It’s a little ironically insulting because he actually introduced a bill in Congress to supposedly ban stock trades. I guess he has to make a show of it because he campaigned on the issue.
Tag: influence
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
The uncanny valley of the AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
CDC ACIP is a nightmare scenario.
I tuned into the CDC ACIP meeting to hear some woman reading some anti-vax screed rattling on about RSV vaccines a script that sounded like it was written by a chatbot.
Anyone who publishes online, with even a modest audience, is constantly hit with a barrage of “feedback”.
Feedback could be good, but is often bad, and not just bad, but weird bad. I’m again getting another round of people telling me they’re hearing “behind the scenes” the perennial “Chloe is harming the community” claims. What community and what harms, nobody seems to be able to specify, perhaps out of politeness, or perhaps […]
“Get over it” typically means “Shut up and go away because I don’t care.”
Mitch Mcconnell literally said people would “get over” losing Medicaid. I don’t think that’s true.
The opposition leverages various things to neutralize effective activism.
These operations sometimes target people who are experts, or people who might be important in some way, because they carry clout. And then they treat them as if they’re very important.
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
Peter Thiel is the baddie and Palantir is a company named for an evil surveillance tool.
These tech tycoons seem to have some kind of religion where up is down and nothing makes sense.
Deregulation of AI is part of an overall ideological agenda to deregulate everything.
Boondoggle The Hot, New Plan to Bribe States Into Deregulating Artificial Intelligence AI infrastructure money in exchange for an AI Wild West. Pat Garofalo Jun 24, 2025 Wielding phony concerns about a “patchwork of state laws,” big tech interests and their allies in the federal government are attempting to eliminate in one swift stroke a host […]
We do need a shadow cabinet, but a private medical society is unlikely to overthrow the current regime.
Don’t wait for some elite doctors and scientists to save science for the people from “behind the scenes”.
Good guys could easily take advantage of the fact Peter Thiel named his company after the bad guy weapon.
The Letterhack provides Democrats with some needed remedial tips.
The grotesque vision of accusation in a mirror propaganda.
This is not an unusual cognitive warfare tactic unfortunately.
The Abundance agenda is totally gaslit.
The Abundance Agenda really represents a bunch of people who want to hold their world together with the cheeks of their asses.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll serves the interests of private industry profits over that of the American people.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll needs to be investigated. He made public comments that his first interest was using Army procurement to satisfy the needs of vendor profitability
AI hype is driving the mining industry to dig up more uranium in the US.
Even if you think nuclear is a good idea, you have to worry about how this is going to get started new mining that isn’t actually needed, build these data centers instead of housing, and then abandon it abruptly when the AI hype financial bubble pops and they all crash and burn and then of course the taxpayers are on the hook to bail out the rich people again.
The truth about MAHA from the Indivisible Truth Brigade.
Truth Brigade: Medical Misinformation Madness 6.11.25 Indivisible Jun 13, 2025
We can’t let our politicians listen to tycoons, lobbyists, pollsters, and political consultants more than constituents.
Who are these dipshit wonks who fell for the polling that legal immigration is unpopular or that most people dislike immigrants, based basically on a lot of silly polling that asked right-wing framed questions?
DON’T RANK CUOMO!
If you live in New York City, please don’t rank Andrew Cuomo on the ballot.