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@RudyDrischel @VigilantFox UBI is a false promise that billionaires hang like a dangling carrot precisely because it's a trick. the best thing is to take everything away from them and use capitalism only as a fiscal principle, not as a complete system

@VigilantFox Maher is correct. UBI cannot be paid by taxpyers. Any form of this enhanced social contribution depends on technology, robotic, AI to bring costs exponentially down. Without an entrepreneurial society no UBI. Not redistribution (eat the billionaires) but capitalism as solution.

Bill Maher asks how the government plans to fund universal basic income if “20 percent” of people lose their jobs and stop paying taxes. “The kids are booing AI... They get it that it’s going to take all their jobs.” “Dario Amodei, he’s the CEO of Anthropic. He says unemployment could spike to 10 to 20 percent. That’s what it was in the Depression, 20 percent.” “Ford CEO said AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind, could replace half of all white-collar workers. And what is the plan? I don’t get it.” “It’s like, ‘Oh, well, no one will work anymore, so we’ll give them a universal basic income.’ With what?!” “If they don’t work, that money has to come from the government. How are they going to get it to the government if the people aren’t paying taxes?!”

@VigilantFox some nice options: 1. steal from the rich in literal ways for yourself. 2. Take over real-world things that keep humanity alive and progressing, and then exclude the rich from the system. 3. build "The Matrix" cyberworld computer, upload billionaires there, send it to space.

@mongster the irony of using a resource-wasting implement that enriches billionaires to visualize the problem of environmental negligence and/or destruction for the sake of enriching billionaires

I asked AI to imagine UP Diliman without its big trees. Ang ganda pala. Naging mas visible ang mga building. Sabi nga ng DENR, para sa pag-unlad kailangan alisin ang mga puno. Sana lagyan ito ng Skyway para lalo tayong umunlad

@bncdotph don't interview auto execs who SELL lol if you want to know why products fail, ASK THE BUYERS

PH AMONG SLOWEST IN EV TAKEUP, SAYS AUTO EXEC The Philippines is one of the slowest countries in terms of adoption of battery electric vehicles, according to Autohub Group of Companies President Willy Tee Ten. Tee Ten told #Business360 that BEV adoption in the country was below 1% last year.

@aprajitanefes @BernieSanders I'd love to see that happen. Let these elites run their offices alone, have no one to talk to but further immerse themselves in their AI psychosis, isolate themselves from humanity. Maybe the world will be better off DETACHING from "the system". We just need to try.

Listen carefully. This is not speculation. Elon Musk, Mustafa Suleyman from Microsoft, and Dario Amodei from Anthropic are not giving opinions. They are ANNOUNCING THE END OF THE WORLD AS MOST PEOPLE KNOW IT. What they are openly saying is this: Within the next 12 TO 18 MONTHS, AI will completely take over most white-collar jobs. Coding, law, accounting, finance, writing, design, analysis, customer service almost everything that educated people do to earn a living will be done better and cheaper by AI. This is not “some jobs will be lost.” This is MASS HUMAN OBSOLESCENCE. Millions of people are about to wake up one day and discover that their skills, their degrees, their experience… are suddenly worthless. There will be no jobs for them. Not fewer jobs. NO JOBS. The harsher truth nobody wants to hear: The elite class has already accepted that they no longer need most human beings to run the economy. Once AI and robots can do the work, the average person becomes an expensive liability. They are openly preparing for a future where the majority of humans have no economic value whatsoever. This is why you’re hearing them talk about Universal Basic Income. It’s not charity, it’s a leash. A way to feed and control a population that has been made economically useless. People are still making reels, scrolling, showing off, and living in total delusion while the ground beneath their feet is being destroyed. They have no idea that their entire way of life is about to be erased in the next 1 to 2 years. This is not “technological change.” This is the deliberate replacement of human beings in the economic system. The machine doesn’t need you anymore. And the people who control the machine just told you that in plain English.

@radarph_media as long as a country does not REGULATE its richest people, it doesn't stand a chance at progressing. an absolute free market is an environment where the rich have absolute control.

