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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' | Business Insider India in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

in bad country the ruling class uses AI scoring system to ensure the compliance of the workers

Greta Thunberg labeled 'antisemite of the week' amid anti-Israel activity in c/[email protected]
“Communism bad” in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

the U.S. performed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections from 1946 to 2000

the Soviet Union and Russia engaged in 36 interventions in foreign elections from 1946 to 2000

2.25 times as many interventions, and many of them were wars no where close to US land, while many of the USSR ones listed are directly related to defeating the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WW2.

During World War II, the Soviet Union helped overthrow many puppet regimes of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan, including in East Asia and much of Europe. Soviet forces were also instrumental in ending the rule of Adolf Hitler over Germany.

Why China Is Starting a New Trade War in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

that title LMAO

Commentary: I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry - Gary Stevenson in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

He is basically rephrasing the communist manifesto while speaking at Cambridge, but go off I guess.

Commentary: I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry - Gary Stevenson in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He seems pretty earnest about it to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwCLwi_N70&t=3122s

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Commentary: I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry - Gary Stevenson (fortune.com)
 

That is what happens when you slash taxation on the richest and allow inequality to explode. Your economies die, and your children don’t eat, and they wear thick jumpers, as I did, in the winter, and they shiver, with their families, in cold homes.

Meanwhile, someone like me will be sitting in a skyscraper, just a 15-minute walk away, betting on it, and that person will become a millionaire.

Then they’ll retire and they’ll buy a luxury apartment, overlooking a marina, and they’ll sit on a huge sofa and eat porridge, and they’ll watch the budget, and they’ll cry.

And in the houses down the road, the mom doesn’t eat, and she hopes the children don’t notice. But they do.

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silver medal team (lemmy.ml)
 
UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I heard the UN awarded this Israeli envoy Erdan the UN's Yellow Star of Cringe award. Just search for 'UN Israel envoy yellow star' to see the ceremony that occurred in Oct 2023.

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Austin Bicycle Meals Offers Pedal-Powered Distribution to the Streets (www.austinchronicle.com)
 

I made it out to one of these rides on a Wednesday a few months ago. It's mutual aid distribution via bikes.

Arch Linux for gaming? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This looks really awesome. Probably going to have to install this a few places soon.