"#AIbasedcapitalism, if it is to maintain its political legitimacy, may well have to be accompanied by very #high levels of #taxation on #capital, which would, in effect, socialize the financial returns that the #AImodels generate. Perhaps this was what the A.I. pioneer #GeoffreyHinton was getting at during a recent interview when, on being asked about the economic policies needed to make A.I. work for everybody, he gave a one-word answer: #Socialism.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/how-to-survive-the-ai-revolution
![Heather Cox Richardson rule of Law
3/30/25
[Invasion by “illegals”]
That wildly exaggerated vision has enabled Republicans to justify throwing overboard the due process on which American rights are based. On Friday, Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) told booing constituents: “You violated the rules, you are not entitled to due process.” In fact, in the United States, the due process of law is what establishes whether someone has violated the “rules,” otherwise known as the law.](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/status/5b7cf2b5-07a5-482b-9afd-474cce748228.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson rule of Law
3/30/25
[Invasion by “illegals”]
That wildly exaggerated vision has enabled Republicans to justify throwing overboard the due process on which American rights are based. On Friday, Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN) told booing constituents: “You violated the rules, you are not entitled to due process.” In fact, in the United States, the due process of law is what establishes whether someone has violated the “rules,” otherwise known as the law.")
