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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 2h

Commercial AI really does seem to exist outside of any real market feedback at all.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 3h

PSA:

Pointing out that something is a social construct has never once changed anyone's behavior about that thing

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 9h

I think it’s fair to say that we are either on the precipice of no longer practicing market theory at all, or have already plunged off the cliff. I think this is what Marx really meant by the term ‘capitalism.’ But you know, we’ve been here before, so I don’t really go for that ‘late stage’ theory.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 9h

I was raised on the idea that a market represented a system which included negative feedback, a poor product meant poor sales which meant you had to stop selling it or go under. But from my viewpoint, it really looks like enough wealth has been consolidated to overcome any negative feedback.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 9h

I was raised on the idea that a market represented a system which included negative feedback, a poor product meant poor sales which meant you had to stop selling it or go under. But from my viewpoint, it really looks like enough wealth has been consolidated to overcome any negative feedback.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 9h

Owning almost everything isn’t enough or satisfying for these people. They need ownership to mean they can literally just lift a finger and punch a button and some automated system will do everything. This is all just for vanity.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 9h

AI power demand is forcing a coal revival. Jefferies sees more than 30% rally in one such stock

Long viewed as part of the "old economy," coal is now exacting revenge by taking market share from fuels like natural gas that displaced it.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 9h

Which wing is that? The people shouting genocide Joe and refusing to vote for Harris? Are we sure those folks are actually a wing of the Democratic Party? Because they seem like just a bunch of crazy people, not terrorists, and certainly not dyed in the wool Dems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 10h

But of course, the automobile industry wasn’t launched by private equity, which amounts to a massive slush fund. It was started by people that needed that investment to pan out, otherwise they’d go under. So the cars generally worked as described.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 10h

If at the dawn of the automobile industry 95% of cars had constant maintenance problems to the point that it would have been easier for people to just keep using horses, we’d still be using horses today.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 10h

I have to circle back to this, 95% is a big number so I imagine many (probably most) of these companies are also backed by private equity. It’s entirely a bubble. As I said before, many business no longer exist to offer products or services, but to run these experiments for investment firms.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 10h

I have to circle back to this, 95% is a big number so I imagine many (probably most) of these companies are also backed by private equity. It’s entirely a bubble. As I said before, many business no longer exist to offer products or services, but to run these experiments for investment firms.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 20h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks to our friend Chomsky, I learned that libertarian is a term invented by socialists, fun fact! Also yes, I agree with Plato, tyranny and slavery are symptoms of too much liberty concentrated among only a few. Liberalism isn’t perfect, nothing is, but I’d take liberals over communists any day.

Fuzzy Mike @fuzzymike.bsky.social · 11h

lmao liberals are doing "actually the defeat of slavery was due to libertarians" now

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Xavier Horatio Xinicit 🎉 @xinicit.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone can have a little crash out as a treat

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 19h

The communists were obviously very high among the concerns of the founders.

Giddy Gobo @oldheadsz.bsky.social · 19h

Free speech is when you suspect the communist will win an election if it is held fairly, so you prod your puppets in that state to refuse to hold an election and start a massive war killing as many peasants and workers as possible. See Vietnam Elections Geneva-Accord.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 21h

You understand that the original conception was that ethnicity and religion were both just insidious structures, or no?

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 21h

To be fair, most of today’s progressivism is from those eras.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 21h

People generally seem to think progressives first became a thing in the 1970s, or even 90s.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 21h

People generally seem to think progressives first became a thing in the 1970s, or even 90s.

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 21h

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Progressive Era - Wikipedia

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Lisa Mikolajczyk ✡️ 🟦🏴‍☠️ @lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social · 1d

So they announced the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winners? And let me guess, a certain dementia addled orange colored turd didn’t make the list? Shocking.
Someone should let him know they don’t generally award it to leaders who declare war on the citizens of their own countries.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

If anything, progressivism was a reaction to liberalism. Progressives never did a civil rights movement, but it would have been far more consistent with progressivism than leftism or even liberalism. Leftists don’t really concern themselves at all with civil rights, instead focusing only on ‘class.’

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

There was an actual progressive movement that spread across both the US and UK. The progressive movement gave birth to the labor movement which won standards such as the 40hr work week, weekends and paid vacation. When FDR brought leftism to America, leftist made a project of usurping progressivism.

Baba NostraAdeptus @adept2u.bsky.social · 1d

People started calling themselves progressive because they were too cowardly to face the criticism of being a liberal.

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

Another crazed narcissist projecting on bsky.

godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 1d

don’t you feel a little disgusting about how your smarm relies on the inability of the dead to testify to their abuse? are you the kind of person who believes that abuse doesn’t exist if the abused don’t speak up about it? people like you are the reason why murder and rape are political institutions

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I knew you were leftist nutbag when I started. The poor USSR and its expansion project was of course AkTuAlLy ’liberation.’

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Did liberals care about free speech when they killed 20 million people around the world during the Cold War. Was that free speech pilled

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Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

I’m afraid that the hundreds of years of philosophical debate that ended up deciding free speech was the best of nothing but poor to bad options must be something you are not aware of. So who is exactly living under a rock here?

Adam Muraski @adammuraski.bsky.social · 1d

This message brought to you by the legally protected right to free speech, which was conceived and put into place by liberals.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

Liberal politicians aren’t betraying you they are agents of fascism

If you believe they are your allies you will get fucked

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