Edward Ongweso Jr
@bigblackjacobin
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co-host - @machinekillspod // senior researcher - @SecurityContext // evangelical Luddite & decel // rep @ianbonaparte
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2013
100 years ago, before insulin's discovery, diabetics were put on "starvation diets" to manage their blood sugar. Today, insulin is so unaffordable that many are rationing the hormone itself at risk of disability & death. How did we get here?
thebaffler.com
Insulin transforms a sick body. It also has the potential to reconstitute our political economic realities.
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RT @alexbronzini: More and more, I think that anyone on the left should be able to rattle off AI-skeptic talking points—especially those ma….
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he and roon love going like “huh I wonder who did that?”.
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lol.
i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now.
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The mouse’s tyranny must end. Death to the House of Disney.
"Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981 [ . when the U.S. had 100 million fewer people] after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years."
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RT @BevansAdvocate: Marxists when Acemoglu & Johnson write about the dialectical relation between technology and power .
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third verse of Nas’s One Love but also Take it in Blood, final verse of Black President, Sekou Story, etc etc.
show me a rapper in flow state.
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RT @erikmbaker: He never sleeps, the president. He is golfing, golfing. He says that he will never die.
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RT @jason_koebler: AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out….
404media.co
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
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RT @triofrancos: I’m in @FT on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “w….
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RT @eshugerman: NEW: OpenAI has been claiming for months now that the groups opposed to its for-profit transition are secretly backed by bi….
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RT @dylanmatt: Chelsea Clinton v. Lina Khan is the congressional primary we deserve, for our sins.
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RT @davidwengrow: On the 5th anniversary of his death, David Graeber’s unwilling exile from US academia has a particular salience. This acc….
chronicle.com
David Graeber, a scholar of the radical left, can’t find a job. Maybe American anthropology departments aren’t as liberal as you think.
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RT @BigMeanInternet: Bell Labs didn't screw Shockley out of a patent. On the contrary, he cornered his coworkers off the transistor patent.….
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it’s like the MCU. in this phase we are gonna get more direct appearances from bunch of avengers who work with the US military: Palantir, Scale, Anduril, SpaceX, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, it’s all coming together.
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look like Oliver Grayson, sounds like him too if you asked him about US politics
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why is he purple ?.
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