Leon Black

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

Trading Places
'nuf said

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and into less-developed areas.

With @oregonian.com

To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.

Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.

Going to say this isn’t the *greatest* of attack lines.

Been going through my collection finding other such albums that are perfect.
Otis Blue
Blue Lines
The Boatman's Call
Unknown Pleasures
Dummy
The Queen is Dead

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

The feature, which launched in August, claims to help you “sharpen your message through the lens of industry-relevant perspectives.” When users select the “expert review” button in the Grammarly sidebar, it analyzes their writing and surfaces AI-generated suggestions “inspired by” related experts. Those “industry-relevant perspectives” include the likes of Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, among many others. The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon, Gizmodo’s Raymond Wong, Digital Foundry founder Richard Leadbetter, Tom’s Guide editor-in-chief Mark Spoonauer, former Rock Paper Shotgun editor-in-chief Katharine Castle, and former IGN news director Kat Bailey. The descriptions for some experts contain inaccuracies, such as outdated job titles, which could have been accurately updated had Superhuman asked those people for permission to reference their work.

The endpoint of journalism is that an AI startup turns you into a fake "editor" without telling you and against your will www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

I'm gonna steal your meme, but before I do, I'm gonna hit the like button. I got manners and shit.

Treated myself to Kind of Blue on vinyl. It's perfect from the first to the last note.

Id always assumed it was aimed at those who maybe don't have happy memories. I can't send him a card, but I sure as hell think of my dad each father's day and it brings me joy.

Fun fact. If a snail had departed the Russian border heading West through Ukraine 4 years ago when the Russian military invaded (again), that snail would now be somewhere in mid Poland. The Russian military however, is not. Russia, officially less effective & slower than a snail.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

'Last year, Trump said his military intervention had “obliterated” [Iran's] nuclear capacity. Two weeks ago... Steve Witkoff said [it was] “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material”. It is impossible for both these statements to be true.'

They can both be false though.

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

www.wsj.com/business/med...

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.

There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.

cow, who has indeed seen some shit, peeking out from a building

This cow has SEEN some shit.

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Thinking that bombing countries, wiping out civilians and ignoring international law is woke nonsense, or something

Sheep are disappearing from the UK's hills - and its dinner plates Have we have passed

This is an interesting feature on sheep farming in the UK, asking whether sheep farming has a future here…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

VOODOO RAY A GUY CALLED GERALD

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CEREMONY NEW ORDER

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World's Worst Canadian?
Too early for Drake or Bieber, which leaves Dion, Adams or Nickelback

Just shows how much contempt Reform has for their own supporters. This is a policy that helps the kids of the wealthy educated liberal elites they claim to despise. And would harm the types of constituency they do well in.

New Ayatollah just dropped.

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”