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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • Billionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:

    • the poor to vote for a billionaire business owner who came from wealth
    • religiously fervent to vote for an atheist who regulaly, publicly and aggressively breaks any religious canon
    • “law and order” voters to support him as a convicted felon
    • women to vote for a rapist, misogynist
    • those who want to “protect the children” that his long and personal friendship and association with an aggressive child sex trafficker was benign
    • descendents of slaves to vote for a candidate whose leading campaign contributor is an apartheid supporting white supremacy
    • those with tenuous legal status or those related to those with tenuous legal status to support a platform bent on demonizing immigrants, legal or non, in a country built by immigrants, while his own wife is an immigrant
    • veterans to vote for a candidate who said those who serve for their county are foolish
    • veterans who may have actually fought in WWII to vote for a guy advocating appeasement against a dictator who militarily invaded and is currently occupying Europe
    • rabid Mccarthyists to vote for a candidate who has ongoing ties, financial transactions, security concerns with the Russian dictator
    • corporations who say their most important lobbying need, every single year forever in any industry is “certainty” to give generously to a candidate and administration that has never had a plan for economy other than their own grift, and has unilaterally destroyed their international trade markets, supply chains, competitive edge and the value of their currency

    …there is so much more. That’s just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn’t even difficult compared to some of the above.



  • Jesus, they are sprinting to kill the Internet before others do rather than offering an alternative.

    This centralizes information, decisions, and removes humans from the web. Shitty website? Poor writing? Illiterate population? No penalty, someone else’s AI will summarize it for your victims users. You can just insert someone else’s AI token you can buy that shares content that some other AI told you is “optimized” and when the AI summarizes itll be something users respond to or engage with. Just like short form video, it doesn’t mean it’s correct, true, useful, insightful, complex or wise, but as long as they come back and stay on the treadmill who cares?

    Also, when your innovation is akin to “ShakeWeight” you want to go back to the drawing board…