Jeffrey Phillips

Where's Pritzker's Judge Immergut?

Worse for #Israeli aggression at the direction of a fascist leader trying to avoid his own conviction for crimes we well know. In America this hits hard because we see Trump on the brink of doing the same thing, for the same reasons.
Violence needs to end. The fascists need to be torn down—for good!

with which to cement Netanyahu and tear down Biden's successor in favor of a disastrous Trump second term. And these realpolitik objectives were served extraordinarily well by the #Gaza attacks.
This does not excuse, but rather indicts Netanyahu's murderous, genocidal response. The whole world is

accomplish any meaningful goals for the people in #Gaza, but rather handed #Israel the perfect cover to decimate the population and raise the entire strip to the ground. And that has now been largely accomplished. I suspect the attacks were spurred on by outside influences to use the people as pawns

Who's the greater fool? The fool, or the fools who follow him?

I've said before and I'll say now, the #Oct7 2023 attacks were dumb. Really really dumb. Swooping down in hang gliders to murder and take hostages is the kind of plan the Lost Boys would come up with apart from adult supervision. Which is accurate considering the demographics in #Gaza. They did NOT

In a #robotaxi, they'd be in the backseat!

In fact I added some puts yesterday and today. @ me @mcuban.bsky.social !

#Tesla down 4.45% today after the big (sub) Standard edition announcement.

Somehow, they made the new Nio-cribbed design even ugly for the poors. Still more expensive than a Toyota Camry though...

How We’re Changing the Way We Respond to Petitions Today, the White House is responding to every petition in our We the People backlog  —  20 in all —  re-affirming its commitment to the petitions platform.

Remember when online petitions were new and it seemed like even the President of the United States would listen?

Now whenever I hear "there's a change.org petition to—" I just cringe, because it's like the most final confirmation that nothing will be done

(lol, '"Beliebing" in immigration reform')

Pretty cool to live in a state that merits a Royal visit and its own trade deals. In absence of real Federal leadership, this is a good as we can hope for right now. But America deserves better

(Please don't run for President tho, Governor. It's time for a new generation of Progressive democrats)

Jared Golden said he was “OK with” Trump winning and predicted everything would be fine. He was wrong.

YouTube video by Argo 4017 Alvin And The Chipmunks Theme / Song

Now children, who among you can name me some of The Apostles?
—"Simon!"
Yes, good, yes, Simon...
—"Theodore!"
Well now, Theodore was a saint. Saint Theodore...
—"Alvin!"
Alvin? ALVIN??? AAAAALVIIIN!!!!
🤭

Suchir Balaji: What To Know About OpenAI Employee’s Death After Tucker Carlson Asks Sam Altman About Murder Conspiracy Tucker Carlson questioned OpenAI chief Sam Altman about Balaji’s death, disputing it was a suicide as Altman and law enforcement believe.

To be clear, the entire "AI Slop" issue could be solved completely by enforcing copyright on training data.

Sam Altman would (did?) literally kill to stop that from happening.

Best arc in the show, aside from the Amy-Dan Egan thing...

Poor suggestion from a DSA Stan; well deserved "no" from a good DSA labor organizer

" #Mamdani should surely drop out entirely, as a protest to the capitalistic hegemony that stifles the true revolution!"

#tankies gonna tank. CCP would force Red Star to mislead the whole org into eating its own tail if they could. I like democratic socialists who win elections.

(Also in this case it's not really a choice. It's dump the fuel or maybe kill all the passengers landing overweight)

Economic enforcement relies on private lawsuits—
Our system is broken.

YouTube video by CNN Plane dumps jet fuel on kids

Fwiw, commercial jets *do* dump fuel in certain circumstances (not vapor trails, actual jet fuel). And that's probably a bad thing if you're right under it...

Does this smell like hydrazine to you?
💀

The way I see it, they're entitled to whatever capacity they build themselves. Anything else should be negotiated with the Public good.

And let's go ahead and dismantle PG&E already! Private power companies aren't working for anybody but their shareholders.

Sorry, 10 years ago isn't the 90s anymore. I stand by the rest.

A fusion startup backed by Jeff Bezos just raised another $65 million, signaling that investors are still betting on this 'Holy Grail' technology General Fusion, a startup backed by Jeff Bezos, just closed a $65 million round. It's among several fusion startups that investors are betting on.

(I'd rank Jeff Bezos' General Fusion as midrange: it's a different approach that has both advantages and unknown drawbacks over donuts, twisted or plain. But he's also hedging by investing in Commonwealth too, notice.)

YouTube video by SubjectZeroX Lockheed Fusion Reactor Failed - What Happened?

Oh, and Sam Altman's #fusion startup Helion uses a similar design to a project Lockheed Martin already abandoned in the 90s. Literally a dumbbell approach 😏 I would rate this as far less likely to succeed than the stellarator or the tokamak

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

This headline is a little misleading to ppl who don't think first in market-economy terms

#OpenAI isnt just drawing as much power as New York + San Diego. They are *actively *bidding* against* every person in those cities for the same generator capacity

Because of this Your Rates virtually double!

Latest Elon retweet— 28 satellites up; 1299-1305 down at 1-2 per day

That's f—ing crazy. So Elon Musk is celebrating launching 28, and he has to do that again in a few weeks just to keep up. What a failure kludge! Time to defund this boondoggle.

They're not all winners. And I do *play* dumb a lot, for fun and for profit sometimes 😁 I'm not speaking ex officio at the moment

I'm just kidding; it's a Pacific time zone joke 😄

The lone US House Democrat to vote with Republicans on a shutdown draws a primary challenge | CNN Politics Maine Rep. Jared Golden, the only Democrat in the House to vote for the Republican-led government funding bill, drew a primary challenger Monday who accused him of consistently siding with the GOP ove...

His name is Matt Dunlap
@dunlapforcongress.bsky.social

@f1girlboss: [Taylor Swift] really is elon for women

Devastatingly accurate.
Elon tried for a while, you know, just thirst-tweeting at Taylor Swift...
I think she blocked him, and then he bought Twitter shortly after.