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This is why I'm not a fan of saying Snackidad is the birthplace of Carnival. Carnival in different islands evolved from celebrations by our ancestors in the 1700s/1800s.

June Plum is called Golden Apple in St Lucia??

I’m actually grateful for this Caribbean tour stream because I haven’t seen most of you on my TL in months. It feels like a family reunion 🥹

The Caribbean Tour🏝️ LIVE 4/25 2PM EST

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."

The double standards is quite loud

Here’s a policy idea nobody is talking about that could actually work: Tie corporate tax rates directly to W-2 headcount relative to gross revenue — benchmarked by industry. Every business already files a tax return declaring its industry code and revenue. The IRS already has W-2 data. The infrastructure exists today. The formula is simple in concept: — Fall below your industry’s human labor benchmark and your tax rate rises — Fall catastrophically below it and you hit a punitive rate that makes extreme automation economically painful — Stay above the benchmark and you pay standard rates W-2 employees only. Not contractors. Not gig workers. Not outsourced staffing agencies. This forces businesses to maintain genuine skin in the social contract — payroll taxes, benefits, real employment — not paper headcount through third parties. The beauty of this approach: ✦ No new regulatory agency needed ✦ Uses existing IRS infrastructure ✦ Clean audit trail — W-2 fraud is straightforward tax evasion ✦ Generates federal revenue that funds displaced worker retraining ✦ Doesn’t ban automation — it makes automation pay for its own consequences This is essentially a Pigouvian tax on automation externalities. The same logic as carbon taxes. Companies currently capture all the efficiency gains from replacing workers while society absorbs all the costs — unemployment, retraining, community collapse, and national security vulnerabilities from over-automated critical infrastructure. Your tax rate should reflect how much of the social contract you’re actually honoring. A company generating $10B in revenue with 200 employees is free-riding on roads, courts, national defense, and an educated workforce — all funded by the taxpayers whose jobs they eliminated. It’s time that free ride had a price.