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[azspot]

In order to ward off backlash against AI and curry favor with the Trump administration, Sam Altman has floated the idea of giving 5% of OpenAI to a wealth fund that pays dividends to both the government and citizens

AI, surveillance, open tech, and news as a business.

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If a sector can’t succeed without real damage to working communities, then it must not be allowed to exist.

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This is me

[secularsasquatch]

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Fuck yeah

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[artdetrump]

[porterdavis]

This is perverse and obscene.

[politicalantibody]

Of course they denied all those claims. It made them more money, and it wasn’t illegal. Corporations are amoral by nature, and healthcare is not an exception.

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American healthcare companies are not there to make you well. They are there to make money.

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I've been doing this more and more. I lay in bed in the afternoon and do nothing, then nap - maybe an hour at most. But nothing. And I'm going to bed earlier on the regular now. Less is more. Nothing is a luxury everyone should be able to afford.

[mommahoney]

Jan. 6

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[azspot]

Queen of the data centres

A Whitmer presidential campaign would, however, be a test case for a kind of politics that is growing more alienating by the day: relentless and unapologetic support for artificial intelligence. If Whitmer ran for president, she’d be the pro-AI candidate in whatever pro-AI lane exists. Few governors have catered more to the industry than Whitmer, whether it is championing tax breaks or ramming through massive data-center projects that have drawn local backlash — the kind that, shockingly, hasn’t seemed to rattle Whitmer at all. In 2026, developers have scoped out at least 16 data-center sites in 10 Michigan counties, according to an MLive tally. A massive $16 billion data center in Saline Township, which just broke ground, has been a signature Whitmer project, generating intense grassroots opposition.

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You have to ask what's in it for her. Is she compromised? Is the money too good to pass up? Anyone candidates or politicians cater to monies influence, we have to assume now they've been purchased.

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The DOJ has refused to hand over Epstein files after a judge's order. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to produce the unredacted documents or explain why it couldn't. The deadline was July 2. On the night of July 2, the DOJ filed its answer. It refused.

It asked for sixty more days and said it will appeal. The judge already found that Blanche conceded he was in violation of the law. So this is a constitutional crisis. Congress passed a law requiring release. A court ordered release. The executive refused both. Either there are consequences, or America basically has a king now.

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