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Nicolaas Stulting is creating Moon Maiden Mission, which is a digital story set in an alternate universe. He is an artist, musician, photographer, 3D modeler, and writer who is learning about modern technologies and new skills these days.
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Cool. This will reduce the likelihood of wasting time with bots and fake accounts.
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People need to tell them that unnecessarily firing American workers at a massive scale is a major source of job loss for American workers, and even if one of them profits from replacing the workflows forever with his own AI tools, those job losses actually hurt real Americans, and hurt America.
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There are 300 million Americans and just one richest man in the world who was not elected by anybody. Seems like he just needs to hear from 300 million Americans about how almost everybody hates his ideas.
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Keep up the good work. Strong opposition to the richest man in the world attacking Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid exists in the hearts and minds of most Americans, so fight for us all. Subpoena the richest man in the world to your committee to answer questions and get him to resign.
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That is the right side for every Senator to be on in this situation. These are American workers losing American jobs. Nobody in government should be cheerleading unemployment for American workers or financially profiting from it by replacing their workflows with AI tools they made.
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I bet a lot of people have had an experience like this with a bad boss - there’s an email in your inbox on Saturday night saying, “Prove to me your worthiness by Monday or else.”
I’m on the side of the workers, not the billionaire asshole bosses.
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I think the supporters of this crusade of hate know there is no difference, and it is only the people who are not hateful in their hearts who imagine there may be any possible difference based upon the usage of language and labels. It is openly racism to fire anyone because they are Black.
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I think they really need to be held accountable for firing many American workers so they can give more money to the richest man in the world. It is an absurd situation that many Americans see as inherently wrong, because it is wrong.
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I agree with Sherrilyn Ifill. “A backlash is a pushback. This is really much more of a demolition effort.” This current situation is the most disgustingly overt racist, sexist, homophobic, and xenophobic attack against human rights that we have seen in my lifetime. It is best to stand against it.
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Musk has threatened to cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals.
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Since it just came up... The richest man in the world is Tesla's largest individual shareholder, holding about 13% of its stock.
Vanguard at 7.5%and BlackRock at 6.1% are major institutional investors. His wealth largely comes from this stock he owns. He currently owns $200 billion of it.
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The coincidence seems so odd, that I really did just get a guy on the street to look it up himself on his own phone to verify that I had not completely lost my mind. He said he saw it too and would now probably wander down that rabbit hole all afternoon. It is certainly a strange coincidence.
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Not sure what you posted, but sometimes you really do have to trust people, so I am glad you found people you trust that much.
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The guy was certainly not Thomas Edison. The more you read about him, the more you really do question using his name for a company of such significance on the global stage.
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In 1937 Nikola Tesla said in an interview, "A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."
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"Tesla expressed the belief that human "pity" had come to interfere with the natural "ruthless workings of nature". Though his argumentation did not depend on a concept of a "master race" or the inherent superiority of one person over another, he advocated for eugenics." Also, odd.
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"In the late 1920s, Tesla befriended George Sylvester Viereck, a poet, writer, mystic, and later, a Nazi propagandist. Tesla occasionally attended dinner parties held by Viereck and his wife." This is also odd.
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It is probably just a meaningless historical rabbit hole that leads nowhere, but it certainly caught me off guard while I was reading the article simply to learn more about the namesake of the company with so much influence right now. It is very strange, honestly, but probably not important.
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Again, it is a very big world, and every family has well known electrical engineers who worked for the government, right? It is just such a strange coincidence, and I have no knowledge beyond what I read on Wikipedia, so it is merely a curiosity, that makes the imagination ponder stuff.
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"John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and a well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the Tesla items. After a three-day investigation, Trump's report concluded that there was nothing which would constitute..."
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It is truly hard to comprehend it as a blunder, as it appears so intentional.
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I think there will be some loyalists, but many of the workflows will probably be replaced by AI tools owned and controlled by whoever is gifted that government contract. It is a sad state of affairs to permanently lose so many American jobs to AI tools run by billionaires for their profit, forever.
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It is a really toxic brand now, and most people realize that the stock for that company funded the rise of power for someone making very bad decisions for everyone now.
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Blocking is awesome. It is such a time saver.
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I was very polite about raising my points, about how people who lose their jobs, or their healthcare, or their hope for any kind of survival might really not like the cheerleaders cheering for their destruction. It was a simple idea, but finally I do not see the cheerleaders cheering, which is nice.
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This is only on my own street, and I am not saying that everyone should do what I did, as I am a straight white older man who has lived on my street for two decades. I am just mentioning it because there was room in the conversations I had to at least get the hats and flags to go away on my street.
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It was not as though I have actually thought that the red hats are not a symbol for a hate movement, as that has been clear for some time, but now since they are beginning to do the Nazi salutes in public, you really can just openly ask them about whether they think it is a hate movement or not.
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Many people are being badly affected, and in so many ways, so it seems crucial for our society to ask each red hat enthusiast why they wanted these changes, why they wear these hats, and how they feel about the consequences of their choices now. Owning the consequences is important, for all of us.
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Since the consequences are so widespread, with the losses to healthcare, the losses to American jobs, the losses to so many services that Americans need to survive properly, I think it is entirely sensible to ask red hat enthusiasts how they feel about personally voting to harm you when it happens.
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It seems like a good policy, if people belong to a hate movement to give them a chance to decide if they meant to be known as part of a hate movement or not. Anyone who does not strongly disavow Nazis, and deflects, is probably a white supremacist, so it is good to know who these people really are.
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The lack of surprise, and the deflection was really important to see, as this quickly led to me saying I was not asking about European Nazis, but about how many Nazis are currently in the red hat movement and in our government now. If they do this in the open, it is fair to ask about openly now.
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I definitely borrow good ideas from people on here, and I do hope that whenever I actually have sensible suggestions that people will borrow my ideas, as well. I am very comfortable with people borrowing ideas from any of my Bluesky posts, as that is why I post the ideas, for others to make use of.
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I had seen much wiser people than myself suggesting such ideas on Bluesky and realizing that I lacked the proper connections and resources to host such a meeting, I quickly found someone who knew someone that had both. It was a butterfly effect. I am going to see if this can become a regular event.
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I do think ignorance that is chosen is a very serious issue, but sadly it is still so rampant here now. Many people here took a mental vacation after the election loss, and that vacation lasted too long considering the speed with which full blown authoritarianism can rise in moments when unchecked.
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Thank you. I do not feel courageous at all, or actually very patient really. It is difficult to navigate the space that I find myself in, as the people most likely to engage with me in real life, currently are the people I have the strongest disagreement with. I feel like I need to apply strategies.