... a 70-year old chief medical officer at the California-based firm Immix Biopharma was found to be a fugitive sex predator who disappeared during his 2005 trial. Though he went by Richard Graydon in the more than twenty years since, his real name turns out to be Ronald Fischer — an anesthesiologist accused of raping numerous women on his various yachts (yes, plural).

 

House Democrats who voted against cutting US aid to Israel received three times as much money from pro-Israel donors as those who voted in favor. (Median = 3.1 times as much.)

Democrats who voted against the amendment accepted an average of $348,239; those who voted in favor received $115,932 on average. All together, $34 million in pro-Israel cash was behind the votes against cutting aid to Israel.

Did the money actually buy votes? Or did the money simply help keep in office politicians who are comfortable ignoring voters?1 Neither option is very good.

 

House Democrats who voted against cutting US aid to Israel received three times as much money from pro-Israel donors as those who voted in favor. (Median = 3.1 times as much.)

Democrats who voted against the amendment accepted an average of $348,239; those who voted in favor received $115,932 on average. All together, $34 million in pro-Israel cash was behind the votes against cutting aid to Israel.

Did the money actually buy votes? Or did the money simply help keep in office politicians who are comfortable ignoring voters?1 Neither option is very good.

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There is no "AI". If you're claiming that this image was generated with a computer, then of course. Who cares? There are real problems out there. "AI" is literally being used to genocide palestinians.

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    Top executives at leading Western AI companies are increasingly warning about the safety and national security risks posed by Chinese open-weight frontier models. What they tend not to mention is that these models are improving rapidly and, because they are freely available, pose a serious threat to Western labs’ business models.

    The most powerful models from U.S. labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are closed, meaning the parameters that shape their outputs are kept secret.

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    Yeah I was taught about "free will" as part of my religious upbringing. It's essential to the ideology of blame, guilt, etc. It's absolutely amazing how many people accept this pseudo-science without question. It's very very clear why hegemony wants to instill this ideology. It's fundamental to violent control. People deserve to be controlled because they abuse their "free will".

    Let's see how many downvotes this post gets without any response. That's the power of mythology. lol.

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    All that AI capex needs to be funded, and the long-maturity debt that tech companies are pouring into the market is competing with Treasuries for bond buyers. That’s one of the reasons the US 30-year bond yield has held above 5% for the longest stretch since the start of the financial crisis. The deluge of issuance to fund AI infrastructure is coinciding with growing concern about a deteriorating fiscal picture.

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