A Simple Use for AI: Product Searches Uncluttered by Promo
WARNING TO READERS: This post has little directly to do with politics but may help you save time in your work and personal life. Have you noticed that product searches on Google or Amazon (and...
View ArticleThe Recap: Trump gets a big-boy cop badge, and government invades the free...
A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.Governor slaps down Trump's threat to invade another Black-led cityIt’s past time to push...
View ArticleTrump's Silicon Valley buddies are about to crash
Tally up Donald Trump’s speeches, press conferences, and executive orders since returning to office in January and you’ll find the president keeps coming back to the same topic—and it isn’t...
View ArticleFrom Rand to Robots: How Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Las Vegas Tell the...
Part 1: Hedge Funds and the Rand FactorIf there’s a modern business figure who could have stepped straight out of Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, it might be Eddie Lampert. As Bloomberg reported in a detailed...
View ArticleCartoon: Choose your chatbot
A cartoon by Brian McFadden.Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Patreon, or at my website.Related | Inside the Trump administration's deranged push to power AI with dirty energy
View ArticleElon Musk and the Dark Enlightenment
Sometimes reality is not only stranger than fiction — the resemblance is too close for comfort!This thought came to mind as I read that, in deciding last week whether to form his new America Party,...
View ArticleCA Senate Votes for Regional Electricity Deregulation Bill Despite Concerns...
You know when a MAGA Republican Senator calls a piece of controversial energy legislation a “Big Beautiful Bill” that it isn’t going to serve the residents of the state of California.But that’s what...
View ArticleVOX Article Claims Silicon Valley Tech Bros Are Getting Burned By Trump's...
If you can believe Vox, some Silicon Valley tech bros are feeling burned by their support for Donald Trump during the last election, or I guess you could call it “buyer’s remorse.” President Biden...
View ArticleCartoon: Whack apps
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View ArticleThe Unwisdom of Silicon Valley. Or Read a Dman Book
Clever way to avoid censor in the title, eh? Although now ChatGPT will think that is how the word is spelled.Yesterday there was a brief thread in Blue Sky around Silcon Valley venture capitalists...
View ArticleWhat Happened? How are DEI, pronouns, trigger warnings, and Silicon Valley...
OOOF! Where lies sanity now?This was a good and thoughtful column by Joe Klein to America's self-imposed and dramatic political Decline surged by Trump’s return to the White House. I don’t agree with...
View ArticleWhy some Silicon Valley billionaire bros want Trump to be the ‘CEO of America’
The former president has attracted growing support from tech investors, who are seeking favorable tax policies and more deregulation that could widen inequality.By Daria Solovieva for Capital &...
View ArticleJD Vance's Startup Was Hell on Earth Before It Went Bankrupt
CNN’s expose on JD Vance’s failed foray into American business is brutal and something every American should read. The D in JD evidently stands for dilettante. Like lambs to the slaughter, Eastern...
View ArticleBarbarism's trickle-down with a transhumanist's eyeliner
Ret-conning ineffectual altruism and the PayPal mafia doing "the same douchebag gaslighting"Framing the anarcho-capitalist wetdreaming of election 2024 as a false dichotomy where "One is running a...
View ArticleCartoon: Sam Altman's AI bubble-burstin' blowout
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View ArticleAI Money Should Be Spent on Doing Something Useful
I have talked about this before, but two recent news items bring it back to the fore. First, OpenAI is on pace to lose approximately 5 billion (with a B) dollars this year. The Imitative AI industry...
View ArticleHow Art Thou Crazy? Let Me Count the Ways
Here’s the One Weird Trick to understanding the techbro billionaires who represent the emerging next generation of Conservative Funders.Long Termism.It’s the belief we must prioritize the long term...
View ArticleWhat do you call tech billionaires who back Trump? Fascists. You call them...
Here's a new CNN story about Silicon Valley billionaire's newly emphatic embrace of the coup-attempting convicted felon Donald Trump, and it's positively enraging because it continues to peddle the...
View ArticleI Wanna Tweet Like Common People Do
Jack Dorsey has officially left the board of Bluesky, letting the world know via a rambling interview. In that interview, Dorsey inadvertently highlights the anti-equality, ant-liberty view of too...
View ArticleLimiting The Power Of Silicon Valley Oligarchs: Musk's $56 Billion...
The wage gap between CEOs and workers continues to rise, with estimates last year showing that the CEOs in the country’s 300 largest firms earned an average of $10.6 million a year, compared to the...
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