Texas is trash, AI is trash and the willful corrosion of eduction in the US continues.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles

comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!

every company in 2025

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

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Imma saving some costs by cancelling Paramount+.

Aside from the fact that NYC would never elect a southern dude as district attorney, I didn't mind ole FDT. Except his dating of Kellyanne Conway.

This is the Jefferies I want to see in the world.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Welp, Rand Paul is showing more leadership than Schumer and Durbin combined. That's some shit.

Ed continues to hold our purse.

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.

Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.

It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

I will also add:

I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

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always worth another listen youtu.be/tFELNIpeTjY?...

I concur with @jadelennox.bsky.social . I've seen it presented a few times at work even and never seen that iteration. Doesn't mean it's not abhorrent, it most definitely is.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

For anyone who doesn't know, this is a user-selected function.

As in, "This is a more comfortable provider of this service I'm paying for."

I guess it's a problem for men lacking other scenarios to force women into their car.

you put self-driving cars on the road and you kill a person, you should be scared. if you put a chatbot into kids' hands and tell them to use it and they use it and then they kill themselves, you should be really fucking scared. the idea that the wagons should circle *around you* is unbelievable.

AI companies should go under and financially wipe out VCs. exec's should go to prison for putting systems into the world that were instrumental in numerous suicides without any consideration for those risks. there should be consequences for experimenting on the public on roads and in social settings

nope

society needs banks.

but even if society needs LLMs (it doesn’t), it doesn’t need any specific “ai” company

there are lots of alternative options (which again, society does not need)

Librarians get it.

Matty is exhibit number one for that famous Upton Sinclair quote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

OpenAI is well aware of how its products stoke manic, suicidal, psychotic, and other forms of unhealthy behavior, but company leadership insists publicly that the problem with the tech is that it isn’t reaching *enough* people. Bulldozing the vulnerable is corporate strategy