PWEDE NAMAN PALA. A viral social media contrast has been making the rounds, depicting Hanoi before and after planting 1.6 million trees. It is a stunning visual transformation—but more importantly, it shows that trees and concrete can co-exist in a third-world country.  Between 2016 and 2020, the program "One Million Trees" was rolled out and Hanoi smashed it two years ahead of schedule, ultimately planting over 1.6 million trees across the capital.  The success was so profound that it paved way into a nationwide "One Billion Trees" initiative running through 2025. Hanoi's victory is a lesson in progressive urban development for the Philippines. Both are fast-growing Southeast Asian countries caught at the crossroads of rapid growth, dense populations, and extreme climate vulnerability. The difference is not in resources, but rather in political imagination.  While Manila allows the removal of mature tree canopies for expressways, Hanoi demonstrated that true 21st-century progress builds with nature, treating the urban canopy as critical public infrastructure. So what can we learn from Hanoi’? First, we need to move from seedling statistics to living canopies. The DENR allows developers to offset environmental damage by buying thousands of cheap seedlings, a numbers game that does nothing to cool a sweltering city. Hanoi turned down this lazy formula.  They planted mature, standard saplings that had been chosen for their ability to trap dust and absorb carbon dioxide. Vietnam's policy is that every tree must survive, and it supports it with budgets for years of rigorous post-care. We plant for the cameras and let saplings die in the sun. Hanoi plants to shield the public. Second, Hanoi eliminated the fragmented planning that plagues our bureaucracy. In Manila, the DPWH builds a road, utility companies dig it up, and trees are felled because they are “in the way." Hanoi integrated its tree-planting directly into transport networks and underground utility blueprints. If an infrastructure design threatens the green grid, the blueprints are adjusted. In the Philippines, the living infrastructure is sacrificed to keep the concrete straight. Third, Vietnam depoliticized its green spaces. Philippine urban forestry is a hostage to the three-year local election cycle. One mayor plants a pocket park; the next paves over it for a multipurpose gym bearing their name. Hanoi turned urban greening into a permanent civic duty, insulating it from political transitions and integrating it across schools, communities, and conglomerates. We can no longer hide behind the developing nation moniker to justify the ecological vandalism of Metro Manila. Vietnam operates within our economic bracket, yet they chose to invest in a livable capital. If we want to stop choking on our own progress, our national government must adopt Hanoi's playbook.  We must legislate a strict minimum canopy cover per capita for LGUs, making it a metric for the Seal of Good Local Governance. We must mandate "avoidance engineering" in public-private partnerships, forcing designers to map transport links around existing natural assets.  Finally, the DENR must end the seedling scam; developers must be held financially liable for the value of lost ecosystem services until replacement trees reach full maturity. How do you find Hanoi’s cityscape? Share your comment below. (By Walter C. Villa) #radarPHLifestyle #radarPH

@BexarApparel @ShadowofEzra i hope all of Christianity finally wakes up that the Beast of Revelation is most probably a AGI LLM, who will make the world worship the first Beast (oligarchs)

@ShadowofEzra The mark of the Beast. Truth in plain sight. Literally telling us what they have planned for us. But we'll shrug it off thinking this will never happen. When it's already happening. Sheep.

A man records himself at the Museum of the Future in Dubai and warns that elites have already displayed plans for a neural chip that would allow humans to communicate telepathically with people and robots. The museum also displays a payment implant designed to be placed under the skin for contactless payments. "There's a reason why Neo and John Connor tried to take out the robots of the future."

@ShadowofEzra yeah the elites can have that for themselves. if they aren't going to do that to themselves FIRST I would not even consider it in fact, i will trust nothing an elite chooses OTHER people to do while they don't.

@inkblotPrincess looks like i'm gonna hold on to my miniPC for the longest time possible

we're about to see the worst announcement of all time

@LinkedInLunat1c AI-induced psychosis everywhere in linkedin i swear corporatism MUST die down for the next 50 or so years

These people are insane

@macronikki as usual, reactive to public outcry. they never had it in their plans. why? expenses. these guys are all businessmen. the only shit in their minds are profits and savings.

So tama ba pagkaintindi ko. Ngayon lang sila nag-earthball ng puno sabay transplant agad. Pero nagputol muna sila ng mahigit 200 na mga puno bago nila to ginawa at dalawa lang na earth-ball nila?

@gmanews HAHAHAH sabi ko na nga ba e. JONWEAK REMULLA! wala kang kwenta!

