Hamilton Nolan

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

There are two big drawbacks to Bernie Sanders' plan to take stakes in AI companies to create a sovereign wealth fund: 1. We don't need a sovereign wealth fund. 2. You are going to make normal people view themselves as investors in AI companies, which is bad. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-ai-fund...

"Amateurs." - Roger Ailes, looking up from hell.

Unions, not governments, are the front line of real world AI regulation.

This is a good demonstration of the amount of capital that gets deployed based on idiocy, gullibility, and a belief in magic. The predictive value of this is zero. www.wsj.com/finance/bank...

Look if people sell their soul to the devil it’s not fair getting mad at them for getting a big number. Let’s not be anti labor.

To pay someone $19 an hour after they have spent two decades in an extremely difficult job taking care of developmentally disabled people is just a moral atrocity. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/less-than-...

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

I'd go 5-1 odds that Talarico can beat Todd Starnes' ass. Can tell Starnes doesn't have the cardio to push through the late rounds.

Florida would like to free you from the tyranny of property taxes so that you can more easily live in hell. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-want-...

Genuinely curious how long we will keep reading headlines like "NONSTOP MISSILE ATTACKS BY BOTH SIDES THREATEN FRAGILE IRAN CEASEFIRE; MARKETS RALLY ON TRUMP VOW THAT DEAL IS 'CLOSE' AS LEAD IRAN NEGOTIATOR IS KILLED IN DRONE STRIKE"