Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ?
Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.
Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world.
Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
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Giving millions and kissing a ring when trillions are at stake, is nothing.
The Ring Kissers truly don’t know where AI will take their businesses or the world.
Bidens done some good but his blunders will have significant repercussions for decades
With so much at stake, that was one of the all time blunders. It pushed them all into the arms of Trump.
Agree... not only Biden, but none of the politicians were ready to regulate AI.
Now... greedy corporate interests + no brakes
The chokehold of an oligarchy upon us.
I heard Obama wasn’t much better and Harris ignored their phone calls. That wasn’t smart at all.
If you believe that winning AI is an American and corporate imperative, as they obviously and must do, their choosing to work with Trump was inevitable.
@hankgreen.bsky.social
@bakarisellers.bsky.social
@nytimes.com
How could Biden's favor appease them enough to not curry Trump's? For them, this is good business.
I do not ascribe patriotism to any of them.
They know Trump can be easily manipulated and are counting on it for their personal fortunes.
We became the powerhouse of a country that we are because of innovation, and we must never let that stagnate. The consequences would be grave.
On your posts regarding this:
https://politizoom.com/mark-cuban-explains-why-billionaires-really-want-trumps-ear/
There is only AI winning.
https://bsky.app/profile/boldlyblue.bsky.social/post/3leuemsbfhc2o
The Better Offline podcast covers all of the fundamental issues In nauseating detail.
Maybe if they greased Biden with tens of millions of dollars they would have gotten more attention from Biden.
PS: I know the donations were legal, but our campaign finance system is just codified corruption.
https://attap.ai/chat/s/0a289db5-46ab-4f38-a6cb-35cea5aa5e55/
It’s not “malarky,” ffs, it’s abject fucking malfeasance. That bit only dawned on him during the debate-slack-jawed realization: “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in KS anymore.
Doesn't solve the issue at hand, but it reinforces an awful precedent.
if that is a *thing*
ftfy.
who do you like best regarding AI? who is your horse? Gemini and I have become good friends
SV's "move fast & break things culture" is filled w bad faith, disingenuous, grifting actors. Lina Khan is not an old fogy who doesn't understand the tech, she sees through the hype, understands it all too well.
Trump has others do the thinking.
TL;DR
[citation needed]
old school, he engaged in old school politics - during a time when the GOP politicians were actually human beings - but those days are over
Current administration engaged with them but did it above the board
When they were good partners, they worked together
When not, they didn't
And when tech abused their dominance, they were sued in court
No one "pushed' them into Trump's embrace, that they chose on their own
Anytime the Biden admin would try to communicate, tech bros would put out tweets basically saying 'the government wants me to do this because they are COMMIES'
Isn't that an issue with billionaire conduct, not the Democrat White House
These things are mutually exclusive.
Lina Khan put the breaks on the monopolists and the FED raised rates thereby screwing up the unlimited cash cow which the VCs who fund these digital shitholes rely on.
Bezos is corrupt
Zuckerberg is corrupt
Musk is corrupt
Trump is corrupt
Most of the Supreme Court is corrupt
Most Republicans in the Congress and Senate are corrupt
Checks and balances are long in the past.
If the Supreme Court didn’t give Trump all that power…
If your 3 Michelin stars chef makes an out of this world dish and then pisses on it, will you eat it?
Not doing AI and missing out on a major tech breakthrough > spending tens / hundreds of billions on AI.
No one wants to be the next Blackberry.
That’s not Biden’s fault @mcuban.bsky.social
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-
executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/
Let alone what we have now.
We are in the Gilded Age again. Very sad
Also, the problem in this country is that one side will try to let the free market alone (within reason), while the other side will try to corruptly distort the market if they feel there's a political/financial upside in it for them
The next one I will surely not get.
Biden and Trump are well past their best before date.
America and the world is in transition.
None of us, including foreign leaders know what is forthcoming
for president 2028
*Quantum Information Science
https://bsky.app/profile/katiephang.bsky.social/post/3leyy43c53s25
Is this something that nationalization would help?
Thank you so much for explaining the thinking of the tech bros.
I’ve watched Trump work on the tech leaders one by one, and I have been stunned on how they capitulated to his inauguration “gift” of $1M from each of them, including also Sam Altman.
