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@JCColtin How many of these workers even work in rent stabilized buildings

"The concessions they are seeking are a direct result of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to freeze the rent on rent-stabilized apartments. If landlords cannot raise rents, RAB argues, they cannot provide wage increases for their workforce."

Latinos will really wear a lifting belt for anything at the gym… brother you are doing calf raises why do have a belt on 😭😭

@petersterne Why would the BK dems put Christian on a petition if he’s challenging an incumbent

Really important note here: Groups like the Queens County Democratic Party carry joint petitions for candidates they support, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the candidates on the petition are supporting one another.

In Assembly District 38, the Queens County Democratic Party carried joint petitions for congressional candidate Antonio Reynoso and Assembly Member Jenifer Rajkumar. They each face opponents backed by DSA (Claire Valdez and David Orkin, respectively)

@CMKevinCRiley How do you think the city's going to pay for it without raising taxes on the rich?

Y’all been super quiet on this tho!

@CMCrystalHudson Refreshing to see a councilmember with a spine!

The preliminary budget is our city's first draft of a plan to fund and execute vital city services for the year ahead. We must remain open to a full range of thoughtful solutions, including new revenue options like taxing the ultra-wealthy.

The Israeli military literally has a unit tasked with making shit up to justify killing journalists. 972mag.com/israel-gaza-jo…

The streets want a miley cyrus shoegaze album

@StevenFulop I see your response, it's also just slogans! "Growth and opportunity" my ass! You just want to keep exploiting working class new yorkers!

I see some of the responses - easy to tweet slogans, harder to run an economy. Make New York more expensive to invest and operate and jobs leave, businesses shrink, and working people pay the price. Growth and opportunity aren’t the enemy - they’re the solution.

The loudest voices this weekend at rallies aren’t the only ones that matter. 30+ organizations representing millions of workers, small businesses, and employers across New York are united: support the Governor + reject the sweeping FY27 tax increases. The economy is fragile - if you care about affordability, more taxes isn’t the answer.

@StevenFulop @C_Sommerfeldt @SallyGold @JCColtin @NickReisman @katie_honan @bern_hogan @CGasparino Rich assholes you’re the reason we’re in this mess in the first place!

@RedUrbanist CLC is already the proportional representation structure and steering is subject to their decisionmaking

NYC needs an SC that isn’t like half officer positions w one winner. We should prob shift to it being mostly chapter wide with proportional representation.

When Eisenhower was asked why the United States did not allow the 1956 Vietnamese reunification elections agreed upon at Geneva, he answered with unusual honesty. He said that if elections were held, Hồ Chí Minh would win with approximately 80 percent of the vote. So they cancelled the elections. Think about that every time an American politician talks about "spreading democracy." They cancelled the democratic election because the "wrong" person would win. They then spent the next two decades killing people to prevent the government that would have been democratically elected from taking power. And they called the other side anti-democratic. This is not ancient history. This is the logic that still governs every "democracy promotion" operation today. Democracy is acceptable when it produces the "right" results. When it does not, you cancel the election, back a coup, fund the opposition, impose sanctions, and call the government that the people actually chose a "dictatorship." Vietnam exposed this logic completely. Not with arguments. With history. With the receipts.

There’s something supremely saddening and enraging about seeing a hospital running on bare minimum power. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others tonight in Cuba. This is a blockade of death.

Yall think the CIA is washed but their psy op of turning the Epstein shit into a meme so that people ignore how horrific it truly was actually worked perfectly

@DRichardsQNS Time to tax the rich then

We ain’t balancing the NYC budget on us 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

@70sBachchan IEA forecasts are artificially limited to avoid upsetting the oil exporting member states and they should not be taken seriously. This is widely known in the energy industry

Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope

So, when it comes to evangelicalism in the United States, which tends to be a unifying religious idea in the US, there's been a real push in the last 10 years or so to replace the idea of "right and wrong" with "masculine and feminine." Have you ever heard the phrase "toxic

One day before the first bombs fell on Iran, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security. The classification is reserved for foreign adversaries. The last company to receive it was Huawei. The next morning, Anthropic’s Claude, running inside Palantir’s Maven platform on classified military servers, identified and prioritized over a thousand Iranian targets in the first twenty four hours of Operation Epic Fury. What previously required days of human analysis was compressed into hours. The same artificial intelligence the Defense Secretary tried to ban on Thursday selected the targets his bombers hit on Friday. That is not a contradiction. That is the architecture of this war. Three nations are building three separate AI kill chains in real time, each shaped by its own constraints, and none of them fully control what they have built. On the American and Israeli side, Claude works alongside an Israeli system called Lavender that scores individual human targets, a companion called Gospel that generates structural target lists, and a tracker called Where’s Daddy that times strikes for when scored individuals are at known locations. Together they produced roughly nine hundred strike packages before the first sunrise. The speed compresses days of deliberation into hours of machine output. A commander approving targets at that tempo is not conducting the proportionality assessment that international humanitarian law requires. A human signature appears in the record. The deliberation it represents has been structurally eliminated by the velocity of the system presenting the options. On March 1, an estimated 165 female students were killed in a strike near an IRGC naval base in Minab. Neither the United States nor Israel has claimed responsibility. No AI targeting review has been announced. On the Iranian side, the AI is primitive and strategically perfect. IRGC drones carry basic computer vision and Chinese BeiDou satellite navigation that resists American jamming, supplied under a twenty five year partnership. A twenty thousand dollar drone with enough machine intelligence to force the expenditure of a fifteen million dollar interceptor. Iran does not need AI that thinks. It needs AI that costs less than the missile that kills it. Behind both, a third AI actor. MizarVision, a Shanghai satellite company assessed by Western analysts as an intelligence front, published free AI annotated imagery of American military positions before the war began. F-22s in Israel. AWACS in Saudi Arabia. THAAD batteries in Jordan. Iran subsequently struck the THAAD radar at the published coordinates. The surveillance monopoly that gave American operations a structural advantage for decades was not defeated by a rival space programme. It was eliminated by commercial satellites costing less than a single interceptor. Three nations. Three AI architectures. America compresses the kill chain from days to hours. Iran compresses the cost of attack below the cost of defense. China compresses the information advantage that made American power projection possible since 1945. And a school in Minab sits in the gap between machine speed and human accountability, ten years of satellite imagery showing it was a school, and nobody willing to say whose algorithm put it on the list. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Stephen Miller said: “We're going to war with Mexico down to the tip of South America,” "There is not a criminal justice solution to the cartel problem. These organizations can only be defeated with military power." When is Stephen going to prison for crimes against humanity? He is perpetrating on American soil against Latinos because of his sick racism!

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI published a paper proving that ChatGPT will always make things up. Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math. Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level. And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth. Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do. The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing. So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up. OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product. This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent. Every time ChatGPT gives you an answer, ask yourself: is this real, or is it just a confident guess?

@wellstonism AWWG couldn’t organize a bake sale. Steering has had to do all of our anti war organizing for the past 2 years because they’re incompetent. They genuinely don’t have a broad base of support

It’s disappointing to see what appears to be a coordinated attempt to invalidate NYC-DSA’s anti-war working group election by submitting blank ballots and then re-running it with new rules. These folks are all good organizers who do this work in a tough time.