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defective altruism's poster boy
Bad Madoff. Faulty neoliberal capitalism where corruption and theft get rationalized.Is Sam Bankman-Fried now the exemplar for the excesses of the Effective Altruism movement, especially when he tried...
View Article"Fear and Tension" Led to Altman's Ouster at Open AI
I imagine, like most humans, you are fascinated by AI but also afraid of what it might do, not only to jobs, and to creative people, but to humanity and our planet as well.The shocking ouster of Sam...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket: Silicon Valley Shenanigans - Part I
My work travels have taken me to many parts of the United States. Some of those places are not near the top of my vacation list. But I learned much about each place, especially focusing on the history...
View ArticleThe "Water Engine" Prank and the Internet of Lies
For people with too much time on their hands, YouTube offers a fun and sometimes educational way to kill it. YouTube offers a wide range of “documentaries” for streaming. They range in length from...
View ArticleCartoon: New tech trends
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The Donald's fraud numbers are a drop in Sam Bankman-Fried's bucket because...
Money still counts even at $23 x 1018 dollars. Where will Trump get the cash on Monday even if he’s only an ultra-lite villain at 215 pounds, wet. Hard Work, Talent, and Luck is not his law firm, but...
View ArticleLimiting The Power Of Silicon Valley Oligarchs: Musk's $56 Billion...
The wage gap between CEOs and workers continues to rise, with estimates last year showing that the CEOs in the country’s 300 largest firms earned an average of $10.6 million a year, compared to the...
View ArticleI Wanna Tweet Like Common People Do
Jack Dorsey has officially left the board of Bluesky, letting the world know via a rambling interview. In that interview, Dorsey inadvertently highlights the anti-equality, ant-liberty view of too...
View ArticleWhat do you call tech billionaires who back Trump? Fascists. You call them...
Here's a new CNN story about Silicon Valley billionaire's newly emphatic embrace of the coup-attempting convicted felon Donald Trump, and it's positively enraging because it continues to peddle the...
View ArticleHow Art Thou Crazy? Let Me Count the Ways
Here’s the One Weird Trick to understanding the techbro billionaires who represent the emerging next generation of Conservative Funders.Long Termism.It’s the belief we must prioritize the long term...
View ArticleAI Money Should Be Spent on Doing Something Useful
I have talked about this before, but two recent news items bring it back to the fore. First, OpenAI is on pace to lose approximately 5 billion (with a B) dollars this year. The Imitative AI industry...
View ArticleCartoon: Sam Altman's AI bubble-burstin' blowout
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Barbarism's trickle-down with a transhumanist's eyeliner
Ret-conning ineffectual altruism and the PayPal mafia doing "the same douchebag gaslighting"Framing the anarcho-capitalist wetdreaming of election 2024 as a false dichotomy where "One is running a...
View ArticleJD Vance's Startup Was Hell on Earth Before It Went Bankrupt
CNN’s expose on JD Vance’s failed foray into American business is brutal and something every American should read. The D in JD evidently stands for dilettante. Like lambs to the slaughter, Eastern...
View ArticleWhy some Silicon Valley billionaire bros want Trump to be the ‘CEO of America’
The former president has attracted growing support from tech investors, who are seeking favorable tax policies and more deregulation that could widen inequality.By Daria Solovieva for Capital &...
View ArticleWhat Happened? How are DEI, pronouns, trigger warnings, and Silicon Valley...
OOOF! Where lies sanity now?This was a good and thoughtful column by Joe Klein to America's self-imposed and dramatic political Decline surged by Trump’s return to the White House. I don’t agree with...
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