Maximus

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He did initiate the ending of the penny, silly as that is. And he initiated getting us out of the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement. Two positive things, I guess, if you really look at it on the whole. I mean, that was accounting for a lot of our budget money.
With the board silent, Altman’s advisers built a public case for his return. Lehane has insisted that the firing was a coup orchestrated by rogue “effective altruists”—adherents of a belief system that focusses on maximizing the well-being of humanity, who had come to see A.I. as an existential threat. (Hoffman told Nadella that the firing might be due to “effective-altruism craziness.”) Lehane—whose reported motto, after Mike Tyson, is “Everyone has a game plan until you punch them in the mouth”—urged Altman to wage an aggressive social-media campaign. Chesky stayed in contact with the tech journalist Kara Swisher, relaying criticism of the board.
Family portrait of the Integrity spaceship, a crescent moon, and a crescent Earth
Just like Detective David Mills, we need to open the (research) box to better understand what is going on here.
No Kings protestor dressed in Elvis's famous white jumpsuit holding a sign saying "America - No King except Elvis"
Andy Buckley as David Wallace in the Office. He's holding some papers and looks like he can't quite believe this shit.
Screenshot of a page titled "For Roko's Basilisk"
Trump staging a political rally at the white house.
The landscape of thorns. Giant spikes erupting from the ground. Architecture telling future peoples that nothing of value is honoured here.
Collection of different Tea Dragons from the Tea Dragon Society
Mr. Musk repeatedly rebuffed suggestions that he was operating without oversight. Asked about the possibility of his own conflicts of interest, given that some of Mr. Musk’s companies have contracts with agencies like the Defense Department, Mr. Musk said, “First of all, I’m not the one filing the contract.” “It’s the people at SpaceX or something,” said Mr. Musk, the founder of SpaceX. Over and over again, he asserted his intention to bring accountability to a civil service that he claimed had gone unchecked. The bureaucracy is an “unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government, which has, in a lot of ways, currently, more power than any elected representative,” insisted Mr. Musk, who serves as an unelected appointee with vast reach across the government. . “It does not match the will of the people,” he said.
Sheets of bright green aurora borealis swirling in the sky over the Hudson Bay seen from a plane
Bush: "Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over"
Instead, the main narrative revolves around a deeply misleading account of the 2021 infrastructure bill vote and a claim that Bowman worked with Republicans to sabotage the president. The opposite is closer to the truth. Back in 2021, the White House had endeavored to tie the president’s infrastructure bill to its much more ambitious Build Back Better Act, which featured basically the entire Biden agenda, including universal pre-K, huge spending on child care, housing, free college, and climate spending. Progressives worked closely with White House chief of staff Ron Klain on a strategy to withhold a vote on the infrastructure deal until Build Back Better was first passed, so that the two would get passed together. A handful of conservative Democrats worked with Republicans to demand that the infrastructure bill get a stand-alone vote. When negotiations broke down, the two bills got uncoupled, and infrastructure came up on its own first. Bowman voted against it—along with a number of
Full size Millennium Falcon on set for the filming of The Last Jedi