Adam Muraski
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Adam Muraski
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Getting really tired being told I have to choose between the Borg and the Daleks.
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Four killed and 11 wounded in shooting at child’s party in California, officials say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Four killed and 11 wounded in shooting at child’s party in California, officials say
Victims who died range from ‘juveniles to adults’ in attack on banquet hall in Stockton, county sheriff’s office says
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November 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Four killed and 11 wounded in shooting at child’s party in California, officials say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Socialism in government means centralized production, not food stamps. We have never done anything here because of the Netherlands or Sweden or whoever wants to call this stuff socialism. Democratic socialism is literally a meaningless term, you’re talking about federalism.
If you would like to see more federal and state assistance programs, or any legislation at all which could effectively address wealth inequality and the rise in nickel and dime practices brought on by AI, for the love of whatever you hold dear, stop calling it socialism. None of this is socialism.
November 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Socialism in government means centralized production, not food stamps. We have never done anything here because of the Netherlands or Sweden or whoever wants to call this stuff socialism. Democratic socialism is literally a meaningless term, you’re talking about federalism.
If you would like to see more federal and state assistance programs, or any legislation at all which could effectively address wealth inequality and the rise in nickel and dime practices brought on by AI, for the love of whatever you hold dear, stop calling it socialism. None of this is socialism.
November 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
If you would like to see more federal and state assistance programs, or any legislation at all which could effectively address wealth inequality and the rise in nickel and dime practices brought on by AI, for the love of whatever you hold dear, stop calling it socialism. None of this is socialism.
The number of devout leftists that look at AI and conclude the tools needed to finally create a perfectly organized society fulfilling their vision of centralization (this could only ever reinstate a permanent caste system rather than eliminate class), is very telling. 🧲
November 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The number of devout leftists that look at AI and conclude the tools needed to finally create a perfectly organized society fulfilling their vision of centralization (this could only ever reinstate a permanent caste system rather than eliminate class), is very telling. 🧲
I have a difficult time believing a system that could accurately predict foot traffic down to 15 minute increments allowing you to save on labor with hyper precision scheduling could ever be cost effective enough to warrant the investment. For example.
The only question when it comes to AI is, which major corporation is going to be the first to step off the crazy train? Not as in, stop using it all, but as in make a major reassessment of its true value. It’s not absolutely useless, but it’s not so useful for much of what it’s being aimed at today.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I have a difficult time believing a system that could accurately predict foot traffic down to 15 minute increments allowing you to save on labor with hyper precision scheduling could ever be cost effective enough to warrant the investment. For example.
The only question when it comes to AI is, which major corporation is going to be the first to step off the crazy train? Not as in, stop using it all, but as in make a major reassessment of its true value. It’s not absolutely useless, but it’s not so useful for much of what it’s being aimed at today.
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The only question when it comes to AI is, which major corporation is going to be the first to step off the crazy train? Not as in, stop using it all, but as in make a major reassessment of its true value. It’s not absolutely useless, but it’s not so useful for much of what it’s being aimed at today.
I have trouble taking any logic that includes ‘statist’ seriously. There is no alternative model to a state.
it's so funny trying to describe Blue Labour to Americans
"so you see we have a strongly statist government that wants to deport all the foreigners and boost funding to the defense sector while also enacting vaguely pro-growth, but heavily statist dirigisme"
"...are you sure you're on the left?"
"so you see we have a strongly statist government that wants to deport all the foreigners and boost funding to the defense sector while also enacting vaguely pro-growth, but heavily statist dirigisme"
"...are you sure you're on the left?"
unironically Labour needs to be taking notes on policy from Mamdani instead of Blue Labour's socially conservative statist corporatism
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I have trouble taking any logic that includes ‘statist’ seriously. There is no alternative model to a state.
Not only is China nowhere close to being able to replace America’s place in the world, I somehow doubt they would even want it. The Trump years will end up being a blip. A momentary lapse of judgment between what will be seen as the old modern world, and the new modern world.
Looking backwards at history is an important part of Thanksgiving. But it’s also important to look ahead. That’s why this year, instead of turkey we had Peking Duck.
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Not only is China nowhere close to being able to replace America’s place in the world, I somehow doubt they would even want it. The Trump years will end up being a blip. A momentary lapse of judgment between what will be seen as the old modern world, and the new modern world.
There is no parallel in history for what the US represents, the Roman Empire doesn’t come close. Not even the British empire which famously claimed the sun never set upon comes close. The US is not going to experience some decline as we’ve seen in history. If we go, the entire world goes with it.
The United States of America is experiencing its final decline.
