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Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper

a day ago

This is great.

The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

a day ago

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. theatlantic.com/philosophy/202…

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Contention @ContentionNews

a day ago

@MarkAmesExiled Refuse to spend more than a moment or two caring about a senate race in another state, but were the texts abusive or unwanted? Or just him stepping out?

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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

a day ago

People don't grasp the sheer speed and scale of Europe's decline. This 👇 is an extraordinary number shared by Luis Vassy, director of Sciences Po (one of France's most famous schools) in this article: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/06/03/… He calculated that the EU is declining 3 times faster than the Qing dynasty at the height of China's century of humiliation. Back then, it took China 50 years to drop from 30% of world GDP to 17%, whereas it took the EU just 17 years (from 2008 to 2025). Insane 😢 And, sadly, given the current direction and the EU's systematically suicidal policy choices (latest example: x.com/RnaudBertrand/…), it's just the beginning...

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Contention @ContentionNews

2 days ago

@RodericDay Absolute banger of a Gramsci quote. We only find the answers we do because of the questions history asks of us, the struggle leads itself.

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Barchart @Barchart

2 days ago

BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market Home Sellers now outnumber Buyers by 630,000, the largest gap ever recorded 🤯👀

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Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_

3 days ago

Bolivia's workers unions held a congress yesterday and confirmed that they will not take part in any dialogue or negotiations. The general strike against neoliberalism continues, the number of barricades erected along highways is now 90, a record breaking number.

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zerohedge @zerohedge

2 days ago

Biggest ever jump in Professional and Business services job openings....

zerohedge @zerohedge

2 days ago

Shocking JOLTS: Job Openings Soar By 731K, 9-Sigma Beat, As Quits Bizarrely Plunge To 6 Year Low zerohedge.com/economics/shoc…

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Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas

3 days ago

It’s cool how the White House staff with knowledge of Trump’s phone calls with Israel only have one reporter’s phone number - and it’s the same phone number that Biden’s staff with knowledge of his phone calls to Israel had. What are the chances!

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unusual_whales @unusual_whales

3 days ago

Kevin Hassett: "People are spending more on gas, but they're also spending more on everything else -- not just groceries, but restaurants and so on. I think that's a sign you see when people are optimistic about the future."

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Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame

4 days ago

When will people understand that this predatory pricing model will always be true of anything coming out of Silicon Valley? It is literally their only model. 1. Operate at a loss so everyone signs up 2. Wipe out competitors 3. Slam users with profane monopolistic costs

Jay @iHad2GoGetit

5 days ago

Ubers really used to be $3

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Hedgeye @Hedgeye

6 days ago

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO: Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5. This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months. Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%. The rules built to protect passive investors: 1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived. 2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15. 3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5. All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.

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Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_

a week ago

Patriotic factions within Bolivia's military have confirmed: - US Embassy has ordered Bolivian govt to declare martial law to break the strikes - Embassy has told President Paz: "We can't lose Bolivia" - Bolivia's cabinet is divided, some don't want to implement the US orders

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Jim Garrison Keillor @books_rum

a week ago

You eliminate your only source of surplus value and replace it with AI, and then you get the bill from Anthropic and you can’t pay it

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Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks

a week ago

A year ago James Talarico was a mildly notable state legislator and now a cartel is going to spend $200 million dollars to convince the nation he’s gay. Democracy kicks ass

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Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded

a week ago

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

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Roderic Day @RodericDay

a week ago

"What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat…"

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2 weeks ago

I remember when "being an American" meant bragging about your superior quality of life and material abundance. But apparently now America is all about boiling shoe leather and eating tree bark and scrimping and saving? What happened here, fellas?

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Contention @ContentionNews

a week ago

@dmuntzria @biancoresearch @DiMartinoBooth "Other expenses" is way more reliable though

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Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst

a week ago

Notice how they stopped talking about dead US troops? Apparently 6 got killed in the first week, and that's it? Lol. And they tell you North Korea and Iran are propagandized

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Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei @MKhamenei_ir

a week ago

The shaken Zionist regime and the cancerous tumor of Israel are approaching the final stages of their wretched existence.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron

a week ago

To explain the significance of this, Anthropic moved enterprises to token-based billing in Q1 2026. This is at most four months of having to pay the true cost of their token burn and they’re already begging for mercy. There is a ceiling to the revenues of these companies.

Ed Zitron @edzitron

a week ago

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. businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andre…