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old hippie hoping to make the world better

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“The big through line here is vicious dehumanization: No kids have died due to USAID cuts—none that we need to concern ourselves with, as they don’t serve the higher cause… To avoid violent death at the hands of ICE agents, don’t antagonize them.“ @gregsargent.bsky.social @polphilpod.bsky.social

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” KidsIn his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.newrepublic.comEliot Higgins

Reminder that Musk literally shared Russian disinformation to justify his USAID cuts

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Executing an order to carry out this sort of corrupt activity should be a felony with a stiff mandatory fine and a long statute of limitations. We can’t deter Republican elected or appointed officials from doing bad, but we probably can deter ordinary bureaucrats from doing bad.

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“With one exception,” a lawyer for the DOE conceded in a court filing this month, “the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and has two Democratic-caucusing senators.”

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Goldman is gauging investor appetite for a potential $5.4 billion debt offering to help fund a Blackstone-backed QTS data center tied to Microsoft, as bubble concerns push up costs for artificial intelligence infrastructure financings

Goldman Pitches $5.4 Billion Debt for Microsoft-Tied Data CenterGoldman Sachs Group Inc. is gauging investor appetite for a potential $5.4 billion debt offering to help fund a Blackstone-backed QTS data center tied to Microsoft Corp., as bubble concerns push up costs for artificial intelligence infrastructure financings.bloom.bg
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Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices

Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas pricesEnvironmental groups renew calls for windfall tax to support households following Q2 earnings rise to $9.84bn Shell more than doubled its profit in its second quarter of the year, as Europe’s biggest oil and gas company reaped the benefits from the jump in oil and gas prices triggered by war in the Middle East. The FTSE 100 company’s net profit hit $9.84bn (£7.4bn) in the three months to June, more than double compared with the same period last year. Continue reading...www.theguardian.com
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I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”www.404media.coDr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

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