110% tax on all income over $200k

If there is an AI/“superintelligence” compute bubble, it may turn out that China is not currently behind but rather ahead at developing systems of sensible scale for a less mythic range of actual applications.

note on a digital jargon that captures populist sentiments among the 'patriotic' - 统战价值 or 'united front value'. people use this, who are typically Han males from provinces considered politically loyal, to say that because they are loyal, they have low 'UF value' and are neglected by the state

Christmas is a good time to throw Wikipedia a few bucks to thank them for the many times you relied on the site that year. Members of the billionaire class want to destroy it for some reason.

(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)

Jesse Welles’ UHC song whips, I gotta post it in 2 parts because of Bsky’s video limit, and here’s part 1 (part 2 goes way harder fyi)

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Jesse Welles’ excellent UHC protest song part 2 of 2, unmuuute

lol. UnitedHealthcare just denied coverage of my mammogram

Obvious irony is better access to health care would've prevented all of this...They're going to try to write this off as senseless violence from a psycho, not someone who clearly suffered deeply at the hands of a barbaric system run by billionaire merchants of death+the politicians they buy/sell

"what do we do about alienated young men?" i dunno, what do we do about anybody? let them flounder in shit work until they get disabled and die? we don't do anything for anyone. maybe the problem is the same problem that's driven all of us off a cliff and alienated young men are actually just humans

I'm just about to pass out on the operating table when a Blue Cross bean-counter pounds on the door of the surgery like a guy with diarrhea at Starbucks.

"Almost done in there?"

It's clear that vast numbers of people in this country despise the predatory healthcare system we have set up to enrich the few at the expense of 95% of our well being. You would think some Democrats would pick up on this and run with it but they will not because they are paid by the same predators.