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Garfield and Friends Screens @[Link] · 24m

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David Wessel @[Link] · 18m
@[Link] at his most trenchant. The Economics of
Technological Change: What history and models can (and can’t) tell us
about AI [Link]/pub/paulkrug...

The Economics of Technological Change

What history and models can (and can’t) tell us about AI

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Mark Chadbourn @[Link] · 1h

The Saudis say they’ve been authorised to strike back against Iran if
there are more attacks on their country. (CNN)
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Mark Chadbourn @[Link] · 21m

Foreign ministers from Gulf states are to hold a video call to discuss their
response to Iran’s retaliatory attacks. (Reuters)
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Mark Chadbourn @[Link] · 20m

Six dead in the Iranian strike on Beit Shemesh, Israel.
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AM @[Link] · 8h
@[Link] @[Link] please help I just
stumbled onto kids sunblock that claims to block WiFi radiation???

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Mother Jones @[Link] · 10h
"Trump has no plan for Iran. Just blow shit up, kill some people, and
hope for the best. It is the war of a Mad King."

“Massive” war launched by a man with no plan. Again.

Donald Trump is repeating George W. Bush's catastrophic mistakes.

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Carmen Celestini @[Link] · 26m
So one warmongering dictator is disappointed in another.

Reuters @[Link] · 1h
Vladimir Putin described the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei as murder
and said it violated all the norms of human morality and international
law [Link]/4cSIObM

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Albert Pinto @[Link] · 7h
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Are we in an undeclared world war? After each of these days I felt that
everything wd change for the worse
24th Feb 2022 - Russian invasion of Ukraine
7th Oct 2022 - US AI chips blockade of China
7th Oct 2023 - Hamas attack on Israel
28th Feb 2026 - Israel+US regime change Iran
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herman mark schwartz @[Link] · 40m
Yes. With an overlay of gangland struggles for control over market
territory.
Both WW started with regional conflicts (Balkan wars, Morocco, Sudan //
Manchuria-N. China, Ethiopia, Albania, Spain) & escalating great power
involvement often with self-delusion about risks.

Albert Pinto @[Link] · 7h

Are we in an undeclared world war? After each of these days I felt
that everything wd change for the worse
24th Feb 2022 - Russian invasion of Ukraine
7th Oct 2022 - US AI chips blockade of China
7th Oct 2023 - Hamas attack on Israel
28th Feb 2026 - Israel+US regime change Iran

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Albert Pinto @[Link] · 1h

Where do oil prices go now that Iran counterattacks w missiles all across
the Gulf.
A literal trillion dollar question
Insurance → shipping costs → oil prices → a global inflationary shock.
reporting @[Link]
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Albert Pinto @[Link] · 37m

There will dead Iranians, dead Israelis and dead Americans by the end of
the day. What do you expect each of these rational men - Trump,
Netanyahu, Khamenei - with enraged publics and radicalised regimes
will then do?

It’s an inherently escalatory dynamic.

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Albert Pinto @[Link] · 3d

"Each stage begins as limited.
Each stage produces a failure relative to its objective.
Each failure generates fear.
Each fear justifies escalation.

The pattern is structural, not emotional"

Robert Pape the preeminent expert on air power starts Substack!

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The Smart Bomb Trap

How Precision Strikes Expand the Wars They Aim to Contain

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Albert Pinto @[Link] · 28m

Whose oil and gas sails through the Strait of Hormuz?
• Most exports from Saudi, Iraq, UAE, Iran, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar

Where does it go?

• Majority China and India

For what?
• Refined products & fertilizers.

