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It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
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Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire The tenuous ceasefire in the two-year Israel-Hamas war is being tested as complex issues remain a day after widespread jubilation over the return to Israel of the last 20 living hostages held in Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange.

BREAKING: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

We cannot fight the far right until we acknowledge that the spread of ideas and beliefs is what drives voter behavior and other political decisions, and that we have created an information environment that is extraordinarily favorable to the far right

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

wouldn’t it be better to keep him and just spend $50M more on NIL deals vs getting rid of him and wasting $50M on a buyout

Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self. ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are. Order Life with Baum!

like a daughter to him

Disgusted barbie

you were in office for 8 years and made the situation worse. shut the fuck up.

please state what moderation of what positions you think would create net benefit for all marginalized groups.

if you don't have the balls to say what groups you don't care about, then you aren't going to do anything but fuel right-wing bigotry.

actually what's remarkable is folks thinking MTG is anything but a bigoted, evil ghoul who wants to make life worse for any non-white, non-Christian in this country.

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Part of the transition from conservatism to authoritarianism is the shift from lies with some veneer of plausibility (wink wink) to lies that are demonstrably, obviously lies, such that accepting them involves an almost total subjugation of individual discernment or judgment.

this would have done gangbusters. the main issue with AC is that its become repetitive or too resembling of better games.

This would have been a much different gameplay style while being more unique.

this is a Wendy's.

the problem is that most of the Democratic leaders in Congress probably would agree with this cause they have no idea who Bad Bunny is.

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

except people spent over a decade convincing themselves that her popularity was correlated to her talent as a songwriter.

when in actuality, her popularity has always been correlated to her capitalist desires and executions. but people are only realizing this now so its coming as a shock.

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

…people do realize that Tom Brady didn’t make a single all pro team until 2005…after they had already won 3 SBs.

Bill won 3 SBs mainly due to a great defense that he designed and coached , not an all time great QB.

the issue isn’t her but on the ROI of the money.

there are a lot more winnable swing states elections and money should be funneled to them vs wasting on a long shot here.

I think there's a serious conversation needed on how podcasts have essentially convinced people that someone with good articulation and enunciation does not correlate to intelligence or any valid moral framework.

Tyler and Ezra have both revealed themselves as weird, shallow, and deranged men.

no one should give her a single cent.

Two dudes whom despite their best efforts have no power in Canada.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

its amusing that The Rock thought he needed to go serious to change when all he had to do was go back to 2011-2017 era where he wasn’t such a control freak/egomaniac.

people want The Rock still; they don’t want a Dwayne Johnson production

hard disagree. the quality is down immensely.

I don't see the point of reviewing her music in any genuine critical way. She is essentially the MCU of music at this point. The music she makes is just fuel the brand.

from a marketing/capitalist perspective, I think the album is a success in what it delivers. Artistically, it is insanely boring.

Senior government officials privately warn against firings during shutdown The Trump administration has said mass firings are coming, but officials have quietly warned several agencies that the move could violate appropriations law.

Yeah. Because it's illegal.

brah, you are literal zionist and genocide defender. I would not try to come off as high and mighty on these things. Your position is way worse than these comedians.

the quintessential "cool music but not a cool band". The Strokes as you reference basically decided to just copy the music but actually be cool.