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The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats — By NICK HANAUER

See also his Wikipedia page in the section on his controversial TED talk where he said:

Businesses and the rich do not create jobs. Jobs are created by a feedback loop between customers and businesses that is set in motion by consumers increasing their demand....

If lower income tax rates for the wealthy really worked we would be drowning in jobs, and yet unemployment and underemployment is at record highs

TED refused to publish the talk.

In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her

Trusting unsourced graphs is as stupid as trusting AI.

In Australia Palantir collects shopper data of customers in the stores of one of the three major supermarket chains: Coles.

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/economic-fairness-30a37751-ec16-4026-a076-e283f3b4092f/coles-palantir/who-s-watching-while-we-shop

Yes but if the presenters didn't mention it, I could not detect boos from the video alone.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iZRAa4fKZ3U

I have noticed this often when someone gets booed. Pretty obvious when you are there but not on video. As an audio nerd it has me perplexed.

How did Amazon know the lag?

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png

600k Australians protested against the Iraq war in 2003.

The population was about 20m so 3.5% of that is 700k. So if another 100k had joined then the protest would have succeeded?

ChatGPT is just as stupid.

You missed the pun.

Fuck this. Enough spam as it is. Tie every fucking line on the planet to an id.

Phreeli won’t, at least, offer a platform for spammers and robocallers, Merrill says. Even without knowing users’ identities, he says the company will block that kind of bad behavior by limiting how many calls and texts users are allowed, and banning users who appear to be gaming the system. “If people think this is going to be a safe haven for abusing the phone network, that’s not going to work,” Merrill says.

Don't call me surely.

Risks exist. Be informed.

He is revealing the risk, he is informing. He is indignant that it is a risk which is deliberately obscured by the manufacturer. It is not a traditional risk most buyers would expect and the manufacturer is exploiting that.

It is reasonable to expect to DIY your brake pads without this exorbitant price.

Good faith trading vs bad

That's the Peter Principle.

This comment, summarising the author's own admission, shows AI can't reason:

this new result was just a matter of search and permutation and not discovery of new mathematics.

eg Ghandi succeeded for this reason.

They act as if the alternative practitioners are immune from corruption.

Some autistic people can be selfish or rude like anyone else but people focus on them being weird instead. Weirdness is the problem of the intolerant normie who feels uncomfortable.

https://archive.is/2025.12.05-050710/https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/

Paragon’s “zero-click” Graphite program can quietly invade the mobile phone of its target and extract its contents, even from encrypted apps.

How? Screen scraping? That would involve installing malware on each phone.