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OH MY FUCKING GOD ITS NOT A JOKE

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UBI: (Universal Basic Income also called Guaranteed Minimum Income)

The most interesting about this graphic is that it was created and shared by Al Jazeera.

Jonathan D. Miller, Libertarian candidate for North Carolina Senate, taken into custody after hours-long standoff with police and posting threats

Conservatives invent their own realities—now with AI—to be afraid of

BREAKING: Anthropic officially files its S-1 registration statement for an IPO, seeking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol $ANT. FULL SUMMARY OF ANTHROPIC'S S-1 FILING: 1. Anthropic posted H1 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion with a net loss of $80.7 billion 2. Anthropic says it does not expect to pay a dividend "in the foreseeable future" 3. Expects to spend up to $120.5 billion on SpaceXAI and Nvidia compute 4. Expects to spend up to $114.5 billion with Google through 2033 5. Revenue growth rate "may not be sustainable" and "may decrease" 6. May be required to seek additional financing "sooner than expected" 7. 5% of Anthropic's shares will go to the "Anthropic Public Benefit Fund" 8. S-1 includes warnings of AI's "catastrophic existential risks to humanity" Markets currently expect Anthropic to raise as much as $100 billion at a valuation of ~$2 trillion. The company is reportedly targeting an IPO in the week of November 16th.

BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg. Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.

New Netanyahu post:

BREAKING: Lula wins re-election as Brazil's president, beating Flávio Bolsonaro, Datafolha projects

Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?" @mattyglesias: "Yeah." Me: "Just stay silent?" Yglesias: "I think that sometimes, if you want to help people... you gotta win first." Me: "They might be dead in three years time, by the time you win." Despite all the arguments on this hellsite over the exact number of his Piker tweets, this was the part of my interview with Matthew Yglesias that really stood out to me. I was actually stunned by this response. Shouldn't politics also stand for something more than triangulation, polling and 4-D chess strategizing? Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time. The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

Malfoid is quietly becoming a symbol of the West's cultural counter-revolution. In a world increasingly starved of romance, devotion and anything worth building a future around, a fictional girl seems to have awakened something long dormant.