@emilymbender

The developers of LLM's & AI have been warned about bias for over a decade yet the industry makes strong efforts to purge the harbingers.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/

Why?
Purges of dissenting staff occur because the investors behind these initiatives want the results so badly, they're prepared to fund it limitlessly, no matter its poor quality.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/02/02/artificial-intelligence-the-new-eyes-of-surveillance/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/

Silicon Valley is more interested...
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@obrhoff

Zelensky knows that Trump is a faithless liar.

Any agreement with Trump isn't worth the paper its written on.

He's betrayed allies in Afghanistan & Syrian Kurds.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-syria-ap-top-news-international-news-politics-ac3115b4eb564288a03a5b8be868d2e5

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-14/afghan-allies-stranded-by-trump-refugee-and-foreign-aid-bans

He's torn up trade agreements he signed just 4 years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement

He signs contracts then doesn't pay.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/cities-seek-750k-unpaid-bills-trump-campaign-events-rcna174757

He picks cherry picks winners based on who flatters his ego or who donated to him.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/corporate-donors-trump-inauguration-1.7430028

@heidilifeldman

When Nazis or the mafia demand that you participate in atrocities or participate in crimes, don't "just follow orders".

Resign your position immediately and keep your evidence for future investigation & prosecutions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Trial

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_trial

@cdarwin

Charlie Kirk is funded by fossil fuel donors Hanley, Farris & Dan Wilks, rabid Christian fundamentalists behind climate denial & civil rights rollbacks for women.

https://www.desmog.com/2019/03/12/turning-point-meet-trump-allied-climate-science-denying-fossil-fuel-funded-ultra-conservative-us-student-group-coming/

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/10/20/charlie-kirks-republican-friends-00062305

https://www.yahoo.com/news/line-trump-allies-warn-gop-212704476.html

https://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/who-funds-conservative-campus-group-turning-point-usa-donors-revealed-2620325

@briankrebs

Oligarchs fund fascist coups for a reason. Anti-democracy movements like Trump's always end in war.

Deluded kooks like Koch, Thiel, Mellon, & Musk think there's a winnable nuclear war & climate action can be delayed forever.
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-big-tech-billionaires-democracy-social-media/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/31/elon-musk-an-excess-of-billionaires-is-destabilising-politics-just-as-academics-predicted

https://jacobin.com/2022/02/billionaires-pandemic-wealth-democracy-economic-control-bezos

https://inequality.org/article/billionaires-vs-democracy/

@knittingknots2

Trump knows the first rule of selling yourself: give good value & insist on the going rate.

The current price of a US president is $288 million...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/31/elon-musk-trump-donor-2024-election/

@gvwilson

Fascists always try to build false narratives.

For women, a fascist's favorite narrative for women is: "Kinder, Kuche, Kirke" (Kids, Kitchen, Church)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_K%C3%BCche,_Kirche

In an anti-democracy movement funded by billionaire religious fundamentalists like Tim Dunn, Farris & Dan Wilks, & misogynistic tech weirdos like Musk & Thiel, erasing women from history comes just before erasing them from employment & erasing their social & economic mobility.

https://indivisible.org/resource/unmasking-maga-exploring-gops-war-women-womens-history-month

@persagen

What happens when optimization algorithms and AI are funded & their fossil fuel financiers direct development towards a global anti-democracy movement?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

https://techafricanews.com/2025/02/06/aramco-digital-microsoft-and-armada-advance-ai-and-edge-computing-in-saudi-arabia/

https://www.cio.com/article/3602900/saudi-arabia-launches-100-billion-ai-initiative-to-lead-in-global-tech.html?amp=1

https://gulfbusiness.com/deepfest-2025-ai/

What happens when the might of the biggest former democracy puts taxpayer dollars into the effort to end democracy?

https://www.levernews.com/trumps-ai-moonshot-leads-to-saudi-arabia/

@USAJusticeWatch

Vought and #KochNetwork

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Action

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Vought

https://www.commondreams.org/news/russell-vought-opposition

@erosalie @skykiss

Resistance through tax revolts:

It's as if oligarchs bought a car but want the former owner to keep paying for gas, tires, oil changes, repairs & insurance.

