PUSHBACK

Two stories. One theme: backlash.The AI industry sold the public two futures and neither one is good. Either the technology destroys civilization, or it destroys your job and drops you into the gig economy. Seventy-three percent of AI experts think it is good for jobs. Only 23 percent of regular people agree. Communities are fighting data centers. Eight in ten companies using AI report zero productivity gains. And the industry is still asking for hundreds of billions more while lobbying against the very regulations it publicly claims to support.Meanwhile in Maine, Chuck Schumer's preferred Senate candidate just dropped out. She was 78 years old, behind in the polls, behind in fundraising, and running against a 41-year-old combat veteran endorsed by Bernie Sanders. That story is now playing out in Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota. Only 28 percent of Democrats view their own party favorably right now.The establishment keeps building systems that work against the people living under them. The people are noticing. Stay lit.