@chamath Amazing chutzpah - all signs that there may be enough voters to make him POTUS (if so, we are all dead)
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Krishnan Chittur
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Krishnan Chittur
@cheprofessor
Educator, entrepreneur, truth seeker. Reason is absolute - “You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.” (Feynman)
Seeking Galt's Gulch Katılım Şubat 2009
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You should take the class. The state’s finances are a dumpster fire.
Governor Gavin Newsom@CAgovernor
Starting in the 2027-28 school year, California will offer a new personal finance course to high schoolers and require it for graduation beginning with the 2031 class. Every Californian should leave high school with the tools to manage money, avoid debt, and build wealth.
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As bad as things in California are now under Gavin Newsom, never, ever, underestimate the capacity of left wing voters to make them much, much worse
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Eric Swalwell, who has promised to "hold Trump accountable," is now the clear frontrunner to be the next California Governor. 63% chance.
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The question remains - what if the Iranian regime is suicidal? What if they have decided to destroy anything, any nation using any means? They have already created chaos and it seems they can continue to lob even longer range missiles
We need to prevail in total and convincingly soon
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"Shows no sign of backing down"? They're being hit at will, and have been for 21 days. They're spraying fire and hoping something sticks. They have no war-fighting capacity against the U.S. or Israel. This is bananas logic.
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@GadSaad Social media has amplified what was likely latent …
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I have obviously been exposed to the worst manifestations of Jew-hatred imaginable beginning in my childhood in Lebanon. But I must say that seeing people whom I have been on very friendly terms, and in some instances have promoted their voices, delve into Nazi-level Jew-hatred is tough to process. How did I sit down at a table with such an individual? Did they hate me then but hide it? Or did they develop their current positions recently?
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@Twolfrecovery I can imagine a sociology, economics project to examine the quantitative effect of “Trump” on the wages and earnings of many millions - oppose him (on everything) make money
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@Twolfrecovery She figured out how to make a good living while not knowing anything of real value (amazing)
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@skk_74 @IVMiles @JonahDispatch More opportunities for grifts … candidates demagogueing about being “tough on gambling” while they take money from those offering bribes
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@IVMiles @JonahDispatch Yes, a war on gambling...that drug war worked so well
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When I was a kid AOC’s position was right-coded, and it’s telling that the new Atlantic City version of the GOP has no interest in legislating on this.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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@jkirchick Hatred (for self, this nation) makes people do bizarre things - they are going now even as Cubans have been suffering for decades
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These despicable political tourists will shake hands with regime apparatchiks, bask in the Caribbean sun, take selfies at the Che Guevara monument, and then return to a free country, leaving the Cuban people to rot in a communist hell hole.
CODEPINK@codepink
NOW 🇨🇺 We're on our way to Cuba! Our CODEPINK delegation to the Nuestra América convoy is carrying thousands of pounds of urgently needed humanitarian aid. We stand with Cuba!
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I’m convinced people are getting dumber.
I am 100% free to criticize or mock a business for its practices or statements.
That is literally 0% in conflict with the political belief, which I hold, that they have the legal right to run their business how they want on all these matters.
Nellie Danica@NDanica71570
@brad_polumbo You can always go somewhere else, Brad. I thought you defended private businesses getting to do what they wanted.
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@RandyEBarnett Sorry - wrong.
“Conservatives” yea Will celebrate wanting to use the heavy hand of GOVERNMENT - and that is what WILL happen if conservatives go along with what does “seem” reasonable
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When she’s right she’s right. Which until just this minute, I thought was never.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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We will see that happening - a bunch on the “right” will be co-opted by the “left” using “we have to restrict speech so we can save people from themselves when they bet their money” and the “right” will agree - forgetting what DID happen about “misinformation” and the trampling of so many of our rights
Mind your own damn business
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You don’t need to be a libertarian to think that the state shouldn’t restrict speech to deter sports betting.
Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
Right on. A good place to start would be banning all radio and TV advertisements for sports betting. Treat FanDuel like Marlboro.
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I’m going to tell you how much worse it was at the start of the PC Revolution for white collar workers trying to adapt, vs today with AI
Today, presumably every white collar worker has access to a smart phone and/or a PC/laptop.
Back then, a PC cost $4,995 , an off brand was $3,995. 5k in 1984 is about $16k today. It was really expensive.
The only reason I could learn how to code and support software is because my job let me take home a PC to learn. By reading the software manual. Literally. RTFM. Or pay to go to training. Classes that started at hundreds of dollars then. It was expensive. It absolutely limited who could get ahead.
Today, ANYONE can go to their browser, to the AI LLM website of their choice, and type in the words “I’m a novice with zero computer background, teach me how to create an agent that reads my email and …”
That concept applies to LEARNING ANYTHING
Think about what this means. Any employee of any company can say “ I need to learn how to xyz for my job , which is to do the following: Tell me what more information do you need to help me be more efficient, productive and promotable”. Or “ what new skills can you teach me that will help me reduce my chances of getting laid off “. Or “what suggestions do you have for me to communicate to my boss, who I barely know, to help my chances of staying employed “
These aren’t great prompts. But they are a start that anyone can take.
