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There it is. Trump’s Treasury nominee just said “extending” Trump’s tax handouts for billionaires is their TOP priority: “This is the single most important economic issue of the day.”

The AI critics have been proved right about basically everything so far. But one thing that has surprised me is how much the companies are trying to FORCE us to look at GenAI. Top of every Google search. Bottom of every viral tweet. No way to let users turn off. Seems desperate.

Adam Ozimek Scott Lincicome We really don't have to wonder about it because it implies that AI companies respect copyright and that their quality isn't already built on mountains of stolen IP x.com/kortizart/stat…

This Guardian excerpt from two years ago gives you a sense of where my research as an Elon Musk biographer is headed. Understand this: Elon Musk and his friends are not your pals. They don't consider you their equal. They're creating global crises they don't plan to suffer in.

When I speak with students about majoring in English, reluctance is wholly driven by the faulty impression that it will harm their job prospects. The idea they are not majoring in it because of how it is taught, or because of trends in contemporary scholarship, is a fiction.

1. Want some fun news before the Monday inauguration that you won't have heard anywhere else? The antitrust enforcers (Lina Khan et al) went full Tony Montana on big business this week before Trump people took over. Here's just part of what they did.

Oh wow, OpenAI actually made the accusation, they're cooked. You can't steal everyone else's IP to train, then turn around and claim someone took it from you. In what world is laundered IP more protected than the original work? This is absolutely going to hurt them in court.

"Cruelty is the central tenet of right wing ideology. It is at the heart of everything they do. They are now quite willing to lose money or their lives in order to make the world a crueller place, and AI is a part of this" newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/…

This is completely insane. First of all, lectures cannot be five minutes. Secondly, neuroscience research teaches us that learning is inherently frustrating. That feeling is the brain learning new things. It feels HARD because it is HARD. There's no way round this.

Ah yes, just because Elon Musk loathes Sam Altman does not mean Altman isn't one of the worst people on Earth, after Musk.

'Never physically hurt anyone?' People are dying from the cuts to USAID that he's so gleeful about so there's that. He is indeed a deadly threat to many human beings but whines that he doesn't understand why he's hated? Dude, you're hated because you're a sadist, that's why.

🚨 BREAKING: Hundreds of Hollywood creatives & celebrities wrote a response to Trump's AI Action Plan, demanding that copyright law be respected. Read their letter (my highlights):

Having written on submarine policy ten years ago I knew from the beginning that AUKUS was a mirage and these subs were a fantasy never to materialise.

I will not stand for this JD Mandel erasure. Although to be fair, he's only the horse's arse, not the whole equine.

Decadence. Utter decadence. They have no idea how good they have it and blew up the world's strongest economy. Yes, their level of inequality is a disgrace but this is not the way to fix it and they aren't even trying.

Wanna to trigger some of MAGA’s cult wing…. Enjoy:

Why cannot a single Maga spell its/it's and your/you're? Not a single one of them. All sharing the same brain cell I guess.

'Didn't see this coming' - how is this possible? The Orange never shut up about tariffs. Hard to feel proper empathy for such wilful stupidity and cruelty. I guess they were all happy for others to suffer and can't believe the vultures are coming home to roost for them.

Yeah. The British invented concentration camps during the Boer War. Too many people think of extermination camps when they claim hyperbole about concentration camps.

Gentle reader: God does not, in fact, have her back. Oh boy it's incredible that you don't understand even the slightest bit of what is coming down on you with this bill. Or what you've already lost with the DOGE wrecking ball.