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@wfdltd You know the best part of being anonymous on Twitter is? You can fuck off, educate yourself, then come back with the right opinions and no one will know any better. I suggest you do that
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Doomscrolling but with a Masters in Public Policy, MMT based
Bergabung Haziran 2022
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@ChrisRMcGuire Only idiots will listen to this guys policy recommendations, the US did do a Chinese chip ban and it....only narrowed the US China AI gap because the ban had the opposite effect
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Chris McGuire@ChrisRMcGuire
(5/6) The United States should tighten export controls on all critical inputs to AI models: blocking exports of all AI chips, cracking down on Chinese chip smuggling, restricting China's access to U.S. cloud computing and AI models themselves, and halting exports of chipmaking equipment. This would increase the U.S. lead from seven months, potentially to 18 or more.
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After China's cancellation of Meta's purchase of Manus, why would any founder start an AI company in China if they had a choice? In China you have access to less compute, less capital, and salaries are lower than in the West. And if you are so successful that a non-Chinese firm tries to acquire you for billions of dollars, the Chinese government will lure you back to Beijing, ban you from leaving the country, and take your profits by canceling the acquisition.
Manus did everything right. They even moved their entire business to Singapore to comply with U.S. outbound investment restrictions. Their only mistake was that they originally founded the company in China. It's not even clear what it means for China to force Meta to unwind the transaction. Is it going to force Manus's researchers to return to China and place exit bans on them too? Is it going to force Manus's founders and shareholders to pay back $2 billion to Meta? This is what happens when you regulate by fiat rather than rule of law.
Ultimately, this is a much larger defeat for the Chinese AI ecosystem than for the United States. Meta will be fine without Manus. But Chinese nationals looking to found AI companies will increasingly just start them overseas. The message from the Chinese government here is that every AI company founded in China will forever remain subject to Chinese government regulatory pressure and manipulation, regardless of its legal status or location.
Lastly, given the Chinese government clearly believes that the US and Chinese AI ecosystems should be completely separate, we should stop helping their ecosystem succeed! China's AI companies remain extremely reliant on US compute, AI models, and chipmaking tools. If we tighten the screws on China's access to US tech, the Chinese ecosystem will be even less attractive to founders, and more will just start companies overseas.
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I'm sorry you're going to die, Mr. Frank. And that's all I say about that
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
Politico: Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), a liberal icon who was a key architect of the landmark Wall Street regulations Democrats enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has entered hospice care at his home in Maine. And as one of his last acts, he is preparing to release a book repudiating his party’s left flank. A champion of liberal causes during his 32 years representing Massachusetts in the House, Frank says progressive Democrats have “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what’s politically acceptable.” politico.com/news/2026/04/2…
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Go figure, a radical centrist means tested an assassination attempt
Polly Sigh@dcpoll
"A close reading of DOJ’s charges against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all. In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all." Excellent analysis by @vermontgmg doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-justi…
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@neo_antiquarian When have you heard a Zionist accuse settlers of stealing houses btw? Or the government they support bulldozing houses? Again I get that you’re the lowest kind of scum but at least try not to crash out
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This Zionist douchefuck talking about upzoning Gaza like that’s a normal and just position
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@aldatweets @DanielDenvir Not even sure it's a "die on this hill" anymore, definitely in 2010 tho. And a friendly reminder that a fucking Excel sheet error gave economic cover for the austerity, Rogoff/Reinhart paper
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I will die on this hill: Angela Merkel broke Germany and probably Europe. In the wreckage of post-2008, she was uniquely positioned to choose social welfare over austerity. She chose austerity. Centrists loved her. But the fascists are now stronger than they’ve been in decades.
James Jackson@derJamesJackson
New: the AfD are five points ahead of the CDU in the polls
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Had a conversation with coworkers the other day, they said I was heartless but then I walked them thru the capital gains increases (real estate and equities), income to debt ratios (low), employment opportunities (lots), deflated household costs since 1980 and they became silent
bob appetit@flugenhof
replies to this are driving me insane so let me actually lay out real numbers for you all to show how ridiculous it is to say someone in a paid off house can't afford $4000 a year. for the sake of argument, let's use CA (which is actually capped, but) that would be a $400k house
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Fucking dumb, wealth taxes make more sense on a local level, not federal because taxes do not fund federal gov spending. But on state level, without federal transfers, you need revenue and we all know where the money is
Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸@AndrewYang
I don’t think wealth taxes are a good idea in practice, and they’re definitely dumb at the state level.
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@InternalRemote @jrivanob @loomdoop Loser? Public policy without having a business is irresponsible.
