Sebastian
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Anyone listen to the Maddow Ultra podcast? I’m on episode 3.
Crazy stuff.
Crazy stuff.
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Just added the Podcast on my too liten to list.
Are you going to passive aggressively pass the link to your dad, or is it just not worth the headache?
House Democrats Pick Top Leadership That Includes Zero White Men—A First for Congress — TIME
White men have been part of the top leadership for parties in both chambers going back more than a century.
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Should I? Didn't even think about it. I don't see him as the type of person who would even listen to a podcast.
I would probably expect comments back on the source being MSNBC over the contents of what the podcast says because he wouldn't get that far in understanding what it's about. He'd be done as soon as he sees MSNBC.
After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a controversial draft policy that would...
This isn’t going to end wellAfter raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a controversial draft policy that would...www.sfgate.com
Really interesting article about the decline of scientific innovation after economic bubble collapse.
Meanwhile, basic economic conditions have become more precarious for many people. For the past decade, the United Way’s alice program has attempted to measure how much of the population faces economic hardship, taking into account both the cost of living and available incomes. Working at the county level in about half of the United States, alice routinely finds that about 40 percent of the population struggles to make ends meet. While this reality hits some groups harder than others, it affects all races, genders, and other identities, from the majority of white populations in, for example, dying manufacturing and mining towns in Appalachia to majority black populations on the Southside of Chicago or rural Alabama. The reality of hardship plays out in places with long-standing black poverty, examined in classics like William Julius Wilson’s When Work Disappears (1996), as well as in Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s study of the more recent rise of “deaths of despair.”
In what follows, we will first review Web3 and the Metaverse. Multiple industry insiders claim that these technologies require far better infrastructure than currently exists, and that their constituent technologies of blockchain, crypto, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) aren’t working well by themselves. Second, we examine the economic effects of bubbles by comparing the current technology bubble to past ones. The biggest difference is that some goods did emerge from the dot-com bubble, but not from the housing bubble, and probably not much will result from the current bubble either. Third, we describe changes in America’s system of basic and applied research that might be preventing new, more useful ideas from emerging, particularly those based on advances in science. Finally, we sketch out alternative roads for future technological and economic development. The current ecology of technology, including venture capital and both corporate and university R&D, is failing society. Together, we must look for other paths forward.
Meanwhile, basic economic conditions have become more precarious for many people. For the past decade, the United Way’s alice program has attempted to measure how much of the population faces economic hardship, taking into account both the cost of living and available incomes. Working at the county level in about half of the United States, alice routinely finds that about 40 percent of the population struggles to make ends meet. While this reality hits some groups harder than others, it affects all races, genders, and other identities, from the majority of white populations in, for example, dying manufacturing and mining towns in Appalachia to majority black populations on the Southside of Chicago or rural Alabama. The reality of hardship plays out in places with long-standing black poverty, examined in classics like William Julius Wilson’s When Work Disappears (1996), as well as in Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s study of the more recent rise of “deaths of despair.”
In what follows, we will first review Web3 and the Metaverse. Multiple industry insiders claim that these technologies require far better infrastructure than currently exists, and that their constituent technologies of blockchain, crypto, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) aren’t working well by themselves. Second, we examine the economic effects of bubbles by comparing the current technology bubble to past ones. The biggest difference is that some goods did emerge from the dot-com bubble, but not from the housing bubble, and probably not much will result from the current bubble either. Third, we describe changes in America’s system of basic and applied research that might be preventing new, more useful ideas from emerging, particularly those based on advances in science. Finally, we sketch out alternative roads for future technological and economic development. The current ecology of technology, including venture capital and both corporate and university R&D, is failing society. Together, we must look for other paths forward.
The Denmarkian Wonder
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*Stares in Paul Verhoeven*After raucous meeting, San Francisco approves plan for lethal police robots
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors approved a controversial draft policy that would...
Given how well AI crime prevention and AI criminal identification software works, yeah, this is really bad. Also, when did America become a Philip K Dick novel?
Dtknuckles
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When!? Aren’t his novels just a projection of what was happening at the time. Which all my newfound time I need to dig out my PKD books and reeead them.
Remind them about the millions of children abused by clergy.
The global scale of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
A series of abuse scandals, often involving children, have rocked the Catholic Church in recent decades.
US Southern Baptist churches facing ‘apocalypse’ over sexual abuse scandal
A report named hundreds of church leaders accused or found guilty of abusing children and says survivors were mistreated
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The likelihood of being abused or groomed by a drag queen or gay person is much, much lower than by a priest/minister or family member.
Indymisanthrope
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America wishes it were a Philip K Dick story. Best we can do is a Paul Verhoeven movie.
Come on. America has totally reached Michael Bay movie territory…
Supreme Court to Decide Whether Biden Administration Can Provide Mass Student-Loan Forgiveness — The Wall Street Journal
Justices set arguments for winter, putting matter on track to be decided in current court session
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Sadly, this is probally just a fast track to blow it up.
Max Sterling
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He made Alex Jones uncomfortable with his overt antisemitism... Holy crap.
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Kanye to Alex Jones: 'I Like Hitler'
Kanye West told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday that he "sees good things" about Hitler while pushing more virulent antisemitism.
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He is uncomfortable conversing with the type of person that he regularly panders to....oh, the irony.He made Alex Jones uncomfortable with his overt antisemitism... Holy crap.
Kanye to Alex Jones: 'I Like Hitler'
Kanye West told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday that he "sees good things" about Hitler while pushing more virulent antisemitism.
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CNN informs employees that layoffs are under way - memo
Warner Bros Discovery-owned CNN's top boss Chris Licht informed employees in an all-staff memo on Wednesday that layoffs are under way, according to an email seen by Reuters.
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Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy — CNN Business
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones filed for personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a Texas court on Friday, according to court documents.
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This better not be about avoiding paying out the settlement related to Sandy Hook.