Alex P. Berg

This lines up with research in a wide variety of fields with regards to AI. Basically, using AI makes you dumber and less informed.

So in addition to our health insurance rates skyrocketing due to Republicans gutting the ACA, our home insurance rates are also going up over 50% due to inflation, labor shortages, and climate change.

So yeah. That sucks.

Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption

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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

And yes, I know the senators who caved are either retiring or not up for election next cycle, but Schumer and the caucus pretty clearly all signed up for this.

The Real Reason Dems Caved on Shutdown Will Make You Want to Scream Turns out, senators were only thinking of holding onto their own power.

TLDR: Dems caved because they want to campaign on Republicans screwing folks on healthcare (and because they feared the elimination of the filibuster), which all sounds plausible.

Which means: primary these clowns and then vote for Democrats who might have spines.

We're going from about $150/mo to $1000/mo. To be fair, we're expecting more income this year than last, so I was prepared to see the premiums to go up, but yeah... Also, our current insurer exited the marketplace entirely.

And I still honestly expected it to be worse.

I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises.

But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.

OpenAI Made a $12 Billion Loss Last Quarter, Microsoft Results Indicate Inside Microsoft’s earnings was a charge that caught analysts by surprise: a $4.1 billion hit on its investment in OpenAI. The figure was up 490% from a year earlier. It implies a more than $12 billio...

Well they also lost $12 billion last quarter, so they have that going for them.

What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

"Among the top 10 declining roles, 3 are creative positions: computer graphic artists (-33%), photographers (-28%), and writers (-28%). Computer graphic artists includes roles such as technical artists, 3d artists, and VFX artists. Writers include copywriters, copy editors and technical writers."

Democrats make a new offer to end the shutdown, but Republicans aren't buying it The offer, crafted by Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and championed by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would also extend expiring health care subsidies for one year.

After Democrats try to punch themselves in their own dick with a craven capitulation, Republicans snatch their wrists mid-air, insisting *they* are the only ones allowed to punch themselves in their own dicks.

We should have tax policy that makes this impossible. This man should have 1/1000th the wealth he has.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Instead of caving on the enhanced premium tax credits for the ACA, feels to me like it would be a perfect moment for Senate Democrats to dig in their heels and say, "Actually, I think it's time we enacted Medicare for All."

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

The only reason I would watch Shapiro is to see him get his head stuck in an extra-large jar of mayonnaise.

Wow, what a shock. I never would've guessed that granting faceless ghouls unlimited power could have negative consequences.

We should remember Cheney as he lived, shooting his friends in the face with birdshot.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

I mean, the building isn't GONE guys, it's just in a new form factor, specifically rubble.

I don't like that these goons are violent dolts, but I don't mind if they're slow AF.

YouTube video by NBA on ESPN WEMBY 40-PIECE 👽 Wembanyama SPOILS Cooper Flagg's NBA debut 🎥 | NBA on ESPN

Everything sucks now, but at least I get to enjoy this 7'6" phenom putting people in a blender, hitting stepback threes, and dunking from Bolivia with his go-go gadget arms. Go Spurs Go!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJX9...

This.

These costs are sucking chest wounds to the average American, and will be impossible to weather. This, alongside the AI bubble, the housing market bubble, the loss of jobs, encroaching inflation, and every other batshit thing Trump does, will lend itself to a cataclysmic cascading failure.

Only two types of people have Nazi tattoos: Nazis and clueless morons. I wouldn't want either to represent me.

I am shocked this place can’t seem to find servers, bartenders, or cooks who want to work there.

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

Disney's ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments The network confirmed to NBC News it is "indefinitely" pulling the show.

Wouldn't it be great if our country's rich and powerful each had their own pair of balls instead of having to share a single diseased testicle amongst the lot of them? Then they could actually take a stand instead of preemptively capitulating at the slightest whisper of a threat.