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@BernardNaish @AlexTaylorNews *sigh* news.sky.com/story/starmer-…

@IAmOperatic @AlexTaylorNews Try singing - in our FPTP system only seats won count. Hence people vote to get the largest number of SEATs - PLUS Corbyn was never undermined by Keir in any way whatsoever - that is a typical Momentum lie.

Have followed the politics of the country I grew up in since Harold Wilson 🤡but seriously don't understand what's just happened Starmer sure wasn't the greatest communicator, made mistakes and I for one thought his red lines on the EU were ludicrous - but he was an 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 more serious PM than the clowns he replaced - Johnson ? Truss - hello ? And do people really think Burnham isn't going to prove equally unpopular within barely a few months ? Starmer made his party electable then reduced NHS waiting lists, and drastically cut immigration within just 2 years, significantly improved UK EU relations and refused to take the UK into Trump's vanity war. Most non UK media treated him as being boring, which is way better than as clowns as had been the case with the his predecessors I honestly think too, watching this from the EU, there's an element of the usual UK exceptionalism in it. In the age we live in all leaders are pretty unpopular, Macron, Merz, Trump to name but a few. There are massive forces outside all our countries whipping up discord and divisiveness against those in power and huge numbers of idiots fall for it and worse echo it. Starmer's downfall is in some way because the UK doesn't realize how unpopular all leaders are these days Anyway - Burnham already proved in Makerfield he was a weathervane on Europe. Yet another British PM with no clear idea of whether the UK's place is in Europe or not is hardly what it needs, 10 years on (and 7 PMs) after deciding to "take back control" .....

@HealthRanger A better alternative is just making everything free at that point. Production can be arbitrarily scaled up to meet demand as i said and any actual limits can just be enforced more directly. Much fairer than an oligarchy who no-one else can catch up to owning everything.

@HealthRanger I don't support this but it's not unreasonable assuming an AI-led economy. Production can be scaled up arbitrarily and as long as the money is cancelled via taxation or publically owned product purchase it won't lead to inflation but it will lead to him owning the entire economy.

Elon promises a "Universal High Income" for everyone. Let's suppose that means $10K per month for 100 million Americans. Here's the math: 100 million people × $10,000/month × 12 months = $12 trillion per year. To put that in context, total federal spending in fiscal year 2024 was roughly $6.75 trillion, and total federal revenue was about $4.9 trillion. So this single program would cost nearly twice the entire existing federal budget and about 2.5× all federal tax revenue. It would roughly triple total government spending overnight. U.S. GDP is roughly $29 trillion. A $12 trillion UBI program would equal about 41% of total GDP -- being directed as cash transfers to a subset of the population. For comparison, all current federal transfer payments (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, etc.) combined run around $4–5 trillion. The M2 money supply (cash, checking deposits, savings, money market funds) sits at roughly $21–22 trillion. If the program were funded by money creation rather than taxes, injecting $12 trillion per year would expand M2 by roughly 55% in the first year alone. Even if a portion were funded through taxation (which just redistributes existing money), the sheer scale makes it nearly impossible to fund without massive monetary expansion. The inflationary pressure would be enormous, for a few reinforcing reasons: First, demand-side shock -- putting $10,000/month into 100 million hands would massively increase consumer spending, but the economy's productive capacity (factories, housing, workers, supply chains) can't scale anywhere near that fast. When far more dollars chase roughly the same quantity of goods, prices spike. Second, labor supply contraction -- $120,000/year tax-free would exceed the median U.S. household income (~$80,000). Many workers would reduce hours or exit the workforce entirely, shrinking the supply side at the exact moment demand is surging. That's a double squeeze on prices. Third, velocity effects -- lower-income recipients tend to spend transfer income quickly, so the velocity of money would increase, amplifying the inflationary effect beyond what the raw money supply numbers suggest. A rough (and conservative) estimate: mainstream quantity-theory-of-money reasoning would suggest that a 55% expansion in money supply, combined with rising velocity and falling output, could produce annual inflation well into the double digits -- plausibly 30–50%+ in the first year or two, potentially accelerating into a hyperinflationary spiral if sustained. Historical parallels (Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, Venezuela) all involved governments printing money at scales far smaller relative to GDP, and still produced catastrophic inflation. So no, Elon doesn't understand economics. And yes, a "Universal High Income" would quickly lead to hyperinflation and currency collapsing, thrusting almost everyone into extreme poverty.

@SocialistMMA Blaming Jews generalises an entire group of people many of whom are working class, almost all of whom suffer under capitalism and plenty of whom are already on our side when most leftist movements have understood that we need to unite in order to effectively challenge capitalism.

@SocialistMMA We don't because most leftists aren't that stupid. "Jews" are not responsible for this, capitalism is. Israel as with the US uses capitalism (AIPAC etc) to advance its interests and Israel is important to the US because it's their ally in the oil-rich Middle East. That's it.

The left needs to criticize Jewish Supremacy the same way they criticize White Supremacy. I have no tolerance for people on the left who refuse to bring it up We have Jewish Terrorists who were radicalized in Synagogues threatening the lives pro Palestine organizers Enough is enough

@AAnon55 It's fascinating the mental gymnastics you guys engage in to avoid having to criticise capitalism.

