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Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's power to fire Fed official without proper review (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/supreme-court-lisa-cook-federal-reserve-00739231
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p78#a260121p78

"The Rise of the Voluntariat" by Geoff Shullenberger (found via D. Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs").
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The voluntariat performs skilled work that might still command a wage without compensation, allegedly for the sake of the public good, regardless of the fact that it also contributes directly and unambiguously to the profitability of a corporation. Like the proletariat, then, the voluntariat permits the extraction of surplus value through its labor.
But unlike the proletariat’s labor, the voluntariat’s has become untethered from wages. The voluntariat’s labor is every bit as alienable as the proletariat’s — Coursera’s Translator Contract leaves no doubt about that — but it must be experienced by the voluntariat as a spontaneous, non-alienated gift.
And the voluntariat is not, like the proletariat, the instrument of its own dispossession. Rather, its contribution of uncompensated work accelerates deskilling and undermines the livelihood of those who do not have the luxury of working for free — in this case, professional translators who cannot afford to give away their labor.
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#AntiCapitalism

Here's the story of how my factual queries to Google's AI system Gemini* led to it making up an elaborate fictional narrative about why and how the school bombing in Iran was done for good reasons…
https://woborders.blog/2026/03/01/gemini-fanfic-iran/

Worse than useless: Google Gemini synthesizes pro-military fan fiction about school attack in Iran
Without a doubt, the most horrifying event of the first day of the new US–Israeli war on Iran was the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab (Wikipedia), in the southwestern province …

Just had what I'm 99.99% sure was an #AI cold call. But the fact that that 0.1% of doubt, hard to just cut them off without some human guilt.
I might need a new callousness security patch.

New drinking game: Take a drink every time she is asked if she met Epstein. I doubt you make it past the first hour without passing out.
https://youtu.be/siiAk6WXc0M?si=3eOzq8RMk3_cXn5K
Also interesting that UAPs come up multiple times.