Mastodawn

Oh my Bob, this is utterly unhinged. Peter #Theil and Aron #DSouza have teamed up to create an “AI Tribunal” for the #EpsteinClass to whitewash any negative reporting, by “suing the reporter” in a made up court judged by an LLM, and when the LLM decides for the rich person, it poisons the well by distributing propaganda.

D’Souza believes that “many journalists are more powerful than billionaires,” explaining, “I can’t tell you how many billionaires and CEOs have called me in absolute tears about their lives being destroyed by one article.”

Y’all, we need guillotines. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/

A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target

The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.

The Hollywood Reporter

Netraven 2d ago

@MissConstrue rocket propelled guillotines.

slick 🏴1d ago

Give them an option:
Titan submersible
or
Space X rocket

Netraven 1d ago

@slick schadenfreude tastes best when they design and build their own idiot squisher.

MissConstrue 1d ago

@Netraven @slick Hey now, let’s not leave out poor Jeffry. His rockets blow up real good too! If we let him take Lauren with him, he might survive, all that silicone might work as a shock absorber and the heat create a fused shell, hurtling him through the atmosphere, his final breath spent trying to make his steroid arms break through the shell, only to witness the earth’s embrace at a thousand miles an hour.

A girl can dream.

That's quite the burn!

Caller ID Spoofed 1d ago

@slick @Netraven I keep saying, Elon Musk says he wants to die on Mars. I'll happily chip in $20 to help make that happen ASAP.

Gilgwath 1d ago

@Salty @slick @Netraven NASA is good at crashing probes into Mars. Sure they can help an old space buddy out. 😬 But he seems not to be in too much of hurry for some reason.

@slick @Netraven

Third option

Jack's Countless Lack of Cool 2d ago

@MissConstrue He can't tell you because the number is zero, which undermines his bullshit story.

FoolishOwl 2d ago

@MissConstrue When one rich person, Brian Thompson, actually had his life ruined, it saved the lives of poor people.

"many journalists are more powerful than billionaires"

oh, good. Can one of these journalists redirect a billion or two to me?

#Theil #DSouza #EpsteinClass

@MissConstrue Yes, it's the plot of 'Mercy' brought to life for the rich to threaten the media with.

MissConstrue 2d ago

@rickf I'll have to look that up. 🤣

Western Infidels 1d ago

@MissConstrue Last time I saw someone whining about "lives being destroyed," it was "men's rights" advocates claiming that the gutter was positively littered with desolate men, each ruined by just one accusation of sexual impropriety.

There's something of the same energy here. It's easier to understand if we realize we're not the intended sympathetic audience, other oligarchs are.

Western Infidels 1d ago

@MissConstrue The genius of saying a man's "life was destroyed" is that the phrase can mean anything the listener decides it should mean. Whatever scary, compelling story you construct for yourself about how your "life" is "destroyed," that's the right story. Because the scare is the payload, the scare is the only real meaning that phrase has.

There should be (there may be) a name for this kind of empty language that invites the listener to take a flight of fancy.

Michael Gemar 1d ago

@WesternInfidels @MissConstrue Murderers’ lives get “destroyed” when they get caught. Some people deserve to have their lives “destroyed”.

Wulfy—Speaker to the machines 1d ago

@michaelgemar @WesternInfidels @MissConstrue

Dud and Forgotten.1d ago

@MissConstrue Fuck the guillotines: Have them ripped apart by wild Teslas!

MissConstrue 1d ago

@BackFromTheDud That will only work until it rains though…

Dud and Forgotten.1d ago

@MissConstrue Then burn them in a pit of blazing Teslas?

MissConstrue 1d ago

@BackFromTheDud I like you! You have contingency plans! 🥳💃🏻🤘🥂

Dud and Forgotten.1d ago

@MissConstrue There are times you have to make shit up on the fly.

MissConstrue 1d ago

@BackFromTheDud GenX represent. 🔥

Dud and Forgotten.1d ago

@MissConstrue Yup, and an Englishman that was alive when England won the FIFA World Cup, back when it was corrupt, but not quite as obviously.

poetaster 1d ago

@MissConstrue maybe a noose is sufficient.

MissConstrue 1d ago

@poetaster It does require less equipment and is easier to setup, but there’s a whole different connotation, especially down here in the South, and especially if your skin is darker than cream, so I will stick to Madame when it comes to the aristos. Just so there’s no confusion, doncha know.

poetaster 1d ago

@MissConstrue I admit to my ignorance! Then barricades, blazes, the commune and the guillotine it is!

Kerplunk 1d ago

Y’all, we need guillotines. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Full agreement

Business

Keep up with business news and digital news relating to Hollywood. Read about the stock market, streamers, tech companies and more on THR.

The Hollywood Reporter

Hamish Buchanan 1d ago

@MissConstrue They want to journalists, artists, philosophers, judges and juries, but none of them want the same accountability everyone else faces. Poor little rich snowflakes.