🤬
And the same with Elon.
(When they share their thoughts late at night.)
They may even mean well, but they are not representative of the majority of Americans, so once again, we have a biased dangerous base.
But there’s room for differences in models to give different insights.
I understand the desire to keep AI from going nuclear (with Biden’s executive order)
But I also understand having no constraints, which is better capitalism.
Unless the model knows everything in the past and predicts everything in the future, the result may contain false content ("hallucinations").
It may be not be wise to rely upon generative Al.
Amanpour & Co.
Brad Smith Pulls Back the Curtain on Microsoft
As president of Microsoft, Brad Smith leads one of the world’s most valuable companies. His new book “Tools and Weapons” – co-authored with Carol Ann Browne – pulls ...
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/amanpour-co/clip/brad-smith-pulls-back-curtain-microsoft-9pwojp
This should be a call to nationalize all AI work. If it’s a national security risk, it should NOT be in the hands of people who have zero interest in national security.
Giving money to the capricious orange turd will not guaranteed much… playing him against foreign companies would have a stronger outcome.
AI demands a robust and supple regulatory matrix every bit as powerful as nuclear weaponry. Right now, based on this pay-for-play, we are not worthy.
These people have no loyalty to Americans or our country. They are only loyal if their interests benefit. They have no care for human suffering.
for president 2028
But these guys wanna make chatbot VR and roll out toll free chat lines.
AI is going to sort itself out in the long run in the market, no?
They’re grifting.
I’m aware of the potential problems of AI but I also know that my phone listens to conversations when I don’t have that set up.
The problem is that the smart phones, watches, and apps in the cars and home are so convenient.
They are buying their way to avoidance. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Meta. Lina Kahn will be replaced, and those above will be dismissed.
Or Instagram both are invading predators..
Flatter him = get what you want, shareholder's stay happy and your stuff is still in the mix for huge Gov contracts
Alternative is to stand up to Trump and get targeted by him and potentially lose contracts and tech position
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market_bubble.asp#:~:text=Key%20Takeaways-,The%20Dutch%20tulip%20bulb%20market%20bubble%20was%20one%20of%20the,introduced%20to%20Holland%20in%201593.
I pray that if corruption and/or laws are violated, those perpetrators will be held accountable.
But human pyramids are shaky. At some point all of us underneath them are going to abandon the pyramid & they will fall.
And then we can build our own SS Botany Bay.
@isabelsantos.bsky.social
The errors in that question??
I’ll be so glad when #Blueskyadmin rolls out tha EDIT button!!!
Ugh!
What is the money for? Seriously.
AT&T Inc $4,611,778
Microsoft Corp $2,078,931
Boeing Co $1,005,283
Chevron Corp $1,000,322
Genentech Inc $750,000
Motir Services $520,000
Deloitte LLP $510,462
FedEx Express $500,000
Gill Foundation $500,000
Hargrove Inc $500,000
This is not a new phenomenon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/01/06/regular-donors-top-bush-inaugural-list/70e8799f-248f-4812-8b28-da0fd33bb3c6/
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Create alternatives please
engage with them, “ignored them,” and drove them into the arms Of Trump.
2. Non-rich people absolutely inflict harm on others when they try to win. Have you never watched hockey or like any sport?
That’s not at all a sure thing yet, therefore more wealth and power must be collected and concentrated for now
Additionally, most of the serious AI development is either publicly owned (via the stock market) or at least strongly connected to a public traded company.
Also, Thank you for Cost Plus Drugs. I’m on a second round of treatment that Medicare won’t cover. And I’m paying more than half of what I paid the last time with Good Rx.
(sorry keith et al)
Twitter/Grok is a toy and even Elon knows that. The big prize is SpaceX contracts for him.
They're buying special considerations with these donations.
Who’s really shocked?
https://youtu.be/X7VpuFlmUqk?si=hWEYhdaJsmc0D_zz
“Success is simple… do the right thing for the right reason at the right time”.
They are all going to fail in the end
All lost their way Mark
It like a 78 year old who is so twisted he thinks he going to live forever and all the lies and nonsense are going to matter
Once robots can perform all the tasks and services currently performed by humans then measures will be taken by the true ruling class to rapidly eliminate those now deemed unnecessary.
