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🚨 1/ Watch this AI Doomer trailer. Then read the timeline. Netflix drops “The AI Apocaloptimist Doc” tomorrow — Sept 15 — to 260+ million subscribers. This film took 3 years to make. It premieres 12 days after Sanders–Casar, 7 days after the Anthropic “whistleblower,” 3 days after Amodei’s “Pace the Frontier.” That’s not a coincidence. That’s a launch. 🧵👇 H/t @TheRoyalGrift for the scoop.

Back in 2004, I went to the Libertarian Party convention in Atlanta, and after the long weekend decided that I would not join. The people who run it are just too removed from the rest of the movement and the rest of the society. They didn't give shit about Iraq! the most important thing in the world at the time. Hardly heard of it apparently. Didn't know how horrible it would look invite hawks to give speeches. Just facepalm. I tried advising the LP presidential nominee that year. That reinforced the same lesson: This is not worth the effort. I have more important things to do. A few years ago, I finally joined the LP at the urging of my friends who were working to take the party over in the name of the actual American libertarian movement, as exemplified by the thinking and writing of Dr. Ron Paul, especially. The real point was to get the party together before we ran Dave Smith for president, which he thankfully in retrospect decided not to do. Well, at the last convention the libertarians didn't show up, only the Libertarians. So, a gay porn producer and new wave haircut lady and their crew took the party back over. It really sucks because there are so many good people in the party who work very hard and fight good fights. But the organization itself, as a democracy, is just completely retarded and it always will be. Today a friend sent me screenshots of these degenerate scum -- specifically the LP of San Francisco -- claiming the right to hurt children because they think freedom means getting away with being a piece of shit and violating the rights of helpless victims. Send in the SWAT Team. It's a foregone conclusion that the party leadership will do nothing about this. The LP always has been and remains a disaster for the good name of our movement. They'll probably run that filth Joe Walsh for president next time. He fits right in there. So I hereby officially resign from the Libertarian Party, and will instead continue to fight for liberty by other means.

Real Madrid superstar and France captain Kylian Mbappé just learned that calling Mao Zedong “a Chinese dictator” costs major sponsorships overnight. In a French online show clip, the 27-year-old (one of the world’s highest-paid footballers) was asked about memes of his face on historical figures. He pointed to one and said: “some guy – I think he’s a Chinese dictator.” Within hours, Chinese brands Dongpeng, Mengniu, and Milkground terminated every deal with zero-tolerance statements about hurting national sentiments. CCTV suspended La Liga coverage. Weibo erupted with boycott calls. A casual meme comment collided with China’s strictest political taboo around its founding leader. The commercial price was immediate.

❗️ Google's privacy policy no longer rules out ads based on your Gmail, Drive and Photos. A 16 October update makes an exception if you let other Google services, like Search, access that data. Search may process it to "personalize content, including ads", the policy now says.

Stunning admission by California during yesterday’s Ninth Circuit hearing. California admitted they do nothing to check the citizenship status of voters and will count the illegal ballots of noncitizens who vote. This is why we’re seeking an emergency order. We cannot allow California to dilute legal votes in the upcoming election. Judge: You agree that if a non-citizen votes and we don’t stop it now, that vote will be counted, correct? California: That’s absolutely correct.

The iPhone Duo just failed at around 75,000 folds in an independent durability test, At 100 folds a day, 75,000 cycles would be just over two years. Put that next to Samsung’s numbers and the difference is insane >iPhone Duo: 75,000 folds in the test >Galaxy Z Fold8: up to 500,000 folds That’s over 6× more folding cycles on Samsung’s rating. A Galaxy Z Fold7 was manually folded 200,000 times and was still functioning at the end of the test

BREAKING: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees. 60,000 employees will not leave the company, but this is still huge Microsoft's Chief People Officer Amy Coleman confirmed a new Voluntary Exit Offer (VEO), which allows eligible employees to leave with financial support and career planning resources. Microsoft explains: "This offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside the company a new choice to make that transition now with support. It also gives participating organizations another way to adapt their workforce to changing needs." The program covers four countries, including the United States. "This offer will be available to eligible employees in participating teams in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States at level 70 and below." However, Microsoft says the program isn't company-wide. "Some organizations are providing the Voluntary Exit Offer, and some are not. Participation varies based on each business’s priorities, customer commitments and workforce needs."

DELETING YOUR BROWSING HISTORY DOESN'T DELETE YOUR BROWSING HISTORY. GOOGLE KEEPS ITS OWN COPY, TIED TO YOUR ACCOUNT, ON A PAGE MOST PEOPLE HAVE NEVER OPENED. HERE'S HOW TO WIPE ALL OF IT:

The list of domains LIV owns has to be seen to be believed 💀