Oligarchs, you bought the car, you pay for its operation.

@erosalie @skykiss

Mass protests, general strikes, obstruction of ICE roundups, and granting sanctuary...

One avenue that hasn't been discussed yet: A tax revolt.

April is coming.

If billionaires don't have to pay their taxes, why should you?

Mike Johnson defunded the IRS.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/10/30/new-house-speaker-mike-johnson-ties-funding-for-israel-to-irs-budget-cuts/

https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/newsletters/tax/2024/hot-topics/mar-26/irs-loses-billion-in-funding

How to make you pay taxes?

Tax collection is disabled; Trump won't pay government employees.

America came into existence from a tax revolt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_acts_of_tax_resistance

@GottaLaff

In Trump's first term, Republicans were still interested in sufficient democracy to win elections. They catered to their voters because they had to win re-election.

Republicans & their billionaires feel voters, of all political parties, are now "surplus to needs" and don't have to curry favor with voters.

They don't plan on have free & fair elections in the future.

America is an oligarchy.

@stux

The legal & illegal immigrants within the GOP:

1. Peter Thiel - born in Germany
2. Elon Musk - fraudulent immigrant
3. Melania - fraudulent immigrant

@Atticus1956 @GottaLaff

The tech industry has wanted to sidestep banking oversight & financial regulations for a long time. Tax evasion is part of it.

Cryptocurrency is a vehicle for foreign money in elections, straw donor schemes, & malign influence campaigns. AI helps hide the money laundering.

https://www.exus.co.uk/blog/facebook-and-libra-how-social-media-companies-are-getting-into-banking-and-what-banks-can-do-about-it

Meta's Zuckerberg is visibly panting over access to user's banking.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/banks-data-sharing-facebook,37556.html

https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/18-11-2024/banks-are-grappling-with-a-scam-crisis-while-facebook-profits-from-it

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/facebook-banking/23797/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049

@cdarwin

Cryotocurrency is faerie gold with national security implications.

@amydiehl

The nations with the highest sexism also have the most rapidly declining birth rates.

Russia. Korea. Japan. USA. Afghanistan.

All societies poisoned by toxic attitudes of male supremacy blameshift to women's rights for their demographic decline.

Consequences.

Why have children in a nation where the next generation has no hope of improving conditions?

Why form a marriage when it means a lifetime of exploitation & mistreatment?

Why have a family when MAGA oppose all ...
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@w7voa

Ellison wants an AI surveillance state.

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

@w7voa

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"The GOP despises Christians who act like Christians.

Republicans want a state religion that excludes the words of Jesus Christ, that commie."

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2023/11/10/republicans-jesus-less-christianity/

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/christian-nationalism-trump-republicans/

@briankrebs

Converting real gold into faerie gold is an enormous heist.
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-enormous-heist-hayes-on-the-audacious-scheme-to-reward-big-donors-226432069961

Public corruption to reward billionaire donors...

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-is-an-enormous-heist-chris-hayes-sounds-the-alarm-on-republican-bill-that-would-transfer-100-billion-to-bitcoin-owners/

@pluralistic

Monopsonies also suppress wages across entire industries
https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/pervasive-monopsony-power-and-freedom-in-the-labor-market/

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/6/17204808/wages-employers-workers-monopsony-growth-stagnation-inequality

https://samhillman.substack.com/p/wage-determination-and-labour-market?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

AI algorithms are already being used like Harlan Crow's RealPage -- to manipulate the market in favor of monopolies

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/06/18/artificial-intelligence-has-caused--50-to-70-decrease-in-wages-creating-income-inequality-and-threatening-millions-of-jobs/

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230718-ai-artificial-intelligence-worker-wages-salaries

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-uber-driver-pay-algorithm-ontario/

Amazon sets wages in stone for warehouses, IT, & distribution systems in several countries.