Those Russian propagandists. Lucky the US doesn't engage in propaganda.

There's something special about propaganda served up with hot polonium tea.

People are too afraid to challenge their billionaire bosses, so they go after immigrants, because immigrants seem like easy targets. It's basic human cowardice underneath.

Going after immigration is challenging their billionaire bosses. Whose bottom line do you think is benefiting from all the cheap labor immigration brings? I don't get how folks got so confused about this in the last 10 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

Satya Nadella is both a billionaire boss and an Indian immigrant.

Seems like regulation will just be an excuse for them just to end up policing themselves and get the regulatory capture they've been begging for. Have they faced any consequences for the AI worms they've released? It's not like there are no laws around that already. The problem isn't lack of laws; the government works for the plutocrats, not for us.

Yes, the right generalization of Georgism is the taxation of economic rent in its various forms - something which George himself opposed.

> something which George himself opposed.

Do you have a source on this?

> economic rent

What's the definition of this term?

Basically money you make by owning some legal right rather than by doing something productive

Another argument for turning finance into a public utility. Instead we have different factions of rentier capital competing for who gets to parasitize us.

>Another argument for turning finance into a public utility

There already is a public option in the US, FedNow. In EU there's SEPA instant.

Not quite. FedNow is public payment infrastructure for institutions. Apple Pay is consumer-facing.

Nothing can stand in the way of America's forever wars, genocide, and automated killing, including performative objections by a prominent tech company.

I suppose we're supposed to be satisfied that the letter of the law supports this steamroller? Because that's what matters?

The legal apparatus is one of the tools the death machine uses to get what it wants.

Mental health plus ad profiles, what could go wrong? I can't help but wonder about the moral fiber of the mental health professionals they say they consulted for this.

For some reason, people think that it's money that's motivating the billionaires' performances. Imagine.

I think it is money that is motivating OpenAI (et al) to irresponsibly develop a dangerous new form of intelligence that they don’t know how to control

Cooperative deescalation is the right direction.