She’s one of the very few people in congress who does not accept corporate or foreign donations. She’s also hugely popular, especially among young people.

At the same time, Zohran is already delivering in NYC – when 2028 comes around, he will likely be massively popular and AOC’s association with him will give a ton of weight to the feasibility of a bold progressive vision to rebuild.

The corporate/ruling class is rightfully threatened by the possibility of an AOC presidential run – whether you mean to or not, you’re doing their work for them.

The ongoing campaign to paint AOC as a neoliberal centrist in progressive spaces is so tiring and predictable.

tbh I think this is one of the best possible uses of LLMs:

• full transparency
• rigorously annotated with links to sources
• not taking anyone’s job
• systematic analysis of a massive corpus of documents
• used to hold power to account

wtf!

Department belatedly released a report admitting that, for nearly 20 years of occupation, there existed, “a government pattern of sexual slavery on government compounds.” U.S.-trained and funded authorities, it noted, “continued to arrest, detain, penalize, and abuse many trafficking victims, including punishing sex trafficking victims for ‘moral crimes’ and sexually assaulting victims who attempted to report trafficking crimes to law enforcement officials.”

This meant that, in practice, the U.S. taxpayer was subsidizing the widespread rape of children

A community trust project (vouch) was shared here a few days ago that seems like it could be a viable solution to the kinds of problems the author is talking about.

You’re missing their point. Two things we know about Hasan:

1. He’s an influential and outspoken critic of human rights abuses, which has made him a target of the people/institutions responsible
2. He might have used a shock collar to train his dog which he might have used on stream

Even if the latter is true, giving more weight to it than the former seems pretty disproportionate (imo).

As a vegan I abhor violence toward animals (and humans) and was dismayed when I saw the original clip. But after being absolutely pummelled with bs outrage “analysis” videos, to me it became clear that there was a coordinated campaign being waged to smear him, very likely from those whose abuses he criticizes.

If he uses a shock collar to train his dog, I do not like that. Ultimately, my conclusion though is that I do know that he has consistenty taken a stand against fascism, and to me it is clear which of those has more substance.

Sure, but this isn’t really about google – it’s about people who are worried about being abducted by the government and want their employer to protect them. And I’m sure this is a sentiment shared by employees at many companies across the country.

The difference here is that if any company is in a position to meaningfully protect their employees, it should be google. I think a natural question from this is, how can people most effectively get their employers to use their power to make their lives safer in this environment?

Yea, sorry that was rude. Just frustrated by how amazon contributes so significantly to so many of the US’s problems, and yet so many people are still perfectly happy to continue supporting them.

I wonder if OpenAI will give a cut of their cut to the creators whose content they trained their models on

lol nice advertisement Mr Bezos

what search engine do you prefer?

This isn’t very surprising to me and I’m not too mad about it tbh. My impression is that Rossman is passionate about open-source and right-to-repair, and after connecting with Eron, he was offered his dream job that would allow him to get paid to work on his passion in Austin with Eron. Eron is very wealthy which provides the funding but also comes with sketchy friends. Eron exploits Rossman’s authenticity and puts him in a tough spot.

cool, what tax software? (open source?)

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