Members of royal families, high-ranking politicians, economic actors...

What if there were only one language, and everyone spoke it?

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating Nike in response to allegations that the company discriminates against white employees. This is Nike's leadership: about.nike.com/en/company

Spain’s PM: “The time of hiding behind servers is at an end.”

"It comes in the context of the European Commission considering ambitious measures to stop addictive social media designs... "Keeping people on the apps for as long as possible is a central part of their business model, and restrictions on addictive features would hurt their profits and power..."

The disclosure of names in the Epstein files has had consequences in the United Kingdom, Slovakia, and Norway. In the United States, nothing has happened so far; no one has resigned from office, and no one's noble privileges have been revoked.

No lies detected.

I am not one to boast…. well not often…but this has had more than 300,000 views…#humblebrag www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3V...

Absolutely fascinating (and rather concerning): just spoke to some classic educated German middle class boomers - the ones who still read the newspaper and listen to public broadcast radio - and they had NEVER HEARD THAT AI HALLUCINATES!! Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯

This paper shows that women get fewer and smaller parental transfers, and different assets. Tax breaks favor business assets (more often inherited by men); men pay lower effective tax rates. Resulting gender tax gap (2% inheritances, 22% gifts) reinforces 🇩🇪wealth inequality

Who in their right mind believed the anti-establishment narrative surrounding cryptocurrencies? 🤷‍♀️

The Epstein files show Epstein making significant payments to foreign government officials through their spouses. In addition to Lord Mandelson, he also paid the wife of German defense minister Karl zu Guttenberg. And others.

"Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never meant to see, of a shadowy world of international espionage, deregulated finance, far-right politics, eugenicist race science, information warfare, and unfathomably intricate human trafficking networks."

I sensed when Publicis bought the data company Epsilon back in 2019, as well as other strategic firms, that it would place them in a stronger position than their competitors long-term - It's something Clients want, and it's paying off for them #Media www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/publ...

"The search is part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offenses, including reports that the AI chatbot Grok helped disseminate Holocaust denial content and sexual deepfakes."

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It seems like everything is becoming a speculative asset.

It looks like the populists were right. The corrupt global elite does exist. The problem is that the populists are just as involved in it as the ones they are attacking.

The US under Trump's second term is experiencing the steepest democratic backsliding in contemporary history, outpacing Russia, Turkey, and Hungary. But there's hope, too. Burn-Murdoch is probably the best data journalist today. His latest @financialtimes.com analysis is essential reading. 1/7

I have a question: If a clear link between the use of AI and cognitive decline is established, could cognitive decline resulting from employer mandated use of AI be deemed a workplace injury?

Has entitlement to impunity also become a commodity?

So, it turns out that the populists who claimed to stand with the "pure people" against the "corrupt elite" are actually part of the corrupt elite.

That's really reassuring... actually, no, it's not. "The ICE agents to be deployed to Milan are not from the same unit as the immigration agents cracking down in Minnesota and other US cities." www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Millions of people were victimized when Elon Musk rolled back the guardrails on Grok, allowing users to churn out explicit deepfakes. @kattenbarge.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss what happened, the shameful response, and what should be done now. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/313_...

Impunity seems to make people immoral.

It's a broken system, and AI won't fix it.

Can you find the difference? www.comicsands.com/trump-board-...

The AI revolution is going great! 🙄

If you want to break free from big tech, some options here. Any that you use and recommend? openalternative.co

Thanks for doing better than we expected! You're fired! 🤷‍♀️

The AI revolution is going great! 🙄

Clearly struck a nerve here...This interview with Ash Sarkar of Novara Media has had more than 200,000 views…and nearly 1,000 comments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu3V...

I just got done watching a truly horrible movie at Sundance ("The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist"). It was introduced by the Sundance programming rep as having "a strong sense of informational integrity", but it's hard to imagine a characterization more off the mark. A long thread 🧵>>

The AI revolution is going great! 🙄

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is the 2nd part of David’s conversation with Helen Thompson about what makes living in a world dominated by the United States so strange. What has changed about American power in the twenty-first century? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! The first of a two-part conversation in which David talks to Helen Thompson about how to understand the extraordinary and unlikely power of the United States, from its origins to its current incarnation. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

X is a medium that promotes social inequality and hierarchy.

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If dogs had LinkedIn.

“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt,’' Sala told RTL Radio 102 before ICE’s deployment to the Games was confirmed."

My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...

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"Zerzan appeared interested mainly in the quantity of regulations that AI could produce, not their quality. “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes. “We want good enough.” Zerzan added, “We’re flooding the zone.”

Some lovely AI art at Vienna airport. 🫠 (Seriously, does NO ONE check this? This is a larger than life picture wall)

The AI revolution is going great! 🙄 "As more people poured into that business and crowded the market, the people behind these AI-generated influencers started to come up with increasingly esoteric gimmicks to make their AI-influencers stand out from the crowd."

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The AI revolution is going great! 🙄

The AI revolution is going great! 🙄 "The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." —George Orwell, 1984