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My review of Kara Swisher’s BURN NOTICE is here!
“Swisher may style herself as Silicon Valley’s critic laureate, but she’s much closer to the court fool.”
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ok now we are cooking
Does Israel have a "right of self-defence" under international law? No.
As UN Special Rapporteur
@FranceskAlbs
explains: "Israel cannot claim the right of self-defence against a threat that emanates from the territory that it occupies, that is kept under belligerent occupation."
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Happy birthday to this crazy ass white boy. One day we are gonna go back in time and give him power armor.
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RIP Akira Toriyama, you saved this kid’s life when he got stung by a bee 400 times because he thought he was a Saiyan and started screaming like a fucking ape
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Imagine murdering a guy to stop him from whistleblowing about your piece of shit planes but for the next week there’s just a new story everyday about one of them having a piece of the vehicle fly off mid flight
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🥺👉👈 free speech is when the government tells u what to say
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my brother in Christ that is your conscience
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I’m pulling up to the club in Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä RIGHT NOW
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each stop is one of the blacksites where she tortures the poets
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There are pages of Fidel Castro’s journal that are just this diagram
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You guys are right. Israel would never bomb a hospital. It’s not like five days ago they hit a children’s hospital in Gaza with white phosphorous or anything. Israel issued those evacuation orders to 22 hospitals in the past week because they were worried Hamas would bomb them.
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sadly Kissinger probably died comfy his bed, tired from the 100 birthday parties celebrating his 100th. never really faced any real threat of justice for his war crimes & will probably get endless defenses in the coming days. but at least one less literal demon walks among us
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This is every single video where someone is using the $3500 Apple goon glasses
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being so old that ur candles on a birthday cake merge into a portal into hell and you have to quickly blow them out before shaitan itself reaches through…that’s the good stuff
filing this under “worst optics of the decade” next to the trump taco bowl tweet
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This is a glorious thing to wake up to. Staring down the barrel of a fascist government that has put you in a cage for your entire life and is itching for an excuse to kill everyone in it with you, I can’t imagine anything braver
Bulldozer operated by Gaza Resistance tearing down the israeli occupation fence erected on the border
Literally breaking apart the israeli-created mass prison in the Strip
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LET THEM COOK
We got tired of waiting for our local leaders to act 😴
So we're introducing our new pedestrian safety pilot: BRICKS (TM)! 🧱
Thanks to
@nicthedoor
&
@aboutherevideos
for creating this video for us!
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it’s not fair how funny he is
Haley says Trump campaign sent her bird cage after he called her "birdbrain"
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Talk ur shit James. This man is bragging about his deep dives and subs for the first minute then spends the rest flabbergasted by how unsafe this sub was
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field."
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telling the UN to dip because you’re about to do an inordinate amount of war crimes is…
SCOOP: Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours. My story on
@axios
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not what we typically call landlords but whatever floats ur boat brother
Rats are to blame for droves of New Yorkers fleeing: Mayor Adams
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we are surrounded by fascists and genocidal maniacs and technological cultists sitting on Smuagian hordes. all these people have too much fucking money, too much fucking power and are—and this is very important—some of the dumbest people to walk this earth.
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My debut at
@Slate
: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn't be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthanizing them is imperative if we want a better world.
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You must go back in time: would you prefer to live the life of a slave owner, or the life of a slave?
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When Coppola posted this on Instagram, I knew he was cooking up something batshit. I am levitating with excitement and anticipation
“Megalopolis will need widespread appeal, however, to even come close to breaking even at the box office, and the latest report suggests it could be unlikely to achieve this.”—Coppola could not care less: he spent 25 years selling wine to finance it.
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lol mayor adams getting baptized by reverend al sharpton at rikers is nasty work. book of revelations shit. a seal has just been broken and they’re raising their trumpets as we speak
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race will always kick a French person’s ass
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One of the greatest scams of our time is paying for laundry machines in our apartment buildings
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We are now at the part of the Dune series where every single movie, every single show, every single spin off, everything that follows, it’s all gonna make people go “what the fuck?”
