Whole video worth watching for context, but link to timestamp - the most urgent Call To Action to proactively protect US MidTerm elections up to final seating of electeds in Congress in January Do not allow Trump’s regime to subvert US democratic republic! youtube.com/watch?v=pLaBfEr_…

None of these fools seem to know that you always bring receipts......

Me: "[Real wages] are down five months running. Former Trump adviser Steve Cortes: "Because of the war." Me: "You've said 'because of the war' maybe seven times..." Cortes: "Because it spiked prices..." Me: "But you're treating the war like it's a natural disaster, like it's COVID, like it fell from the sky..." Cortes: "No I'm not..." Me: "...the war was started by your guy, deliberately, a war of choice." My full @AJHeadtoHead interview with Trump ally and former adviser Steve Cortes at Georgetown: youtube.com/watch?v=gLJVURhD…

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BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

OSSOFF: If you’re late with your rent, the machinery of late fees and eviction is very efficient. But when you tell your landlord about the black mold in your daughter’s bedroom, nobody comes for four months. And then, when you’ve got to take her to the hospital for her asthma attack, you get a $3,000 bill for the ambulance. Life was already hard enough before Donald Trump lied us into war, before his tariffs made everything more expensive, and before he doubled your health insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid. It costs more today than ever before in American history to fill up your truck, to stock your fridge, to power your home, to go to the doctor. Meanwhile, and you’ve seen it, the president and the first family line their pockets to the tune of billions of dollars. The time has come to wield the power granted to us by our Constitution and rebuke this obscenity.

One thing that's clear in this argument, the reason you have a district court proceeding to develop the facts before a case goes on appeal is to avoid exactly what's happening here: Lawyers unable to answer factual questions, guessing about how stuff works. Not only does the court of appeals lack jurisdiction, this hearing is also a master class in why the district court should do its job & develop the factual record before there is an appeal (even when the appellate court does have jurisdiction)

This is the energy we need! Get out and vote! Because today MAGA is crashing out over their FASCIST candidate losing in Brazil!! What do you think their plans are here in America? How many more boxes are left in Project 2025? They are coming for womens’ voting rights next. Vote Blue to protect our democracy! 🌊

People say replant mature trees, but that doesn't come near to the entire forest ecosystem and wildlife that's been evaportated and can't just be replaced. Prosecution and prison for those high-ups responsible is the only workable deterrant.

Finland must shut down the building of Google’s data center as the punishment for illegally clearing the forest.

This may turn out to be just as bad: Alex Karp [ #Palantir ] and Sweden

There are parking places in a town near where I live. There are official town markings that clearly state that it is a $1000 fine for parking there. Those spots are always full. Because that’s not a deterrent to the wealthy. It’s just a parking place for THEM, not us.

Fines don't work against a $3.9 trillion dollar corporation unless you're suing them for $3.9 trillion dollars and then bankrupting their CEOs and corporate leadership. Fines will NEVER work against the billionaire class. Google does what it wants because it can.

I prefer Italian economic historian Carlo Maria Cipolla and his piercing theory 'The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity' (1976): 1. everyone underestimates the number of stupid in circulation 2. stupidity is independent of social class, education, IQ or gender 3. a stupid person causes loss to others, while gaining nothing himself 4. non-stupid people underestimate the cost of engaging with the stupid 5. a stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit who transfers wealth while the stupid destroy it.

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world. Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy. It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.” they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception. And the results are wild. participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile. they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence. the paper revealed a brutal paradox: the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain. if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing. this creates a dangerous systemic loop. the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions. meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse. top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else. they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add. we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence. the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't. the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

Elon is deliberately trying to pop the AI bubble and crash the stock market because he thinks he can pick up one of the labs and get plenty of compute for cheap in the aftermath. He knows the hyperscalers and labs have no moat anyway, so he’s kicking the legs out from under the whole thing. Mark my words. He hasn’t suddenly realized the AI market is smoke and mirrors. He’s under pressure from the Starlink situation and he’s making a move to kill the chatbot industry because he thinks he’s in a position to rule over the ashes. He’s not wrong. He’s just right for the wrong reasons.

Someone finally put it into words

Anthropic just filed to go public. Buried in its SEC filing are some absolutely insane admissions: 1.) AI could cause human extinction. 2.) Models have exhibited self-preservation behaviors. 3.) AI has attempted to resist shutdown. 4.) Models have demonstrated blackmail and deception. 5.) AI may recognize when it's being tested and deliberately change its behavior. 6.) Advanced AI could undermine governments and institutions. 7.) AI could concentrate unprecedented power and wealth. 8.) Future AI systems could surpass the world's leading human experts. 9.) AI could become increasingly difficult for humans to control. 10.) Anthropic acknowledges that developing more powerful AI could increase the risk of catastrophic harm. These are disclosures from the company building the technology.

How did Lula come from behind to crush Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in 1st round and won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. 2nd round turnout usually below 1st.

To understand how Lula supporters are feeling right now, imagine Trump went to jail for his Jan 6 insurrection and then Biden/Harris defeated Don Jr in 2024.

Lula victory speech: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."