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OPEC Shakeup

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Seems like kind of a big deal: The United Arab Emirates will next month leave OPEC, a cartel of oil-producing countries, its government said on Tuesday, a decision that will weaken the group's influence over global energy markets. Emirati officials had long floated the idea of...

Conspiracy America

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A stupid country filled with stupid people leads to stupid conspiracy theories about health personified by our stupid government: In the fight over solar development, Heath said he was bombarded.

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Every asshole for himself

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I'm not even the biggest fan of billionaire's taxes, which can be a cousin of the slopulist idea that it's possible to fund a generous welfare state by taxing only the very wealthy. But the lengths plutocrats who will not be materially affected by such a...
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The End of AI

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Let’s leave aside the unreliability of the current LLMs that are often called “AI.” Leave aside the carelessness with which the label “AI” is attached to many things. Leave aside the expectation that AI will put millions out of work. The damage done by AI pictures...

The Democracy of Death

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GLOUCESTER  O, let me kiss that hand!LEAR  Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality. This (gift link) is an interesting and disturbing essay about the increasingly pharaonic obsessions of the authoritarian/plutocrat/Silicon Valley of the Kings class in our midst: The man perhaps most.

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Assassination Attempts

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One thing I have really struggled to get my head around is how memoryholed the assassination attempt on Trump was in 2024. I know people have speculations about it being a set-up and whatever. And I know people who have said these things who I never...
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