Pop superstar Taylor Swift endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential candidacy on Tuesday night after the high-stakes debate with former President Donald Trump, calling the Democratic nominee a "steady-handed, gifted leader."
@ruedi Funny how you do support for Taylor Swift, the best polluting singer of the world, and Kamala, the first on repressing poor people and migrants.
Funny how you think that both are Better than Trump, will wait fot palestinian genocide under Kamala management. And everything will be your responsability.
Do you think there's a correlation between the polls and trolls? It seems that as Trump's polls go down, there's an inverse proportion of trolls going up.
@tomjennings @toastie @Wileymiller Troll farms are now relocated from Russia, Vietnam, Philippines, & Kosovo to Saudi Arabia and automated. Thanks to Musk, Thiel, & Ellison.
Artificial intelligence is automating the creation of fake news, spurring an explosion of websites that can disseminate false information about wars and elections
After Jacob Helberg rallied support for the TikTok ban bill, the former Democratic fundraiser has become one of Silicon Valley’s conduits to former president Donald Trump.
reforms are an available option currently, but if they don't provide the solution in the next 15 years, violent rebellion may be our only way to correct the balance.
greed and corruption are akin to cancer in our society and we must remove it at all costs.
Blackstone Inc. Chief Financial Officer Michael Chae said the firm is “cautiously optimistic about a soft landing,” signaling the alternative asset manager is betting the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tamp down inflation won’t trigger a US recession.
His previously unreported $4.3 billion gift to Believe in People is now the largest publicly disclosed donation to a 501(c)4–a type of nonprofit with fewer restrictions on lobbying and politics than traditional charities.
‘Alternative asset managers’ are mainly focused on protecting themselves from losses – and they get tax breaks for it, too, says author Brett Christophers
As slow as they were with Trump, Musk has no worries for a year or two. He knows he can simply go to another country, and many will take him in. The problem now is Musk has a good idea of our security, and that will be our downfall. Our justice department is still under Trumps spell.
The ultra wealthy are frying the planet, fostering fascist movements, & eroding democracy
WW2 ended the rule of kings & aristocrats but cost 90 million lives, a nuclear detente, & military expenditures of $4 trillion dollars adjusted for today, 40% of global GDP
That's the possible future Musk & his ilk are buying us
as a woman I am fully aware of that….having experienced it personally. I was just commenting on their expression if that was in fact an AI projection. This is perhaps why men should be sequestered not women. ….and this has been happening since long before now….about the last 10,000 years or so.
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •2/ Here's how Taylor Swift signed her Harris endorsement:
With love and hope,
Taylor Swift
Childless Cat Lady
Laffy
in reply to Laffy • • •3/ More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris-rcna170547
Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris following presidential debate
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in reply to Michael Gemar • • •Futures on ketchup sales went through the roof overnight...lol.
Galbinus Caeli 🌯
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Nope.
@GottaLaff
Dave ⬛🟩
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Funny how you do support for Taylor Swift, the best polluting singer of the world, and Kamala, the first on repressing poor people and migrants.
Funny how you think that both are Better than Trump, will wait fot palestinian genocide under Kamala management. And everything will be your responsability.
Laffy
in reply to Dave ⬛🟩 • • •It must be troll day. #Toodles @daveecologist @mastodon.uno and thank you for playing #WhackATroll
@ruedi
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in reply to Wiley Miller • • •tom jennings
in reply to toastie 🇺🇦🥥🌴🍉 • • •Well their troll quality needs improvement.
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Troll farms are now relocated from Russia, Vietnam, Philippines, & Kosovo to Saudi Arabia and automated.