The nation will never recover from the wholesale government overhaul Project 2025 puts in place.
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The nation will never recover from the wholesale government overhaul Project 2025 puts in place.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There is no parallel in history for what the US represents, the Roman Empire doesn’t come close. Not even the British empire which famously claimed the sun never set upon comes close. The US is not going to experience some decline as we’ve seen in history. If we go, the entire world goes with it.
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"I can get loud."
In the wake of the Epstein fight, Rep. Adelita Grijalva has become a voice for sexual assault survivors.
"Advocacy for people that feel like they don't have a voice has always been something that I'm very comfortable with. I think that it is our responsibility."
In the wake of the Epstein fight, Rep. Adelita Grijalva has become a voice for sexual assault survivors.
"Advocacy for people that feel like they don't have a voice has always been something that I'm very comfortable with. I think that it is our responsibility."
'I can get loud': Adelita Grijalva becomes a voice for sexual assault survivors
The Arizona Democrat is the least senior member of Congress, but she was thrust into the spotlight as her fight to be seated coincided with the Epstein saga.
www.nbcnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"I can get loud."
In the wake of the Epstein fight, Rep. Adelita Grijalva has become a voice for sexual assault survivors.
"Advocacy for people that feel like they don't have a voice has always been something that I'm very comfortable with. I think that it is our responsibility."
In the wake of the Epstein fight, Rep. Adelita Grijalva has become a voice for sexual assault survivors.
"Advocacy for people that feel like they don't have a voice has always been something that I'm very comfortable with. I think that it is our responsibility."
This was going to be my first comment on this but you said it better. I would add these big picture models are increasingly being formed to give hyper specific goals. To the extent that an emp with exemplary performance by any traditional measure, can be told they are ‘dragging down the entire org.’
I think this also has to do with how executives are "big picture" people, who don't fuss over details. So maybe they care less about the issues with AI making up shit, because it doesn't have as much impact for them? While the lower ranks are expected to get the details right?
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This was going to be my first comment on this but you said it better. I would add these big picture models are increasingly being formed to give hyper specific goals. To the extent that an emp with exemplary performance by any traditional measure, can be told they are ‘dragging down the entire org.’
If my experience is any indication, about a fifth of that 27% is legit neat stuff, but not ultimately necessary. AI doesn’t produce much confidence when you have a customer standing right in front of you. Managers are increasingly there just to execute the model, not make any decisions or train.
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If my experience is any indication, about a fifth of that 27% is legit neat stuff, but not ultimately necessary. AI doesn’t produce much confidence when you have a customer standing right in front of you. Managers are increasingly there just to execute the model, not make any decisions or train.
What we saw with Epstein email drops wasn’t just shocking confirmations, but billionaires and other powerful ppl that are barely literate. Our premier search engine wants to spit out its AI generated synopsis for you first. The message being sent is that comprehension is ultimately inconsequential.
I mean, kids aren’t showing up to their first year in college and then suddenly becoming like this.
November 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What we saw with Epstein email drops wasn’t just shocking confirmations, but billionaires and other powerful ppl that are barely literate. Our premier search engine wants to spit out its AI generated synopsis for you first. The message being sent is that comprehension is ultimately inconsequential.
This is a theme I keep seeing, and I have to say, public school teachers must be suffering in silence over it. They must feel just as disconnected and isolated as their students, because it’s only university instructors and professors mentioning it. It’s happening in HS and possibly younger, too.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is a theme I keep seeing, and I have to say, public school teachers must be suffering in silence over it. They must feel just as disconnected and isolated as their students, because it’s only university instructors and professors mentioning it. It’s happening in HS and possibly younger, too.
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
I worked for a few years with a dude that spent most of his youth growing up in Australia. Apparently, almost no one can afford to buy a house and most people rent their whole lives. But, almost everything closed at 5, except restaurants and nightlife entertainment.
I would take that trade, tbh.
I would take that trade, tbh.
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I worked for a few years with a dude that spent most of his youth growing up in Australia. Apparently, almost no one can afford to buy a house and most people rent their whole lives. But, almost everything closed at 5, except restaurants and nightlife entertainment.
I would take that trade, tbh.
I would take that trade, tbh.
Yes, there are clearance shops they head to first but if they don’t sell there it’s the dump. All of this is supposedly more efficient than putting it on display at a store where people can go and look at it in person in the first place.
The dumps are being filled with perfectly good product that has been returned because ppl ordered it just to see it in person, decided they don’t want it after all, then returned it with packaging destroyed or missing some cable or widget they forgot to put back in.
November 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yes, there are clearance shops they head to first but if they don’t sell there it’s the dump. All of this is supposedly more efficient than putting it on display at a store where people can go and look at it in person in the first place.
