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what kind of country is this, where dangerous radicals can throw sandwiches at our brave secret masked torture police with impunity

I make sure to turn the water off when I’m brushing my teeth, meanwhile there’s someone using Chat GPT to reply to a text.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

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Truth social screenshot of Senator Tuberville’s post that reads: Caption: I am headed to the Senate Floor to once again talk about RADICAL ISLAM. This isn't just an issue in the Middle East...it is in our own backyards, just waiting to ATTACK. I won't stop fighting until America WAKES UP to the threat of Islam. Poster, white background, red all caps text: SHUT DOWN SHARIA

Senator Tommy Tuberville just posted this on Truth Social

Screenshot of truth social post by Lorena @lorenak Caption reads: Here's your leader, #nyc. You deserve each other. Poster reads: COMMIE MANDANI FUNDED BY BILLIONAIRE SOROS Wants to Defund Police. End cash Bail. Empty the Prisons. Legalize Prostitution: Ban Private Property: Ban Private Business. Take Over Grocery Stores. Destroy all Production. DESTROY CAPITALISM. HE WILL DESTROY CITY SERVICES, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, AND BUSINESSES.

On Truth Social getting my life and saw this.😌

How could anyone foresee this? /s

“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.

After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”

we create super intelligence so it replaces every worker. Now what? Not even considering the cost to human flourishing with no jobs or social safety net. Will a super intelligence really want to work to enrich some tech bros? I think the ending of Her (2013) is closer to what would happen.

love peeling garlic it's like i'm gonna rip that flimsy little lace off of you and rub your soft body with my hands if you keep smelling like that

Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it. Climate Central revived the federal list of billion-dollar disasters, another example of nonprofits providing data the government deletes.

Seeing so many people and orgs racing to preserve data the Trump admin is trying to destroy is both frustrating (we shouldn't have to) and heartening (we are fighting back to save documentation).

If AI wasn’t such a resource leech, I wouldn’t care. But it is demanding so much power, metal, plastic, water, etc… it’s hard to justify the technology. Especially when CEOs want to use it to lay all of us off.

Hallucinations are not a bug, they’re a feature.

More and more I’m coming into my life’s purpose, which is to be a crotchety person towards AI. It is a probability machine, it literally just forms sentences based on the probability of one word will follow another. It’s not intelligence in the way we experience it, which is why hallucinations occur

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

“When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas.”

Please just write the damn email yourself, we’re in a climate crises.

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I wish we could extricate ourselves from the global economy. So on one side, the CEOs of companies can have their AI dystopia, and the rest of us can remake an economy where we do dignified work for dignified wages and most services like infrastructure, health, food are shared. I.e. socialism

we need to abolish this shit

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

iRobot - Wikipedia

I suggest getting Shark! I love mine, it’s also a dual mop vacuum. I don’t fuck with iRobot because they make policing robots for the US military. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRobot

Legit propaganda. The price of gas being $1.19 too, like, cmon

Screenshot of the indeed app on the Apple App Store. The ages for the app indicates 4+ years.

Good to know 4 year olds can use the Indeed app!

Can we agree that Tilly Norwood is not an actor but a cartoon?

YouTube video by More Perfect Union The REAL reason Trump is attacking public transit

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Walmart nostalgia is so crazy. Like, are we forgetting Walmart is to blame for turning small towns into a freeway with box stores? It wiped out small business economies in this country.

to visual effects, sound mixing, editing, production, and script writing in search of efficiencies. A recent study surveying 300 leaders across the entertainment industry estimated that Al will affect more than 200,000 jobs over three years, especially roles in visual effects and post-production, which focus on editing and finalizing content. MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIES OF ALL TIME ESTIMATED PRODUCTION BUDGETS, ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, IN 2025 DOLLARS Cleopatra 1983 Jotn Corter 2012 SUSOM SaTeM Avengers: Endome 2019 Avengers: Age of Ultron 2015 Avator: The Way of Water 2022 Justice Leogue 2017 Fost X 2023 tonitor SUASM $423M 5392M $390M In the lead-up to the Oscars earlier this year, The Brutalist and Emilia Perez ignited controversy over their use of Al to enhance actors' voices (even with their blessing). But it's not that simple. Where some see an existential threat, others see innovation - an opportunity to lower the barriers to entry and democratize a field once reserved for the Hollywood elite and their offspring. Consider the multiple ways Al is already shaking up the industry: • The Tom Hanks and Robin Wright movie Here used Metaphysic's "aging" and "de-aging" technology to follow their characters over different stages of their lives. Studios otherwise would have hired multiple actors, relied on makeup artists, or used a small army of VEX artists at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.

