2) if they wanted this. And when they realize they’re among millions of lives and families being destroyed, there will be a bloodbath, hopefully only political, but the real thing wouldn’t be a surprise.
1) Amazing to see people act as if AI is some kind of asteroid crashing into earth that no one can do anything about.
Americans will remember that NO ONE in business or govt asked them—
Our society is now ruled by mentally ill billionaires lost in a pre-adolescent 1950 vision of the "future" that NO ONE WANTS AND CAN'T WORK. You can't reprogram a million years of human instincts in five years or even a generation.
The people have to stop this. NOW.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...
2) companies when thousands of others do what he's doing. Square and CashApp cannot survive without customers, and people without jobs aren't customers. I hope when he files Chapter 11 his creditors send him as nice a message as he sent to the employees he just dropped off a cliff.
1) For anyone who thought it would take years to sort out, or that AI wasn't ready, time to wake up.
The sole purpose of AI has always been to destroy human jobs. Period. Dorsey, like all the other fools, has not yet thought through what will happen to his own--
www.cnn.com/2026/02/26/b...
So in a demoralizing Hobson’s Choice between the end of the century-long miracle of Hollywood vs. overwhelming government domination of media, the government won. Only Hollywood will still die anyway, just a little slower.
A sad day for America all around.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...
3) to control AI agents.
Societal catastrophe through foreign AI sabotage, misuse by our own government, or the systems themselves going rogue.
Furman is celebrating competition over who pushes us off a cliff first.
2) lost white collar jobs.
Destruction of entry-level pathways to competence across scores of fields.
Destruction of learning and cognition already well-established.
Universal adoption of a technology 80% of Americans don't want.
Structural inability--
1) Great respect for Jason Furman, which makes this piece even more perplexing. "Yay - there's competition in AI development!!" Except he barely even hints at what the competition is leading to, so let's list:
Destruction of the economy through--
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...
When Howard Lutnick is more farsighted than our tech titans, we know we're in trouble. If these billionaire geniuses had been running US industry in Dec. 1941, they would have kept on building cars instead of tanks and the Axis powers would be ruling the world today.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
The geniuses:
Klausewitz.
Grant.
Eisenhower.
Kushner and Witkoff.
Hard to believe my conservative friends aren't at least a little horrified by a president doing something like this. Presumably they think he's doing other things that make it worthwhile.
Unfortunately, that trade-off is the gateway to autocracy.
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We'll soon see if Democrats have the stamina to make a last stand for democracy. Trump said it out loud: if this bill passes, the GOP is guaranteed a 50 year majority.
Senate G.O.P. Faces Pressure to Force ‘Talking Filibuster’ for Voter I.D. Bill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...
@nytimes.com really calling SAVE Act a "voter ID bill"???
ID is irrelevant to its two disastrous components:
1. Unconstitutional federal seizure of voters' personal data.
2. Impossible proof-of-citizenship requirements.
This bill will end fair elections.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/u...
Yes, lay-offs definitely here. TV commercial production decimated. Plus, new grads not being hired. Exponential change always starts slowly enough not to be noticed at first.
Grateful to Sanders and Khanna for taking up the AI fight. But even they seem to miss the "un-virtuous cycle" soon to be unleashed by millions losing jobs:
Fired people don't spend money. Businesses fail. Millions more fired. Economy collapses.
AI=death.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Kirchick has done a service by calling attention to this cowardly failure by PEN America. One can only hope that like @nytopinion.nytimes.com leadership in 2020 - after wrongly firing James Bennet for publishing a Tom Cotton oped - PEN will come to its senses.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...
Sadistic: Trump will not only go after LEGAL immigrants now, but hold them in notoriously cruel detention INDEFINITELY.
Every day we're reminded that cruelty is not a by-product, but central to this administration's grotesque governing philosophy.
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AI is about to devour our society.
The corrupt government is in bed with AI's corrupt creators.
There are 34 months before even the possibility of non-corrupt officials saving us.
Will AI destroy us by then, or is there a chance sanity will prevail?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
When will we hear if House Democrats are preparing Articles of Impeachment over Bondi's announcement that no more Epstein files will be released?
We truly live in the Upside Down when the DOJ is openly obstructing justice.
Even for those who support deporting millions of law-abiding immigrants who've been here for decades - a view held only by a small minority of Americans - the administration's cruelty should be abhorrent.
America is in moral collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
3) that non-citizen voting in federal elections is essentially non-existent, or that the SAVE Act is part of a pattern including Trump attempting to nationalize the elections and Republicans instigating mid-decade redistricting in order to rig the midterms.
2) don't have a registered birth certificate or passport and more millions of women who changed their name when marrying.
Nor does the piece mention that decades of studies show--
1) Talk about a Strawman, @thefp.com does an entire piece on Dem resistance to voter ID when Dems already accept voter ID.
The issue is proof of citizenship - barely mentioned in the article - which would disenfranchise millions who--
Why Voter ID Is Common Sense
www.thefp.com/p/why-voter-...
Wow. Gallup polls can never be trusted again. And to think they entirely destroyed their credibility just in time for Trump to go down.
4) telling millions of people they can never have sex again. Or pray again.
We are being driven toward civilizational suicide by a group of emotionally stunted billionaire fools, and it's time conservatives like Douthat stood up for the timeless values he says he represents.
3) organizing principle of human lives forever. Our relationships, self-image, sense of worth are all inextricably intertwined with the ability to provide what our loved ones need to survive. Taking that away is exactly the same as--
2) energy and time to whatever it has taken through the ages: hunting, farming, building, fighting, planning, organizing, driving, fixing, healing, inventing, writing, selling, whatever it takes it has been the--
1) The vast majority of Americans, including Democrats, understand what AI's creators don't: the "dignity of work" is not a slogan, it's the legacy of millions of years of evolution. The drive to provide is as primal as sex; we are wired to devote enormous--
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
