Notices by Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)

I’m shocked at how high the approval numbers were in February and still are in December. 3 out of 10 approving of the job he’s done this year is wild.

Despite billlions of fines and its CEO being jailed for money laundering, Binance still allows crypto to flow through suspect accounts.

My big mistake in assessing the crypto industry was thinking the government wouldn’t ever legitimize institutional money laundering, gambling and securities fraud so it would all eventually collapse. I was wrong.

https://www.ft.com/content/5d8af345-d593-47b1-85ae-758ee60e9a89?shareType=nongift

AI regulation is the first major policy issue that has the GOP pushing back against Trump’s agenda. Silicon Valley wants free reign with no regulation and Trump has been willing to oblige by signing an EO directing federal agencies to sue or withhold funds from any states that try to regulate AI.

Given how much disruption has and will be caused by AI, I expect fighting against regulation is a losing battle.

https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-critics-trump-ai-preemption-policy-2025-12#gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-of-arkansas-4

Jim Beam plans to stop making whiskey throughout 2026 because demand has fallen significantly following a fall in exports especially to Canada following Trump’s trade war.

Almost twice as many people voted for Trump than Kamala in Kentucky and this is the economy they chose.

#LeopardsAteMyFace

https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article313847580.html

The Epstein Files turned out to be even more of a dud than the Mueller Report.

Democrats really scored an own goal with the TikTok ban. The company has gone from being owned by China to being owned by China and Trump allies.

If the concern was TikTok pushing problematic politics, Dems are actually worse off.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok-deal-done-and-its-somehow-the-shittiest-possible-outcome-making-everything-worse/

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that the police don’t need a search warrant to request your Google search records because “it is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data.”

🤦🏾♂️

https://therecord.media/google-searches-police-access-without-warrant-pennsylvania-court-ruling

How can you advise companies to do layoffs based on AI-based efficiencies if you aren’t also doing the same thing yourself?

McKinsey plans to cut up to 10% of non-customer facing roles over the next 18-24 months due to “rapid advances in AI that are transforming business and society.”

https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/mckinsey-to-make-thousands-of-layoffs-as-ai-advances-mvpckpj3b

It's quite a sign of the times that Ford is pivoting away from EVs and will focus its battery tech on AI data centers instead.

There's a growing list from memory manufacturers to construction companies all pivoting from their primary focus areas to feed at the AI datacenter trough.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/ford-is-starting-a-battery-storage-business-to-power-data-centers-and-the-grid/

Tesla has confirmed a rumor floating around on social media that they are testing driverless cars in Austin. I'm curious to see how the math ends up working out that competing with Uber is a better business than selling EVs.

I guess Tesla investors know something the rest of us don't.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/15/tesla-tests-driverless-cars-in-austin-without-humans-on-board.html

Thieves have figured out that museums have more valuables than a bank and less security than a grocery store.

The Louvre, the UK’s Bristol Museum and now a Brazilian library have all been hit by brazen thefts of priceless artwork. It’s open season on museums at a time when funding for museums is in decline worldwide.

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/priceless-matisse-works-stolen-in-daylight-heist-of-brazilian-library-713ec424?mod=hp_listc_pos3

This is a great analysis of why conservatives feel persecuted for others simply existing or being acknowledged.

It’s fear their identity and choices will stop being mainstream or normal. That’s why they get upset at Happy Holidays (acknowledging other religious celebrations exist) versus Merry Christmas.

Google Slides "Beautify This Slide" feature

"Remigration is a European far-right concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white minority populations" - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

900 million active users based on word of mouth hasn’t been seen in over a decade. This is a generational product even though it’s unclear if its actually a sustainable business.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-nears-900-million-weekly-active-users-gemini-catching

Michael Burry continues to hit with the dotcom era analogies. First it was Nvidia is Cisco, a critical hardware manufacturer but overvalued.

Now it’s OpenAI is Netscape, a groundbreaking innovator that was eclipsed by an incumbent leveraging its monopoly.

https://www.businessinsider.com/big-short-michael-burry-stock-marekt-bubble-openai-nvidia-2025-12

The perfect chart that illustrates why Genocide Joe is a meme and Genocide Donny is not. Bonus points for “never happens”.

Imagine conquering the world’s greatest superpower without firing a single shot.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd01g2kwwo

The “no tax on tips” rule as part of the Big Beautiful Bill doesn’t apply to pornographic content.

This means when someone with an OnlyFans files their taxes and expects their tips not to be taxed, the IRS needs to watch their content to decide if it’s porn or not. 🤦🏾♂️

https://www.newsweek.com/irs-onlyfans-content-tax-on-tips-dispute-11142570

When Americans were cheering on a billionaire (and soon trillionaire) firing low level government employees in the hopes that they’d get a refund check from the savings was when I realized how much propaganda has turned our brains to mush.