We Must Strike#Trump being #president is good... for Trump's wallet! US$3.4 billion, and that's probably not all. Where did it come from? Friend #Americans, did any of YOU see that kind of rise in #income during the Trump administrations? Will it ever be your turn, or will the #TrumpCrimeFamily continue to bleed all of you dry?
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The Trump family has raked in an astonishing $3.4 billion over his two presidencies, new report claims | The Independent https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-family-profit-cryptocurrency-billions-b2806493.html
Scott Pfitzinger
Niklas PivicGPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter? - by Brian Merchant https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter
'I don’t think the GPT-5 flop ultimately matters all that much to most folks, and it can certainly be papered over well enough by a skilled salesman in an enterprise pitch meeting. Again, all this is clarifying: OpenAI is again centering workplace automation, while retreating from messianic AGI talk. Here’s NBC, in a story about how Altman has apparently and rather suddenly (once again) changed his stance on AGI:
“I think it’s not a super useful term,” Altman told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” last week, when asked whether the company’s latest GPT-5 model moves the world any closer to achieving AGI.
Remember, just last February Altman published an essay on his personal blog that opened with the line “Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.” Suddenly it’s not a super useful term? Another bad joke, surely. If anything, it’s clear that Altman knows just what a super useful term AGI is, at least when it comes to attracting investment capital. But Altman tends to announce AGI is near when OpenAI is pursuing funding, and shrink from the term when the company is at a point of vulnerability.'
#ArtificialIntelligence #BrianMerchant #OpenAI #ChatGPT #grift #AGI #bullshit
DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠MechanicGrifter-in-Chief
Many payments now flowing to Trump, his wife, and his children and their spouses would be unimaginable without his Presidencies
- Two-billion-dollar investment from a fund controlled by the Saudi crown prince
- Luxury jet from the Emir of Qatar
- Profits from at least five different ventures peddling crypto
- Fees from an exclusive club stocked with Cabinet officials and named Executive Branch
Fred Wertheimer, dean of ethics-reform advocates, said “when it comes to using his public office to amass personal profits, #Trump is a unicorn—no one else even comes close.”
#grift #graft
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number
Imagine this: you prepare a presentation to showcase your great new product version that's cost a billion USD to make. You prepare your presentation for ages. The result?
You show bullshit charts where bars that represent 30% and 58% are equally high; you wheel in pictures of bicycles that have three wheels; you show zebras with five legs...
You'd be sacked for doing that. Actually, OpenAI did that during their presentation of Chat-GPT 5 a short while back.
To quote Gary Marcus:
'By rights, Altman’s reputation should by now be completely burned. This is a man who joked in September 2023 that “AGI has been achieved internally”, told us in January of this year in his blog that “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”. Just two days ago he hold us that as quoted above) interacting with GPT-5 we “like talking to … legitimate PhD level expert in anything”. In hindsight, that was all bullshit.And the worst part? Altman brought it all on himself. Had he not kept hinting at the moon, people might have been fine with just another incremental update.' - https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming
#ArtificialIntelligence #GaryMarcus #OpenAI #SamAltman #grift #fraud #capitalism #bullshit
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁“Marisa Breeze, press secretary to Finance Minister Nate Horner, said in a statement that the changes were made to ‘improve government operations and reduce red tape,’ and to bring Alberta's policies into alignment with other provinces.”
Here’s the Ontario website that lists the expenses of Cabinet Ministers, Parliamentary Assistants, political staff and senior government employees going back to 2009:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/travel-meal-and-hospitality-expenses
One example is Lauren Broten, Minister for Children and Youth Services, claimed $11.17 for a breakfast meeting with a representative of the Toronto United Way in November 2009.
CassandraVertI just saw an ad for a gold Trump Commemorative Coin embossed with the scene at the staged shooting. The narrator was speaking from the passenger seat of a car. The ad didn't give the price; you had to click through to get that.
#grift #profiteering #tawdry
#grift #profiteering #tawdry
Dave RahardjaBreaking: Irish #billionaire tells Dublin to cancel public transit project because AI means everyone will have self driving cars.
“AI will make Dublin’s MetroLink obsolete, says Dermot Desmond”
Sean MurthyJust musing: Someone could bring in "gold" objects to their temporary residence and take back *gold* objects when they leave. 🤔
I can imagine ways and reasons that switch could happen.
Brett