Notices by Andrew Lokenauth (fluentinfinance@mastodon.social), page 2

The only thing growing faster than AI right now is how much regular people absolutely hate it.

I've never seen public opinion turn this quickly.

48 data center projects worth $156 billion got blocked last year and 20 were canceled in the first quarter of this year.

Tech executives are getting booed during college graduation speeches. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home.

An employee working 40 hours a week should be able to cover rent, groceries, and healthcare with their salary alone.

Donald Trump is now responsible for 28% of the US national debt.

That's $11 trillion. In 250 years of American history, no president has added more.

That's not an opinion. It's math.

I'm convinced most of the national debt isn't really debt.

It's fraud. It's theft. It’s corruption.

And the American people are the ones getting robbed. It’s the biggest financial scam in history.

1 million seconds = 11 days
1 billion seconds = 31 years
1 trillion seconds = 31,700 years

The U.S. national debt grows by $1 trillion every 180 days.

While you were reading this post, it already grew by millions.

No AI data center is worth losing this

Politican Mike Johnson says we need to let politicians trade stocks because they need the extra income.

He says: “Have some sympathy. At least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.”

Congress earns 3x what the average American make and he’s asking for your sympathy lol.

The US deficit just hit $955 Billion in 7 months.

That's $3 billion EVERY SINGLE DAY.

And the math gets worse.

We are on track to hit nearly $2 Trillion in new debt this year alone.

Right now, 22% of your taxes go straight to paying interest on government debt.

And the Congressional Budget Office projects that in 10 years, 30% of your taxes will go toward paying interest on government debt.

That's nearly 1 in 3 dollars.

And it's only getting worse.

BREAKING: Chinese court rules that companies cannot replace workers with AI.

An employee named Zhou checked AI output for a tech company.

His bosses tried to replace him with a machine.
They demanded he take a ~40% pay cut.
When he refused they fired him.

Zhou fought back and took them to court.
He won.
The company appealed the decision to a higher court.
Zhou won again.

The Hangzhou Intermediate People Court ruled that AI is not a legal excuse to break a job contract.

Imagine that.
China has stronger labor rights than the US.

In the US, At-will employment means your company can fire you for almost any reason.

There's no federal law protecting workers from AI displacement.

The US government can't even agree that $7.25 is not a living wage.

Car prices are up 35%+ since 2020 and repossession rates hit a 30-year high last year.

Let that sink in.

The "American Dream" is being sold back to you on high-interest debt.

JUST IN: US auto loans have exploded to $1.68 TRILLION. For the first time in history, car debt is bigger than credit card debt.

It now matches the total amount of U.S. student loans.

People are taking 7-10 year car loans just to afford a monthly payment.

The average American now pays $735/month just to own a car. That’s $88,200 over 10 years. On something that LOSES value every single day.

Meanwhile....

The Walmart CEO made $27.4 million in 2024.

The median store worker made $29,400.

That’s a 930 to 1 ratio.

A worker would have to start working centuries before the Aztec Empire even existed to earn what the CEO made in a single year.

BREAKING: Delta Air Lines will no longer offer free snacks or drinks on all flights starting May 19th (under 350 miles).

Meanwhile, Delta CEO Ed Bastian received $27.1 million in 2024.

Consumers lose, every single time.

JUST IN: Spirit Airlines has shut down after 34 years — leaving more than 15,000 people without jobs and leaving thousands passengers stranded.

All flights have now been canceled and customer service is no longer available.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022 but the Govenment blocked it.

Spirt Airlines never had a fatal crash. Every Spirit flight that ever took off landed safely.

They're shutting down with a 100% perfect record.

Corporations only care about profit.

They want to extract maximum value while paying the absolute minimum.

Corporations are not your friends. They exist to make money. If they can replace you with a machine they will do it without blinking.

Tech giants like Amazon and Oracle just slashed about 40,000 jobs. They are spending billions on AI infrastructure. The writing is on the wall.

You cannot trust a corporation to protect your future. They will replace you the second it becomes cheaper.

1 in 10 people lost their jobs at Meta last month.

The ones who stayed got something worse.

Meta installed tracking software on employee work computers. The software records every mouse click. It logs keystrokes. It takes screenshots of their daily work.

Meta is using its current workers to train their own replacements. The system watches how you click and type. It learns your workflow. And soon it will do your job.

JUST IN: A Chinese company just recharged an EV from 0 to 80% in 7.5 minutes.

Most people have no idea what this means.

Greater Bay Technology just rolled its first all-solid-state EV battery cells off a production line.

These cells hit 260-500 Wh/kg in energy density. That's about double what most EVs run on today.

And the company's targeting mass production in 2026.

Sorry but this is fucking crazy

BREAKING: Allbirds stock, $BIRD, is now up over +600% after announcing pivoting from a shoe company to an AI company.