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AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...

Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.

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HELLO ICE LOVELESS COWARDS • KIDNAPPERS •HIDING BEHIND MASKS LIKE THE KLAN deport yrsif off planet you scum of the earth! ICE: WHY DO YOU HATE YOURSELF? DID PAPA BEAT YOU? MAMA LEFT YOU? CHINGA LA MIGRA TEXT: #FOAD FASCIST CLOWNS: • QUIT YOUR JOB AND GET HELP • CALL TODAY: 1-800-IM-UGLY-INSIDE AMERIKKKANS WHO WEAR FACE DIAPERS 4 TERRORISM BUT NOT COVID You are your own ancestors' nightmare Look in any mirror & ask yourself: "is my dream job is being stephen miller's little bitch?" INFORMACIÓN: Si observa la aplicación de la ley por parte del ICE en su vecindario, llame al Alameda County Immigration Legal Education Partnership (ACILEP): 510-241-4011 or San Francisco Rapid Response Network: 415-200-1548 CONOZCA SUS DERECHOS: https://www.acilep.org/services https://shlen.org s

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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.

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shot for shot Shrouds remake starring Ted Danson

She is abus’d, stol’n

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
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Professors I know at Columbia are crushed and looking for jobs elsewhere. How do you work for a school that didn’t even put up a fight?

YouTube video by Dream Authority Music Ozzy Osbourne making breakfast interview clip from Decline...

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THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: THE METAL YEARS is one of my favorite things in the whole wide world

Tony Iommi post: I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.  It’s just such heartbreaking news that I can’t really find the words, there won’t ever be another like him. Geezer, Bill and myself have lost our brother. My thoughts go out to Sharon and all the Osbourne family. Rest in peace Oz. Tony

Geezer Butler post: Goodbye dear friend - thanks for all those years - we had some great fun. 4 kids from Aston- who’d have thought, eh? So glad we got to do it one last time, back in Aston.

Bill Ward post: Where will I find you now?  In the memories, our unspoken embraces, our missed phone calls, no, you’re forever in my heart.  Deepest condolences to Sharon and all family members. RIP Sincere regrets to all the fans.  Never goodbye. Thank you forever.  Bill Ward

Astonishing and bittersweet that the founding members of Black Sabbath have lived this long and were all with us until today.

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll OMAHA, NE—Subliminally influencing those who have purchased the 1971 album to sit back and enjoy the music, a hidden message discovered Wednesday when local heavy metal fans played Black Sabbath’s Mas...

Message Hidden Backward In Black Sabbath Album Wishes Everyone A Good Time Listening To Rock And Roll

Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86 - Berkeley News Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics.

Mary Gaillard's calculations correctly predicted the mass of the charm quark and contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson as she triumphed over sexism in the field of physics. R.I.P. #physics

Zuck thread of posts (on Thread) bragging about building "several multi-gigawatt" data center clusters in the pursuit of "superintelligence"

Zuck's talking about diverting entire major cities' worth of power generation - something that will be serviced by more fossil fuels - to his and his friends' pet project while our energy grids are already experiencing rate hikes and rolling blackouts and climate disasters are escalating

thank you jazz

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

I think the Democrats need a plan to sell but I don’t think it should be called Project 2029. For one thing there should be some triage that can be linked to flipping the house. Perhaps MAGA DAMAGE ABATEMENT PLAN.

Futurism MIND GAMES /ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" “I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad — I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital.” JUN 28, 9:00 AM EDT by MAGGIE HARRISON DUPRÉ

NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.

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(the cover of the Levon Helm record Electric Dirt)

just add water?

We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort.

On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you.

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MIT just pubbed a study on ChatGPT users.

“Brain scans revealed neural connection collapse... a 47% reduction in brain connectivity. When researchers forced ChatGPT users to write w/o AI, they performed worse than people who never used AI at all. It's not just dependency. It's cognitive atrophy.”

AI means "Ask Indigogirls"

Safety Rider If you had hopes of getting roudy in there, think again, the early access riders will have a member of Tesla staff along for the ride to keep an eye on things. Clearly Tesla are playing things very cautiously.

oh no, it's totally driverless bro, that guy is the safety rider... not a safety driver, no, no, nothing like that... he's just there to ride... safely... and be safe

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

"Most of the people who live outside the city drive cars to work. This is far more dangerous than riding the subway. Last year there were 10 murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City."

ChatGPT’s Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]

Brad Lander is shown being detained by federal agents in a courthouse. Lander wears a dark blue suit, blue shirt and blue striped tie. The agents wear sweatshirts and blue jeans. A headline reads: "Brad Lander Is Detained By ICE Agents at Immigration Courthouse." Photo by Olga Fedorova/Associated Press.

Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE

A week after 75 Dems vote for a resolution expressing gratitude toward ICE in a resolution that pretended to be about antisemitism, ICE goons arrest the Jewish comptroller of NYC without cause.

Stacy Schiff nails it: “To turn to A.I. for structure seems less like a cheat than a deprivation, like enlisting someone to eat your hot fudge sundae for you.”

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:

"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."