This isn't about the platforms alone - it's about the people designing the algorithms behind them. For Stiglitz, Musk and Zuckerberg have built ecosystems where algorithmic amplification, powered by personal data collection, fuels engagement, controversy, and division - all in the name of profit and power.

He links these mechanisms to the rise of populism and the erosion of democratic institutions, a theme explored in his recent book The Road to Freedom.

"Gates vowed to give away "virtually all" of his wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next two decades, he announced Thursday.

Gates' "key aspirations" to guide the foundation's funding over the next two decades center on promoting child and maternal health and fighting infectious diseases and poverty.

Those target areas overlap with the USAID programs from which Musk and the Trump administration cut billions."

SO much winning!

It's almost like they want to win their jobs back in the mid terms, and know their voters won't let them if they vote for this.

VATICAN CITY " In Italy he's known as the Latin Yankee.

Robert Francis Prevost, anointed Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, is the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church's history.

But Vatican observers will quickly tell you that he's much more than that: a worldly clergyman as Latin American as he is North American, and a potential bridge builder between two increasingly distant Catholic worlds.

"He's like a dual passport holder, he's the perfect pontiff for the present moment," said Miles Pattenden, papal historian and lecturer at Oxford University.

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Right-Wingers FURIOUS About NEW POPE.
Loomer ATTACKS "Pam Blondie."

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He may have grabbed up poppaleo.com.

Orwell should have named his book, "2025"

#57

They at least tend to try to live the Way that Jesus taught, which was loving others. And not just family, friends, and neighbors. Loving the immigrants, strangers, foreigners... the poor and sick is as Godly as one can get in both the OT and the New.

Israel was told after their 400 year captivity that they should always remember what it was like to be the slave, the foreigner, the immigrant, and to treat people the don't know as if they did.

This was a well understood 11th Commandment in the OT, and integral to the NT teachings.

Which MAGA has no clue about whatsoever.

"The dog ate my Budget work!"

Is unsurprising considering the source.

This new Pope wasn't even on the betting odds radar... will be interesting to learn why they picked him.

At least it wasn't the American Cardinal Burke, the Certified Trumper.

I don't know much about this guy, but sounds like they could have made a much worse choice.

Hmmm.... Independent Loyalty. Wonder how that werks?

MAGA Lobbies Vatican With Lavish Gifts To Pick The 'Right' Pope

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#5

Wow... so, trashing America keeps out immigrants, never mind what it does to Americans.

Sounds like a sound Trump strategery.

Pope watch cam:

You Can't Give Away What You Don't Have

#17

That's a great quote, don't think I knew that one.

Now we are done with imitating them; we want to BE them! The Strongman there, after several decades, become top window-death threatening Oligarch himself.

Which is what Trump loves about him.

Thanks, Trumpers!

UnF-ing believable!

"Have you no sense of decency?" Sen. Joseph McCarthy is asked in hearing"

#2

I would NOT be surprised! I looked up his old CNN interview when this Pope business started a couple of weeks ago.

- to keep from getting shot out of the sky.

You had me there.... I was laughing already at that.

The first 1/3rd of the vid is about the three likely candidates, the American Trumper Bishop Burke and two others. The last part is about the conclusion of whom the Pope may most likely be.

In between is a lot of knocking down various theories and some from the Revelations story, so maybe you want to skip that.

knock yourself out

Oh, and one last acid story...

I'm taking my Final Major test before graduation after a week of tests, so naturally a friend and I did some not brown at all acid, and went party and bar hopping around the little town. He had on a straw cowboy hat that he had filled with what we called lightening bugs (fireflies), and so he had a blinking hat on his head.

Another friend, a ---- (she called herself a ----) a big girl named Sug in cowboy clothes who was a terrific musician and played the venues in Dallas mostly; her best song may have been, "David Allen Cole is a Big ------", a parity of one of his songs.

Anyway, the day of the 300 question test, I had had plenty of time to peak, I s'posed. But when I put pen to paper to write my name, the pen sparked and I tasted the acid again. Looked at the first 4 questions, and I couldn't even make out what any of them were asking.

I blanked out, basically, and an hour or whatever later I kind of came to, test finished, turned it in and fled away freaked out. A few days later, the results showed that I missed the first 4 questions, but got all the rest right.

Weird, huh?

&^)

One of our college friends in the early-mid 70's sold the best acid.... clear light, orange barrels, all kinds. He kept it in the freezer of his dorm room. One day he took what he thought was dose, but was actually about 4 doses stuck together.

He was tripping for most of a week, and then peaked. He was a very lib hippy type, so we were surprised, ok, somewhat surprised, that that week while extraordinarily stoned, he had gone to the Military Offices on campus and signed up.

Sweetheart of a person, Jim, sold great pot, too from Columbia and Mexico... but after that trippy week the moniker he got stuck for years; 'Air Force', was his new name. He loved it.

But we were multi-dimensional hippies, and a lot the time we dosed the free and convenient, plentiful bluish shrooms that lived under the cow paddies in the surrounding East Texas pastures. They made great tea! (Like living in a Roger Rabbit movie for several hours, and with few if any side effects) By graduation, the Peruvian transfer student supplied rock cocaine that we trimmed off with razor blades... before it was so popular in the 80s.

But I was a psych major; I have two degrees to show for it; so my drug usage was for research purposes.... ok, some of it was. But we were reading Castaneda along with traditional psych books, so it all werked out. Speaking of Castaneda, I did have an out of body experience back then, but I wasn't high, I was under a new deep relaxation technique (which is called Autogenic Relaxation these days and is very popular, even on YT) for an experiment my profs ran for a PhD thesis study.

I floated right out of the room, well, my seeing and feeling consciousness did, out the door, flying down two flights of stairs and out of the tower building we were using... into the bright warm spring sunshiny day that I knew awaited me... until I realizes what I was doing... and my consciousness reversed in big whoosh back they way I came and into my resting body.

We had learned to manipulate body temp and heart rate; we could make the needles move up or down, not by will, but by recalling the feeling we had the last time they moved; sort of like the 'zone' a 3 point shooter gets in. The experiment was part of the prof's clinic that dealt with Phantom Pain; where an amputee, say, has lost an arm, but their hands and fingers still hurt.

So, like I said, it was all for Science.

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- "Congress has long recognized the national interest..."

The National Interest pales before the interests of Trump and the Oligarchs.

Which is the worst boy band ever, even though Trumpers can't get enough of them.

Can't wait until Trump is eventually treated like, "GW, who?" by Republicans.