It is "telling" that the only #Protest song we have is from a country "music" star. Where are the rappers, where are the rock bands? Any punks out there?
📊 Today we're releasing data showing which scientific papers our AI research tool Asta cites most frequently. Think of it as creating citation counts for the AI era—tracking which research is actually powering AI answers across thousands of queries. 🧵
Kristi Noem and other Trump officials have condemned a snippet of an untitled Zach Bryan song where he sings, “ICE is going to come bust down your door.” He continues, “Got some bad news. Thе fading of the red, white and blue.” In a post on Tuesday, Bryan said his lyrics had been “misconstrued.”
Those manufacturing jobs were going away eventually just as all of the Trump tariff Bull Shitte will not bring them back. There were 2 problems. 1. Those who benefit from trade need to compensate those who lose from trade. 2. Job loss needs to be more gradual.
Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.
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This isn't "Tyranny" or even "fascism". It is rampant lawlessness by the Federal government because the 6 right-wing "justices" on "supreme court" are allowing it.
MSM media won't say it but 6 right-wing "justices" on "supreme court" have completely failed.
Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.
I was working an entire essay on this very notion this summer and this is reminding me I should pick it back up. TL;DR - every price is someone else's income and whether prices going down on something is "good" depends a whole lot on what you do for a living.
ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”
Space startup Stoke Space is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, which would value the company at nearly $2 billion, roughly doubling its last private round. Full story here: https://thein.fo/4nFIDmE
“XAI’s financing would be split between about $7.5 billion of equity and as much as $12.5bn of debt, the people said, and structured via a special purpose vehicle. The SPV will be used to buy Nvidia processors, and Musk’s artificial intelligence startup would then rent the chips out for five years”
Because I use AI so extensively it is crystal clear to me where I provide #ValueAdded and it is also crystal clear to me that I will continue to be able to provide #ValueAdded for at least another 10-20 years.
Why am I so confident? Because I use ChatGPT to "keep abreast" of the #Frontier