DILG SEC. REMULLA: SEN. JINGGOY, KAILANGAN NG KNEE REPLACEMENT Sinabi ni DILG Secretary Jonvic Remulla na nakausap niya si Sen. Jinggoy Estrada at pinapili kung gusto nitong arestuhin o sumuko sakaling lumabas ang arrest warrant laban sa kaniya. Ayon kay SILG Remulla, ikinababahala umano ni Sen. Jinggoy ang kondisyon ng kaniyang tuhod na kailangan ng knee replacement surgery. | via @MMakalalad Bisitahin ang gmanetwork.com/news para sa iba pang balita.

@MasterLogician_ all i see are danger signs

DO NOT support companies like this. This is the road to a permanent underclass for the poor. And the road to useless, incompetent robots for the rich. If you are building in this space, nothing personal, but you should probably pivot before the public backlash and eventual legislation catches up with you. The problem is not robots. The problem is replacing human workers while concentrating ownership of the machines into the hands of a few companies. There is a better model. Financialize the robots. Let regular people buy shares in specific units. The robot pays for its own manufacture and maintenance over its lifespan, then pays dividends based on the money it earns through rental or lease agreements. Position the robot as a utility for human workers, not as a replacement for them. Instead of a robot showing up to replace the cleaning lady, the cleaning lady shows up with a robot she rented or leased. It has a preloaded software package and a sophisticated voice interface. Now a one-person cleaning business, handyman service, or maintenance operator has a helper. The robot gains the flexibility and judgment of a human counterpart. The worker gains leverage. The customer gets better service. The company avoids becoming an existential threat to the people it claims to serve. Do that and you could crush. Good luck. I hope whatever you build actually pans out well for the world.he world.

@DailyLoud something tells me this is only going to be used for more data stealing and surveillance lol

Nvidia will now pay you to put a mini AI data center on your house making you close to $22,000 a year

@alasiye7e nickel, important material for batteries... for SOLAR and ELECTRIC. hirap no? wala talagang kawala si mother nature sa PROFITEERING ng mga KAPITALISTA

🚨 MAHIGIT 218,854 na puno ang nakatakdang putulin o i-earthball sa Palawan matapos aprubahan ng DENR ang large-scale nickel mining. "For the record this only covers 3 mining companies bc DENR refused to provide copies of (other) special tree-cutting permits." —Mayo-Anda of ELAC

@saudiboy2 trivia: it's not "built" yet, it's still under construction, and costs are getting higher hahaha they designed that sh*t to accommodate more senators, and i don't know what the fck they'd need a bigger building for. feels liek a trump ballroom moment

🛑 P33 BILLION Senate Building Nagpagawa tayo ng napakamahal na Senate Building para raw magkaroon ng permanenteng tahanan ang Senado. Tapos ano? Online work at online voting na lang pala ang uso. Cont... 1/3

@JustinWollett @alex_prompter imagine what was scraped the most? private conversations and exchanges, literally things that shouldn't or don't make up what "intelligence of a species" is, drafts and unfinished work, shitposts, musings, fantasies, rants and ramblings, etc.

The deeper problem isn't just that they scraped everything without permission. It's what they scraped. Most of the written word that actually exists in human history was never digitized. Of what was captured, the vast majority is post-1990s internet content...written when the cost of publishing and reputational risk of publishing dropped to zero and editorial standards collapsed. High-signal, carefully edited work from before that era is barely represented. We're not training on the best of human thought. We're training on the cheapest. Check out @BrianRoemmele

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

@alex_prompter so it's the same as when a colonizer comes, guns a-blazing, to "civilize" people by putting up dams and distribution systems in rivers and other sources, then selling back to natives their own water that they shared since time immemorial...

@demisdev @OrevaZSN are their bunkers self-sustaining? it would be very good for humanity if they started hiding in their bunkers now and disconnect themselves off from the world

@OrevaZSN Robots and AI takeover all jobs, everyone gets minimum UBI, they become kings distributing rations. Should there ever be an AI Drone & Robot war, only kings will be able to live in Billionaire Bunkers x.com/TheShadowIntel…

I really want to know what these billionaires' end game is. They take away jobs, replace everything with AI, inflation goes up, healthcare costs increase, and no one can afford rent or food. How are they going to make money if no one can afford their products?

@pauldug59118129 @OrevaZSN seeing how Palantir is being used and the nonsense Altman and co. are spouting, yeah I think they believe the devil is the good guy and them siding with Satan is for /their/ good