Oof the RIP Corp team picked a weird news day to drop our "just a reminder Elon Musk has always been the worst" episode, but if you like Colette Shade and financial crisis lore you're in luck https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/everything-is-the-financial-crisis

Bro do you even read theory

Altman’s ‘plan to solve global warming by asking a nonexistent machine for three wishes:’
“I think once we have a really powerful super-intelligence, addressing climate change will not be particularly difficult…you can say, ‘Tell me how to make a lot of clean energy cheaply,’ ‘Tell me how to efficiently capture carbon,’ and then ‘Tell me how to build a factory to do this at planetary scale’ – if you can do that, you can do a lot of other things too.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk

I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.

Contrary to what you might have heard, it’s not unprecedented for a political regime to promote a car brand.

“Philosophically, there is something worthy of notice here, having to do with attention. When we bring an action out of habit and into consciousness we stir up a new perception of it. Inside and outside change places. Time shifts.”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/anne-carson/beware-the-man-whose-handwriting-sways-like-a-reed-in-the-wind

Every time I read a new health policy update from the Trump Administration:

The #DOGE #Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House - https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/20/the-doge-fraud-is-coming-from-inside-the-house/ "as DOGE gets caught in its errors, something else is happening: it is attempting to cover up its work."

AOC: “I represent LaGuardia Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week,” she wrote. “Air traffic controllers—already understaffed—got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a 1 week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI—it’s him. And Elon too.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/190969/aoc-trump-lies-dc-plane-crash?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Threads
#trump #dei #aoc #planecrash #politics

so the company that spent one trillion dollars making "wrong mode" for computers is stressed because someone figured out how to make "wrong mode" for only one million dollars and the economy which is a casino is crashing and the world continues to burn