But its not just about physical flows of hydrocarbons but impact on
financial markets

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Emmett Macfarlane @[Link] · 29m

Any university faculty member grading using AI should be fired.
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Emmett Macfarlane @[Link] · 31m

Important read from Dan Gardner. [Link]/p/putinism-
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Putinism Haș Come To America

The early years of Putin are the most relevant history now

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bad bisque @[Link] · 4d
a hearty breakfast of steamed toast
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Mark Chadbourn @[Link] · 31m

Yesterday I asked how stupid Trump’s supporters were. Would they keep
supporting him now that he’s gone against his fundamental promise not
to engage the US in foreign wars? Watching Rep Anna Paulina Luna on
CNN the answer is very stupid.
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Emmett Macfarlane @[Link] · 31m

The same is true for some of the big ones. The University of Waterloo is
still gutting the Faculty of Arts.

Thomas Peace @[Link] · 57m

Small #universities matter now more than ever. They provide a
model for teaching & learning that resists the convenience of #AI &
they are also cost effective. In #Ontario, however, systematic
underfunding puts these universities at risk.
[Link]/opinion/colu... #onpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpse

Peace: Funding boost little solace for Ontario's small

universities
A recent funding announcement by the provincial government won't
change the trajectoy of small universities, a local academic says

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orcus @[Link] · 1d
inspecting the flows, sampling the flows, nurturing flows
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Wilbur Mudd @[Link] · 2h
Stretching out my fav podcasts list across the Atlantic - not for the last
time - my next plug is for the fabulous @[Link]
Discord and Rhyme takes it's name from the lyric from Duran Duran's
'Hungry Like the Wolf' and that's just a hint of the depth with which the
team delve into..
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𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 @[Link] · 2d
my advice for any young deweys out there.. get yourself a decimal
system
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Quest Abandoner @[Link] · 41m

Treasure hunters should check out large amounts of silver and jewels
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Jacob Silverman @[Link] · 47m

Yesterday a lawyer told me he hadn't read a book in 50 years.
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leon @[Link] · 11h
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this
elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool.
also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck
soldier

Max Kennerly @[Link] · 11h

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest
prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

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[Link] @[Link] · 55m
the attack was spectacularly reckless and evil and everyone wants
blowback to be immediate, but reality is right now Iran is the pariah
state. Nobody seeing Iran lash out at its closest neighbors is thinking
"ah, now is the time to move against the US" [Link]/profile/paul...

Paul Nadeau @[Link] · 12h

I'd like everyone to be careful about the "U.S. is a pariah state now"
takes. The world can't afford for the U.S. to be a pariah state.
Smartest thing American hegemony accomplished. No one is
rebuilding those structures in a year or two and U.S. centrality
remains the path of least resistance

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Hypervisible @[Link] · 54m
“There’s very little evidence on the actual impact of these technologies
on violent crime rates at all…”

Surveillance company Flock generates controversy — and a roster

of L.A. clients
Other cities have ended their relationships with Flock Safety over its ties to the
federal government and concerns about cybersecurity and privacy. But …

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Yakov Feygin @[Link] · 1h

China reading bombing to win?

accidentalflyer @[Link] · 6h
Wish people have more geographic knowledge. The Taiwan strait is
at least 110 miles wide, not only that, Taiwan basically a giant
volcanic island so the terrain raises up quickly, with few beaches,
and the military has had decades building bunkers on mountains.

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Yakov Feygin @[Link] · 55m

This says bombing not missiles. We’re built different.
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[Link] @[Link] · 1h
i hate this post lol
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Eugene Finkel @[Link] · 5h
I would be really interested to know what's going on in Putin’s head right
now. Yes, it's a dark and scary place and normally I wouldn't want to go
there, but still.

According to Putin and other Kremlin insiders he was absolutely shaken

by the US intervention in Lybia and especially Gaddafi's death
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Hypervisible @[Link] · 21h
“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself
estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal
intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing.

Then it took over his life.
Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started
spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

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Biollante @[Link] · 1h
They're sitting in an air conditioned room on a $10 billion aircraft carrier,
piloting a $30 million drone to drop a $5 million bomb on an elementary
school. The only thing they're sacrificing is your money

Rachel Vindman @[Link] · 10h

Thinking of all the military members serving in these operations.
They courageously go where duty calls. Their sacrifices represent
the best of us and they deserve leaders of integrity.

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