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Those who remade American democracy to enrich themselves, & only themselves, have a sudden interest in "economic mobility"

"... charitable foundations of billionaires Bill Gates (net worth: $116.9 billion), Charles Koch ($67.5 billion), Steve Ballmer ($142.5 billion), Intuit founder Scott Cook ($7.7 billion) & hedge fund investor John Overdeck ($7.4 billion) announced a more than $1 billion pledge to fund a new philanthropic vehicle focused on economic mobility called NextLadder Ventures"

@Npars01 @simon

>AI is funded by people imposing fascism on us all.

Interesting take. Seems like a matter of POV.

It's also not mutually exclusive, Musk & pals can be a fascist along with AI haters.

From the haters it's very 1984, 'Don't believe your own eyes,' style fascism.

>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The Fediverse: Ignore your results, Qwen3-VL isn't a good vision model.

@Npars01 @simon #genai, especially as it relates to chatbots, is a #darkpattern.

I say this as a power user who finds them useful when scoped or when users are aware how they work. In their current form they're just a hyperoptomized sociotechnical loop that will convince users to share data that will be used against them in the future.

misaligned.markets/llm-intelli…

LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern

LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.

^{Mike (Misaligned Markets)}