RK
@rk__upadhya
marxism, electricity, geopolitics, etc.
southern Syria is looking like such a disaster. massacres and counter-massacres, and Israel happily stepping in to seize more territory and expand its ring of fire and carnage
Zuck spending billions on AI engineers is a good sign for AI. Last time he hail mary'ed this much money was when he dumped billions into the "metaverse", which worked out great. killer instincts
Meta poached three more AI talent -- Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du, Weiyue Wang -- this time from Google Zuck has definitely slipped into the right WeChat group chat 😂
fascinating deep-dive analysis on the AI bubble. lots of delving into the actual business performances of AI companies and the wider financials, comparing against previous tech bubbles, etc. worth spending time reading.
- OpenAI/Anthropic lose billions & can't grow into profit - SoftBank in dire straits by funding OpenAI - Stargate (which was scaled back the day Ed wrote this) doesn't have the funds to happen - OpenAI must convert to for-profit or $20b of $30b funding wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
Interesting discussion toward the end of this where they deny that popular mobilization and activism had anything to do with the Biden climate bill, rather than elite alignment. Mostly correct I think, unfortunately. And something the Left must reflect on heatmap.news/podcast/shift-…
the socialist movement has to be stronger than any politician. Critique and censure mean nothing unless these actually threatens to cut off resources and support. I.e. Bowman had to come crawling back to DSA after he realized 1) we were right, and 2) he was losing his race
i hate AOC-posting and think most discourse around her is a waste of time.....but man its wild to see her STILL defending Iron Dome as some kind of legitimate thing to fund.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
this is pretty funny. and in retrospect, perhaps obvious that there would inevitably be a collision course between Jewish extremism and Christian extremism
Zohran and DSA MUST restore law and order to New York City, starting with the annihilation of this criminal conspiracy
BREAKING: Former interim Police Commissioner Tom Donlon filed a bombshell lawsuit this morning — accusing Mayor Adams and his police leadership of running a criminal organization
good to see even a small segment of states trying to preserve some semblance of an international order based on human rights
BREAKING 🇨🇴🇵🇸 States announce unprecedented measures to halt the Gaza genocide at emergency conference convened by The Hague Group in Bogotá, Colombia.
the US laying the rhetorical groundwork for a world war. which is already underway, started by Bush's unilateral invasions of the Middle East, continued by Obama's expansion of covert ops, and cemented by Trump/Biden/Trump's destruction of international institutions
Unhinged State Dept statement to @DropSiteNews claims The Hague Group - about 20 countries meeting to discuss accountability for Israel — is “transparently laying the groundwork to attack the United States.”
nah these are incidental to the actual "modern sins": - invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq - the non-response to the 2008 financial crisis, which led to the Great Recession
Failing to finish Reconstruction is the original sin, but in the modern era: - Election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. - Supreme Court stealing the 2000 election for George Bush. - Racist backlash to electing Barack Obama - Citizens United decision
