I'm sick of all the shiny shoes and the posturing. I need a serious person with substance.
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I can only hope this is true. Most voters aren't paying a bit of attention to where the money comes from.
They're using AI. They think it's wonderful, they've barely heard about the controversy around data centers, and think "data centers are where the internet it, yOU lIkE thE inTErNeT, Don'T yoU?"
The Top 10 AI Uses in 2025 (none of which it does very well):
- Therapy and companionship
- Organizing my life
- Finding purpose
- Enhanced learning
- Summarizing content
- Generating ideas
- Generating code (for professionals)
- Improving code (for professionals)
- Creativity
- Visual art and design
AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics are flooding politics with money, or pouring money into politics.
This is grade school stuff, FFS!
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The next step seems obvious: they'll take a page from the tobacco, gun, and meat industries and instead create fake think tanks or associations to funnel political money semi-anonymously.
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Hello Americans! Please vote! Sincerely, everyone else.
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I don't think they plan on voters being an insurmountable problem.
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Turns out telling people your technology will replace their jobs, devour their electricity, and possibly end civilization isn’t the winning sales pitch billionaires imagined. Imagine spending hundreds of millions buying political influence, only to discover voters don’t enjoy being treated like obsolete hardware.
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Turns out that taking hubris to far, thinking that the public will suck it all up just because they always did does have its turning point.
Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Don't forget cryptocurrency (UK Reform party big whoopsie)
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