Billions of people now deemed worthless will not be allowed to further burn the planets finite resources.
So a planet of 6 billion will be turned into a planet of a few million.
That’s where this is going.
They are also THE WORST COMPANY IN THE WORLD TO WORK FOR, voted as such last yr by almost EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE, former and current.
What does the DJT stock sell? Why is it suddenly worth billions? Off off Truth Social? Comon man.
Just knock it off.
Read and research. Then speak. 😉
For every new tech bullshit they peddle, humans find a way to destroy it.
We need someone who supplies an alternative who does it because, altruistically, they realize the technocracy is a threat to society.
What we need is a Cost Plus of tech/social, @mcuban.bsky.social.
don't use it, don't install the software on your phone
We outnumber them, y’all!
We end up appearing like a dried up apple doll, wearing adult diapers and being fed soft foods by (hopefully) someone kind.
"Ain't One of Us Getting Out of This Life Alive".
Not one of us. Regardless of how much money you have.
Power and money. Their god.
They are so ignorant, they haven’t even realized that people are boycotting their companies because of it.
What sad, pathetic creatures they are!
Any CEO of a listed company that tried to place the former before the latter would be summarily dismissed.
Thus do companies make people into amoral apparatchiks.
It’s self selecting.
These "men" with too much money, power & lack of standard morals will destroy each other & us with them!
Money buys a lot, except responsibility & accountability.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
We are the U.S.A.
We've survived wars, including on our soil.
We survived pandemics.
We survived dust bowls, depressions, terrorism both foreign and domestic!
We will find a way to fight and survive this world wide conservative movement!
We MUST! ✌️🇺🇸
The Robber Barons, and poor mass farming methods, led to the Dust Bowl
It was worsened to thin the herd.
https://demodirge.substack.com/p/republicans_expect_you_to_die
Not without huge challenge and lcost.
Lincoln’s assassination slowed the achievement of very modest equality by a century.
The Robber Barons ran America from roughly 1890 to 1910, their fading grip lasted to 1933.
https://open.substack.com/pub/demodirge/p/the-dead-billionaires-club-the-dead-cant-vote-but-should-they-give?r=9gmmo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://demodirge.substack.com/p/global-political-crises-still-boil?r=9gmmo
The U.S. is correct to subsidize EVs?
Or, we should be putting all resources into finding alternative energy?
This is the reason we DON'T embrace alternatives?
MAGA Q hillbillies knows this?
Yes
Yes
Yes
You want to fix it?
Be Citizen One.
https://demodirge.substack.com/p/stand-up-for-democracy-be-citizen?r=9gmmo
Empty term. Our aspirations have been undermined by both slavery and economic slavery of the early Industrial Age. The noble people who tried to fix it died and left no money to keep it going. The robber barons left billions. The oil rich joined
https://open.substack.com/pub/demodirge/p/new-deal-to-raw-deal?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
None of this turns around on a dime.
https://demodirge.substack.com
adjective: penultimate
last but one in a series of things; second last.
"the penultimate chapter of the book"
How much more money do they need?
Can’t take it with you.
Many times, I wished I could win a large lottery jackpot so I could help a lot of people! True fantasy.
I live in Lancaster County, PA. It has happened to me only twice. Both times at a grocery store where I shop infrequently because it is not near where I live.
it's about the chip stack...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNEyLn1Zz_g
If you mean the person hitting $1T, than society is literally screwed with personal greed at its max. 🤢
Massive liar Musk is about half way to $1T, but his worth may gradually drop from competition.
https://openai.com/index/openai-and-apple-announce-partnership/
https://openai.com/index/openai-and-apple-announce-partnership/
But then, neither does Peter Thiel (trust Google).
As for AI -- that genie is WAY out of the bottle now.
Oh yes.
Quite so openly and blatantly... well there WAS the 2017 Inauguration Fund, the money laundering through real estate and more.
Lobbyists, Dark Money (great book by Jane Mayer, BTW), Citizens United. Check out Open https://secrets.org
To me, it all comes down to GREED - for money and power.
I personally minimize use of their products and don’t buy their stuff.
“Then there flashed through her mind what her mother had said
With her ante-penultimate breath…”, which explains it clearly. https://youtu.be/oPk0xgHqQ4M?feature=shared