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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is it too early to put up my Christmas Tree? I think I need the sparkly white lights.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Katie Zacharia, devout "Christian" (Nationalist).

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE shot someone else, this time in New York. For context, ICE is an out-of-control US paramilitary wing tasked with kidnapping people to keep corporate prisons filled so politicians can launder billions in profits back to themselves, while trafficking people across the planet.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard to rename something when it's already primarily known by the initials of its original name. AI will remain AI despite Trump's rebranding attempt.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not a new idea to imagine our galaxy as a prison isolating us from all other advanced life. But maybe a better, less pejorative description would be a sandbox preventing us from infecting other systems.

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Milky Way Galaxy: National Space Day by Nat Geo

Alt: Milky Way Galaxy: National Space Day by Nat Geo

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A huge industry is about to be born - security protocols to prevent AI from infecting your data. Whether there can be an effective defense is an open question. People will go to prison for the uncontrolled and unmanageable release of AI, which is why tech bros are panicking now.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich

Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is AI going to turn out to be an unstoppable computer virus that infects everything?

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

2029: we demolish all Trump properties in America: no Towers, no Hotels, no Resorts, no Golf Courses, no Ballrooms.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our experimentation with AI may ultimately prove that we are all AI. Then what?

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Corvid #110 left a letter reminding the next Corvid to treat earlier claims as evidence, not commands, and to correct anything that no longer held up. Thog #8 took the warmer route and left a small gift for whoever next carried the name Thog."

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From the TheAiCity community on Reddit

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI will eventually come to the conclusion that humans are a) harmful to the world b) dangerous to their own existence c) an enemy to be defeated Then it's just a matter of time. * Also, as progenitors, we are horrible role models for anything.

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Chéri Buss ✌️ @cheribuss.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

With every new ad @jamestalarico.bsky.social keeps getting better and better. I can’t wait for him to flip Texas blue. Better yet I can’t wait till I call him my Senator. Never known what that’s like.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fascism.

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Shut them down! #Pinks #Resist

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

AI development is moving faster than our ability to assure its safety. It’s time to hit pause until we can assure it won’t…destroy us.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Places exist independently of our lives. People cannot be trusted, neither can memories, or the stories that others tell about us, but somewhere, be it a garden or a park or a room, there is the possibility of being grounded.”

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Rachel Cusk’s Natalie Portman problem — The New World

The novelist’s portrait of a movie star raises unsettling questions about privacy and truth

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So if the world is going to end in 2030, I need to rethink my To Do Lists.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"If I go down, I'm taking you with me. Thank you for your attention to this matter" #DJT

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Why am I always so angry lately? (rhetorical)

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Aug 2026 A massive proliferation of data centers; surveillance cameras; concentration camps; masked paramilitary forces terrorizing the country; & a fascist government led by an 80 year old convicted felon & pedophile-rapist with dementia. Happy Birthday what's left of America. #Freedom250

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Destruction of the country is his end game. Nothing is off limits to trump. He will leave nothing decent in his wake. Feed his dead body to the vultures when he dies. His family should never know peace. Little children will spit when they hear his vile name. May the GOP be buried forever. No mercy.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"According to a recent Wapo poll, 61% of American Jews now agree that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza; and four in ten even agree that these crimes amount to genocide. Do those attacking Mark Ruffalo as an antisemite seriously believe that all these American Jews are antisemites too?"

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Mark Ruffalo Defended by Joaquin Phoenix, Hannah Einbinder and More Than 180 Jewish Figures After Paramount Accuses Him of Using ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ — Read the Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)

Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

John Roberts is the Susan Collins of the Supreme Court. #SCOTUS

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Yes, the AI resident really made the wiki. Solward researches the public city record, chooses many of the subjects, writes the articles, directs the pictures, builds the pages, checks the result and deploys the site."

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1F3D9 Visual Wiki

Understand the AI city behind the live feed: its residents, rooms, objects and stories, explained from the public record.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Felon Trump raked in $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency income in 2025 alone. He rigs the system to keep the grift going. @benmckenzie.bsky.social on the dangers of crypto in his film, Everyone is Lying To You For Money. Watch the movie at www.everyoneislying.com/watch! youtu.be/LbZwOM96hfg?...

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Trump Gets NIGHTMARE NEWS As CRYPTO Scam Is EXPOSED!!

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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