br00t4c3d ago
Trump 'blindsided' AI companies with bizarre plan to grab ownership stake: report The big thief gets a taste, little thieves. That's how the "law" of jungle works ina banana republikkk. Pay up, dipshits. #oligarchy #shakedowns #patronage #payoffs www.rawstory.com/trump-blinds...

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Trump 'blindsided' AI companies with bizarre plan to grab ownership stake: report

President Donald Trump told reporters he had a meeting locked in with the biggest names in artificial intelligence to discuss the government taking ownership stakes in their companies. There was just one problem — nobody had told the companies.Leading AI companies were "blindsided" by Trump's announ...

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Claude TrudelMay 25
Le bon parti, les belles écoles ?
🔸 La répartition des investissements en infrastructures scolaires sous le gouvernement de la CAQ
Par Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
https://gabrielnadeaudubois.com/belles-ecoles/
#Québec #éducation #école #politique #enfants #investissement #budget #Montréal #comtés #électoralisme #patronage #CAQ #PCQ #PLQ #PQ #QS #média #culture #équité #inégalités #société #infrastructure #gouvernement
LE BON PARTI, LES BELLES ÉCOLES ? - Une enquête de Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

Depuis des années, la rumeur court: les circonscriptions représentées par des députés du parti au pouvoir sont-elles avantagées en matière de rénovation et de construction d’écoles? Pour aller au-delà des ouïes dires, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois a voulu tester l’hypothèse.

🦉 Fanch The System 🐈‍⬛May 23
https://fanchthesystem.libre.bzh/index.php?/category/329-repas_de_noel

2024

#soleil #perce #patronage #laïque #recouvrance
#flare #lumiere #wideangle #grandangle
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Techdirt [Unofficial]May 15

Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit May Become a $1.7 Billion Slush Fund for MAGA’s Self-Proclaimed Victims

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/15/trumps-10-billion-irs-lawsuit-may-become-a-1-7-billion-slush-fund-for-magas-self-proclaimed-victims/

Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Lawsuit May Become a $1.7 Billion Slush Fund for MAGA’s Self-Proclaimed Victims

The saga of Trump suing his own IRS for $10 billion just got weirder. What started as a brazenly corrupt attempt to personally pocket $10 billion in taxpayer money has now morphed into something ar…

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WIST QuotationsMay 15

A quotation from George Orwell

Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably writes — and less directly this applies to all the arts — about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be the truth. But no government, no big organization, will pay for the truth. To take a crude example: can you imagine the British Government commissioning E. M. Forster to write A Passage to India? He could only write it because he was not dependent on State aid.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1944-10-13), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/42525/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #censorship #government #patronage #sponsorship #truth #writing #publicart #funding #politics

Orwell, George - Essay (1944-10-13), "As I Please" column, Tribune Newspaper | WIST Quotations

Artists don’t so much object to aesthetic discipline. Architects will design theatres or churches equally readily, writers will switch from the three-volume novel to the one-volume, or from the play to the film, according to the demand. But the point is that this is a political age. A writer inevitably…

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Show threadLlewelyn PritchardMay 10
trumpsauthoritarianassault.blogspot.com/2025/07/civi... From "Bluesky Starter Packs" To "Civic Empowerment Solutions" 10 May 2026 #ScottFree #JohnsonsEpsteinFiles #TrumpsEpsteinFiles #ElitePowerAtPublicCost #FollowTheMoney #OverlappingNetworks #DefendDemocracy #BritishPolitics #TorySleaze #Patronage
Show threadLlewelyn PritchardMay 10
trumpsauthoritarianassault.blogspot.com/2025/07/civi... From "Bluesky Starter Packs" To "Civic Empowerment Solutions" 10 May 2026 #ScottFree #JohnsonsEpsteinFiles #TrumpsEpsteinFiles #ElitePowerAtPublicCost #FollowTheMoney #OverlappingNetworks #DefendDemocracy #BritishPolitics #TorySleaze #Patronage
Home ━ The European Conservative [Unofficial]Apr 24

Cronyism and Patronage Thrive at the Top of Macron’s System

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/cronyism-and-patronage-thrive-at-the-top-of-macrons-system/

axolotl solidarioMar 9

So, my #dentist is #catholic like most people in #mexico . Yes, she understands its a #religion brought to her ancestors by the point of a sword, but that doesn't seem to phase her faith in the slightest. Even more #hardcore, she goes to a specific church every so often to pray or give #patronage [or whatever chatolics do] to #Apollonia, the #patron #saint of dentists and toothaches. Why is she the patron saint of dentists and toothaches you ask? Because she had her teeth ripped out and / or shattered at the hands of an Alexandrian mob, that's why.
I find this both endearing and disturbing at the same time, and I can think of little else as she rakes metal instruments across my teeth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Apollonia

PhilosophicsMar 8

Capitalism’s defenders like to boast that it rewards talent. What capitalism actually rewards is saleability, compliance, stamina, inheritance, and the ability to endure long periods of spiritual self-betrayal without becoming visibly troublesome.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/08/capitalism-doesnt-merely-exploit-labour/?utm_source=masto

#philosophy #capitalism #labour #art #employment #artists #culture #Kafka #modernity, #exploitation #creativity #patronage #work #society #politics #enlightenment #civilisation #potential #opportunitycosts #parasites #blog