Adam Cook

The path matters. The equitable *ownership* of discovery, cures and capabilities matter - far more than the result. As can be readily seen throughout history (and especially in the current political environment globally), progress for me is very often not progress for a whole lot of thee.

As expected, you cannot trust Trump's USPS to return your mail ballot. Hand it off in person. www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

Elon’s alpha relative to coreweave is he’s simply more brazen at doing crimes.

I think the lesson from Lula is not never talk about the opposition; it's articulate a positive vision that's basically, We Can Just Do Things. That's why Mamdani-ism is so popular - voters have an intrinsic sense that their electeds have agency they're not using

Speaking as a Michigander, hard to see the calculus on this one. Hoping for a big, last-minute Musk cash infusion? Rogers internals look really bad? Musk is an espoused white suprematist and that won't win much in the City of Detroit. Even in the burbs/outstate... Musk won't register at all.

Yep, just to add even more color for how bad this is—there are tons of American made vehicles that are basically only exported to Canada because they’re too expensive for most consumers in Mexico and too big for consumers in Europe/Asia. One of endless reasons it was dumb to start this trade war.

The more I read about how the tide turned in Brazil the more I find it a larger scale version of how Minneapolis fought back and turned the tide against ICE. It was normies and neighbors getting organized and using alt channels of communication to band together and fight.

like, are the frontier labs pragmatic enough to develop limited but value-creating use cases without letting the big vision of AGI destroy the economics? There's more opportunity for that in coding than ADAS, but also the temptation to overreach is much bigger as well.

sorry it's very funny to post an S-1 that basically describes how you're developing a digital superintelligence tantamount to a god while also not doing optical character recognition on your co-founders' 8-page letter that opens it

*MICROSOFT TO OFFER BUYOUTS TO 60,000 WORKERS IN LATEST COST CUT 27% of its workforce!!!!!

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

A reminder that logging off is always an option.

Chips and Cheese is one of my favorite technical newsletters. Just really well done all around. The delivery tempo combined with the quality is simply amazing. That is all.

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It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

I'm glad that "MUSK" got a theatrical release, not a lot of documentaries do, but I get why a lot of people would rather watch a film like this from home just a few more weeks before you can rent it!

“I don’t lose, I just decline to run for a second term when my approval rating is in the 20s”

Elon Musk's audacious campaign to keep Alex Gibney's Musk out of theaters and social media shows the fantastic power Musk wields in America today, especially the power to squelch his critics. www.status.news/p/elon-musk-...

This is corruption by #Amazon It’s currying favor It’s a form of bribery It’s part of a RICO scheme But I am very doubtful anyone will investigate. This is also a state level crime. Any state where Amazon does business can investigate.

"Conflict of interest rules preclude Musk from speaking to the board committees." They do not. There is no such rule, oh my god. www.ft.com/content/dfe6...

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

Accomplishments and readiness milestones for Artemis Going forward

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Final Sept UMich survey takeaways: •Sentiment slipped versus initial estimates. •Current conditions sank to 2nd-lowest on record, though expectations improved. •1-yr inflation expectations edged higher to 4.7%. (Unlikely to prompt a Fed hike next week, but cements odds for December) Bloomberg charts

I am seriously concerned about what this could mean for the integrity of our election process in November

S&P Global Flash US PMI: ‘Selling price inflation picked up further momentum in October. The overall rise in prices across goods and services was the largest since August 2022. The upturn in price pressures was also broad-based.’ www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/...

Services & Mfg PMI prices jumped markedly in the October flash read 'The overall rise in prices across goods and services was the largest since August 2022.'

what did he know ..... 4️⃣

Polling and the over all political consultation is a multimillion industry and this “problem” is the lack of regulation. Like many industries this one is allowed to self regulate and the problems and sometimes fraud gets caught afterwards. It’s been broken.

About 1% of Germany population was Jewish in the early 1930s.