joe a wilkins

Check this out

DoorDash Finally Found a Way to Stop Paying Its Workers for Good The company launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to fight worker protections and invest in delivery robots.

in news not at all related to the Broader Discourse: I wrote about DoorDash's new partnership with Waymo and its experiments with autonomous delivery robots—and why they represent a last-mile run to undermine the human Dashers who've agitated for better labor protections slate.com/technology/2...

One of the most unsettling things about our current moment is how geeked the Altmans Musks Gates suddenly are for a post-scarcity world

Trump's White House renovation gets at least thousand times more media coverage than his presidential directive targeting "anti-Christianity" as terrorism 👍

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them." Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future. There will be universal high income."

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Thanks for reading!

Alex Jones trusts the Yzerplan
#LGRW

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

everything's computer

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

Trump is sending our corn fed boys to Venezuela while our regional airports face an Uber driver shortage like nothing we've ever seen. What happened to America first?

#AmericansBelongInAmerica

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

basically impossible to live in a cave these days without it becoming the Main Thing About You

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too
www.404media.co/google-calls...

Workers shut down Italy again in solidarity with Palestine : Peoples Dispatch Hundreds of thousands joined a new general strike across Italy, in solidarity with the people of Gaza and the Global Sumud Flotilla.

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/03/w...

Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots In a recent podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agonized that China is now "nanoseconds behind" US chipmakers.

Nvidia isn’t the only Western company worried about an increasingly independent PRC, but it is an important bellwether. In fact, the CEO’s lust for economic superiority and geopolitical dominance over China follows over 125 years of US meddling in the nation’s affairs.

the George Santos of his generation

Sorry to see you go big dog. You were somehow ahead of and behind your time by 100 years

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

Who do I vote for if I want a party that's going to fight against things like the NDAA? Or is that just the cost of keeping real fascists out of office

Bon Iver Side Project's Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.

had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus
futurism.com/future-socie...

🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. State Department says it “will revoke” Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s diplomatic visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian protest outside UN headquarters in New York during the General Assembly.

At Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Petro invoked U.S. troops’ sacrifices against…

Albania’s Headline-Grabbing AI ‘Minister’ is a Risky Innovation Without legal frameworks and safeguards, the decision to appoint an AI entity as a ‘minister’ entrusted with sensitive tasks is ambitious – but fraught with danger.

For anyone curious about what's going on with the world's first AI government official in Albania, this is a fantastic rundown from Erjon Curraj:
balkaninsight.com/2025/09/16/a...

CoreWeave stocks plummeted 16% Wednesday after the AI data center company reported a disappointing quarterly outlook for its operating income.

🤧🤧

What can you even say. Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal gave their lives documenting one of the most brutal military regimes of the 21st century, second only to the one that subsidized their murder. Heroes in an age of monsters.

Nearly Two Months After OpenAI Was Warned, ChatGPT Is Still Giving Dangerous Tips on Suicide to People in Distress New research has found that the top LLM chatbots are remarkably easy to trick into supplying information about suicide and self-harm.

After months of warnings from researchers and journalists about the danger its software posed, OpenAI announced vague "optimizations" for GPT-4o meant to address user safety. They didn't change much.
futurism.com/openai-chatg...

417. Whose AI Bubble Is It Anyways? (ft. Paris Marx, Brian Merchant) In this episode, Ed chats with Paris Marx and Brian Merchant about artificial intelligence and the political coalitions behind its development in the United States and abroad. Are we all living in the

In the new TMK, Ed chats with @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social to chat about the vast proliferation of AI bubbles across the US, Europe, and China—and their competing visions of the ideal global value chain for AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes Tech industry hotshots are speaking out after a prominent OpenAI investor appeared to have a ChatGPT-induced mental health breakdown.

In which we look at how tech industry figures are reacting to OpenAI investor Geoff Lewis' apparent ChatGPT-fueled mental health crisis:

futurism.com/tech-industr...

‘The Voice of Gaza’: Aspiring Journalist, 11, among Family Killed in Gaza Airstrike In her videos, Lama mimicked the demeanor of professional journalists, often enlisting friends of similar or younger ages to participate.

"The voice of an aspiring journalist, 11-year-old Lama Nasser Al-Badrasawi, was tragically silenced when an #Israeli airstrike targeted her home near #Gaza City, killing her entire family.

Lama was a contributor to the Palestine Chronicle..."

www.palestinechronicle.com/the-voice-of...

#Israel

Cancer of the markets metastasizing into cancer of the mind

I don't even know what to make of this. It's upsetting and horrible. This man is horribly mentally ill and these systems do something to people by agreeing with everything they say. They are only made possible through unrestrained growth taking over every lever of tech

Thanks for reading hobo joe