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RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

Ukraine’s military Starlink service is now working after a 10-day disruption that affected its drones. Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms of service by using it for offensive drone strikes. Trump reportedly called Musk to ask him to restore it. SpaceX can now change the course of wars.

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

How a serial failure as a businessman thinks: “When a company is on the edge of failure, it makes sense for the company’s owner to make… crazy investments that are highly likely to fail but might, just might, make enough money to pull the company back from the brink” substack.com/@nilsgilman/...

The review of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING I want to read most is Werner Herzog's Werner drop the link to your secret Letterboxd account plz

reliance on starlink is a national security threat for every country, including the united states, where musk would absolutely use it to sabotage the foreign policy of a dem president it must be replaced posthaste

The sub-prime data market

Their politics are all different, but the appeal of Mamdani, Ossoff, and El-Sayed as speakers and campaigners is that they don't seem afraid they're going to get in trouble. That makes them hard to bully or even make fun of successfully.

This is a masterclass in effective communication while also not being afraid to point out bigotry for what it is. We should be so lucky to have someone like this in our government.

lol holy shit

This article on Minimum Viable Ethnography by Erica Hall is such a treasure. She explains how simple revelatory ethnographic research can be. I highly recommend you give her approach a try. Read Erika’s Article: https://medium.com/mule-design/minimum-viable-ethnography-a047e9358df0

October 16, 1968

Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.

Like, seriously, he’s incredibly compelling. I’m not at all predisposed to like him. I’m a social democrat/democratic socialist, and he’s not. But damn if listening to him speak about anti-corruption, human rights, and accountability doesn’t feel like a glass of ice water in hell.

Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

statler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

This all strikes us as a bunch of guys imagining themselves to be Prometheus when they're really just three Bernie Madoffs in a trenchcoat

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

Plug-in solar is not new. We’ve known how to do this for years, but adoption has taken time. This week on The Government Fix, we sat down with Utah State Rep. Ray Ward to discuss speeding up adoption and making clean energy more accessible. 🎧 Out now! https://bit.ly/4dvHWJJ

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

Given that there is not likely to be a national, bipartisan demand for accountability in the wake of Trump — the major distinction with Nixon — any accountability, civil or criminal, will be a partisan and political project that I think should be pursued as vigorously as possible.

The "Dead Industry" theory is resonating with me and if often feels like I have a different job than I did last year. @strange.website offers a beautiful lament for the jobs we had and lays down some kindling for how we might warm ourselves in the meanwhile.

I start teaching at the Columbia mfa today. Here’s the AI statement from my syllabus. Feel free to borrow.

"YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK"

Holy shit.

This is beautiful.

Gandalf. Go hiking. Assemble a crew to take down Palantir. Sorry, I wouldn't be so on the nose if these times weren't.

I think this is kinda brilliant marketing… www.instagram.com/reels/Dd2fJ_...

Henry’s essay on the state of tech—and of tech work, and of tech workers—is very good. It’s hopeful, painful, and beautiful all at once, and I think it’s worth your time.

it's a new season for technology & for technologists, and our labor and its impact to the world are both more greater and more dangerous than ever. how do we make sense of work in an industry many of us no longer recognize?

Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second.

yes. the big takeaway from the crucifixion of Jesus is that capital punishment is good.

Based on all of the organizations we've worked with, I think regardless of technology or tools, it's often difficult for organizations to identify their most valuable members because of organizational biases and politics that reward and protect mediocre and toxic individuals, often unintentionally.

I mean, think of all the money a vulture like Trump could've made in the wake of the Great Depression if he'd had Citizens United to prevent the election of FDR.

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Pope Leo on AI & the arts