Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

Cuba's minister of energy confirmed reserves are gone — with just enough diesel left to keep hospitals online. The UN has classified Washington's blockade a humanitarian crisis.

I am being punished continuously and without leniency by the IRS for some past mistakes and relatively small amounts, meanwhile they hand 1.7Bn to the most corrupt motherfucker alive who has committed tax fraud totaling more than all the money I’ve ever touched

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One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Ayup.

Oddly enough, Donald Duck would never say this. He is a solid working class man who is only paid ¢30 an hour working for the richest duck in the world. He is constantly angry at how his uncle never shares his vast wealth with the rest of Ducksburg, nor even his family.

Very very good explainer for everyone's questions $2000 would change all of our lives. It's barely a drop for people earning millions every year. It's a no brainer

the party of "a whole civilization will die tonight" fake-rending their garments over violent rhetoric is funnier than the entire history of saturday night live

I remember the Vietnam War well. Trump should too — we're the same age. I was too short to serve and lost good friends in the war. Trump pretended to have bone spurs. That war was characterized by lies, arrogance, and stupidity. What's happening in Iran is starting to feel a lot like Vietnam.

Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.

Market concentration → Less competition → Higher prices for consumers → Corporate profits at record highs → Record stock buybacks → Higher shareholder value → More power for corporations and the rich. How do we fight back? Break up monopolies and rebuild union power.

Exactly one year ago today:

Over 500,000 children have already died because her boss fed USAID to the woodchipper Over half a million parents who stood helplessly as the little bodies of their most precious children struggled to breathe and wasted away But yeah, an empty homes tax. Frightening

A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a year after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M. Do you see how this works?

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Read my new piece in The Guardian here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey has moved to end a major labor law case against Amazon, which has also sued to have the entire agency declared unconstitutional. Before being appointed by Trump, Carey worked at a corporate law firm that represented Amazon. Connect the dots.

Trump is touting the no tax on tips provision in his budget bill. But many tipped workers won't benefit because their earnings are so low. And the provision expires in 2028. The estate tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich? Those were made permanent. Funny how that works.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

I cannot stress this enough: Vegas gave Musk millions to build us a supposed public transportation system. Instead he built basically an Uber tunnel for Teslas that only goes FROM ONE END OF A CONVENTION CENTER TO THE OTHER. Literally just gets you to the other side of a building.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

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One thing ICE keeps proving over and over again is how there must not be any undocumented immigrants who pose any threat whatsoever. Obviously if there were any such people, ICE would be going after them, not this college student who has been here since she was a toddler and has no criminal record.

It's always good to have your entire military run by a guy whose own mother can't stand him

The NYT, a paper devoted to spreading the propaganda of rich “centrists” and right wing Trump apologists, isn’t critiquing the wealthy or defending the needy; it’s just trying to stigmatize public services and evangelize for means testing to undermine a socialist mayor. Just my opinion!

Workers should never forget how quickly and easily the managerial class fell for AI solely because they thought it would replace the workers right away.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

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In America today, wealth inequality has become so extreme that the top 1% now own as much stock and mutual funds as the bottom 99% combined. No democracy is sustainable when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need an economy that works for all, not the 1%.

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

reminder that the OpenAI's own internal research shows the models are making shit up 40%+ of the time and getting worse and can never be fixed because it's inherent to how LLMs work :)

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet

The history and the now of corruption in the memory industry from @gamersnexus.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=jVze...

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

You can't stop something that cannot think from "going rogue." You may as well try to dicipline a dice roll. Argue with a slot machine. Take a coin flip to court.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.