KanonFodder
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bread and roses for the masses
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Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
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We are so excited to have been nominated for 🏆Best Independent Game and 🏆 Best Debut Indie Game at @thegameawards.com!
You can vote for these and all other categories at: thegameawards.com
You can vote for these and all other categories at: thegameawards.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We are so excited to have been nominated for 🏆Best Independent Game and 🏆 Best Debut Indie Game at @thegameawards.com!
You can vote for these and all other categories at: thegameawards.com
You can vote for these and all other categories at: thegameawards.com
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The idiot pedophiles want you to think workers are incapable of running society themselves
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
The idiot pedophiles want you to think workers are incapable of running society themselves
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Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it.
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
Bubble or Nothing
Policymakers concerned about the deployment of clean energy and compute-focused infrastructure over the long term need a framework for managing the uncertainty in the AI sector's investment landscape—...
publicenterprise.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it.
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers!
publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...
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Five eyes is about to become no eyes.
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Five eyes is about to become no eyes.
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Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Deportations actually _increase_ housing prices because they shrink the construction industry.
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
The reduction in new houses being built swamps effects from lower demand
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I also note what they found: that the LLM can rehash, summarize, stuff that's already been written.
It cannot interpret. It can't put the correct context around the work.
Basically, ChatGPT in some ways CAN be a science writer: It will be one of the SHITTY ONES.
It cannot interpret. It can't put the correct context around the work.
Basically, ChatGPT in some ways CAN be a science writer: It will be one of the SHITTY ONES.
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I also note what they found: that the LLM can rehash, summarize, stuff that's already been written.
It cannot interpret. It can't put the correct context around the work.
Basically, ChatGPT in some ways CAN be a science writer: It will be one of the SHITTY ONES.
It cannot interpret. It can't put the correct context around the work.
Basically, ChatGPT in some ways CAN be a science writer: It will be one of the SHITTY ONES.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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ALLOWAY: “.. the danger is that a collateral crunch becomes a credit crunch and the entire AI-finance-economy flywheel comes to a screeching halt.”
@tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
@tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
ALLOWAY: “.. the danger is that a collateral crunch becomes a credit crunch and the entire AI-finance-economy flywheel comes to a screeching halt.”
@tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
@tracyalloway.bsky.social @weisenthal.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
turns out Larry Summers really was a raging sub-literate misogynist creep this entire time, who could have known
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JPM: “.. the October employment and CPI reports will ‘likely never be released.’ The November data will thus be crucial .. increases the likelihood that the Fed will be making its [December] decision in ‘foggy conditions’, possibly opening the door for the Fed to hold off on easing ..”
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
JPM: “.. the October employment and CPI reports will ‘likely never be released.’ The November data will thus be crucial .. increases the likelihood that the Fed will be making its [December] decision in ‘foggy conditions’, possibly opening the door for the Fed to hold off on easing ..”
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Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
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Every regulation written in blood
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Every regulation written in blood
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The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick
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"All major game studios are using generative AI" the fact this is a lie aside, the ones that are using it aren't doing so willingly. It's meddling managers and CEOs with no understanding or attachment to game development forcing it on devs who end up not using anything it outputs anyway.
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"All major game studios are using generative AI" the fact this is a lie aside, the ones that are using it aren't doing so willingly. It's meddling managers and CEOs with no understanding or attachment to game development forcing it on devs who end up not using anything it outputs anyway.
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AI increases code velocity by 1.02 and tech debt velocity by 1.8 this is good because
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
AI increases code velocity by 1.02 and tech debt velocity by 1.8 this is good because
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Most of the big "tech guys" are just bankers who once interned as a coder, thirty years ago
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Most of the big "tech guys" are just bankers who once interned as a coder, thirty years ago
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If you care about games, I hope you also care about the people who work hard and sacrifice so much to make them... Only to be tossed aside.
People Make Games is one approachable way to learn more - this video is about GTA, but check their backlog for more.
youtu.be/c9nOwjeznjI?...
People Make Games is one approachable way to learn more - this video is about GTA, but check their backlog for more.
youtu.be/c9nOwjeznjI?...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If you care about games, I hope you also care about the people who work hard and sacrifice so much to make them... Only to be tossed aside.
People Make Games is one approachable way to learn more - this video is about GTA, but check their backlog for more.
youtu.be/c9nOwjeznjI?...
People Make Games is one approachable way to learn more - this video is about GTA, but check their backlog for more.
youtu.be/c9nOwjeznjI?...
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Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.
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🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🚨🚨 Just in: Katie Wilson has expanded her lead in the Seattle mayor race. She is now leading by 1,346 votes.
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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November 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM