Mastodawn

I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

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Nicole Parsons 3h ago

@tante

The tech industry spent years and billions to create real world products to help businesses get ahead.
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-trump-stargate

https://nypost.com/2026/03/25/business/trump-names-mark-zuckerberg-jensen-huang-larry-ellison-to-tech-council/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2026/02/25/larry-ellison-oracle-relocates-to-florida-trumps-backyard/

Now the entire industry has been subsumed into furthering fossil fuel funded fascism, scams, & state surveillance data harvesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/23/mps-urge-uk-government-halt-palantir-contract-fca

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4500553/watchdog-calls-inspector-general-review-oracle-pentagon-contract/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/very-significant-privacy-concerns-uk-hands-over-financial-regulation-data-to-palantir-to-help-tackle-financial-crime

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data

https://www.reuters.com/technology/britains-fca-defends-palantir-contract-award-before-lawmakers-2026-03-24/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/29/cbs-tiktok-us-media-donald-trump-allies-democracy

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php

Trump’s Huge AI Project Is Running Into a Major Financial Problem

The financial situation behind Donald Trump's Stargate AI project could soon become unsustainable, analysts warn.

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Nicole Parsons

These organizations are ignoring the tech needs of the real world economy in favor of creating a global financial collapse instead.

They act like corrupt government contracts, Goebbels-style propaganda, Wall Street frauds, & oil oligarchy is the only possible niches available for the future.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/12/18/how-globalized-fraud-made-its-way-into-silicon-valley/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/business/silicon-valley-fraud.html

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/tech/openai-sam-altman-fraud-crisis

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-07-07/jorge-stolfi-technologically-bitcoin-and-blockchain-technology-is-garbage.html

Their end-times head-space is profoundly harmful.
https://wlockett.medium.com/peter-thiel-just-revealed-how-utterly-screwed-the-entire-ai-industry-is-df7a6e4d5d60

https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/

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Nicole Parsons 2h ago

Improved features for profitable mainstream applications are being sacrificed for spyware features that are loathed.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-screwed-up-windows-11-copilot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-23/microsoft-msft-ai-copilot-confronts-its-identity-crisis-in-re-org-mn32qmuk

They're even willing to sink their own stock to get AI implemented.
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/03/23/melius-analyst-microsofts-copilot-reorganization-is-a-red-flag/

The people who developed those features were laid off & not replaced to make more room on the balance sheet for a flood of AI money from the fossil fuel industry.

Koch supports AI solely for partisan gain.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

Microsoft Realizes It’s Epically Screwed Up Windows 11 as Users Rage at Copilot AI Crammed Everywhere

Windows VP Pavan Davuluri effectively admitted outright that the company went too far to shove AI down users' throats at all costs.

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