Thanks to Musk, Thiel, & Ellison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/feds-uncover-genai-enabled-russian-troll-farm
https://www.oracle.com/jo/news/announcement/oracle-will-train-saudi-nationals-in-artificial-intelligence-and-other-latest-digital-technologies-2023-12-14/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/
https://www.ft.com/content/40e39936-651b-442a-8df8-46cf6b7aed77
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/17/ai-fake-news-misinformation/
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/saudi-arabia-deployed-twitter-army-against-critics-ny-times-idUSKCN1MU0VB/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/19kbzkENkQy3Iu6qX7nxQz
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/europe/russia-yevgeny-prigozhin-internet-research-agency-intl/index.html
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/20/twitter-employee-saudi-state-sponsored-hacking-warning/
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/07/dutch-intelligence-services-help-dismantle-russian-troll-farms/
The rise of AI fake news is creating a ‘misinformation superspreader’
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AI initiatives are being funded by the most vehemently anti-democracy billionaires on the planet.
Larry Ellison
https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2024/oracle-q1-2025-earnings-no-ai-slowdown-or-shift-coming-says-ellison
https://qz.com/oracle-larry-ellison-amazon-jeff-bezos-net-worth-ai-1851646728
https://www.ft.com/content/a2834bdd-0ed5-45ef-9708-d9b7195a57ee
With a bonus of nuclear proliferation for the country behind the 9/11 attacks
https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-ai-larry-ellison-43c1ecd9
Elon Musk
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/elon-musk-and-oracle-founder-begged-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-for-ai-gpus-at-dinner
Saudi Arabia
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html
China
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/12/china-tech-companies-ai-models-vs-openai-google-meta.html
Peter Thiel
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/palantir-technologies-chairperson-peter-thiel-talks-ai-digital-currencies-and-the-state-of-america-213849157505
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Elon Musk and Larry Ellison begged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for AI GPUs at dinner
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-02/peter-thiel-s-fund-invests-in-ai-crypto-startup-sentient-labs
Horowitz & Andreessen
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/world-labs-launches-a16z-nventures/
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-horowitz-is-building-a-stash-of-more-than-20-000-gpus-to-win-ai-deals
Chris Hohn
https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/05/26/x-artificial-intelligence-ai-stocks-billionaires-a/
Helberg, Pascale & other economic luddites
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/07/11/jacob-helberg-trump-ai-palantir/
https://apnews.com/article/ai-trump-campaign-2024-election-brad-parscale-3ff2c8eba34b87754cc25e96aa257c9d
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/05/18/with-gop-opposed-u-s-senate-panel-advances-bills-to-combat-ai-in-elections/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/01/18/ai-tech-biden/
https://apnews.com/article/ai-trump-campaign-2024-election-brad-parscale-8c25c16a50a15fd1959ffe95b73f1d66
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/17/trump-vance-economy-workers/
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-details-on-openais-strawberry-apples-siri-makeover-larry-ellison-doubles-down-on-data-centers
The Curious Rise Of Silicon Valley’s Trump Whisperer — A Former Biden Donor Pushing A Free-For-All AI Policy
David Jeans (Forbes)T.Wllms
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"Who will rid US of these meddlesome billionaires"...
@GreenKnight23 @tomjennings @toastie @Wileymiller @GottaLaff
The Green Knight
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in reply to The Green Knight • • •@GreenKnight23 @tdwllms1 @tomjennings @toastie @Wileymiller
Guillotines aren't the solution unfortunately. Political violence rarely gets you where you want to go.
The French Revolution led to mass violence & settling of scores on innocent religious & ethnic minorities, along with the culpable.
The French got years of civil war then autocracy & perpetual war under a despot Napoleon.
Wresting back control of government for the people by the people is possible through reforms.
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The Green Knight
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @tdwllms1 @tomjennings @toastie @Wileymiller violence is just another tool that's oddly simultaneously used too often and too late.
reforms are an available option currently, but if they don't provide the solution in the next 15 years, violent rebellion may be our only way to correct the balance.
greed and corruption are akin to cancer in our society and we must remove it at all costs.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to The Green Knight • • •@GreenKnight23 @tdwllms1 @tomjennings @toastie @Wileymiller
My biggest worry is that the moneyed will orchestrate a world war like they did in WW2.
Income inequality always ends in wars between factions of the rich.
Musk believes he decides foreign policy.
https://cepa.org/article/should-elon-musk-decide-who-wins-wars/
Larry Ellison believes he decides nuclear proliferation policy in the Middle East
https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-nuclear-data-center-ai-technology-7f588cdc
Schwarzman believes he sets monetary policy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-11/blackstone-finance-chief-chae-says-us-inflation-is-at-target
Bezos believes he...
