Tom's Hardware posted some bullshit about Sam Altman so I had to ditch em from my feed. I noticed they really post too much about AI and other crap I don't care about in general anyway lately, so good riddance. I'm so sick of hearing bullshit about that asshole. And so many of these other assholes.
Via the #MeidasTouchNetwork - July 20, 2025
#MeidasTouch host #BenMeiselas reports on #Melania’s real past history that she and #Trump have tried to cover up but now the house of cards is falling down for all the crooked Trumps.
Politics & Farage
@koen_hufkens #BadChoices are always a problem for #Junkie #Grifters who believe they are #Visionary #Geniuses
Do you remember when that obvious nazi and mediocre intellect was going on about his "X: the Everything App" as he acquired Twitter and started sacking off all the workers?
Guess that's something else of his that came to nothing but the Press gave him the benefit of a doubt over....
He's a huckster, a fraud, he's no more going to Mars than Daffy Duck was.
@thomasfuchs that's because those that #profit from the whole "#AI" #scam have already cleaned their house, booked their private jets and laundered funds to GTFO the soon the inveitable #bubble burst happens.
Same with #NFTs and #Shitcoins: They are value removing at hest!
There should be no such thing as a 'Pro-Grouse shooting Labour MP' yet with Starmer and clowns like Morgan McSweeney here we are....
#YouTube #ads are full of #scams and questionable financial advice by preying on #FinancialIlliterates that are #HornyForMoney.
Seriously, with all those "Matrix" refernces I wished the Wachowski Sisters or Village Roadshow Pictures or WB were to sue grifters like that.
Again: #AdBlocker are not just a necessity against #malvertising and #malware but an act of #SelfCare and #MutualDefense against #Disinformation campaigns incl. #hatespeech-based #propaganda.
“She Won” election conspiracy theories defy belief and do not help
Over the past two weeks, I’ve seen a few friends share a post alleging a sweeping conspiracy to steal the presidential election–not the 2020 election, as Donald Trump and his cult followers have been alleging without proof ever since, but the 2024 contest. These friends have not vouched for the theory put forth in that post and a series of others posted at a newsletter site; at most, they’ve said things along the lines of “these raise interesting questions.”
So I read those “This Will Hold” posts and a separate report posted by a group called the Common Coalition. To summarize thousands of words of copy: They allege that surprising results in swing states and even individual counties–notably, voters choosing Democrats downballot and then picking Trump or not voting for any presidential candidate–are too statistically unlikely to be the result of voters making their own choices and instead are the result of an elaborate plot involving compromised Tripp Lite uninterruptible power supplies that were remotely reprogrammed on Elon Musk’s orders via SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to change vote totals on Dominion and ES&S voting systems.
No, really. Speaking as a tech journalist who has written a fair amount about SpaceX and as a poll worker who has put in 15-plus hour days helping people to vote in nine elections: I’m sorry, but I can only regard them as engagingly-written claptrap.
Here’s why I think that:
The unfortunate and ugly reality is that American voters showed awful judgment last November, and we are now all paying the price for that. There’s just a meanness in this world, as Springsteen sings, and our country is not and has never been exempt from it. Conspiracy theories might help people think otherwise, but this kind of self-delusional behavior will not help write a different script for 2026 and 2028.
When your only goal is to enrich yourself.
Trump’s Weird Smartphone Grift Has Already Hit Some Major Snags
https://newrepublic.com/post/197295/donald-trump-mobile-smartphone-major-snags
“The man arrested, Vance Luther Boelter, 57, held deeply religious and politically conservative views.”
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look it’s a big tangent from the main thrust of the article, but I’m not sure “deeply religious” is a good descriptor here, at least as it’s colloquially understood — which is in reference to the Christian religion.
The beliefs & views of MAGA “conservatives” bear almost no similarity to the longer tradition of Christianity - it’s an idolatrous (& frankly heretical) sect that’s been cultivated for decades to bolster a far-right authoritarian fascist movement.
The “Jesus” depicted in the Bible would almost definitely be repulsed by & condemn its adherents.
Republican claims about “Obamaphones” proved baseless, but 13 years later, Trump phones will apparently be a real thing.
Trump Organization eyes a new Trump-branded wireless service, complete with gold phones
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-mobile-phone-service-t1-rcna213261
Random observation. I heard Sam Altmans voice on a video recently for the first time, the one about driving to the library. His rapid fire monotone affectation of 'I'm a weird nerdy boy genius' was a mixture of sideshow act and Hollywood b movie scientist. Clearly he's watched a lot of computing historical videos and mixed them together with Beautiful Mind and The Imitation Game.
“David Richardson, [of Australian Institute,] calculated that in 2004 the combined wealth of the AFR richest 200 was equivalent to 8% of Australia’s annual GDP. Now they are worth 24.5% of our annual GDP.”
Take your time… think about this for a while. A quarter of Australia’s GDP… let it sink in. The ‘lucky country’?