Not many people who are commenting on this conflict between the number 1 economy and number 2 are looking at the tactics used by the number 2 economy against the number 3. Rare earths. Supply chain lockouts. Japan worked really hard to solve this crippling problem: www.weforum.org/stories/2023...
Climate and pandemics are the problems which confront our immediate future. And it seems to me the pursuit of Techno-god is mostly a distraction and a pile of untabulated costs.
And don't get me started on bitcoin. All these tech guys are selling some utopia based on some doodad they've patented or somehow control, and they are diverting massive resources away from projects we need, not only realize a utopia, but to prevent apocalypses.
...because its collapse would leave so much investment financially stranded. It's funny how all the people that talked about the environmental cost and expense of the expansion of renewables and the mass electrification of the economy are silent about these aspects on the subject of AI.
Not many people who are commenting on this conflict between the number 1 economy and number 2 are looking at the tactics used by the number 2 economy against the number 3. Rare earths. Supply chain lockouts. Japan worked really hard to solve this crippling problem: www.weforum.org/stories/2023...
The AI bubble has handed Beijing the power to “snap its fingers and snuff out the only thing propping up our economy.” It’s starting to look a lot like the housing bubble, right down to some of the same players. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/QCvw9YB
John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ. Today SCOTUS will hear case that could dismantle what's left of VRA, turbocharge racial gerrymandering & rig House for GOP. Huge stakes for American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's all about "energy dominance" *cue finger guns* drilled.media/podcasts/dri... Petro masculinity! Oil, gas, and truck nuts! Playing in the sand box with our big boy toys! Yee with a side of haw! People get elected to the highest offices on the globe on this platform. *commence laugh/cry*
I bring you: the pouty presidency. And the essence of MAGA manhood: everything is someone else's fault. Ran across this trying to look up a Biden-era order.
" @katieporteroc.bsky.social is disliked by the Sacramento establishment, not because of her interpersonal skills but because she’s more populist than they’d like and more willing to challenge the corporate interests that rule California politics." prospect.org/politics/kat... 🎶Tale as old as time🎶
@prospect.org needs some love right now. John Oliver gave them a driveby dab bsky.app/profile/dday... and they've been doing excellent explanatory journalism throughout the Biden Admin until now.
I have much to say about @lastweektonight.com lumping us in with National Review & The Federalist & Pod Save & Jacobin as an "opinion-heavy outlet." We are a news outlet that (regardless of our perspective) provides fact-based reporting. Putting us on this list is, well, factually inaccurate.
If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink. In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.
Modern conservatism exists to boil down real world complexities into ultra-processed simplicities. You try and introduce complexity and you get "Shut up! We don't care! All your bs about *fill-in-the-blank* doesn't matter! Shut up!" And you can visibly see the rage. bsky.app/profile/thim...
And in a world where that populism dominates, there can be no progress. The only people who will experience progress are the ones serving up the slop saying "everything is fine, except for those God awful *fill-in-the-blanks*. They need to be put in their place."
He also did a good one,back in his vox days, on false consciousness: youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ I think we have to draw a contrast between a populism that seeks to improve the conditions of the population and a populism that seeks to make the population comfortable where they are and in what they believe.