Rebecca Ferguson as Lady Jessica in new poster for ‘DUNE: PART TWO’
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Are we just lying now? Is that the stage of the AI hype cycle we’re at?
One AI program spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know. This mysterious behavior, called emergent properties, has been happening – where AI unexpectedly teaches itself a new skill.
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lol I love when VCs are like “here’s a hot tip to make it further than the competition” and it’s like “take public transit” or “clean your room”
I work for a startup.
I need to go to JFK.
Rideshare prices are nuts.
So I took the train for $12.
Conserve your capital.
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I feel like a lot of you stopped reading before the part where he rants about leftists I dunno
What is your honest opinion on the morality, intelligence, effectiveness, and legacy of Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber)
Yes, this is for a video & also do not say anything that will make the FBI’s watchlist bigger
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Would love a piece trying to uncover why IDF propaganda is so bad rn, but also why it’s bad in ways reminiscent of NYPD (and other police forces actually). Both have ungodly sums of money, zealous support, the technical know-how, but their shit just surprisingly sucks
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Another reason why I really think he should get the Pulitzer for posting is that he often says very normal things but because of how close it is to people’s personal consumption he gets insane responses so we see a speedrun of multiple discourse cycles in the space of one post
just got called fatphobic and ableist for saying that amazon normalized free shipping and returns by squeezing labor
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Every time we get a new Epstein story it is a bit more baffling the only person charged with anything is Maxwell? It’s a bit silly to imagine Epstein and Maxwell running a global blackmail and trafficking empire all by themselves and yet
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this right here is my shit
Mexican artist Chavis Mármol crushes Tesla under giant Olmec head.
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VCs had ten years of perfect conditions to build the future they harp on about. What have they done? Ruined housing market & transit systems, wagged war on labor law, accelerated the militarization of public space & the border, and intensified gambling.
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Without a doubt, one of the hardest I’ve ever laughed was when right after that moment when Lance Reddick came on to do this! RIP
RIP Lance Reddick. One of my favourite actors and the only person to ever scare Eric Andre. Always gave the performance of his life in anything he was in from John Wick to The Wire to Fringe. He will be dearly missed
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lmfao this is such a funny outcome i don't think anyone anticipated it
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Watched AMADEUS the other night and god I’m not hating enough, I’m not tapping into that primordial force enough
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It seems Bill Ackman spending a week telling everyone to pay attention to his wife’s alleged plagiarism has uncovered more alleged plagiarism
Another 250+ words by Oxman (2011, left) that appear identically in Mindy Eng's bachelor thesis (2010, right).
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If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs
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I am sorry my brother if you are using Sora to generate short films then you gotta pack it up. God has given you a million muses—drugs, your fellow man, the inside of your own skull, small moments strewn throughout the day—and you have chosen something lower than dirt smh
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better risk management than every venture capitalist somehow
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Francis Ford Coppola MEGALOPOLIS has been picked up by Le Pacte in France! The distributor of Anatomy of a Fall will release the Coppola epic at the end of september (source:
@LePoint
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#Cannes2024
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God I wish AOC had a shitposting burner named Zazademon that was wishing death on bigots are you kidding me?
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I think if venture capital had spent the past two decades prioritizing things that were not digital assets to gamble on, advertising platforms, surveillance, killing machines, “sharing” platforms to rent idle assets or labor at exploitative prices, etc, ppl might feel different
Watching people delight in the collapse of a bank that’s been vital to the greatest wealth generation engine this country has had for the last 2 decades is really disheartening to see.
I think this is a Twitter problem.I’m gonna be spending less time here.
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it wasn't. you guys cried and screamed for four days because you didn't understand you were almost certainly going to be made whole, invoking hysteria about bank runs and feigning concern about workers
Thank the Lord that our government was able to navigate this situation with only two banks going under -- this was about to spiral out of control.
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JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the country can 'absolutely' afford another war.
