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Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel@jasonhickel·
It's not "artificial" intelligence, it's human intelligence. It is the collective knowledge of humanity, produced by countless generations of people, anyone who has ever published a text or created an image, as well as their teachers and their teachers' teachers. And as such, it is difficult to imagine a clearer-cut case for collective ownership and democratic public control. But instead our collective product is hoovered up virtually for free by a few capitalist firms and their billionaire owners to enhance the profits and power of a few, with potentially existential consequences for all of us and zero democratic oversight.
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Basel Musharbash
Basel Musharbash@musharbash_b·
This was one of the of most insane monopolization schemes I've ever uncovered: Two secretive European companies rolled up every alternative supplier of egg-laying hens to American egg producers between 2010 and 2021—and have spent the past three years cashing in: raising hen prices on the back of high egg prices, throttling the supply of hens to egg producers to keep shortages going, and extracting billions in windfall profits along the way.
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Matt Stoller@matthewstoller

And now comes part two of the BIG investigative series by @musharbash_b on egg market consolidation. This part is on the two creepy European firms who are the barons of chicken genetics. And yes, private equity is involved in hiking your egg prices. thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-ho…

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Peter Raleigh
Peter Raleigh@PetreRaleigh·
Can't even describe how much I hate what AI has done to the process of grading student work. I hate finding it, I hate the paranoia it fosters, I hate the confrontations with students who have used it. Nothing else in my experience has ever changed my job this much for the worse
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Basel Musharbash
Basel Musharbash@musharbash_b·
This is just false. Eggs are cheap and plentiful in most of the world *without* resort to the extreme factory farming the U.S. egg industry has adopted. Talking heads who know nothing about agriculture should just sit this one out.
Hank Green@hankgreen

To lower prices, 99% of eggs are factory farmed. But packing many birds into a small space allows disease to easily spread and even cross into humans. Cheap eggs are a trade-off and one of the trade-offs is disease-caused supply shocks. Happy to answer other questions!!

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Basel Musharbash
Basel Musharbash@musharbash_b·
These trends of unsustainable crop prices and farm input costs that automatically go up and down with crop prices so you can never make any money —they’re presented to farmers as just facts of life, when they’re absolutely not. Life wasn’t like this until we stopped enforcing the antitrust laws in the 1970s/1980a.
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Grains & Manes Farm 🌽🐴@grainsmanesfarm

@SusanNOBULL Our 1st year farming was 2010. At least this validates our feelings of suffocation and helplessness, especially since we started from scratch.

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Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller·
American food monopolies are killing our ability to feed ourselves. We are now a massive net food importer.
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Chris Murphy 🟧
Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT·
Trump has chosen grifters to lead the FBI. Kash Patel sells "K$SH" branded merch, vaccine reversal pills. Dan Bongino's entire show is telling listeners the world is ending so they buy the dozens of survivalist products he sells. I know this feels like a bad dream. It isn't.
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Jason Kint
Jason Kint@jason_kint·
It's time to call it. AI is built on a house of cards of intellectual property violations starting with Facebook which is starting to look a lot like a crime scene as held back discovery documents begin to be compelled and unsealed in court. /1
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Hayden Rooke-Ley
Hayden Rooke-Ley@Hayrook·
The Trump admin appears poised to double down on one of Washington’s most entrenched orthodoxies: value-based payment (VBP) and its ideology of managed care. @Andy_Ryan_dydx and I argue this is a mistake. It’s time for a new agenda in Medicare. 1/x
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Jonathan Sebat
Jonathan Sebat@sebatlab·
All Elon is doing is torching the infrastructure that makes america the world leader in biomedial research. And he's not doing the economy any favors either, the negative effects of this are going to reverberate through biotech, pharma and the rest of the economy 5/N
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Interesting STEM
Interesting STEM@InterestingSTEM·
Japanese scientists have created a hydrogel that reverts cancer cells back to cancer stem cells in 24 hours
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Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller@matthewstoller·
I set up a questionnaire to find out what government and government-adjacent workers think of DOGE. Lots of interesting responses. Mostly it's 'there's waste but they are firing the competent people.' If you work in or around government, fill it out! docs.google.com/forms/d/1wj0yL…
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David Lim
David Lim@davidalim·
Firings at FDA include cuts to inspectors and medical product reviewers. Deep concern about impacts to the medical device center. Overall, nearly 700 probationary employees appear impacted at the agency. w/ @adamcancryn + @meganmesserly + more: politico.com/news/2025/02/1…
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
After @DropSiteNews revealed Tesla was forecast to be given a $400 million contract for “Armored Tesla,” the State Department altered its spreadsheet to obscure Tesla’s role. Metadata shows the spreadsheet was revised several hours after our story published.
James Li@5149jamesli

A damaging story from @DropSiteNews today claims Tesla got a $400M State Dept. contract. But when I checked, the spreadsheet says "Armored Car Services," not "Armored Tesla." 🧐 Begs the question: has there been a cover-up or just a previous misclassification now corrected? 🤨

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Governor Tim Walz
Governor Tim Walz@GovTimWalz·
We’re focused on feeding our kids. Investing in our schools. Making sure child care is affordable. Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.
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Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande@Atul_Gawande·
Elon Musk wants to strip out payments for the indirect costs of doing vital medical research for the federal govt — while SpaceX gets to keep its undisclosed indirect rate, which is paying out billions.
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Julie Margetta Morgan
Julie Margetta Morgan@jmargetta·
In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB: - ordered Equifax to pay $15M - ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers - ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers - sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments This week it's closed.
Matt Egan@MattEganCNN

NEW: CFPB employees were just abruptly informed that the watchdog agency's DC headquarters will be closed this week. The email, obtained by @CNN, did not explain a reason for the sudden closure. This comes days after Elon Musk tweeted out: “CFPB RIP” with a tombstone emoji.

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devla@devla·
@ggreenwald Why don't you understand Sociopathy?
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