The dumps are being filled with perfectly good product that has been returned because ppl ordered it just to see it in person, decided they don’t want it after all, then returned it with packaging destroyed or missing some cable or widget they forgot to put back in.
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The dumps are being filled with perfectly good product that has been returned because ppl ordered it just to see it in person, decided they don’t want it after all, then returned it with packaging destroyed or missing some cable or widget they forgot to put back in.
Anyway, the big online ordering thing is basically all just smoke and mirrors. Nothing about it is more efficient. It’s just made more jobs invisible so they can pay people less for more work.
PSA: when you order online, product doesn’t just fall out of a portal that opens up in the sky to land on the pickup shelf or your doorstep. An actual human still has to pick the order (they say the robots are coming for this but I have my doubts) and put it on the shelf or deliver it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Anyway, the big online ordering thing is basically all just smoke and mirrors. Nothing about it is more efficient. It’s just made more jobs invisible so they can pay people less for more work.
PSA: when you order online, product doesn’t just fall out of a portal that opens up in the sky to land on the pickup shelf or your doorstep. An actual human still has to pick the order (they say the robots are coming for this but I have my doubts) and put it on the shelf or deliver it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
PSA: when you order online, product doesn’t just fall out of a portal that opens up in the sky to land on the pickup shelf or your doorstep. An actual human still has to pick the order (they say the robots are coming for this but I have my doubts) and put it on the shelf or deliver it.
You like to order online because ‘people are awful’ and you avoid going out in public if you don’t have to. Well yes, people are awful, and I bet you’ve got at least one mirror around your house…
We’ve replaced a lot sales people that would need to be well rested and presentable so the retailer doesn’t appear to be running a sweatshop (of course no one is thrilled to buy a pair of jeans from someone who is literally desperate either) with invisible folks at their wit’s end constantly.
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You like to order online because ‘people are awful’ and you avoid going out in public if you don’t have to. Well yes, people are awful, and I bet you’ve got at least one mirror around your house…
The reality of most of the technology being characterized as a service miracle, is the people who are doing the actual work (putting the labels on the box and the box in the truck and driving it to your house) are all just being made invisible. Meanwhile, their workload has tripled or quadrupled.
You know folks marvel at Amazon’s same day delivery as if this is all driven by technology. And yes, technology is delivering your order to the warehouse in mere moments. But these deliveries are high-stress, grueling work for the people that do them.
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The reality of most of the technology being characterized as a service miracle, is the people who are doing the actual work (putting the labels on the box and the box in the truck and driving it to your house) are all just being made invisible. Meanwhile, their workload has tripled or quadrupled.
It reminded of the big push by many in congress to subsidize child care, characterizing to as support for working class families. But I have to be honest here. These are, for the most part, not working class families. Even among the well meaning, the service industry worker is basically invisible.
The article was written from the perspective of a 9-5 professional grappling with the prospect that two incomes are necessary to buy a home today, and to hold such a job you WOULD absolutely need professional child care. I am separated in a city with no family and a child, I never needed child care.
I read most of a Substack post arguing the poverty line should be more like ~140k a year. And while I think our current calculation (based on a model from 1963) should be updated, I do not think the cost of professional child care, as one example used, is a legitimate ’ground floor’ expense.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It reminded of the big push by many in congress to subsidize child care, characterizing to as support for working class families. But I have to be honest here. These are, for the most part, not working class families. Even among the well meaning, the service industry worker is basically invisible.
The article was written from the perspective of a 9-5 professional grappling with the prospect that two incomes are necessary to buy a home today, and to hold such a job you WOULD absolutely need professional child care. I am separated in a city with no family and a child, I never needed child care.
I read most of a Substack post arguing the poverty line should be more like ~140k a year. And while I think our current calculation (based on a model from 1963) should be updated, I do not think the cost of professional child care, as one example used, is a legitimate ’ground floor’ expense.
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
The article was written from the perspective of a 9-5 professional grappling with the prospect that two incomes are necessary to buy a home today, and to hold such a job you WOULD absolutely need professional child care. I am separated in a city with no family and a child, I never needed child care.
I read most of a Substack post arguing the poverty line should be more like ~140k a year. And while I think our current calculation (based on a model from 1963) should be updated, I do not think the cost of professional child care, as one example used, is a legitimate ’ground floor’ expense.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I read most of a Substack post arguing the poverty line should be more like ~140k a year. And while I think our current calculation (based on a model from 1963) should be updated, I do not think the cost of professional child care, as one example used, is a legitimate ’ground floor’ expense.