• An increasing reliance on tools such as Iruesnyc, which can manipulate the movement of performers' lips to accommodate dubbing in different lanquages s expected to lower demane for mumngua voice actors • Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry put an $800 million studio expansion on hold after seeing OpenAl's Sora and realizing he might not have to travel to locations or build sets. Even if Sora, which generates short video clips based on written prompts, isn't yet good enough for Hollywood studios, it's just a matter of time. • With Luma Al's latest tool, according to the LA Times, "a hoodie becomes a superhero cape, a sunny street turns snowy, a person transtorms into a talking banana or a medieval knight. No green screen, no VFX team, no code." • The directors of Marvel's Avengers: Endgame plan to build a high-tech studio and craft Al tools to make films with smaller budgets. If they're successful, Al will be used to empower artists, rather than displace them. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen more than three decades ago, captured the industry's attention in 2023 when he predicted that Al could cut the cost of animated films by 90%. Katzenberg is familiar with technological shocks. He was a pioneer in the animation revolution in the 1990s sparked by the advent of computer graphics and the success of Pixar's Toy Story. Today he sees promise amid the tumult, with Al accelerating a new wave of storytelling innovation. "I don't believe it's the end of Hollywood," he told Bloomberg. "Will it function the way it has in the past? Absolutely not." Now Pixar is the one feeling the heat. OpenAl and Vertigo Films plan to wrap an Al-driven animated feature called Critterz after nine months of production, in time for the Cannes Film Festival in May. Only a couple dozen people are working on it, and the budget is less than $30 million - 80% cheaper than a typical animated movie. Crossroads

History is clear. Technological breakthroughs create short-term disruption and painful job losses but also unleash lower production costs, creative ideas, bold new businesses, and, over the long term, a net increase in employment. In the car industry, automation destroyed jobs on the factory floor. But we didn't envision the new jobs that building heated seats and car stereos would create down the road. In 1999 the average cost of developing and launching an e-commerce site was $1 million. Today you can set up a decent website for around $5,000. Your investment is 99.5% less, and you're entering a market that's more than 40 times bigger. Hollywood will follow a similar path as Al opens the door to independent filmmakers. You won't need tens of millions of dollars and Hollywood connections to produce a movie of theatrical quality. Ben Affleck is right: Al will make it easier for outsiders with compelling scripts to produce the next Good Will Hunting. Corporate Ozempic Al has become the Ozempic of the corporate world. While GLP-1 medicines switch off the signal in your brain that you need to eat more, Al suppresses the appetite to hire more, reducing companies' cravings for the protein of human capital. Hollywood is no different. Al will create new roles and elevate the careers of those who learn to leverage it successfully, but jobs will vanish. The collision between Hollywood and Silicon Valley signals the end of the blockbuster and the industry as we know it. The younger Ellison wants to bring the best of Southern and Northern California together. In this case, the "togetherness" is Northern California invading the city of Angels. Like most wars, the battle is over before it starts, based on which side has more brute force. Picture Iger, Zaslav, SAG-AFTRA, and 50%+ of the creative community hunkering down behind Chateau Marmont, armed with squirt guns.

Reading this has made me want to do a larger write up of why this is a totally destructive direction but while technology has always been a part of the film industry, which btw VFX companies have been using AI for a decade, making a well made film does require a lot of experts and crafts people

For David and Larry Ellison, the credits of The Fantastic Four: First Steps are the best part of the film. Specifically, they are the opportunity: The scrolling list of more than 3,000 cast and crew members is a sign of an industry ripe for disruption. The Marvel movie's staff - from visual effects artists and animators to costume designers and location scouts - is bigger than the entire workforce of Lyft or Reddit. The Ellisons, who are now one of the most powerful media and entertainment families in history, are the kid in The Sixth Sense. They see dead people. They don't care if Hollywood is ready for Al. Al is ready for Hollywood. HEADCOUNT FOR THE FANTASTIC FOUR VS. SELECT COMPANIES (graphic bar comparing headcount between a film and tech companies)

