With the tight link between the US and Israel, I think we’d need a regime change at home before we saw any progress abroad.

This is what I expect our leaders to do.

Under Biden, our leaders had the capacity to preempt the genocide, remove the Netanyahu government from power, and establish a full sovereign Palestinian state.

This is very dangerous. And it’s definitely bringing more attention to a horror show that’s fallen out of the public eye. But it’s a far cry from what the party needs to be doing

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Nothing in the article suggests Farrage is going to lose this election, or even that the stunt has failed per-say. He’s still getting invites to TV shows in order to regurgitate is fascist agitprop. There’s no indication that the Labour government will pursue prosecution in a way that would disqualify him from high office. And Reform UK remains poised to sweep Parliament regardless of the BinFace vanity campaign

Trump going on a tirade about all the tomahawks he’s going to fire loses some steam after the tenth time he does it.

At this point, I would genuinely like to see some kind of critical analysis regarding the effectiveness of these attacks, relatively. Because all I’m hearing - from Kiev to Riyadh to Seoul - is that interceptor missiles are in short supply and (relatively) cheap drones and ballistics have become shockingly effective at this stage of the game.

Vulcan 1: “Captain, we’ve detected a warp drive signature from that Class B star.”

Vulcan 2: “Target sensors and enhance”

Lou Bega sounds blare from the main screen

Vulcan 2: “…”

Vulcan 1: “…”

Vulcan 2: “It would be logical to conclude your sensors were in error. There is no intelligent life here.”

Vulcan 1: “Agreed.”

If anything, it’s a form of public investment intended to let taxpayers share in potential financial upside

Getting in on the AI market right when it’s about to take off, certainly. This isn’t going to be a preemptive bailout for an industry that’s run out of private-sector sucker money.

The Cybertruck of face accessories.

Sequel to Casino

Plenty of people near him have a spine. They just aren’t your friends

Regardless, it should be fairly obvious that giving a company you hate money will not cause them to fail faster.

I’ll concede that trying to soak Altman for $14k/mo when he’s already hemorrhaging billions is a bit like pissing in the river.

I might ask what you plan to do with the $14k in tokens you’re burning. If you’ve got a material use case for them, and Altman wants to sell you $20 for a nickel, go wild.

But half the joke of AI is that you’re burning tokens to do nothing. That’s why businesses recoil as soon as they’re asked to justify at-cost AI spend.

This level of celebrity worship is so bizarre.

Is it celebrity worship or celebrity speculation? Like, who are the buyers? Actual dead-end fans? Or people who think they can flip the trash down the line?

I’m amazed it isn’t more.

Despite the popular fantasy, the rich and powerful are not stupid.

Uh… famously untrue. Mental illness has plagued monarchs, pharaohs, and caesers for millennia. That’s long before you get to all the quirked up white boys and trad rad girl bosses currently running things.

You don’t know more about a company or market from passively consuming headlines than the leadership of that company.

Okay, but you can review their balance sheets and their primary lines of credit. Case in point, Sam Altman is heavily reliant on three big financial partners - Softbank, Oracle, and NVIDIA. Two of these are - themselves - hemorrhaging money thanks to large capital outlays that have failed to produce substantive returns.

There are finance journalists who get out ahead of this and report their own analysis. And you can find that in a thousand different private journals, substacks, and podcasts. But you can also go do the grunt work yourself if you’re ambitious.

OpenAI’s financials have been disclosed already (although the official SEC filing is still upcoming). So… just read them if you doubt what you’re reading in the news. But it’s not some kind of secret that the business is operating at a loss, with a fixation on debt-fueled growth. The argument is over future projected revenue, which isn’t something business leadership can be any more certain of than a passive media consumer.

I definitely get the knee-jerk impulse to announce “business professionals know more about business than internet idiots”. Because, sure. True. But the idea that business professionals don’t routinely make bad decisions has some pretty historic well-established counterpoints.

“The business people know more” line is akin to saying “This used car dealer must know more about the vehicles on his lot than I do, so I can trust him”.

you do not need special skills to apply for the job

That’s definitely the textbook economic definition.

But the colloquial definition is that you don’t need special skills to do the job. Employees are interchangeable outside some minimal qualifications (rudimentary intellect, marginal physicality, gender).

And therefore you should be able to fully staff your organization paying the lowest prevailing wage rate, so long as some number of unemployed people exist. Anyone can be fired and replaced at any time with near-zero friction.

And if you couldn’t pay for the pizza, they’d have sex with you

The answer is simple.

The government shouldn’t be telling us what time it is. We should leave that to the private sector. And you should be required to pay for a subscription to know what time it is.

Was going to say. They already passed this, and then the Senate dragged it’s feet

I’m guessing religion.

Religion is the excuse, not the cause. There’s a fair number of religious institutions which are queer friendly or at least queer-indifferent. You gravitate towards the religious group that echoes your own biases. Those biases aren’t imbued by some supernatural force. They’re the result of material incentives and social divides that demagogues exploit when they fashion a religious doctrine.