AI dividends are only one component of post labor economics, of which David Shapiro has done a lot of detailed research: https://www.youtube.com/playli...
Another interesting video: Socialist Chinamaxxing: How China’s achievements are a product of its socialist system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Finally why mess with Cuba because they are Communist? With AI/Robots set to take all jobs it would be nice to see how a Communist country handles the transition, not to mention the oil blockade amounts to economic terrorism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Some highlights

The book on its surface is a plea for a world with a World War 2 Americanist mindset that intertwines technology and innovation through the threat of future conflicts and a fear of being outmaneuvered by the country's many enemies, but immediately stops at the surface level and does not ask the question of WHY the western democratic experiment has created so many enemies in the post World War 2 era.
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If the contradictories in American policy and half truths about Western Democracy are not enough, there is a slew of half truths surrounding how technology and innovation happen behind them. Alex fails to mention that he amassed his fortune to create Palantir through a inheritance from his grandfather and his own constant investment in startups in Silicone Valley in the early 2000s.
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It is impossible to not see a very clear objective for this book if you understand why Americans have less trust in their government than ever before. It's because in the subsequent years the country sought adversaries through the use of intelligence and the CIA in the name of stopping communists and took this a step farther to entangle the country in conflicts across the entire world. The more that these conflicts exists and the more money that we through into the defense apparatus, the more Alex gets paid and is given power and control over our lives. Common people will not be given individual freedoms and the ability to redefine our lives. Instead, these people want a world where they decide for us. It is technocratic, neo-neo colonialist superweapon scare tactics at its finest. I strongly recommend anybody that reads this book immediately go and read killing hope after.

BTW you can find Killing Hope on the CIA website of all places! ... click if you dare: https://www.cia.gov/library/ab...

The man is a genius playing 12-d chess in his sleep. He saw this problem coming and absolutely slam dunked the solution:
1) close the straight of Hormuz causing fuel prices to skyrocket - now all those people hesitant to go green because it was too expensive? well it is not too expensive NOW haha!
2) plunge the world economy into recession - nothing cuts fuel use like a recession and a prolonged fuel shortage is just the ticket.
3) reduce the population - too many people! the way to reduce the numbers - in huge steps - is starvation - cut the fertilizer shipments should do the trick.
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Expect for one guy

With the decisive support of one Democrat—Rep. Jared Golden of Maine—the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a war powers resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s illegal assault on Iran

https://www.commondreams.org/n...
And Bernie Sander's resolution also held up:

The Dam Breaks: Democratic Senators Overwhelmingly Reject Arms Sales to Israel Despite their defeat by Senate Republicans, bills seeking to block arms sales to Israel found widespread Democratic support.

https://theintercept.com/2026/...

How often has someone's name slipped your memory because you have not seen them in a long time or seeing them in a new context throws off your memory. Maybe you could buy them if you pass a 'nice person' test- Oh wait that is social credit score, darn we just can't have nice things!

What Kroah-Hartman bemoans all this work on Clanker T1000 is now obsolete. Claude Mythos does it better and faster https://www.wired.com/story/an...
I should have named it T-800 because Mythos came and obliterated my work just like T1000 obliterated the T800

AI will free us of the tedious and dull tasks of Capitalism and we'll just watch from a beach chair ... unless https://www.genolve.com/design...

Whatever caused falling birth rates is almost irrelevant. We will soon have extending lifespans and automation of work - you don't need high birth rates. Eventually with robots/AI doing all the work it SHOULD be cheap and easy to have kids if you want to and if it is not, then something went wrong. A look at the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

1) Nov 2026 vote out the clowns who want to actually take away your right to vote, are causing inflation, ruining America's reputation, ... long list
2) Get rid of the 2 party system. Support any and all measures to do ranked choice voting which gets rid of 'vote so the other guy doesn't win'.
3) Nov 2028 vote in completely in your own interest without having to 'vote so the other guy doesn't win'

Asked on Monday whether he would accept a deal that would allow Iran to take fees from ships to traverse the strait, the US president said: “What about us charging tolls? I’d rather do that than let them have them. Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner. We won.”

and with echoes of the Mexico border wall:

The White House said last week that Trump is considering asking Arab countries to pay for Washington’s expenses in its war on Iran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

'The AI Doc' raises much need awareness on the future of AI and this brings up the question of making a movie of The Culture universe. This could educate a lot of people on what is possible and a series was started and then canceled with no explanation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/... Damien Walter gives really good reasons NOT to make such a movie: https://youtu.be/0MOZubzNO6c?s...

The best thing is to envision the end goal - a society like Iain Bank's The Culture - and fight any changes deviating from that goal. Have not seen movie but good comments on Rotten Tomatoes

Take all of the YouTube videos made about this subject and combine them into almost two hours of even more gibberish, to arrive at no conclusion whatsoever, by a bunch of people that know, but won't tell you because they love to hear themselves talk, and save the 18 bucks you will pay for a ticket. Production value is not great, very silly and millenialish. It says nothing, clears nothing, and tries to be "innovative" but fails. Ai IS a problem more than a solution and this movie reiterates what we already know: The mega rich are in charge of this too and will use it to control absolutely everything causing more devastation than now. But this movie fails to ask the hard questions - it's all a big "who cares?". Not interesting at all. It has been said that Ai will be "a new species" that will control humans like we controlled the world when we came along - but the subject never even came up - in almost two hours? Booo.

Guillermo Q

The film is well crafted but doesn’t address the elephant in the room. As the world cycles to late stage capitalism, fascism, and authoritarianism, the final message to “get involved” rings hollow. Three CEO’s of major AI companies are interviewed and there is no direct interrogation “what are YOU going to do to help ensure the best outcomes?!” I don’t think you get to start a documentary with the quote “I know people who work on AI risk who don’t expect their children to make it to high school” and then end the film by placing the burden on the audience.

Robin G

Saw this on Yahoo finance but a very good idea. What does War department do? Advances the imperial interests of America's oligarchs though wars of choice. So who should pay for that? Yes the oligarchs should. So the war department gets completely funded by a tax on your net worth whether realized or unrealized (held in stocks), now that's what I'd call a fair tax.

How did I know trump would not only see but implement my comment?

Look at Cuba, for years burning oil until Trump said no more oil for you https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18..., and also said no more airline flights for your doctors going abroad to help people: https://www.aljazeera.com/news.... So Cuba is now turning fully to renewables: https://www.theguardian.com/gl... The US just needs to sanction oil for every other country as well

https://slashdot.org/comments....
but look on the bright side, if Cuba can do it so can you! Solidaridad con Cuba!

Can you spot a trend? Even if your experience shows AI lacking now let's look at where it was at 3 years ago: zero. So in three years it went from 'zero' to 'useful sometimes/as good as recent graduate' and this is the worst it will ever be. If that trend continues at pace you are out of a job in three years. Things slowing down you say? The breakthroughs they keep a coming in software, like increased memory efficiency: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03... and hardware like Rubin rack computing units: https://www.tomshardware.com/t...

Now here is the grand problem: you need to spot your jobs are going away to change how you vote BEFORE your jobs actually go away, and if you can't do that the average joe surely can't either