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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 11h

Farage is doing well because the UK is a highly uncertain prospect.

And until the chronic post GFC issues are framed and addressed differently, nothing changes

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 11h

Come on. Did you not see the court ruling? Bad faith premises being treated as equal are how we got here. Be the news

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 12h

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Huh. Gonna be an awkward day for Secretary of State-National Security Advisor-Acting Archivist Marco Rubio.

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Part of a letter sent by a bunch of GOP members of Congress in favor of granting Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize, which she won today.

The last three paragraphs, before Rick Scott and Marco Rubio's signature, reads:

The Maduro regime's abuses and assaults on the civil society and legitimate
political activity of Venezuelan citizens have caused millions to flee to other countries,
while millions more have had no choice but to remain in the prison Maduro has
imposed on them. The peace of the region has been greatly disturbed by Maduro’s
welcoming of some of the world’s worst actors, including terrorists and dictators who
support him.
It is our firm belief that María Corina Machado’s courageous and selfless
leadership, and unyielding dedication to the pursuit of peace and democratic ideals,
make her a most deserving candidate for this prestigious award. Her efforts not only
highlight the urgent need for international solidarity in the face of aggressive and
expansive authoritarianism but also serve as a reminder of the power of individual
bravery in the quest for justice.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 12h

Sturgill is in his prime of god damn life right now, musically speaking. Good shirt

And good cake

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 12h

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 13h

Also the homeless guy probably didn’t have a boyfriend die under mysterious circumstances

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 13h

Why?

Cocaine

Jim Belushi, James Wood, and Oliver Stone made a film together. Just imagine

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 17h

Unlike the US courts, UK courts are extremely stingy with the idea of compensation for distress. A builder can destroy the house you live in for a year plus, cost you high six figures, and you might get a few grand.

A subject access request response delay? Comic lost cause here. What a Karen

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 17h

The mechanism by which his flights disappeared needs to be publicly reported. There are a few explanations but none of them good

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 17h

99.5% of America’s problems are psychosexual, inequality or most likely both.

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 17h

A country unravelled by unexamined psychosexual issues

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

Seems to be a tentative cease fire agreement rather than a peace deal. Some time bought.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

My old local solved that problem. And open 24 hrs on Friday and Saturday so you could bookshop at 3 am

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

A friend who has a friend (isn’t this every Bob story?) whose kid was a prospect ballplayer in SoCal, and was at one of his games and found himself talking ball the entire time with him. I guess one of his grandkids was playing, he’s pretty keen

Only works with no change of subject I suspect

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the greatest American city, and very much one of neighborhoods.

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

He kind of sits where Ry Cooder, Pat Metheny, Jeff Beck, and Jackson Brown might meet

Dylan used him on Rough and Rowdy Ways

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

I saw him in my local small room in a show case Blue Note put on to try to launch him a little more widely, didn’t really take. He’s a musician’s musician really. Don Was was sitting close, kind of wild.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Oh boy. My fav living active guitarist, toured really young with Lucinda. Pretty good songwriter, couple of interesting solo albums like Heigh Ho. Turned producer of a lot of stuff you might have heard. Currently in an ambient/jazz phase with Pino Palladino. Who I also love.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, a Blake Mills cover isn’t obvious!

(world making me ornery just joking). She’s great. I feel she’s been doing the Lucinda song for a long time

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Good pic choice

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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 2d

Cory Doctorow has an article that's a little ... concerning? Yes, that's a good word. I don't know whether this 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 happen, but it's concerning that it 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 happen. His basic facts are right. AI hype is the only thing holding the market up right now. When that goes away, who knows? It'll be brutal

A week ago, I turned that book into a speech, which I delivered as the annual Nordlander Memorial Lecture at Cornell, where I'm an AD White Professor-at-Large. This was my first-ever speech about AI and I wasn't sure how it would go over, but thankfully, it went great and sparked a lively Q&A. One of those questions came from a young man who said something like "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"

I said, "Yes, that's right."

He said, "OK, but what can we do about that?"

So I re-iterated the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTS, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

The nation demands five games of this

Also, Baez has quietly gotten locked in, been a new man this season. Center fielder sometimes!

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

In the face of

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