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Damn it turns out capitalist libertarians fucking suck, who would’ve thought???????
somehow the free speech guy is the most orwellian owner of any social media globally
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Love how San Francisco does events these days:
- No alcohol
- Daytime (everyone needs to be in bed by 9 pm with a perfect sleep score 😁)
- Ice baths
- Supplements buffet
- Trampoline
- Push-ups as an ultimate dance move?
Thank you
@bryan_johnson
@chefjeffsf
for organizing 🙏
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PSH is really perfect in this movie but the way he blurts out here is just *chefs kiss*
What is your favourite line delivery in a film or TV show?
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everyone who works with OpenAI is a sucker but everyone who believed this wouldn't happen is an even bigger sucker
OpenAI is working with the Pentagon on cybersecurity tools, a departure from the startup's earlier ban on providing its AI to militaries
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if you’re a leftist you should be arguing with other leftists. everyday. No Excuses
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We are now entering a period that historians like to call “The Cool Zone”
BREAKING: Iran launches attack against Israel using dozens of drones, four U.S. and Israeli officials told me
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my brother can u just go to grad school or something
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🥺👉👈John Brown should’ve run for Congress and written anti-slavery legislation
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We're getting some footage out despite the Gaza internet collapse.
The IOF is now striking downtown Gaza City with banned phosphorus munitions.
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If you Google Neri Oxman, every single result mentions the plagiarism, her giving Jeffrey Epstein an orb as thanks for his donation, or Bill Ackman’s meltdown
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A signed copy of Mein Kampf is crazy, that man is never beating the Nazi allegations
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VCs would rather gamble with other people's money, enrich themselves and friends, rewrite laws and restructure markets in their own favor, and offload as many costs as possible onto the public than build anything of value.
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They’re going back to the basics huh
The Berlin police have banned people from speaking languages other than English or German at public events, in a racist attempt to crack down on Arabic. I’ll be at the Bundestag tomorrow using what I can remember of my Leaving Cert Irish to protest this. Join if you can!
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🫵🥺 you’re laughing? he threw a fit in the article because no one would give him quotes he could use in bad faith and you’re laughing??
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? My essay :
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wish my brain was this smooth. none of these people “fixed” anything, they created a way to profit from it with extravagant surveillance platforms & closed gardens & invisible labor & death villages that obscured the horror with a disappointing treat
the next zuckerberg is up all night, coding up an AI girlfriend/boyfriend.
Steve Jobs fixed boredom (phone)
Zuck fixed people watching (FB/IG)
Speigel fixed flirting (Snap)
The next one will fix loneliness.
people will mock it, use it, then be addicted to it.
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Oh he knows Nazi texts but not one of Keynes’ most famous quotes? Interesting.
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you’re out of your fucking mind if you expect anyone besides the grunts in your family office to read this shit
Last night, no one at
@MIT
had a good night’s sleep.
Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp…
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Which is, of course, the best part. The genocidal tyrant godling, his immortal worm god emperor son, the aunt who is born already remembering millions of lives, the BDSM ninjas who enslave people with sex, the climbing orgasm, Duncan Idaho, it’s all such a fun time
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repeat after me: venture capitalists are parasites that cannot be trusted to manage the financial institution that held up their entire ecosystem, let alone the direction of technological development
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Oh hell yeah
This man is posting addresses of other people’s properties on X, and has built a following on TikTok with over 100k followers by posting full addresses for people to squat in.
None of his posts on TikTok have been removed.
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I want examples of how a 33 year old man should dress lmao
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Almost certainly one of the more idiotic commentators around. His thoughts and analyses that have a corrosive effect on discourse and we are all dumber for having read them even in passing
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It’s really funny these people pretend their support for the war was backed by anything other than lies, stupidity, racism, and jingoism. Write your fucking column fam, you cheerled a war on no evidence other than bullshit and an Other, I know what you are.
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You bomb hospitals. We bomb hospitals. We hear you, we see you, we support you.
I have come to Israel with a simple message:
You are not alone.
As long as the United States stands – and we will stand forever – you will not be alone.
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The VC model is not the best model for financing technology—it's the model that people with Smaugian hoards of capital built because it generates more wealth and more power for their tightly knit networks. It's too unstable, risky, and harmful to preserve.
