.
3) Report’s conclusions - add’l (serious) issues.
4) Women’s health IS an issue.
5) 74 degrees here, 1st week of Nov. - s/b 30s to 40s. Floods, tornadoes, hail - climate change IS an issue.

What the AI Bubble Is Doing to Healthcare The hype is loud and the money is flowing. But inside healthcare, clinicians wonder if the tech is just a larger-scale rehash of the fight between patient care vs bottom line.

"Bubble talk brings to light specific “whys” in AI. Why was the entire AI rollout so urgent, so ubiquitous? Why was so much tech pushed on us even when buggy, hallucinatory, unable 2 hold up to real scrutiny? Why does AI have to be in everything, even refrigerators?" www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

WaPo has become the Amazon of news media - full of a lot of cheap junk no one wants.

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.