Charles Lambdin

After what is perhaps its second-longest hiatus of its 13-year history, my blog will be back on Monday. Thank you for your patience as I switched careers.

A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.

Convincing you that liberals are leftists is perhaps the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled.

In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.

Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it’s taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping—and it could crash the American economy As Rusty Foster, author of the widely read media blog Today in Tabs, puts it: “Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.”

Over a third of U.S. GDP growth is spent on data centers. This has now outpaced consumer spending. The AI hype machine is holding up our failing economy, and the bubble could easily burst.

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This wins the fucking internet

When people would ask if you had any plans for the fall, people used to assume you were talking about autumn. Not anymore.

That’s freakin awesome

I love how pointing out shit Charlie Kirk actually said is tantamount to a hate crime, but it supposedly wasn’t when he originally said it….

My great-grandparents were murdered in Buchenwald. I know what I’m seeing, too.

It’s a control device. Neoliberalism maintained the scorn for leftism while redefining what it means. The result is a narrower Overton Window that keeps people fighting about things that don’t threaten those in power.

"Trade offer" meme of a long-haired man with a short beard wearing a suit, with his fingertips touching together in a business like pose. Text reads "I receive: stealing. You receive: lying. GenAI"

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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Neoliberalism is collapsing, and the West no longer has a living, breathing leftist/labor movement to counter the rising tide of reactionary fascism that is filling the void.

People really need to start connecting the dots. The whiffs of fascism we keep getting are no accident.

This is gold

That's really good.

Explains why trickle down economics results in more and more wealth accumulating at the top.

Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Jane’s team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value

Even linkedin gets it

bro they got my 74-year-old lifelong registered democrat mom out here talking about "establishment democrats won't say the rich are robbing you blind because they ARE the rich." something is shifting

Oh, here's another one: there's no such thing as version 2 or priority 2.

By the time that version 1 is shipped, there's already a new set of priority 1 work.

Things either get built, or don't. Any priority category besides the top one is "don't."

Wouldn’t that just mean the masses are back asleep in their propagandized slumber? No, I’d rather that everyone wake the hell up.

If you really think undocumented immigrants are parasites while billionaires are a net positive for the economy as a whole then you’ve effectively been propagandized to the point that you have an inverted view of how our system actually works.

Trump, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and Kristi Noem must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity We need Nuremberg type trials

Trump, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and Kristi Noem must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity
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A: How were so many Germans OK with Nazism?
B: Well, they had to keep politics off LinkedIn.

Reminds me of @designinginward.bsky.social's brilliant, "Assuming good intent is how we got here."

HBO junior executive: We have definitely beaten Cinemax. As we take on the streaming world what should we call ourselves?
HBO senior executive: How about HBO Cinemax? Too long? OK....

The split second capital is actually threatened all lip service to being a "democracy" will abruptly end