What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
The data drops as Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a moratorium on datacenter construction. 'We need to take a deep breath. We need to make sure that AI and robotics work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.'
The "Oval Office."
That's the nickname Jeffrey Epstein had for the most functionally critical room in his Manhattan townhouse. It's where Epstein's "girls" kept their purses and prepped for Little St. James; packages for Woody Allen's wife were assembled.
@jamespwest.bsky.social investigates.
Marco Rubio is corrupt as fuck.
Palantir Technologies raked in $1.5 BILLION in income last year — including from lucrative taxpayer-funded DHS contracts — and paid ZERO federal income tax.
It's fast becoming the most dangerous and least accountable corporation in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VwyhErd88
The question isn’t whether the economy will grow.
The real test is whether it feeds people, houses people, and protects the stability of our fragile planet.
#Economy #Wellbeing
BREAKING: The FBI is at an "apparent vehicle ramming and active shooter situation" at a Michigan synagogue that also operates a preschool. Here's what we know.
Just In: The Old Dominion University shooter, a Sterling resident, targeted an ROTC class and was previously convicted for providing support to ISIS.
The shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism, the FBI director said.
The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.
They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!
You can very easily condemn war crimes committed by the Israeli military without somehow justifying violent attacks on random Jews on the other side of the planet. This is not difficult.
A recently published study from a team of researchers in Europe attempts to measure the degree to which X’s algorithm is poisoning the brains of those who continue to use it. The study, which took place in 2023, randomly assigned around 5,000 X users to view either their algorithmic or chronological feeds over a seven-week period, and then measured the effects on users’ political attitudes and online behavior. For anyone who does not have a vested interest in the financial success of X, the findings are pretty grim. The researchers found that the “For you” tab shifted users’ political opinions toward more conservative positions on certain issues—for example, the then-ongoing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They found that the algorithmic feed increased user engagement, promoted conservative-coded political content, and demoted posts from traditional news sources, which appeared in users’ algorithmic feeds 58.1% less often than they did in users’ chronological feeds.
Finally, and maybe most troublingly, the researchers found that these effects were asymmetric—that although turning the algorithm on changed users’ views, turning it off did not move views in the other direction. After the study, the chronological feeds of participants the study exposed to the algorithm contained 60% more posts from conservative accounts and 28% more posts from conservative political activists, relative to the chronological feeds of study participants who did not use the algorithmic feed. The researchers attribute these results to the types of accounts that users encountered in the “For you” tab and eventually chose to follow, thus adding those accounts to their chronological feeds, too. In other words, once the X algorithm moves you to the right, you probably stay there. And if you use the X algorithm long enough, even on those occasions when you decide to peruse the “Following” tab, you will probably see more conservative-coded content than you would have if you had never checked out the “For you” tab in the first place.
I know we all understood that the post-Musk version of Twitter featured more right-wing slop, but this academic study of the algorithm's effects is pretty astonishing: Just 7 weeks of using the "For you" feed made X users more sympathetic to Trump www.fastcompany.com/91507338/x-a...
Zelensky to Trump in August: We have developed amazing, inexpensive drone interceptors that shoot down Iranian Shaheds that we can provide you in case you are ever in another conflict with Iran.
Trump: No we’re good. We’re the US - you have nothing we need. You have no cards.
Trump: "So now we have low-cost interceptors effectively combating Iranian drones."
I wonder which country with "no cards" gave it to you 🤔
ZELENSKYY: Yes. Because “peace” is just words from Putin. Who can trust him?
ZELENSKYY: If our soldiers voluntarily withdraw from Donbas, they’ll lose friends, homes, relatives, and memories there. The morale of the entire army and nation would collapse instantly.
POLITICO: Even if you get peace in return?
The only real threat to the Ayatollah’s regime has come from within Iran, from people resisting their government.
What Israel has done is confirm the discourse that the Ayatollah’s regime has been putting forward for years.
Seeing war as am antidote to alleged civilisational decline and a recipe for civilisational renewal is a thoroughly fascist worldview
Synagogues pay for their own security. Building bollards and gates, installing cameras, etc., require capital campaigns or added membership dues. A police presence is not free. Plus synagogues train their members to volunteer as security guards.
We do this because safety is not a choice.
Read that number again.
“the ongoing war”
By Israel’s war on Iran.
Meanwhile in Branford Connecticut, Turkeys chase the UPS delivery drivers 😂🦃
What do you even say to this?
Ida B. Wells investigated lynchings in the South and campaigned for justice.
There's been a growing use this year of singing – group singing, specifically – as a form of resistance. Many see it as a powerful act of intention, rippling out from a center until it touches all who are open to it.
From @thestoryexchange.bsky.social:
NEW: Trump launched his war supposedly to end the threat that Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. But his war has led to a new nuclear nightmare.
NEW: Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say @jenafifield.bsky.social
This is your reminder that after you make $184,500, you stop paying into Social Security.
Millionaires hit that cap today.
We are constantly told there's "not enough" money for Social Security.
But we let America's richest people stop paying into it in March.
Scrap the cap.
Never trust anyone who would rather cut Social Security than make millionaires and billionaires pay into the program all year long like the rest of us do.
Protect and expand Social Security. Scrap the cap.
Closest thing to a goal they're articulating is "No building anything nuclear ever." And to achieve that, there are two options: negotiations or complete annihilation. The last TWO times Iran negotiated, Trump bombed them.