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Misunderstanding or misinformation re: wealth tax here. Top 1% do pay big % of taxes, but it's a lot of high-earning doctors, lawyers, etc.
Billionaires take stock—Zuckerberg & co. famously take $1/yr—& those stock gains are lowly taxed or untaxed. Wealth tax targets that.
Blake Byers@byersblake
Unfortunately, those in power in Sacramento seem blind to second order effects. We are now in a situation where this wealth tax is very likely to pass. This means founders who control their companies through super voting shares (instead of ceding control to VCs) need to start preparing to leave the state. I wish we could entice more founders to come and build here instead of forcing people away. The top 1% of earners pay 40% of income tax (CA actually has the most progressive income/cap gains tax system in the world). If we could double that 1% group (by building people up and recruiting people here), we’d increase our taxes by 40%! Instead, we are pushing away those top 1% of earners and risking dropping our tax revenue by 40%. And for founders with super voting, they effectively are forced to leave. Basically we need to hope that Gavin pulls off a last minute save and negotiates with the sponsoring union to pull the Wealth Tax proposition.
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If Mcmorrow drops out on her own volition, then she'd be praised by leftists, paving the way for a Lander type election elsewhere in Michigan, but if not, then she'd be denounced and the national Dem party will helicopter her somewhere else, or just folded in the Dem machine
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This is where Dem party dynamics pay a part. Will Dem party leaders pressure McMorrow drop out, which favors El-Sayed? Of course they won't, they'd rather have Stevens win. McMorrow will have to buck Dem leaders and do it on her own, also very unlikely as she's centrist leaning
Haley Stevens@HaleyforMI
It looks like Michigan’s fired up and ready to help flip the US Senate.
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@taste_of_tbone Lol, the clove companies had to re-classify as "cigars", I enjoy a good Djarum every now and then
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obama banned cloves in June 2009 and it's all been downhill since. there was also some sort of economy stuff happening
miss worm@missus_wormy
It probably felt awesome to be a millennial who believed things were going to get better in 2008
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This is weaved together with Navy MaClain's Democracy in Chains
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110
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@MattBruenig @Pawger5 @yashalevine Lol, it's not even electricity, it's much, much, much less significant.
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@Pawger5 @yashalevine I think it's more like electricity. Electricity isn't really anything in and of itself, but it can be used to do lots of things.
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realizing lots of socialists dont understand that technologies have their own politics and reorganize societies based on those politics, regardless of a society’s ideological super-structure — capitalism, socialism, etc
Yasha Levine@yashalevine
this is like a socialist telling everyone "yes, mr. ford, a nazi, is correct actually. need to democratize access to cars! autos for the people. this is about equity!" and then taking a time machine 100 yrs into the future and looking at what cars did: create a society dependent on fossil fuels, imprisoned people in suburban hells that destroyed communities and communal politics and made people dependent on television and malls and mindless consumerism for feeling alive. i'm sure these type of socialists existed back then...
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@FlyToureFly @adamjohnsonCHI Lol "Me killing Trump will pave the way for partial student loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients that own and operate businessese in underserved Black neighborhoods for 3 years"
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@adamjohnsonCHI “I’m gonna take him out, we need to change America and take drastic action. That means we provide free community college to families who make 120,000 or less a year and haven’t committed a felony in the last decade.”
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The BlueSky Killer being a Noah Smith fan and accusing Gaza protestors of secretly loving Trump, guys I am dying, I am dead
Hasanabi productions (meme account)@HasanabiProd
Newly resurfaced tweets from Cole Allen reveal he hated Hasan Piker, the "Far Left", and pro-Palestine protestors.
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@JorgeRamosMerc1 @ilhandogus @ProfHall1955 You're a POS, lol, one post on Oct 7, and then zero on the genocide. I'm keeping these for whenever you try to publish a paper
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He has a PhD in Economics, yet never contemplated why growth rates of real GDP and productivity are positive and inflation falls when real wage growth rate is positive because he can't exit the fictitious neoclassical assumption that there is one single product, firm and consumer
Jorge Ramos-Mercado@JorgeRamosMerc1
This is called bullshit-do. Wage increases (at least partially) get passed to consumers, including other producers using your output as an input, the pass through to other producers will be one of your magical “cost shocks”…
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My ideology is so smart and sophisticated, that's why it has never succeeded anywhere on Earth, while your globally successful ideology is actually naive and incoherent. That makes perfect sense to me.
antifa honeypot@mformorphine
must be so blissful being a lib, no ideological framework for why things happen, no coherent understanding of history or economics, just individual issues that you interpret solely based on vibes
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Please stop trying to murder the president
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