William Lindsey 
"Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space.
If you haven’t heard of this yet, it’s not because you're not paying attention."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
"It’s because the media is part of the same mystical amalgam of bullshit and vibes that’s keeping the whole thing afloat, a circular economy of access journalism and tech hyperbole that masks something stinking and rotten at its core: OpenAI. …
The opposite of a lack of news and information is not truth or justice or even transparency, it’s chaos."
"Information flows through platforms owned and controlled and manipulated for their ends by these same men. And shocks to the system are exactly what the disaster surveillance capitalists want."
"How does a country burst? To answer this questions, it helps to see matters as do the president and the vice-president: from inside a grift bubble. ...
This end of the United States is possible, in part, because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
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"Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest, without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country. For them, America is a limitless passive resource. ...
The president and vice-president do not know the history of people like themselves, or that of other republics that were needlessly brought down by men of their particular sort."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
/5
"They think that the magic of words will always save them, that there will always be a next grift, that no crisis is so great that it cannot be turned to personal profit. This is true right up until the moment when it is not."
#Trump #JDVance #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #TechBros #broligarchy #grift #corruption
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"We live in a time when those with earthly power attempt to overwhelm us with their 'stones,' with their displays of wealth, with their branded success, with their million dollar expansions, and with their palaces built to convince us that their might is eternal."
~ Benjamin Cremer
#Trump #EconomicElites #ChristianNationalism #corruption #greed #grift #ballroom
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https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/glittering-temples-and-ballrooms
"A billionaire president is spending hundreds of millions on a new ballroom onto the White House while 22 million Americans brace for a doubling of their health insurance premiums if ACA subsidies vanish.
Oil and tech companies gorge themselves on expanding profits while our planet strains beneath drought, wildfire, and a collapsing ecosystem."
#Trump #EconomicElites #ChristianNationalism #corruption #greed #grift #ballroom #oil #ClimateChange #TechBros #SNAP #food #hunger
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"And so much of this, heartbreakingly, is done beneath the banner of 'Christian values.'”
#Trump #EconomicElites #ChristianNationalism #corruption #greed #grift #ballroom #oil #ClimateChange #TechBros #SNAP #food #hunger
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Mark Leibovich notes that the more Trump is exposed as weak and failing, the more "he will do everything possible to keep himself at center stage for as long as he can. Histrionics are definitely possible." He will continue with his "ballroom ambitions" and public opinion be damned, because this is who he is.
And this makes him all the more dangerous because he knows many of us see beyond the façade.
#Trump #EconomicElite #corruption #greed #grift #ballroom
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/trump-lame-duck-third-term-prospects/684899/
That_Damn_FrankAnd Kennedy is a Quack...
sadele2RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115537598076499452
Gift link for the above Mark Leibovich article:
https://mastodon.social/@GiftArticles@tomkahe.com/115537598729600399
@sadele2 Thank you.
Mirishuli@wdlindsy it ALL done by and for Christians. This is what they voted for and what how they want to live.
@MiriShuli White Christians, yes.
Nicole ParsonsThere's some evidence to show that the tech bro oligarchy is mimicking Christianity's systems of control.
https://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/machine-metaphysics-and-the-cult-of-techno-transcendentalism
@Npars01 @MiriShuli Or I'd be incllined to say they're mimicking and distorting and bastardizing what they want to pass off as Christian systems of control. The word "control" hardly looms large in the vocabulary of Jesus in the gospels.
RainbowFrogI've always loved Matthew 19:24
about the Rich, the Camel and the Needle's eye
very very explicit
and then...
there are *elephants*... 😏
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@wdlindsy
Slight correction:
Just wanted to note that #DonTheCon isn't spending A DIME of his own money to build that #Ballroom.
24 hours after he suggested he might pay the $230M himself, he announced he was suing the DoJ for... 🥁... "$230 million dollars." 🤦♂️ #SuckersAndLosers
@MugsysRapSheet "A billionaire president is spending hundreds of millions on a new ballroom" does not mean that the president spending that money is spending his OWN money.
@wdlindsy
I'd prefer the word "wasting" then (vs "spending".)
If you said, "Mugsy is spending", it would suggest I was using my own money. 🤔
@MugsysRapSheet I suspect a lot of married couples would tell you that the spouse spending the money was often spending money the other spouse has earned. The Latin root of the word "spend" has to do with dispensing, handing out, giving out. People often hand out and dispense money that is not their own money.
Knightmare@wdlindsy it is even worse than that. Gamers Nexus GNCA did a great video about it. https://youtu.be/h3JfOxx6Hh4?si=FL-omPlwwXmk1fda
WTF Is Going On?
Steven Zekowski@wdlindsy
Her quote from Gary Marcus is priceless:
“I keep thinking of Wiley Coyote at the edge of a cliff in the roadrunner cartoons, and he doesn’t fall until he looks down. The question is, when are people going to look down? The finances don’t make any sense, and I think they’re starting to look down.”
SpaceLifeForm
Tattie@wdlindsy Carole described Altman's interview as a "meltdown", but I don't think that really describes it well. It was a disturbing mask-off moment for another reason entirely.
If I as an investor go to the company I'm investing in and say "hey, I don't understand how you're going to make the revenues you're claiming", I would expect a polished spiel about, say, new versions of the product coming out, new markets being broken into, overheads being driven down, etc etc
But what Altman delivered instead was "if you don't help me drive number up, there are plenty of other investors who will drive number up". That was his entire argument. It was an admission that this is where all the money is coming from and that pure faith in the continued willingness of future investors to invest is what's keeping it afloat. He's throwing the gauntlet to the interviewer "I have faith, don't you?"
It's a game of chicken, riding the edge of the bubble until it bursts.
Someone pop the damn thing already, I'm sick of it.