Lee Frost | The Sinsemillier

It's such a miserable thing to work with. I have a ton of research texts in PDF format, and Adobe's AI won't leave me alone with those notifications asking if I want a summary. Like, no. I like reading books. Leave me alone. That we can't opt out of AI for so many applications is such a nuisance!

reminder David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel both went on the record to Politico to say they were fine with this, either knowing the result would be mass death of children or being too dumb to know. Decide for yourself what’s worse!

They’re gonna do it… those bastards are going to kill the government.

Extortion

just thinking about billionaires panicking because all their money couldn't stop mamdani and that warms my heart

graphic: Tesla proposed a $1 trillion pay package with 12 tranches [now passed by shareholders] and for Musk to get the first tranche, Tesla must achieve: * $2 trillion in market capitalization PLUS any one of * $50 billion Ebitda (a measure of earnings) * 20 million cars delivered * 1 million robots sold * 1 million robotaxis in operation * 10 million Full Self Driving subscriptions

easy to miss in the punditry about Musk's pay package:

he only becomes a trillionaire if he meets *a bunch* of milestones

payouts begin at $2 trillion market cap + other conditions

here's a handy graphic

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Totoro in Paris Street: Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte.

famous artwork but with a twist: thread

Great points. The Democrats focus grouped empty platitudes and technocratic talking points couldn't be further from what voters respond to in this modern media environment.

Tesla approves $1 trillion pay deal for CEO Elon Musk Ahead of the vote, Musk warned Tesla risked losing him if the package failed and said he wants to build a "robot army" he can control.

Looks like yes: www.statesman.com/business/tec...

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[Uilleann Pipes Blaring]

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

10% of Meta's 2024 ad revenue came from outright frauds and scams; the platform shows consumers 15 billion ads for fraud and scams every single day. This doesn't even include agitprop and AI slop.

the existential collapse of this monumental pile of shit company simply can't come quickly enough

CNN: "A brand new report is out showing layoff announcements hit their highest level for October in over 20 years. It's painting a picture of a job market that is really hurting. US-based employers announced 150,074 job cuts in October, more than any October since 2003."

NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear (CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble

Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.

On a related tangent, I think many people mistakenly think, “If COVID were still truly dangerous, then the government (meaning either party) and media would warn us.” What happened instead was they normalized repeated infections as the trade-off for going about your life as you did in 2019.

Getting to that point in learning Irish where I'm starting to have dreams in the language. Woke myself up last night saying, "Feicim sibh!" (I see you). Not sure who I was talking to, but cool.

Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.

The reason for this is multi-factorial, but the fact that Long Covid is not mentioned once is extremely telling. Especially since the article makes an explicit comparison with 2019.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Always had been.

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Review: Patti Smith’s mesmerizing new memoir looks back in wonder — and sorrow Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hardscrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.'

"They shared their love of poetry, books and classical music with their daughter [Patti Smith], who was reading Yeats by kindergarten."

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

There’s nothing more American than your family going from being a target of bigotry to being a purveyor of it within a generation or two.

6 appointments so far to look into what COVID did to me between primary care and neurology, and we haven't even started rheumatology yet. A pox on the woman who coughed in my husband's face because she thought she was being "funny." May she never have a moment of peace.🧙‍♀️

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

a bunch of white flowers on a black background Alt: jasmine flowers blooming on a branch

Spilled some highly concentrated jasmine extract on my hands and the smell is overpowering. I smell like FLOWERS. Probably will for the rest of the week. It's seeped into my bloodstream at this point lol.

How attacking healthcare has become a strategy of war Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan have put a spotlight on attacks on healthcare facilities and staff in conflict zones. The BMJ looks at the data, which seem to show a new strategy of war: removing civilians’ ...

“It’s not just that everyone wants to go to the hospital and then there’s no hospital. You bomb the hospital…people are less likely to want to go to a hospital. People are less likely to want to be health workers. It becomes a dangerous profession so less people do it…that has a generational impact”

This is a really good thread.