The Orange Theme 1d ago

@MissConstrue Chippity choppity, seize their property!

DoomsdaysCW 1d ago

@MissConstrue #CharacteristicsOfFascism number 6!

@MissConstrue > After we spoke, I awaited my verdict before the Objection tribunal in the Sackler case. None arrived. Eventually, the landing page was taken offline. I asked D’Souza about it. He explained that Objection would “hold off publishing any adjudications”[...] Then the whole site went dark, replaced by a splash page reading: “Due to feedback we’re rebuilding for an epistemic and primary sourced future. Stay tuned for updates.”

lol. the LLM "decided" against their client, didn't it

MissConstrue 1d ago

@owent That was my assumption. It's just so absurd even Camus would be astonished.

lemgandi 1d ago

Aww. Absolute Tears. Weeping and wailing. Must be terrible.

@MissConstrue Huh. TIL I don't care about billionaire tears. Weird.

Michael Gemar 1d ago

@MissConstrue Make Billionaires Scared Again

@michaelgemar @MissConstrue them are already morbidly paranoid, hence their obsessive moneyhoarding, despotic control issues & supremacist politics, same how misogyny stems from fear of female power, racism from a personal inferiority issue & a disregard for Nature from an inability to survive the natural environment ...

Katialyn 1d ago

@MissConstrue he litterally can't tell how many billionaires and CEOs because it's a lie

Caller ID Spoofed 1d ago

@MissConstrue And the 21st Century's award for the most out-of-touch attitude on the planet goes to:

“I can’t tell you how many billionaires and CEOs have called me in absolute tears about their lives being destroyed by one article.” He notes that most of them “have no media skill whatsoever” and have “never sought the spotlight,” so he contends that “there’s a massive power asymmetry.”

Yes, yes, that power asymmetry. On the one hand, the filthy public. On the other hand, people who merely own more wealth than half the population of the planet. Won't somebody please think of the billionaires!?

OMFG.

Irene Zhang 1d ago

@MissConstrue maybe the billionaires should stop being whiny cry babies.

Farah 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏼1d ago

@MissConstrue Commercial shredder. In case, someone tries to clone them

Ewen Bell 📸1d ago

@MissConstrue

The power imbalance of some writer at a failing newspaper who has to head home every night without armed security and can be doxxed at any second, against dudes with billions of dollars and zero morals. Just want constitutes "destroyed" exactly, because a $20m payout doesn't seem like "destroyed" to me. Unlike the lives of people across the world who are being thrown into the fire to feed the corporate machine.

surfsup31 1d ago

@MissConstrue damn he’s STILL big mad about getting outed! #Theil wanted to live his life in the closet like the rest of the far-right

So sad!!

My heart bleeds for them, sobbing all night and wiping their tears away with those $100 bills.

thriftwicker 1d ago

@MissConstrue LMAO. Let's see... what are some of the dumbass things they think they get to say with impunity when it is someone else? Cry harder. Facts don't care about your feelings. Lil snowflakes. Fuck off. Eat shit. Die. Etc.

Oyu F'ka 1d ago

@MissConstrue Hi...UK here - I heard #DSouza being interviewed about this a few weeks back on BBC R4 - it alarmed me so much, I actually emailed George Mombiot to ask him to investigate this as it would obviously affect his work.

Sadly, I heard no more, but that doesn't mean he ignored me🤞!

Lightfighter 1d ago

@MissConstrue Lives destroyed by that one article... About how they like to rape children, and the like.

RaymondPierreL3 1d ago

@MissConstrue
💯

𝐉𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 1d ago

@MissConstrue Pretty soon all the real courts will work that way. They're taking the first step in Los Angeles and Riverside Counties:

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/05/ai-los-angeles-riverside-courts/

California judges are testing a new AI clerk. You won't know if it's looking at your case

Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.

CalMatters

Floreana 1d ago

@MissConstrue
Guess they watched that cheap Amazon-produced movie with Chris Pratt, what was it called?

Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen 1d ago

@MissConstrue oh no a billionaire cried. and "their lives are being destroyed" i.e. they're socially inconvenienced and that makes it harder to wheedle money. surely you can see how this necessitates creating an elaborate pantomime of virtual justice

Fairness4All 1d ago

@MissConstrue this is so fucked up on so many levels

Mark Gjøl 1d ago

@MissConstrue Oddly, journalists don't have the option of calling DSouza when a billionaire has destroyed their lives.

"Destroyed".

How many lives do you have to destroy to become a billionaire anyway?

It is many more than zero.

Yenn dc ☂️1d ago

> D’Souza believes that “many journalists are more powerful than billionaires,” explaining, “I can’t tell you how many billionaires and CEOs have called me in absolute tears about their lives being destroyed by one article.”

Gotta hand it to them: this is by far the BEST argument I've heard in a long time for why one should donate to independent media and reporters…

People! 👉 Support your journalists, ruin a billionaire! 👈

Think it deserves a hashtag: #SupportJournalistsRuinBillionaires