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  More hot takes: an economy that's driven by consumer spending is pretty much destined to consolidate power with corporations. Add in a weakening regulatory framework, and really, it's a wonder that the oligarchs took as long as they have to ruin our lives.

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  @davidgerard@circumstances.run Does this hasten or slow the impending financial implosion?

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  I keep looking at AI and thinking that it's promising the same things object oriented programming was "supposed" to do, only people are taking the claims much more seriously. People seem to have become more credulous over three decades, not more critical.

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117309631799402974 Before you use AI to "create" a song 🙄 or ask chatGPT for information you could track down yourself, spare a thought for the places where those data centers are. (And while you're at it, maybe also start thinking about the places where all of those minerals that make this go are being mined...)

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  'No one is prepared for the consequences' Would you people shut up already? I heard these lines uttered in bad 70s cop shows. You sound like dorks. But also: you're worried about "agents" blackmailing people? Wow, that's really specific, and not suspicious at all. As I said, dorks. https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chief-scientist-ai-risks-slowdown-rogue-agents-consequences-safety-2026-9 #technology

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  I am not Wu's biggest booster, but screw Collins. -- Amid reelection fight, Southie state senator pitches rival property tax proposal | WBUR News https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/24/nick-collins-michelle-wu-property-tax-plans #Boston

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  Every time you use A*I-generated content, I lose respect for you. Eventually, I block you.

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  There was a question about LLMs that dominated my feed. (I'm not avoiding the original thread to be passive aggressive; my filters are such that I don't see all of the posts, and replies might get weird. I'm not complaining.) I saw enough to understand that there is a suggestion to make artificial, ahem, intelligence less toxic in every way. What I didn't see: WHAT is the use case for these tools? WHY do we need these things? People are desperate for work now. Why is this the...

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  It's not available yet for everyone to read, but the Granillo v. State decision out of the Hawai'i Supreme Court is the forceful rebuttal to the predations of the Roberts' SCOTUS that a lot of us have been waiting for. (I believe Todd Eddins wrote the opinion. Here's more about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_W._Eddins) If nothing else, this case should be the basis for the "packing" of the court when we throw MAGA out, if not why we ne...

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  Does anyone else in the northeast feel sleepy and weak every time we have a bad air quality day?

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  @Linux@planet.moe Clinton's victory in 1992 bought us three more decades of reproductive rights. The difference between a Trump win and an HRC win in 2016 is the SCOTUS we have today. I know all about how imperfect both Clintons are. I don't care. They were always better than their actual alternatives, not the ones I would have wished for.

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  @Linux@planet.moe I didn't say they were my friends. I said that in those elections, they were better than the GOP. Again, vote in the primaries so we increase our chances of getting good people.

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  @Linux@planet.moe Then everyone needs to vote in the primaries so we don't end up with these choices. But if we do, not voting ends up screwing us. Voting for the centrist in the general isn't making any changes, but it's buying us time that's keeping the right from sending us back to the 19th century.

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  My young adult son just chewed me out for starting to identify as an anarchist. He's also convinced that Newsom is our best shot. I need a moment.

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  #thursdayfivelist is #SciFiTunes today? How are we not just making the whole thing about #afrofuturist legend Sun Ra? Make it make sense! https://pods.link/us/i/1516023634

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  Today is the fourth anniversary of the surgery I needed for colon cancer. I have a year and a few months left of surveillance before I can throw myself a party, but so far, so good. #FuckCancer but also our medical system, which wanted to diagnose me with depression 🙄 rather than listen to what was going on before I got to Stage IIIc. I am lucky, because people a decade younger have died of this. Stay on your doctors for better care, stay on your politicians for better #publichealth

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  #WritersCoffeeClub May 3: Do you write your works locali(s)zed to the setting or your background? Both. My first series is set in Boston. I didn't spend a lot of time on descriptions of the area, so I was pleasantly surprised when readers said they got a good sense of place from it. Some of it may be familiarity on their part; might need more detail in a lesser known municipality. The current WIP is more about my background than locality. But there's a lot of coastal, so...maybe?

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  #pastpuzzle en-474 🟩🟥🟥🟨 (-244) 🟩🟩🟥🟨 (-21) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) ▪️▪️▪️▪️ 3/4 🥉 https://www.pastpuzzle.de

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  Just finished episode 3. This is insane, but I'm glad the ML instead entirely stupid. Eve (Korean Drama) - AsianWiki https://asianwiki.com/Eve_(Korean_Drama) #kDrama

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  Write and Rung #66 Solved in 3 minutes, 40 seconds! https://lex.games/rung/

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  Write and Rung #65 Solved in 45 seconds! https://lex.games/rung/

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  @newsgroup I think we're in agreement but coming at it from different vantage points. I basically think that when those firms go under, we're going to find out how much our economic systems have been built on clouds since 1998.

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  My fellow Americans: SCOTUS did exactly what we knew they would when Trump was elected. Voting is going to be even more compromised in several states now. If you do not live in those states, GO VOTE. Vote in the midterm primaries through the general in 11/28. You are literally doing this for people who are trapped and cannot. If anyone wants to argue about the inherent corruption of our system and/or gets accelerationist with me, we're done. This is not a game, and I'm not playing #us...

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  @newsgroup@social.vir.group It will ripple out, I promise

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  Sounds like we are in the middle of the #privateequity implosion. This is going to get ugly. https://prospect.org/2026/04/06/private-credit-cartels-crisis-wall-street/ #economy

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  Write and Rung #62 Solved in 59 seconds! https://lex.games/rung/

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  Call it #degrowth , call it math, call it physics. There's only so much planet, and only so much our rivers, oceans, forests, and atmosphere can handle. Read @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green 's latest book. Read Ozzie Zehner's *Green Illusions*. Follow Cultural Survival. I'm not making this up, I wish I were. #climate 3/3

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  Due process in a "state of exception", lol. #elsalvador -- Nearly 500 alleged MS-13 members are on trial - The Korea Herald https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10722927

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  @molly0xfff I feel like you're saying Jesus *won't* be appearing this year.

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  The #StraitofHormuz is now open because there's a ceasefire which now extends to #Lebanon Are people actually thinking this will hold? Because I think it's a pretty good bet that Israel is going to sabotage that before Monday morning. #uspol