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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 21h

France is not like the others. The previous two presidents got prison sentences

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 22h

No, it is not.
As Macron - the billionaires' poster boy.

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 22h

In the end reality comes to bite.
In Germany they did it and now are barely surviving. Macron is all but a political corpse.
Appeasement to billionaires as done as a political strategy. Either they don't cave or have to suspend democracy in their countries,
I also cannot see Spain agreeing on this.

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 23h

The part “US offers nothing in return” is great

If these politicians cave their political future is nonexistent.

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 23h

OK, Economist, Calm down. The inflated balloon full of nothing but future AI slop, hallucinacions and intelectual property theft, is going to bust ... but not yet.

Good article though.
Highlights the accounting "magic".

Not like the mortgage crisis, which noone expected, more like the Enron fraud.

What if OpenAI went belly-up?

To gauge the centrality of the AI superstar, we conduct a thought experiment

www.economist.com

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

I don't really get the euphoria about the current ceasefire.

I see nothing changed in the intentions of the major actors.

Israel still wants total victory and total annihilation of the Palestinians and to take their land. Resistance will not stop, as the alternative is death

Just a temp ceasefire

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, a man of peace!
Or piece.
Piece of shit that is...

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is 40!
And he looks exactly like Goebbels, at the same age and 70 years ago.

Meanwhile normal people now look like 1940s person at forty only in their 60s

Evil does make you age fast…

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

От същите хора, които ще се оплачат как им продават някаква гняс, произведена от палмово масло, нишесте и петролни продукти за “сирене” с Ама защо това е разрешено?”

Петраки @petpet.bsky.social · 2d

The EU should ban producers from making salami in the shape of cucumbers. People might get confused and buy salami instead of a cucumber.

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

The colonies in the 50s and 60s didn’t end after several centuries due to good will of the colonists.
They ended because the colonies now had access to arms and the domination could only be sustained with a huge effort (and cost) to the colonisers, which was unsustainable.
Now that’s again possible.

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

What’s terrifying is that previously that kind of war required very expensive airplanes and bombs to dominate over the colony.
Now with drones, you can sustain domination at a very low cost and no casualties from the colonizer.

Just the message “Oppose us and we’ll kill you from the sky”

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 1d

Най-мо’ем да мразим!

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 2d

Никой.
Абсоллтно никой.
ДСБ:

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 2d

“Because that’s what they are!”

Yet BBC continues to pay no attention to the actual fascism, but are concerned with the wording of those denouncing it.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 3d

“The numbers that are being thrown around are so extreme that it’s really, really hard to understand them,” ... “I’m sure it’s not zero, but there’s a reasonable chance that a tremendous amount of capital destruction is going to come through this cycle.”

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 3d

"By 2030, AI companies will need $2 trillion in combined annual revenue to fund the computing power needed to meet projected demand, Bain & Co. said in a report released in September. Yet their revenue is likely to fall $800 billion short of that mark, Bain predicted."

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 3d

За разлика от ипотечния балон, за AI общото мнение на анализаторите е, че е балон и че е абсолютно невъзможно гигантските инвестиции да бъдат възвърнати. Т.е. в момента инвеститорите (и банките, защото даже и инвеститорския капитал е недостатъчен) горят пари.

Why Fears of a Trillion-Dollar AI Bubble Are Growing

Investors have parted with unprecedented sums of money to help AI fulfil its lofty promise. But no one really knows how it will all pay off

www.bloomberg.com

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, to be a Christian or to say that capitalism is evil, makes you a terrorist.

I fail to see the difference with Saudi Arabia or the Taliban.

in this regard over 90% of the world‘s population outside the US is much more free than the ones within.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 4d

Тия вечер 100% проверяват за комунизъм под леглото, като си лягат.
Чугунените им глави са толкова комични...

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 4d

Само да спомена, защо Макрон е в леглото с фашагите (не че милиардерите имат нужда от повод да са с тях така или иначе, но сега...)

'Zucman tax': What the proposed wealth tax would mean for France

The innovative wealth tax proposal has raised many questions and stirred intense political debate. Here are six questions to understand the arguments used by both its supporters and detractors.

www.lemonde.fr

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 4d

Въпреки че левите партии във Франция спечелиха изборите, Макрон твърдо иска да състави (крайно)дясно правителство опитвайки за седми(!) път да наложи премиер на милиардерите.
Това правителство-недоразумение издържа 14 часа(!)

French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet

The president's office announced that Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on Monday morning, hours after his new government had been announced.

www.lemonde.fr

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 5d

Wow, just wow!

Buried down, down on the website is a clear and well laid explanation by Doctorow why “leaving it to the market” is ALWAYS going to lead to disaster for… well, all people.

“Systemic problems have systemic solutions, not individual ones. You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly.”

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 5d

Га ти е ясно, че истинския виновник за бедствията в България е обществения строй и е ясно на всички та се хвърлиш на амбразурата да браниш дясното и де що има милионер наоколо, ама се сетиш само за… вестници в панелките, които от 20-30 години аха-аха да изпопадат…
🤪😂🤦

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Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 5d

…officials are doing crimes on daily basis.
They would be risking going to prison if they lose power

So do you really thing they are going to just leave?
Or they are going to cheat, fight, intimidate?

Every country’s experience says they will fight

Are you still quietly waiting the “Midterms”?
😂🤪

Irving Washington @theotherirving.bsky.social · 5d

I believe the Americans (especially Dems) are deluded, as they have no real 3rd world experience.

When your physical liberty depends on being in power, you don’t relinquish power after fair elections. Elections are neither fair, not allowed to change anything.

Currently ICE, many government…

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