Think about how incredible that is.
Back in the day was so much harder for white collar workers. It was harder for new grads because unless they took comp sci, they probably had never used a PC.
Big Companies are going to cut jobs. No question about it. Small companies is are going to need more and more AI literate thinkers who can help them compete or get an edge
What I tell every entrepreneur, and it’s more crucial today. “ when you run with the elephants there are the quick and the dead. Adopt tech quickly , you can out maneuver big companies. “
Mark Cuban@mcuban
An article from the 90s explaining how in the 1980s, personal computers changed the dynamic of college vs high school workers. College grads learned how to use PCs and grew wages faster Mind you, this was when interest rates were 15pct, white collar unemployment was the highest it’s been any non covid year, general unemployment was 10pct, there was a recession, 18pct mortgages, and the start of the savings and loan industry collapse. The economy was a mess. Except it was the start of the “digital revolution “ which lead to change. Here we are at the early days of the AI revolution. I think it will be very analogous to what happened back then. If you think learning how to use Clause seems daunting, imagine being 50 yrs old in 1983, not knowing how to type, using a 1.0 key adding machine with a tape roll to do all your work as an analyst and realizing you had to figure out how your brand new IBM PC and lotus 1-2-3 worked. Or having only used a typewriter your entire career , then having to learn the new PC and WordStar. Trust me. WordStar key combinations were far harder to learn than telling Claude what you want done Lots of people couldn’t figure it out. Those who did were more productive Ctrl QA with AI nber.org/digest/sep97/h…
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@MrsCMFrancis Someone is running in some election? (And are looking for votes beyond their own radicals)
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It’s truly confusing. As a Californian I’ve watched people ignore this man’s obviously shady legacy all my life.
Why the sudden, immediate response by the politicians now?
Lex Steppling@LexStepp
The tearing down of Cesar Chavez’ legacy in the form of monuments and murals etc in Los Angeles is the fastest I’ve ever seen L.A politicians move.
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There are hundreds if not thousands of other issues where politicians are being bribed for that are far more consequential to worry about - Health Care for example - pharma and others have cornered the market and a HUGE portion of the US GDP causing enormous hurt to millions NOW - and here we have people going after something else
Sheesh
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“Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.”
This is an issue that transcends partisan politics. Every politician who hasn’t been bought by Kalshi or Polymarket should be shouting this from the rooftops.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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@NormOrnstein It is an absolute disgrace what governments do when they take your money at the point of a gun and give it away to a few of their friends and cronies and keep demanding more
(Gambling? Yea - perhaps bad but voluntary and not subject to government thugs demanding what you have)
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It is an absolute disgrace what professional sports leagues have done to encourage, abet and push gambling. It is a cancer.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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@cafreiman She did not say (yet) that the State should ban it - the fact that many on the “right” express support for what she says IS terrifying - or how we get bigger government
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I agree that pervasive gambling is not good for society, but it simply doesn’t follow that the state should ban it—that conclusion requires more argument.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
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@omriceren Lemon is filled with rage and hatred against the USA - nothing will quench that except watching us suffer - the murders in Iran are irrelevant to him
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This is disqualifyingly stupid. It also prompts a few questions. Did he have this sensibility and judgment when he was at CNN? How many of his then-colleagues agreed with him? How many still do?
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs
Don Lemon: "We are saying that Iran shoots protesters. Well, so do we ... that makes us no better than them
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@a16z Let us not forget Boeing - after or during the merger - it was all financial and no engineering
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"We became very good at financial engineering and forgot about engineering."
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on how tech companies lose their edge:
"Europe has created exactly zero companies from scratch in the last 50 years worth more than a hundred billion euro. We have created all of our trillion dollar companies from scratch in America in the last 50 years."
"The difference is founders."
"Intel, at some point, there was this fork in the road, where they could have promoted the CFO to be the CEO or Pat Gelsinger as CTO."
"They picked the CFO. The person that Wall Street would understand, not the person who could actually determine the future roadmap."
"It really looked like it was working for 10 years until it fell off a cliff."
"But that was all financial engineering, not real engineering."
@PalantirTech CTO @ssankar with @KTmBoyle
a16z@a16z
"I think our biggest risk as a country is suicide, not homicide." Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar joins a16z's Katherine Boyle and Erik Torenberg to discuss Shyam's new book, Mobilize, as well as defense, AI, the SaaSpocalypse, and more. 00:00 Introduction 07:53 Rebuilding the industrial base 18:01 Modernizing the Army 24:20 The SaaSpocalypse 29:42 Agency over automation 38:24 Beating China without self-sabotage 40:42 Film as cultural willpower 49:57 The story of Admiral Rickover @ssankar @KTmBoyle @eriktorenberg @PalantirTech
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@michaelshermer CA - where there is no peak in lunacy or profligate spending of public resources
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Here is the now-infamous $114 million bridge to nowhere over the 101 and Liberty Cyn in Agoura Hills, CA that the state is now asking for donations to finish so the cougars can safely cross.
Absurdity on stilts. And our governor wants to be POTUS!
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I wonder which airline can extract a competitive advantage by implementing their own security at big airports and bypass TSA ( yes JSX does that where they fly)
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