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My article on government cell phone tracking was published today in The Mountaineer, the newspaper covering Haywood County in North Carolina. And they have a problem which will soon spread throughout the US unless concerned citizens say something.
themountaineer.com/opinion/c…
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This is what will replace the blue collar workers even as AI replaces the white collar workers. Businesses would be foolish to ignore this because robots:
* Don't need health insurance
* Won't claim workers comp
* Don't get paid overtime
* Aren't rude to their managers or customers
And, any sick days will merely require a visit from a mechanic or a remote tweak in their programming.
This robot (by Unitree) is just under $20,000. That sounds like a lot until you think about minimum wage. Federal minimum wage Is $7.25 an hour or $15,000+ a year for a full-time worker at *federal* minimum wage. Many states demand a higher minimum wage, but even at federal minimum wage, this robot will be paid off in 16 months. Anything after that is sheer profit.
And currently China is mass-producing robots that are under $6,000. Those robots won't be needed to perform such complicated, intricate movements and will easily replace anyone in the fast food and retail industry.
If you have any secrets, China will know...but this will matter very little to the average business owner who will save a tremendous amount of money going robotic.
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An EXTREMELY important point for everyone in education (or wanting to be educated). I once worked for a company that gave you incentives to read self-help books. It sounded great! However, that workplace was particularly toxic.
Why?
Well, we were supposed to read books that pertained to WHAT we did. Obviously most people were choosing books that bypassed business ethics and focused narrowly on their jobs, instead.
So: If you want to promote a healthy workplace, find books which reflect that and make them mandatory reading for everyone so that a baseline is established.
Then have a group discussion or ask everyone to individually submit a paragraph or two about what they read and how they plan to apply it. Have upper management bring up the book periodically and make references to it or ask others for insights. Make it a definitive part of the culture if you want to avoid having another toxic workplace.
This article emphasizes the importance of not simply READING the book, but digesting the information, as well. And that's the key to a truly good experience when reading such material.
code.likeagirl.io/why-readin…
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I'm currently seeing debate about which news groups have the greatest influence with American millennials (ages 29-44). According to this @pewresearch poll in August, you can see powerful new players have elbowed in to replace some of the old vanguard. Note that @realDailyWire and @joerogan are near the top (both are associated with right-leaning viewpoints). Compared to the others, these are the new kids on the block (Rogan started his podcast in 2009, The Daily Wire was formed in 2015).
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Want to see a 140 year old cake plate?
In 1885, key events included the arrival of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, and Grover Cleveland was inaugurated (like Trump, he served 2 non-consecutive terms).
For fans of The Little House on the Prairie series, this was the year that Laura Ingalls Wilder married Almanzo.
It was the year the motorcycle was invented, and Mark Twain published Huckleberry Finn. Slavery had been outlawed in the USA 20 years before.
Women wouldn't win the right to vote for another 35 years, but at least the original owner had a pretty cake stand. ;-)
This cake plate is the Dakota pattern and was made by the Ripley Glass Co. It would have had "pride of place" on any dining room buffet.
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Here's my recent op-ed: "50% of White Collar Jobs Soon to be Eliminated: Congress must act now before it’s too late."
I wrote it after seeing that Dario Amodei (AI expert and CEO of Anthropic) estimates 50% of all white collar jobs will be eliminated within the next 5 years, resulting in 10% – 20% unemployment rates.
rebellionnews.com/2025/07/30…
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Here's my recent op-ed: "50% of White Collar Jobs Soon to be Eliminated: Congress must act now before it’s too late."
I wrote it after seeing that Dario Amodei (AI expert and CEO of Anthropic) estimates 50% of all white collar jobs will be eliminated within the next 5 years, resulting in 10% – 20% unemployment rates.
rebellionnews.com/2025/07/30…
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Frēda Drake retweeted
GenX here. I suffered. We all did, and many still do.
* Forget about micro-aggressions. If you were pretty, sexual harassment was the norm. When I was a department manager at a major retailer, I would've been promoted to the buying office (a coveted job) if I fooled around with the store manager. I didn't sleep with him, so I wasn't promoted.
* My ex-husband and I were in a bad car accident, he was brain damaged, and I became the sole earner for a while.
* We once had no food in the house so I used a store credit card to buy a box of marked down Baci chocolates. When we opened the box, a couple moths flew out because they laid their eggs in the hazelnut centers. We ate them anyway.
* In my late 20s, my ex took all the money and left me with nothing but bills. I had to stay with friends for a while to build up enough money to get a tiny apartment.
* In my early 30s, I went without eating one weekend so my little boy could eat what we had.
* When we were young, we worked for wealthy men who begrudged every employee raise but would call us into their office to tell us all about their latest vacation and pass around pictures of a fancy ski trip or their stay in the Caribbean while we wondered if we'd have enough money to afford gas to get home that night.
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We made it, and you will too. The secret is to focus on the good things, no matter how small. Celebrate every victory, yes, but examine them so they can be replicated. Ask for advice and listen to it. Be humble enough to know that you are one of many people who can make it because you live in America, not in a third world country where you have no chances and no choices.
___TLDR___
Refocus your energy.
🚨A breaking story on Facebook's spyware. This is horrifying, but entirely plausible.
How many times have people wondered why they could mention something in passing, or look something up in a completely different app, only to have Facebook start hitting them up with advertising about that product or service?
Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.
This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.
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3) Although tariffs may be a part of the problem, there are multiple factors in play...
🚨...and AI is part of it.
Dario Amodei (AI expert and CEO of Anthropic) estimates 50% of all white collar jobs will be eliminated within the next 5 years, resulting in 10% – 20% unemployment rates.
Last year, a CNN article quoted Elon Musk saying artificial intelligence will take *all* our jobs.
I wouldn't be surprised! Grok4 is amazing.
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4) So why are government officials either ignoring or applauding this?
A) AI is seen by some as crucial for national security, with potential applications in defense, intelligence, and cybersecurity.
B) AI will be a boon to companies.
But will it help the American worker?
(HINT: It won't, and Congress needs to address this ASAP).
I wrote about it in this recent op-ed, here:
rebellionnews.com/2025/07/30…
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On our way home from the Hudson area, we were very surprised to see this massive procession of law enforcement vehicles which went on for miles. Now we've learned that Sergeant Greg Graff passed away unexpectedly during training exercises today at Clearwater High School. Many condolences to his family and much respect to our officers who show such great respect for their fallen.
@SheriffPinellas
Here's my recent editorial: "50% of White Collar Jobs Soon to be Eliminated: Congress must act now before it’s too late."
Why did I (a publicist) choose to write about this topic? 🧵👇
(I'll post the link at the end)
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From a CNN article last year:
"Elon Musk says artificial intelligence will take all our jobs and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
“Probably none of us will have a job,” Musk said about AI at a tech conference on Thursday."
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So why are government officials either ignoring or applauding this?
1) AI is seen by some as crucial for national security, with potential applications in defense, intelligence, and cybersecurity.
2) AI will be a boon to companies.
But will it help the American worker?
rebellionnews.com/2025/07/30…
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