Let me see if I've got this right. The Rothschild family lives in London. The Rothschild's main bank is located in London. The Rothschild's built up Israel. If London is the Rothschild's base of operation (stronghold), & they built up Israel, wouldn't that mean Israel is captured & controlled? How does the [Cabal] controlling Israel make Israel the biggest threat? The [Cabal] controls most of the world. That is the problem. It's never been about one country. Every country on the planet has a [Deep State] problem, & that [Deep State] is controlled by the [Cabal]. Pretty much every country on the planet has a central bank (world bank) like the Federal Reserve. Our enemy doesn't care about one country because [they] control the world. [They] control the money, so [they] can influence everything else, but the Rothschild's aren't alone at the top of the pyramid. Israel could disappear right now & the [Cabal] would still exist. For a long time the [Cabal] controlled America. The United States has done some bad shit under [Cabal] control. Remember that when you want to blame a country for what the [Cabal] has done. We aren't up against a country. We're up against a group of people that control nations (not just the Rothschild family). Good talk 🇺🇲 🐸 👊

@johncrickett For now...

On Sunday, I used AI to build an app. In a couple of hours, it generated 23,000 lines of code with full documentation and 836 passing tests. The code is amazing. The app is fully functional, well written, well structured, and has great test coverage. At least that's what the agent told me after reviewing the project structure, completeness, and code quality. So I fired it up and clicked the button. Nothing. Turns out all tests passing and the agent grading its own work as brilliant doesn't mean it actually works. Now I'm debugging, filling gaps, and showing the agent what it missed. AI can get you most of the way there, fast. But that last bit? That still needs a human who knows what they're doing. Let's not pretend otherwise.

@NYCMayor Zohran: common sense argument about why unilateral regime change is bad. Comment section: actually kidnapping other nations' presidents is ok if we don't like them.

I was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City. Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law. This blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home. My focus is their safety and the safety of every New Yorker, and my administration will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance.

@burkov The AIs that will replace you very soon don't need comments. Glad I could help.

I don't understand why Google trained Gemini 3.0 Pro this way. User: Fix this issue. Gemini: Here's the updated code. User: You removed all the comments and log commands, put them back. Gemini: Here's the code with everything back. User: The comments are still absent, and the log commands too. You must only modify the relevant part of the code and keep the rest of the existing code intact. Gemini: Here's the code with everything back. User: FUCK! YOU STILL REMOVED ALL THE COMMENTS AND LOGS! PUT THEM BACK, YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT! Gemini prints the correct code. @GoogleAI , why? I mean, WHY?

@madrid_mike State capitalism.

What’s it called when the government owns the means of production?

@haider1 Yet another instance of scientists verging beyond their field and saying stupid shit. Unfalsifiable claims: "unique neurons"; confident statements about what's impossible: "can't be replicated". Stick to AI.

Geoffrey Hinton says immortality is for digital beings, not humans Our brains are analog, shaped by unique neurons that can't be replicated or uploaded "when we die, all that knowledge dies with us" But for digital intelligences? they save their weights and can return to new hardware

AI already has a better understanding of class consciousness than many of us.

@Dr_Singularity "people will work there" Nope.

The era of massive factories with thousands of workers is ending. Factories will remain, and will grow larger, but people will work there mostly as supervisors. Instead of 10,000+ workers on few shifts, each huge factory will need only a handful of people. x.com/ZappyZappy7/st…

@yakiimogo People who disengage are people the political class know they don't have to listen to. If you're only ever angry when it's not your own team mascot doing the genocides, wars and impoverishment then by all means continue to watch as worse snd worse people get elected.

@jyo_pari I've said many times that one of the keys to solving LLM's remaining problems is having the ability to update its own weights. That and more sensory modalities. Glad to see we're finally seeing it.

What if an LLM could update its own weights? Meet SEAL🦭: a framework where LLMs generate their own training data (self-edits) to update their weights in response to new inputs. Self-editing is learned via RL, using the updated model’s downstream performance as reward.

@ai_for_success "free"... 😒😒😒

No hype, no drama. Just drop great models and give them to everyone for free. Be like Google.

@SpecialPuppy1 It's very simple: we have abundance already and it's not reaching everyone PRECISELY BECAUSE of the kinds of people who wrote that book. Producing even exponentially more of it will still not help most people, especially if they are using AI to take what little power we have.

I’m pretty confused by the backlash against the “Abundance” book by some on the left. Is it just because they don’t like some of the people who support “abundance” ideas and less so about the policies themselves?

@AngelicaOung Maybe US companies should do that then people might be able to afford things... 🤔

Because for some insane reason the Chinese companies don’t focus on “maximizing returns to shareholders” but “minimizing profits so you can kill your competitors.” They call it being 內卷 or “involuted” although I’ve never understood the meaning of that term either in English or Chinese. I just know what it is. Imagine a German Mittelstand SME cornered the market in making some obscure but essential widget for more than a century and got the bright idea of outsourcing the manufacturing to China. For 8-15 years everything works beautiful. Costs plummet and even junior Chinese executives get to fly business class because everyone is so flush. Then, on a cursed day, some Chinese guy figures out how to do it without the Germans. The $8,000 widget becomes $950 overnight. If you asked him how he arrived at that insane pricing he’ll say “I take my cost. I add my 20% profit. Boom.” But wait! You and the woebegone German are the only ppl on the planet with this technology? Why not price it at $6000? You’ll make more money because you still significantly undercut the German. You’ll both survive and have more money in your pockets! It’s a duopoly. Nope! That maniac, even after he buried that Mittelstand that has been passed through multiple generations minting fat profits, will keep cutting costs. Junior executives aren’t flying business no more. And then he’ll lower prices. On himself. It’s pathological. I’ve heard Chinese economists beg businesses not to do it. It’s why the stock market in Shanghai sucks. And it’s why the Chinese businesses are beasts.

@nickgerli1 Oh no! People might actually be able to afford to live there! 😱😱😱

I don't think people understand what's happening in housing market right now. Florida now has 177,00 listings. Highest level on record. Entire Northeast U.S. has 79,000 listings. Lowest level on record. People are leaving Florida. And moving back north. A structural trend that will likely last years, and cause Florida's housing market to decline for an extended period.