Powerful Multiplier David Ellison, the Silicon Valley scion who bought Paramount Global with a sliver of his father's $349 billion fortune and is now pursuing a much bigger bid to acquire Warner Bros., is keen to drive the Al transformation. Buying Warner would combine two of the most storied movie studios and two major streaming services, Paramount+ and HBO Max. A deal announced by the White House gives Larry Ellison's tech company, Oracle, a stake in the new American TikTok, along with oversight of the app's algorithm for U.S. users. It also endows the family with more influence on our youth than anybody who doesn't live in the same home... and their bond with President Trump means they're unlikely to face any resistance. On Day 1 as CEO of Paramount, David Ellison outlined his vision to shake up the company by investing in "high-quality storytelling and cutting-edge technology." Adorable. He tried to assuage Hollywood's concerns and barely mentioned Al. "Technology is not - and never will be - a replacement for human creativity," he said. "Rather, it serves as a powerful multiplier. I wonder if lions sitting in the reeds, identifying their next meal, think of themselves as "powerful multipliers"? In the 50 days since he took over, Ellison has gone on a spending spree, providing some hope to a nervous Hollywood. Cool Stuff Paramount won an auction for the big-screen reunion of Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold, the star and director of the Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown, and lured the Stranger Things creators from Netflix with the promise of delivering large-scale theatrical films. The company also plans to expand its annual movie output to 20 films from 8. Veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told the New York Times

that Ellison "wants to do cool stuff. That sounds very basic, but underneath it all 'making cool stuff" is the Hollywood dream." Spoiler alert: Don't count on a feel-good Hollywood ending for many/most of the crew members whose names appear in the credits of The Fantastic Four and other blockbusters. In his wider bid to take on Netflix and YouTube, Ellison is aiming for at least $2 billion in cost efficiencies and synergies (Latin for layoffs). The upshot will probably be as many as 3,000 job cuts. THE WORLD'S IO WEALTHIEST INDIVIDUALS INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY RETAIL I DIVERSIFIED AS OF SEPT. 26, 2025 Bon Musk Larry Elison Mark Zuckerberg Joff Bozos Lory Pose Sergey Brin Steve Balmer Bernard Arnout Jensen Huang Worren Buffett $263B $241B $216B $202B $1748 $1678 $1548 $149B SOURCE: BLOOMBERG BILLIONARES INDEX $464B $3408 Riding the Al Wave Every (surviving) studio owner will rely on Al, which is reinventing the way movies are made, to generate content more quickly and cheaply. But David Ellison isn't just any studio boss. His father, the Oracle co-founder, who briefly surpassed Musk this month to become the world's richest man, is riding an "Al tsunami" with a staggering $455 billion pipeline of contracts to supply computing power. Paramount's new CEO, who

envisions a next-generation studio that leverages cloud computing, Al, and other digital tools, likely won't waste any time in tackling Hollywood's bloat. As Gerry Cardinale, whose RedBird Capital helped finance the $8 billion Paramount deal, explained: "This is not a nice-to-have. This is a need-to-have moment in Hollywood. You have a balkanized situation between technology and content, between Silicon Valley and Hollywood." Ellison isn't just motivated by the fact that the attendees are much hotter at Cannes Lions than Dreamforce. With access to a seemingly infinite pool of capital, he sees an opportunity to meld the best of the tech and entertainment worlds. The younger Ellison will rely on former Oracle CEO Safra Catz and Scale Al Chief Financial Officer Dennis Cinelli - both now Paramount board members - as well as former Meta and Google executive Dane Glasgow, who will lead product vision and strategy. We know the script: First comes consolidation, then comes "efficiencies." It won't be long before the younger Ellison is spotted helming a tank division headed over the Sepulveda Pass with Al-guided projectiles. As they expand their empire, they'll brainstorm ways they can deploy Al to make three movies at $40 million apiece - or maybe 10 movies at $10 million a pop - instead of going all-in and producing a blockbuster such as The Fantastic Four for more than $200 million. Taking more shots on goal is a better approach given the risk complexion of a hit-driven culture. Yes, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice made hundreds of millions of dollars. But the studio gave that windfall back with Joker: Folie a Deux, which lost about $150 million. Winners and Losers In Hollywood, Al is often cast as the villain, whether that's onscreen - in movies ranging from 1984's The Terminator to the latest Mission: Impossible installments - or n reaio. n 2023 woters anc actors went on stnke ane shut cown tne misinees or several months, demanding protection from Al.

@profgalloway.com this is comparing apples and iPhones. The labor involved in making a movie is actual labor, the film industry has historically worked on thin margins and has acted thin, balancing the needs of the studio and unions. The last thing any of us want is AI slop.

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this is so fashy

Organizers say 25,000 marched in Midtown Manhattan today to #MakeBillionairesPay

Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.