“The President Is Now a King”: The Most Blistering Lines From Dissents in the Trump Immunity Case – Mother Jones
"Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune."
Project 2025: Neo Fascism
Project 2025
The Remaking of the American Right
When the Clock Broke offers a tour of the ’90s, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up Bush Sr running for office. Ganz also argues that the far right of the ’90s was a precursor to Trump, a claim reliant on distortions of past and present.
Confronting the Axis of Resistance - The Atlantic
The world is hardening into two competing blocs.
Trumponomics & Leopards Eating Faces
Trump Understands Fascism Better Than Stanley Milgram | Noah Berlatsky
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SCOTUS overturns Chevron.
The Supreme Court reverses course on Chevron deference.
Study: Undocumented immigrants may actually make communities safer, not more dangerous • Ohio Capital Journal
Undocumented immigration, on average, has no effect on violent crime across U.S. metropolitan areas.
Shared from Bing: What is Project 2025? The ‘dystopian’ manifesto for Trump’s second term | The Independent
Project 2025’s blueprint for Donald Trump’s return to the White House opens the door to fascism, lawmakers warn
Democrats Target Pro-Trump 'Dystopian Plot' With Stop Project 2025 Task Force | Common Dreams
"We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it's too late," said Rep. Jared Huffman, who is spearheading the new task force.
Trump’s Project 2025 plot would take ‘wrecking ball’ to US institutions, key Democrat warns
Jared Huffman sounds alarm over extremist manifesto for second Trump term produced by Heritage Foundation
The truth about inflation, wages, and the Biden economy
Exaggerating the harms of inflation doesn’t help working people.
AI in Hiring: Reducing Bias or Making It Worse?
AI could even out the playing field in recruitment – except that it’s trained by humans.
A story from Will Lockett on Medium
And also takes the opportunity to bad-mouth Tesla’s self-driving AI.
Elon Musk Just Added a Wrinkle to the AI Race
Excellent article
Elon Musk Just Added a Wrinkle to the AI Race
Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.
OpenAI’s Lies and Half-Truths
Not every thing the company says is completely candid.
Among the A.I. Doomsayers
Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?
New evidence shows privatization of healthcare services leads to worse health outcomes. : r/CapitalismVSocialism
Attacks on Public & Democracy
Silicon Valley's elite are moralizing about the future of AI
Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.
The FTC bans AI impersonations of individuals — and unveils greater powers to win stolen money back
FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner
r/LateStageCapitalism - Hitler praised the Americans treatment of the Native Americans in Mein Kampf. DePaul Professor Jason Hill now does too. We are maybe a year away from conservatives justifying the Holocaust.
1,898 votes and 255 comments so far on Reddit
Billionaires Are the Real Existential Risk
We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.
OpenAI’s Got 9.9 Problems, and Twitch Ain’t One
The AI darling faces a long list of serious challenges in 2024
The Substack Verschlimmbesserung - by Justin Ling
Deplatformings will continue until the Nazi situation impraves
Musk Is Holding Tesla To Ransom
What is his real motivation?
OpenAI sets rules to combat election misinformation. It’s been tried before | CNN Business
As concerns swirl about the disruption artificial intelligence could cause for the 2024 elections, OpenAI on Monday declared that politicians and their campaigns are not allowed to use the company’s AI tools.
From Capitalism to Technofeudalism
This post largely aligns with my views on the near future (and likely explains my fascination with cyberpunk culture to boot) - and name drops Naomi Klein's latest book Doppelganger.
I'm almost finished her book and you'll be hearing more about soon as it brilliantly connects the dots to the parallel (distraction) world of conspiracy culture while in reality capitalism continues its unchecked conversion of the living to the dead.
Musk, Tech Bros & AI Fascism#futurism#political literacy#anarcho/socialism#climate & sustainability#klein/chomsky/graeber etc#references: misinfo 3#conspirituality & diagonalism
Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads
“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it's not a Black Mirror episode—it's Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage.”
NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances | Hacker News