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Blessed largesse
This ... is so interesting
Meet the new neighbors.
Pretty striking video; it presents as a AOC campaign material, and it is that, but it has a lot of relevant perspective on data-center opposition. People hate these tech companies, and it's hard to say they're wrong to.
"...she and her friends have already given up on the idea that they will ever live in a 'normal' country again, because the war will last forever. She reminisced about a flight she and some friends took to Barcelona, before the war: 'That beautiful life will never return.'"
“To a large extent, much of the U.S. economy was already tangled up with Silicon Valley … But now the fate of the American financial system will be even more directly exposed to the fate of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI” @matteowong.bsky.social
So the two DOGE staffers who used ChatGPT to cut all those grants and programs and who struggled to define DEI in that viral deposition footage have a new startup: DOGE for the public sector. I wrote about them and the myth of the “builder” as a disguise for something more insidious
Workers can pause the all-seeing eye when they need to "check something personal."
He is about to take SpaceX public—pushing other AI companies to do the same.
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amazing tech executive use of AI -- asking a question about the subject of the 4 part documentary you a currently watching because you don't want to watch the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/b...
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Two former staffers have created a new, perplexing company.
