Walters: Union leaders warn Newsom their campaign support hinges on his AI stance -- National labor union leaders, and those from California and early presidential primary states, are gathering in Sacramento this week to bluntly warn Gavin Newsom that union support for his 2028 presidential campaign hinges on protecting jobs from artificial intelligence. Dan Walters Calmatters -- 2/4/26
The idea that Techie’s love disruption is such a load of bs. It’s not comfortable to see conventions break. Just try seeing how hacker news reacts to a lot of politics articles for example
How might humans in America and beyond pioneer a new sense of home and belonging in this crazy mixed up world?
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My friends in the abundance movement say that America has a housing crisis, and they are right. But more elementally, America has a home crisis. When people do not believe they have a secure emotional, physical and spiritual home, they become risk averse, stagnant, cynical, anxious and aggressive. This is not the way America is supposed to be!
In the US, “nerd” is still basically a childhood insult. It carries the residue of being picked last, talked over, shoved into lockers literal or social. In other places that stigma never quite landed the same way. In parts of East Asia, Northern Europe, even India, being bookish or technical is closer to a civic virtue than a social failure. The result matters. When you grow up marinating in the idea that intelligence makes you weak or contemptible, success can feel less like stewardship and more like revenge.
A lot of tech founders seem trapped in a bully complex in reverse. They cast themselves as heroes correcting an unjust world, but the script they’re acting out is still organized around domination. When you finally get power and still think you’re the kid being shoved, you don’t build institutions. You settle scores. At scale. With real consequences. The tragedy isn’t that the mammals became dinosaurs. It’s that they never stopped believing extinction was the only ending on offer.
"Some of the worst impacts include chronic groundwater depletion, overallocation of water, deforestation, pollution and degradation to land and soil, according to a report released Tuesday by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
As a result, many regions around the world are experiencing a "post-crisis condition," which entails irreversible losses of natural water capital and an inability to bounce back to historic baselines, the researchers said." https://abcnews.go.com/International/planet-entered-era-water-bankruptcy-new-report/story?id=129422093
how do folks parallel process claude code type tasks? perhaps a n00b q though finding that it's something that would be nice to do in parallel and the various mcp interactions can be a bit distracting
like would it be crazy to have a dedicated machine for use of claude code and then another for good ole fashione hci
What would be the best service to hypothetically hire an actor to show up in Cupertino dressed up like the hammer throwing woman from that famous Apple 1984 ad with the message that Steve would never do something so craven as lick a presidents boots. Like see the spicy emails Steve sent Obama. No holds barred. No filter. Just vision pure and simple. Now there’s a second tier echo at Apple. You can see it in the iPhone 42x “now with four photo lens AND a new port” lameness. You can see it in the watching of Melania at the White House like a craven bootlicker. You an feel the weight of gold crushing the dream of a computer in every home, the spirit of revolution dying in favor of a little extra oomph for teh quarterly results and not quite so terrible treatment with the tariffs.
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This morning I found myself lingering over the print job ads in the newspaper, half out of nostalgia and half looking for portents. There’s something clarifying about seeing a future compressed into a single page of small type.
What it suggested was a quiet bifurcation. On one side, software roles that float free of place, oriented around systems that must be kept reliable, auditable, optimized. Power travels lightly here. Work is remote. Intelligence expresses itself as legibility and control.
On the other side sits care. Caregivers, therapists, clinicians. Work that remains bodily, local, relational. Credentialed and present in a way software never has to be. Necessary, but structurally peripheral to how the economy imagines itself.
I would really love an AI tied to my reading history across devices so I could ask loose questions from fragments of memory to jog specific posts and hte like
The much derided economist in 2006… aged pretty well!
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The internet is still in the digital equivalent of the silent-film era. It has been formidable for text, still images and music, but is only now, with broadband access, entering an age of high-quality video. As it does so, Time Warner, News Corporation, Disney and other media companies will be able to cash in on their film and television archives. Selling video direct to consumers, without distribution getting in the way, lets media firms, and viewers, mine their vaults for old episodes of “The Outer Limits”, Johnny Carson, or whatever: minority tastes, to be sure, but taken together, a vast new market.
“At this point, it’s simply not feasible for humans to return the ocean to its preindustrial chemical base line because the cost, effort and material resources required are too gargantuan. A global effort would, however, help prevent further acidification. As a marine antacid, alkalinity enhancement will probably be more effective in select regions of the coast that are home to especially vulnerable fisheries and ecosystems, like coral reefs.
Such defenses have a long history. The Indigenous peoples of western North America farmed clams in walled gardens along the shore to which they routinely added crushed shells. Research has since confirmed that doing so raises the pH of the water, improving the growth and survival rates of juvenile shellfish and, in combination with other benefits of the gardens, yielding two to four times as many adults.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/magazine/ocean-acidification-carbon-geoengineering.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
