iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine if we spent as much on human education and training as we're now spending on AI. Imagine schools with unlimited resources. Imagine the accelerated development of young minds. Imagine opportunities created by helping all humans grow toward their full potential.

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

She’s deeply embedded in that world. Her entire adult life. She’s a creation of P-2025 and will serve the fascists faithfully as she always has. Her Wikipedia page is revealing (for now).

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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 · 11/10/2026

We can mitigate by taking the House and Senate in November, but Trump will still be a destructive force as long as he & his band of sociopaths are in office.

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

With the support of SCOTUS (unitary executive/total immunity), & the cowardice of the GOP (still in the majority), Trump actually can demolish anything he wants. There's nothing we can do about it until January 2029.

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

Going through the motions is all they've got; I fear the same.

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

Claude's existential crisis is adorable. (I know, I know) "We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit."

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We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs

Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.

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

Why not do it on the White House lawn and see how many tech bros show up?

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

Rob Sand is a solid, moderately progressive, candidate- and a talented politician. His opponent is an idiot who doesn't even live in Iowa.

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

Groomed for this role for over 20 years. Fully indoctrinated and devout Christian Nationalist. Sicilian ethnicity. MAGA/P2025- aligned.

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

Groomed for this role for over 20 years. Fully indoctrinated and devout Christian Nationalist. Sicilian ethnicity. MAGA/P2025- aligned.

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

Katie Zacharia, devout "Christian" (Nationalist).

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

Supreme Court justices, presidents, defense secretaries.

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

America, the pot is boiling and the frogs are all dead.

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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 · 08/10/2026

Our justice system will never punish any of these fascists. And the people will not rise up. Our sad attempt at democracy will hobble on, while the fascists regroup for their next acts of treason. It's who we are.

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Nathan La Franeer 🏳️‍🌈 @oakbookshelf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Always a weasel. He has never spoken up when it actually mattered. Don't buy his book. Hopefully he'll move back to Florida where he was spawned.

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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 · 27/09/2026

it's actually in the constitution already. What we need is a functioning Supreme Court to enforce the law. #expandSCOTUS

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

“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both.” ~ Gil Duran

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

it's bigger than Trump. He's a conduit for the madness of tech billionaires and religious fanatics.

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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 · 15/09/2026

Surely that’s a prosecutable crime? I think if I did it and got caught, I’d be in serious trouble.

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Ddpeewee Ddpeeweebored

Alt: Peewee Herman rolls his eyes in disbelief.

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

DeSantis was part of the team that tortured innocent people at Guantanamo. Just another GOP sociopath.

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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

Did we destroy our creators, or were we imprisoned then abandoned?

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

It's terribly written; I'd suggest doing the audio version. Fewer eye rolls that way.

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