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Bark
Bark@barkmeta·
Let me get this straight… OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.” Then he raised billions of dollars. Then he closed the source code. Then he converted to for-profit. Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone. Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models. Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter. He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it… Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd

🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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Big Nasty 🤠
Big Nasty 🤠@keepaustinnasty·
I was wondering how they were gonna spin this. Impressively grotesque.
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Greg Stoker
Greg Stoker@gregjstoker·
🚨 Religious fanatic Senator Tim Sheehy breaks Marine Corps Veteran’s arm for protesting this senseless war To the Commandant: “No one wants to die for Israel.”
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nick@Framesofnick·
This is the talk of a traitor to the human race
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Ounka
Ounka@OunkaOnX·
Matthew Cassel, shows how Palestinians in The West Bank gets their life disrupted by the occupation - Every day is a test of patience In the West Bank
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Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody@MmisterNobody·
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated, “We kill people sometimes,” while speaking to shareholders. Maniac.
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Yogi
Yogi@Houseofyogi·
Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z: You buy a Pokémon card for $50. Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it. The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes." You: "…I didn't sell it." Government: "Don't care. Pay up." You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received. Next month? That card drops back to $50. Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs. That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax... Now picture this. Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off. But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have. So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday. Gone. To pay a tax on money that was never real. Now picture the opposite. Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it. Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000. He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore. Does the government give him his money back? No. Does the government give him his truck back? No. Does the government care? No. They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine. You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive. You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things. It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday. They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created. There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate. I hope you understand what's at stake.
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Baron Coleman
Baron Coleman@baroncoleman·
612 weeks ago was May of 2014. Was anyone else aware Erika Kirk was "very involved with political affairs in Washington, DC" in May of 2014? I was not.
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Hedgie
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets·
🦔 HP launched a gaming laptop subscription where you pay monthly but never own the hardware. The high-end option is $130/month for an RTX 5080 Omen Max 16. That same laptop costs $2,110 to buy outright, meaning you'd pay the full price in about 16 months but still own nothing. If you cancel after the first month, you face hefty fees. Canceling the top-tier subscription in month two costs $1,430 plus you have to return the laptop. You can only cancel for free after 13 months, by which point you've paid $1,690 and still have no laptop. HP's justification: "The traditional upgrade cycle keeps most gamers perpetually one step behind. But with access to a new laptop every year, your subscription breaks that cycle completely." My Take This feels like the logical endpoint of the subscription economy. You pay forever, you own nothing, and the company frames it as doing you a favor. HP is betting that people are so conditioned to monthly payments that they won't do the math showing they'd pay full price in 16 months and keep paying after that. Memory chip prices are up 60% because data centers are consuming everything. Hardware costs are rising. And now HP is using the affordability crisis to push a model where you never build equity in anything you use. We've seen this with software, streaming, cars, and now gaming hardware. The pitch is always about flexibility and staying current. The reality is you're perpetually renting your life from companies that figured out recurring revenue beats selling you something once. At least when you finance a laptop you eventually own it. I don't know how we got to a place where "you will own nothing" stopped being a dystopian warning and became a business model. Hedgie🤗
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𝔑𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔫
𝔑𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔫@TheNathanNS·
Holy fuck this is actually grim. There's nothing about this being a "buy now, pay over x months" thing for those on low income, there's options to rent a console indefinitely for £24.49 a month, until you cancel, or £11.59 for 3 years (aka you pay £417, then send it back), so you paid full price for a PS5 but don't get to keep it AND on top of that, PS Plus isn't mentioned as being included so you're paying MORE overtime. Between this and the rising PC parts, I'm actually worried the future of gaming is bleak. "You will own nothing, and you will be happy". If you can't afford a PS5, for the love of God, do NOT go for this. Save up for a pre-owned one for like £350 on eBay or a second hand store.
PlayStation UK@PlayStationUK

Join your friends on PlayStation 5 with Flex. Lease a PS5 Digital Edition console starting at £9.95 per month, for a limited time only: playstation-flex.raylopay.com/products

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
Australian police are facing mounting scrutiny after a violent crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests against Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Sydney. Authorities have defended officers’ actions amid what they described as volatile conditions.
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Ben Fowlkes
Ben Fowlkes@benfowlkesMMA·
The chief law enforcement officer of the US government shouting indignantly about how she shouldn’t have to answer questions about a massive human trafficking scandal as long as the stock market is doing well is crazy. But it does explain how we got here as a society.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

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Ava | Lav 🦶👅
Ava | Lav 🦶👅@Ava_Ayama·
We deadass live in a reality where the U.S government redacted the names of pedophiles associated with Jeffrey Epstein, but companies and governments want YOU to give up YOUR anonymity on the internet for surveillance purposes. Wow. Like seriously, wow lol.
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