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Tl;dr: Quantitative Easing *did* happen after 2008, but it went to Silicon Valley and tech oligarchs who used it to build gambling apps that drove our parents insane as our high streets and communities died and got replaced by drop-shipping ecomm sites that decimated labour rights and human dignity.
To give a schematic overview of the past decade, the ZIRP era empowered Silicon Valley to build wealth and infrastructure equivalent to micro-states, which our neoliberal leaders, allergic as they are to the idea of state intervention, were all too happy to facilitate. (cont.)
September 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Tl;dr: Quantitative Easing *did* happen after 2008, but it went to Silicon Valley and tech oligarchs who used it to build gambling apps that drove our parents insane as our high streets and communities died and got replaced by drop-shipping ecomm sites that decimated labour rights and human dignity.
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when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
August 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
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My thoughts on using "AI" to write.
September 2, 2024 at 2:02 PM
My thoughts on using "AI" to write.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!
June 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Honestly, this made me laugh out loud (maybe it was more of a horrified cynical rattle). Points for honesty!
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AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her
AOC framed the NYC mayor’s race as a referendum on the Democratic Party - against the gerontocracy - at a rally for Zohran Mamdani.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
AOC rallies against Cuomo 'gerontocracy’
The Congress member framed the NYC mayor’s race as a referendum on the Democratic Party at a rally for Zohran Mamdani.
www.politico.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her
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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
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if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.
May 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
if you'd like to see a wide re-release of Hundreds of Beavers in theaters this year, one night only, in thousands of cities — repost this. we've got some doubters.
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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
Jesús Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national whose U.S. humanitarian parole status is set to expire soon, decided to voluntarily leave the United States out of worry of being detained.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives
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Wishing nothing but the best for Locker. Get well and hopefully these guys are still playing when you are.
April 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Wishing nothing but the best for Locker. Get well and hopefully these guys are still playing when you are.
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This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
![“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4u42vwglz35baspkeivbgw3n/bafkreiarddha4uzsoyw63xwclj75pyan3mwrgmr2ilbzpaqhjwfwf7ad3u@jpeg)
April 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
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"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
April 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately?
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.
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I won't speak for others but I want candidates who won't just win the next election but aggressively, unapologetically destroy trumpism and rebuild everything he's broken. If you're too afraid of a 51-49 poll to even talk about an issue I have no faith that will be you
NEW: A deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
One camp sees a pivotal moment to lean in and fight a lawless move.
Another camp sees a trap and wants to pivot to hitting Trump on his growing economic vulnerability.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Abrego Garcia's deportation case exposes a rift among Democrats over how to take on Trump
As some Democrats vocally push for the release of the man the administration says was mistakenly deported, others have sought to steer clear and focus on high prices and economic issues.
www.nbcnews.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I won't speak for others but I want candidates who won't just win the next election but aggressively, unapologetically destroy trumpism and rebuild everything he's broken. If you're too afraid of a 51-49 poll to even talk about an issue I have no faith that will be you
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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Alexander the Great and the Fates, by Bernardino Mei, 1667, 📸 by Sarah Stier
April 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Alexander the Great and the Fates, by Bernardino Mei, 1667, 📸 by Sarah Stier
That’s the coolest thing I’ll ever witness. I love the Washington Capitals.
April 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
That’s the coolest thing I’ll ever witness. I love the Washington Capitals.
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The studies coming out showing using genAI is making people less capable of critical thinking, lonelier and increasingly dependent on it is pretty funny when you think about every booster for it going on and on about how it makes you a megagenius with an infinite competitive edge
March 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The studies coming out showing using genAI is making people less capable of critical thinking, lonelier and increasingly dependent on it is pretty funny when you think about every booster for it going on and on about how it makes you a megagenius with an infinite competitive edge
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful!
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?
July 3, 2023 at 2:16 PM
JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful!
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?
ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time*
GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?
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This is great. No one will remember if the game didn't air live on Monumental, but they will remember a shitty call on a national broadcast and they will remember Joe B.'s call forever.
Four of the Caps’ final games are national TV broadcasts. But amid the Chase, Joe B. and friends will still call the games for archival purposes and social media. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...
Agreement keeps familiar voice on mic for Alex Ovechkin’s historic goal
Four of the Caps’ final games are national TV broadcasts. But amid Ovechkin’s chase, local commentators will call the games for archival purposes.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This is great. No one will remember if the game didn't air live on Monumental, but they will remember a shitty call on a national broadcast and they will remember Joe B.'s call forever.