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US Inflation Is ‘at Target,’ Blackstone CFO Michael Chae Says
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... sets labor regulations.
https://theconversation.com/amazon-spacex-and-other-companies-are-arguing-the-government-agency-that-has-protected-labor-rights-since-1935-is-actually-unconstitutional-225611
Charles Koch believes he decides if the planet fries.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/exclusive-charles-koch-koch-industries-has-given-more-than-5-billion-of-his-koch-industries-stock-to-two-nonprofits/
Barre Seid believes he decides when or if you have children or die of miscarriage.
https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid
Jamie Dimon thinks he should set tax policy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182015/wall-street-billionaires-support-trump-tax-cuts
The Uihleins & Diane Hendricks believe they decide when an election gets overturned.
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/25/richard-uihlein-ohio-gop-abortion/
John Paulson wants control of the US Treasury
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-floats-billionaire-paulson-potential-treasury-chief-bloomberg-reports-2024-03-13/
Exclusive: Charles Koch Has Given More Than $5 Billion Of His Stock To Two Nonprofits
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Harlan Crow believes he should be able to set rents in the entire nation.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/5/2244971/-FBI-raid-on-real-estate-company-linked-to-Harlan-Crow-s-RealPage-rental-price-fixing
Griffin believes he decides if you can ever afford a home or an education.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/hedge-funds-capitalism-risk-asset-managers-tax
https://www.wsj.com/articles/citadel-ceo-ken-griffin-real-estate-11602188980
Wynn, Adelson, Bigelow, Ruffin want no limits on casino money laundering
https://apnews.com/general-news-domestic-news-domestic-news-b8e465bd39564ac7a399ed0d5295488f
Jeff Yass wants lucrative no-bid contracts to run education, the courts, & prisons to enrich himself
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/09/jeff-yass-millions-to-influence-schools-courts-and-markets.html
Look at what hedge funds really do – and tell me capitalism is about ‘rewarding risk’
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Reallyblue3
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Elon Musk deserves an investigation & trial like everyone else.
Hopefully before he engineers a war...
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DRBLD2009
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •tom jennings
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •I'll be surprised if there is not large scale war within the next decade.
Nicole Parsons
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The current degree of wealth hoarding is unsustainable
The ultra wealthy are frying the planet, fostering fascist movements, & eroding democracy
WW2 ended the rule of kings & aristocrats but cost 90 million lives, a nuclear detente, & military expenditures of $4 trillion dollars adjusted for today, 40% of global GDP
That's the possible future Musk & his ilk are buying us
https://historyandheritage.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/research-topics/world-war-two/world-war-two-financial-cost
https://online.norwich.edu/online/about/resource-library/cost-us-wars-then-and-now
World War Two Financial Cost | Parramatta History and Heritage
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Nicole Parsons
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The people will.
Spend as little time or money on Amazon, Lowes, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, Vanguard, AT&T, Uline, ABC Building Supply,
Any corporation donating to Trump or Republicans gets nothing
Encourage everyone to defund the fossil fuel industry by switching to alternatives.
The moneyed are funding an anti-democracy movement.
Vote to end their subsidies, unfair tax breaks, and corporate welfare. Add a wealth tax.
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Catherine Schmidt
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In some cultures, staring at women is used to intimidate women out of public spaces.
https://theconversation.com/whistling-and-staring-at-women-in-the-street-is-harassment-and-its-got-to-stop-38721
https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/staring-sexual-harassment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/11/women-feel-safe-public-spaces-men-behaviour-change
As part of a purported "modernization" initiative, #PrinceBonesaw is trying to legislate against long-standing cultural practices.
https://www.newarab.com/News/2019/6/23/Saudi-decency-law-bans-staring-for-over-five-seconds
https://holliesmckay.substack.com/p/what-it-is-really-like-as-a-woman
https://theweek.com/60339/things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia
For women to feel safe in public spaces, men's behaviour has to change
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