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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 3m

You saw a little crack and heard metal noise. Then, in a blink of an eye, all of it crumbles.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 20m

H5N1, Yersinia Pestis, Sars2, antibiotic resistance...

Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 15h

It's time to stop looking at civil service as a career path in the USA. It's a stepping stone, nothing more. Some people will be stuck, hanging on, but everyone else will steer clear of getting locked into rusted handcuffs.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 7h

The blame game would be a propaganda distraction to hamper any intent of making the main players pay for the crime. Libs and cons...

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 8h

What they are delaying - for just a bit longer - is the house bubble burst, going global, pushing it to the limit with real estate corporate shareholding motherfuckery.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 8h

We'll have to oppose tooth and nail any bailout at the expense of social infrastructure.
Down with speculators and privatizers.

Hannah Harkness @harkitshannah.bsky.social · 13h

People worrying about the AI bubble when I’ve jumped ahead and am already mad about the government bailout of the AI bubble

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

I really hope the AI bubble bursts soon. So sick and tired of them shoving it into everything whether it makes sense or not.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 12h

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 10h

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

Source: x.com/PrognosticCh...

Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 10h

Looping the loop, inflating the bubble. AI will drag us all into quicksand.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 22h

Another one for the list

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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to late September.

The XFG.* "Stratus" variant continued to dominate, growing to 85% frequency.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" grew slightly to 10%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EUR #LP_8_1 #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 12h

Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 14h

He even wrote a book on it & gets the political nuance—which many don’t—but apparently didn’t like being confronted with facts like COVID is often virally persistent, can damage T cells, & is vascular. Huh. Surprising & disappointing.
bsky.app/profile/forc...

Allison (she/her) @forcedevolution.bsky.social · Aug 10

prismreports.org/2022/07/21/m...

You seem to be exactly the type of person Steven Thrasher wrote about in early 2022.

As soon as Biden assumed office, many establishment liberals and much of the mainstream media-who are unable to think outside of a "Democrats good, Republicans bad" binary-stopped caring about the pandemic. Also, on behalf of their corporate owners, many newsrooms actively pushed for a "return to normal." And, as I argue in my forthcoming book, regardless of which party is running the U.S. government, there are multiple ways America perpetually creates what I call a "viral underclass." But for many journalists, it was easier to view Trump as an abnormal monster who made the pandemic so bad, rather than to wrestle with how it is our American way of life that initially made the pandemic more deadly in the U.S. than in any other country on earth, and which continues to make us have the most deaths of any nation.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 12h

When the AI bubble bursts, it's going to be a threat to the entire economy that results in a massive bailout, because they're deliberately making OpenAI "too big to fail." It's tentacles are spreading everywhere, risking financial contagion in every part of society and the global economy.

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.com

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 10h

We are already living the dystopian nightmare.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 10h

Nowhere is to be seen any intention of de-escalation, and the privatization and dismantling of social infrastructure is widening the hazards, adding to climate chaos and environmental devastation.
Corporate takeover.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 10h

The business of rearmament is skyrocketing. The capabilities of destruction and surveillance panopticon is reaching the peak, while the population is sleepwalking to the abyss of war, fascism, hunger, and disease.

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 13h

Here's another nightmare corporation to watch, along with Palantir and Anduril.

Govini, a defense tech startup taking on Palantir, hits $100 million in annual recurring revenue

Defense tech startup Govini said it has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and secured a $150 million investment from Bain Capital.

www.cnbc.com

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 11h

The enablers.

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 12h

It's wild that liberals with have things like "antifa" in their bios, while their skeets indicate support for cops and they endlessly cheer for Dem politicians like Pritzker that are literally responsible for this. They don't seem to understand that fascism is a bipartisan phenomenon.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

ICE zipties children

They rip them from their beds in the middle of the night & throw them in vans

They’ve threatened mature minors & offered them money to self deport or they will go after their parents

They kidnapped an autistic boy

They left David on the side of the road

They must be stopped

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19h

Honestly, most of this society has collapsed, and people simply haven't realized it yet. Nothing is functional. It's a machine running on the fumes of what it was with a population too in denial to recognize it. Everyone is just going through the motions.

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bowerbird @bbirdiman.bsky.social · 18h

we've also learned, from the very start of
the covid pandemic, that most of us can easily
work from home, freeing ourselves from
a burdensome commute.

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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 18h

**PREPRINT** from Harvard & Massachusetts General - children with Long COVID show markedly increased levels of fibrinaloid microclots in their blood.
The highest levels appear in those with persistent SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in circulation.

www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients using a microfluidic assay

Long COVID (LC) impacts one in five children after an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. Typical LC symptoms include fatigue, brain fog, pain, and shortness of breath, which can significantly impact individu...

www.researchsquare.com

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 20h

I’m sorry if these words alarm you. But I hope they inspire you to protect your long term health today by wearing a mask. We need to get smarter and be more aware about the long term, post-acute phase stage of serious viruses. COVID is no mere cold.

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, to paraphrase others: If the government could get its citizens to not care about a dangerous, highly communicable disease, then it could reasonably do the same re: climate change & authoritarianism.

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