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Fidel rolling in the grave listening to his son talk like this
BREAKING| Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denies that Israel has been committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza saying that his country rejects the premise of South Africa's case at the ICJ, which was described as fact-based and compelling.
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No he’s probably spinning like rotisserie on some spitroast in hell
This isn’t a pro-Palestinian rally in London now, it’s a pro-Hamas rally.
Churchill is probably rolling in his grave.
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Genocide. Not apartheid, not an open air prison, not some invasion or military response, Israel has been committed to Palestinian genocide for decades.
🚨 Breaking: Footage from Al Shati refugee camps of a massacre that took place an hour ago amid total blackout. People screaming and asking for help.
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crazy to say, even crazier to remove, hard to express how craven this is
the associated press published and then removed this section from an article??
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woah! 2 major firms developing a product mired in a value inflation bubble, a hardware limitation problem, declining returns on exponentially large data sets, an energy & water consumption crisis, & searching for orders of magnitude more capital promise things are abt to change!
TECH: The Financial Times reports that OpenAI and Meta are close to releasing artificial intelligence models 'capable of reasoning and planning', which are considered 'critical steps towards achieving superhuman cognition in machines'.
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I think Mayor Adams gets $258,000
Is there a job where they pay you $250,000 a year to hang out in the park and get dinner with your friends?
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This sounds like some piece of lore in Fallout where you learn about a vault made to see what would happen if you gave everyone gout and rickets and a previously undiscovered form of racism lost to the ages
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He gets a little too much unqualified praise is all I’m saying
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Truly shocked that someone who was shilling crypto as fertile soil for a creative revolution is now shilling AI as fertile soil for a creative revolution.
Reese Witherspoon shares her thoughts on AI.
“It’s here to stay, so just get used to it. And I think AI is not coming for your job; people who know how to use AI are coming for your job. So learn about it. It should be a tool upon which we lay our own creativity, our own…
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Protestant work ethic kicking so many people’s asses
so….all the other deep shit aside….yall really think $25/hr for Waffle House employees makes sense?
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there's no way in hell i will ever read a 4000 character post with a picture of the unabomber at the end of it are you fucking kidding me?
Ted Kaczynski had an insight: technology doesn't make things better, it makes them weirder and higher variance. You are not supposed to spend the prime of your life photocopying stuff and doing PowerPoints. You're supposed to chop wood, hunt and maybe wage war. Women are supposed…
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Absolutely insane to insist a lawsuit is a deepfake but the phrase “I can’t be destroyed through a computer I’m too outside” is simply amazing
This computer generated shit really deep faking yall to try destroy all the top place winners …. Most people not smart enough to out beat the a computer they sheep! I can’t be destroyed through a computer I’m too outside
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at a certain point I think you just have to assume ignorance is being feigned
unclear what israel is trying to accomplish planting flags in gaza
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Alexis Ohanian’s ancestors perished during the Armenian genocide and had their assets seized. That generational trauma is a big reason why he’s betting heavily on NFTs and future social networks, despite crypto’s chilly winter storm.
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lots of people think they are above getting tricked or scammed but I read what you wrote about Uber ten years ago. I remember how excited you got about self driving cars and AI assistants and crypto and web3 and web2.
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lmao you know you're offering a brilliant product when you hide the ability for anyone to tell that someone bought it
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What is the point of being singularly owned by the world’s second richest man who sits on one of the most valuable monopolistic empires in human history ?
Inbox: Washington Post is reducing its workforce by approximately 240 positions
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NEW - JPMorgan "mistakenly deleted" 47 million records. SEC says deleted records were requested in several probes — Bloomberg
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You have to be a particular type of coward sitting on violent degenerate fantasies to cheer for this lynching, spin a 15 minute chokehold as courage, accuse someone screaming on the subway of being the real degenerate, then on top of it whimper about innocent taxpayers
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I wrote about the liberal & libertarian roots of Silicon Valley’s hostility towards democracy. The private control of technological innovation—steered towards surveillance, exploitation, and social control—is a existential risk, not AI.
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