#AI Companies:

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Microsoft’s move reflects a wider trend among major technology companies as they double down on artificial intelligence. The company has invested billions in #AI infrastructure. Up to 30% of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI tools. #econsky #jobs fortune.com/2025/07/02/m...

" #AI has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words ... ideally suited to replace the very person who built it. A recent study found that Americans think software engineers will be most affected by AI" #econsky www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Gifted link They were undertaken by a White House national security team staffed by unqualified appointees, some of whom Trump has reportedly frozen out of his inner circle. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Once more with feeling

WSJ: For American companies, adding headcount — “once a sign of surging sales and confidence in the future — now means leaders must be doing something wrong.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/the...

"We would like (AI) to be just tools, but how many examples are there of more intelligent things being controlled by much less intelligent things? With big differences in intelligence, there are none." #Hinton #econsky #AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #artificialintelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkB...

Dario Amodei says we need to be raising the alarm about the impact of #AI on #labor #anthropic #econsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju5...

NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse

The New York Times asked me for a new job that AI will create. I suggested "sin eater." (lots of good discussion of many other jobs in the article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...)

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

This photo. ICE is a gang.

This book will restore your faith in humanity. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.amazon.com/Free-Ride-He... #FreeRide #ItchyBoots #Travel #motorcyclejourney www.amazon.com/Free-Ride-He...

Google has a new button. It might destroy the web as you know it. Experts say the new “AI Mode” is an asteroid aimed at the heart of the internet, one that could decimate millions of websites. It seems this chapter of online history is over. Here’s what comes next: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Reading my copy now! 💙🏍️ 🥾 🌏 #nonfiction #motorcycle #travel #youtuber #itchyboots #freeride

A company called "Frontier Valley" has declared it will build a new Network State zone on federal land in Alameda, California. Below: A "draft" presidential executive order that would have Trump declare a "national security emergency" to permit the project. PR stunt, or aggressive new phase?

"The real mistake isn't in the idea that something wasn't classed, we didn't follow a set of regulations. It's (corporate) culture that caused this to happen. It's (corporate) culture that killed those people." #econsky #corporateculture www.netflix.com/watch/817121...

Scott Galloway has some choice metaphors to describe AI's impact on workers: 'I think of it as corporate Ozempic'

“Size is persuasion. It creates bandwagon effects…If 100,000 people show up in Washington to celebrate Trump’s military parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

mood

Can’t believe we’ve lost Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. She was a consummate Speaker who led her caucus brilliantly and achieved so much for Minnesota. I’ve campaigned with Melissa throughout the state and was forever impressed by her levelheaded, yet passionate, leadership. (1/2)

Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers —  took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren't gonna use. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...

New York Requires Employers to Disclose When Layoffs of 50 or More Are Due to AI

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

Google and DeepMind’s new hurricane model can forecast emergence 15 days in advance, beating existing models.

Tech billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are making a risky bet on a human future of superintelligent AI, space colonization, and transcending human biological limits, which journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker describes as the "ideology of technological salvation."

"AI isn't coming for your job. It already came, said "nice resume," and then built your replacement. While you're waiting for ChatGPT to finish loading, it's automating another slice of your workflow in the background." #econsky hackernoon.com/what-to-do-w...

"Users are throwing all sorts of prompts into Meta AI without knowing that they’re being displayed publicly, including sensitive medical & tax documents, addresses, and deeply personal information including—confessions of affairs, crimes, and court cases.." gizmodo.com/psa-get-your...

Quite a year we’re having today.

Breaking news: A federal judge agreed to block the Trump administration from deploying the California National Guard, granting a request by Gov. Gavin Newsom and saying the president acted illegally in dispatching the troops amid immigration protests.

For those who do not have access or care to go to Twitter for the video, here is the video of the U.S. Secretary of the Army stating that there is currently a soldier on the moon:

And he happens to be the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, whose questions you have previously refused to answer? Fat chance.

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

There were (working from memory) three Special Forces guys indicted for January 6. These were guys (and not the only ones) who had stoked insurgencies overseas who were at the Capitol backing this shithole--in two cases, violently (the other had a grenade in his RV).

Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Chart: Western Europeans' confidence in US presidents to "do the right thing regarding world affairs," 2001-present www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

None of these guys are in proper uniforms. How is the target here supposed to assume this Sicario bullshit is actually the cops?

This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...

Text source: every.to/diplomacy

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BREAKING: Gov. Newsom is asking for a restraining order on Trump/Hegseth's use of the military in Los Angeles, saying they are preparing to go on immigration raids with ICE. He wants a ruling within two hours. "They must be stopped immediately." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: California files an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump admin from using "the federalized California National Guard and active duty Marines for law enforcement purposes on the streets of a civilian city." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

Before trump's bigoted travel ban, forecasters were saying that tourism would lose $12.5B this year. But with CBP/ICE going insane, the ban & LAPD riots, that loss will now go beyond $21B.This will be another hit to an already weak job market, costing 250-300K jobs #econsky #finsky archive.ph/UrVvy

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social