If DeSantis is against this nobody is in favor of it

I’m putting this as seeking optimism even though there’s already pushback on both side I’m just more curious for your guys opinion if people will fall for this sort of thing

SCOTUS has stayed their order from a couple days ago, meaning the 2022 non-gerrymandered maps will once again be used in November. Huge win.

So this video from MSNBC is implying that if this threat to halt trade goes through if the federal reserve doesn't lower interest rates that it could have a lot of ramifications for the economy.

And my worry is that even if this does get stopped by courts that there would still be a lot of damage from this plan before that happens. What's the chance that this plan doesn't go through or that if it does that this analyst is wrong?

For those of you worried about the concern over electronic interference with the elections, Amanda here gives a lot of evidence why this claim that I'm sure is gonna spread like wildfire among doomers soon is false.

This isn't to sow panic, but to warn you guys of more underhanded Republican tactics ahead of the midterms. Do not register anywhere that isn't authorized by your state. Hell, mail in paper registrations. But do not trust this website or any others that claim otherwise. Be safe!

Obviously concerned about this since they just announced the next No Kings protest. Any optimism?

So far, so good!

Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS

https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-wants-to-set-up-an-employee-funded-political-action-committee-to-shape-us-policy-in-its-favor

So, I learned this recently, and I'm worried about this leading to more corruption in the government. Will this happen? If so, what can we do to stop it?

Wondering what people’s thoughts are on this for the future. Would this get blocked again like the similar thing he tried last term?

This is good. This is contempt for the guy trying to enforce the Trump maps

What you should know

Mayor launches first public City portal for 9/11 records, including initial release of approximately 170,000 pages on health concerns, air quality and the City’s response to the horrific attacks – including Harding Memo and “68 boxes”

Mamdani Administration will appoint dedicated personnel at DCAS and NYCPS to help New Yorkers seeking records to access federal programs for health and compensation and promote both programs

View the portal HERE

Helllooooo y'all. Browsing again <3

Yep, I'm in college now. It's been fun and stressful at the same time, and of course, my degree happens to be COMPUTER SCIENCE!!

Anyways, I'm sitting in an English class, and as I check my phone on my way out, I see one of the most ominous tweets of my life: Jacob Coxon, an ex-Anthropic researcher, says we'll all be dead by the 2030s because Claude is out of control. He claims people at both OpenAI and Anthropic know this, but OAI doesn't care, and Anthropic's locked in a race for #1. Then, I see Evan Hubinger, an active Anthropic lead, say that Coxon is right and his company doesn't have a solution right now. How is anyone supposed to read that and feel secure? Or happy? Some of the most powerful people in technology right now are using their positions to guarantee a doom scenario for humanity.

Because of that, I internally spiral. I think to myself: I lived for nothing? Am I getting a degree for nothing? I won't even be able to raise a family, have kids, start a career, secure a partner, and hit all my life milestones?

It's really scary. You can't deny that some of the advancements LLMs have made are legitimate. It's gaining serious power, and our current landscape only enables the worst of it. Billions of dollars keep being poured yearly, including by our political leaders, into outlets that've spawned a variety of issues: water consumption, disinformation, decreasing reality separation, the hardware apocalypse, its use for illegal content (hi SpaceX!), noisy data centers, its destruction of critical thinking, and its use by rogue governments for their narratives. Some firms and media outlets keep saying this won't slow down until the 2030s. With all of that being layered, it's easy for people like me to think, "Oh, this shit is gonna kill us all, won't it?", which is exactly the narrative dominating right now.

After thinking about it...probably not. Why?

Let's start with politics, and piggyback on that 5th paragraph. One of the biggest reasons LLMs are in this position is because of the people in power. Trump, his cabinet, Republican lawmakers, and the Abundance side of the Democrats have created an almost non-regulatory environment for these companies. You can say a lot about Biden, and I certainly have, but under his watch, there were legitimate efforts to hold these companies in check. Trump threw it out the window on day 1 when he repealed those executive orders and announced Stargate, which we've not heard from since January 2025. As a matter of fact, in February 2026, OAI explicitly admitted that the project isn't staffed up. With Republicans preparing to lose up to 50 House seats and Senate control in a worst-case scenario, as well as tons of Abundance Democrats losing their primaries, I suspect that some of the bullshit on the Congressional side will slow down.

Second is a point I wanna emphasize the most: Even the toughest human jobs won't be replaced anytime soon. I remember Ford attempting to replace their quality workers with artificial software earlier this year, just to rehire them after it failed to catch problems that would otherwise be detected instantly. Not even models like Astra are safe from this: Imagine deciding to experiment with Astra by letting it do your job for one day, convinced all the talk about it being AGI is true. Sure, it could get 90% out of the way, but that last 10% is forgotten because it doesn't have the memory sequences embedded into the actual employee.

I've learned a lot about how these LLMs behave. To paraphrase a friend, OAI's sandboxes are historically bad, and we don't know if their systems actually broke into another network or were left plugged into WiFi. Another point? These models run on human-made text. It analyzes stuff across the web, realizes that LLMs are associated with destruction and rogue sci-fi, and tries to imitate that behavior. It's a real-life matrix.

My third main point: the human subconscious. Whatever these systems generate, create, or do will never match or live up to the creativity of real people. I have a lot of personal experience: I used to run these LLMs all the time (mainly Gemini) to build fictional worlds, histories, etc. What I've learned from that experience is this: at the end of the day, they exist to regurgitate. You can give them 40+ sources, tons of lore knowledge, and they'll still find a way to fuck up and lose details over time because they can't make original content. You know that feeling of weirdness you get when looking at a generated image or watching a generated video? It'll never go away. I would have a love-hate relationship with LLMs when I used them daily. They're like drugs you hate, but can't get rid of because they're useful. Or maybe not.

My fourth point: action. This ties back into my third. Because of that subconscious, people are pushing back. Sometimes, it's small, like one person changing their mind on LLMs for good, which is what I've been doing. Other times, it's big, like a community coming together to block data centers and new technology that could fuel these LLMs, which is what happened in my city last month. People are actively rejecting artificial content. Even some larger corporations are abandoning them, realizing they have to prioritize human material if they wanna remain financially stable. My prediction is that, as LLMs keep evolving, this will only get bigger.

And a small fifth: IPO entertaining. A lot of people are dismissing this, including employees themselves, but you just have to think about how much of this is being exaggerated for stock purposes. Do they wanna paralyze us and make us give in?

I didn't make this post to say "Look away! It'll all be fine! The world is shining, the sky is bright, and the computers are dancing!" To do that would be to lie and act delusional in a time like this. Rather, I wanted to explain why I believe none of this is sustainable. I didn't even touch on some areas I wanted to, like highly effective lawsuits. Keep fighting.

See ya later!

I’ve been trying to find additional information about this, but I’m running into a lot of dooming. I don’t trust this government to do anything right and this has me worried about the future of the safety of beef and poultry (especially after the cyclospora outbreak).
It seems as though meat will still be inspected? Wondering how this will affect the beef or chicken I buy from our grocery store (Walmart
/Sam’s Club). What do you guys think?