@lin11c

There's a lot of covert weapons development going on.

Microwaves?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58396698

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09/16/pentagon-urges-all-employees-to-report-symptoms-of-havana-syndrome/

With Republicans, Accusations are Confessions

https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain-fiction-how-covid-origins-motivated-defunding-us-science

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/no-gain-of-function-research-did-not-cause-covid-19-99fc6568b650

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/are-dna-hacking-fears-behind-leaders-opting-for-putins-long-table-over-covid-tests/

#pluralistic  "Unauthorized Bread" very well worth reading about tech bankruptcies, anti-refugee sentiment, & ramping up social dissatisfaction

The indoctrination of children was predicted by both Orwell & Aldous Huxley.

Koch Network has successfully dismantled public education as a public interest & common good.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-giants-pushing-ai-schools

https://www.ajc.com/education/2025/11/trump-maintains-commitment-to-project-2025-to-dismantle-education-department/

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The scale of the manipulation of public sentiment against vaccines and democracy are just two reprehensible examples.
https://therecord.media/chatgpt-health-draws-concern-privacy-critics

He did predict a world where societal trauma is deliberately manufactured then weaponized for corporate & ideological gain by the rich.
https://wp.nyu.edu/greenestreetreview/2019/12/04/hard-wired-traumas-a-retrospective-review-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/

He saw the "DNA hacking" capabilities of AI

DNA-enabled disassemblers as a tool of "judge, jury, & executioner" police forces & kleptocratic warfare "The Peripheral"

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/114977

@lin11c

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/11/07/why-sam-altman-wont-be-on-the-hook-for-openais-massive-spending-spree/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreahill/2025/08/21/why-95-of-ai-pilots-fail-and-what-business-leaders-should-do-instead/

William Gibson's early work never envisioned a future where such devices would be manufactured by companies that go regularly bankrupt, stranding their consumers, vendors, & patients.

https://www.netspi.com/newsroom/netspi-in-the-news/the-ai-journal-when-your-ai-provider-goes-bankrupt-a-hidden-security-risk-cisos-cant-ignore/

He did predict a world where the hacking, data theft, & data harvesting would be used to threaten, coerce, surveil, extort, & blackmail.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/cloak-and-data-cambridge-analytica-robert-mercer/

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Why is no one asking these questions:

Why are the wealthiest corporations shoving AI so hard?

Why are billionaires so keen on this dubious product?

Why are billions of investment dollars being wasted on this white elephant?

Why are politicians running away from AI issues?

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AI increases nuclear proliferation & the likelihood of world wars.

The fossil fuel industry is gearing up for an automated WW3.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/meta-signs-nuclear-energy-deals-to-power-prometheus-ai-supercluster.html

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-13/trump-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-amid-much-pomp

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/11/mbs-pledges-saudi-investment-1t-trump-meeting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

AI is automating the foreign straw donors, public corruption, & bribery
https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidias-huang-joins-tech-titans-funding-trumps-ballroom-2025-10-29/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/business/saudi-investment-forum-kennedy-center.html

AI is a flight of capital out of the fossil fuel industry.
Money laundering the looted treasuries of nations.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/14/saudi_spending_spree/

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AI is a mechanism for social engineering & fuels a societal mental health crisis. It manipulates public sentiment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/experts-warn-collapse-trust-online-ai-deepfakes-venezuela-rcna252472

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/08/google-character-ai-settlement-teen-suicide

https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2026/01/11/bonus-features-january-11-2026-64-of-healthcare-orgs-lack-ai-anomaly-detection-ai-made-up-46-of-all-healthcare-tech-investments-in-2025-plus-33-more-stories/

AI is going to cause a timely financial crisis in time for the midterms.
A fossil fuel industry funded fascist rugpull to keep the GOP in power.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/09/nx-s1-5672643/market-ai-what-is-a-bubble

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/are-we-in-an-ai-bubble-tech-leaders-analysts.html

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/jan/10/ai-bubble-finances-crash-tech-meltdown-savings-pensions

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/08/the-ai-frenzy-is-creating-a-big-problem-for-consumer-electronics
https://archive.ph/y8Hqz

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AI is creating chokepoints, bottlenecks, & likely points of failure in fragile systems. It erodes robustness, reliability, & redundancy.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkh9611zb11g

AI removes guardrails, governance, and oversight. It obscures provenance.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202601/the-emotions-behind-ai

AI is worsening the climate crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-climate-change-bill-gates/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/17/ai-climate-crisis-cop30

AI is trying to substitute expertise for lies
https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/suspended-toronto-lawyer-linked-to-deadly-triple-shooting-caught-using-ai-in-appeal/

https://www.popsci.com/technology/ai-making-clocks/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/08/google-adds-gemini-features-to-gmail-message-summaries-proofreading-.html

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AI coding assistants disguise wage suppression schemes, mass layoffs, and monopolization
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/why-ai-is-pushing-developers-toward-typed-languages/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ai-jobs-automation/

AI is a system to narc on former employers IP
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/

AI is a system that ensures a lack of privacy everywhere
https://www.wired.com/story/physical-ai-is-coming-for-your-car/

AI is a porn generator & distributor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery

AI is the means for election meddling
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/nyregion/ny-hochul-ai-candidates.html

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/202601/the-sixth-element-ai-as-consciousness-great-convergence

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Just as the Daughters of the Confederacy rewrote history to whitewash slavery, AI enables the same "amnesia" about crimes against humanity, like ecocide.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/685552/

"Personalized shopping" is price fixing
https://www.ft.com/content/957c7438-b2e0-4605-a276-caa8a7ec363c
https://archive.ph/Q7wp3

https://www.cp24.com/news/world/2026/01/11/google-teams-up-with-walmart-and-other-retailers-to-enable-shopping-within-gemini-ai-chatbot/

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/11/walmart-google-gemini-ai-shopping

AI medical summaries are disguising anti-health disinformation campaigns & antivaxxer ideology.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/11/google-ai-overviews-health-guardian-investigation

@CiaraNi

Do this switch fast, because the wealthiest people on the planet are funding efforts to put AI everywhere.

AI is international state surveillance & malign influence campaign generator.

AI is spyware & these billionaires don't give two hoots about anyone's "economic mobility" but their own.
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/

https://theconversation.com/i-used-ai-chatbots-as-a-source-of-news-for-a-month-and-they-were-unreliable-and-erroneous-268251

https://www.barrons.com/articles/shopify-stock-price-ai-gemini-copilot-8091a3bf

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5683359-artificial-intelligence-future-war/

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/11/how-grok-nudification-tool-went-viral-x-elon-musk

https://www.customerexperiencedive.com/news/google-cloud-agentic-ai-brands-build-bots/809260/

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@timo21 @randahl

World leaders & Democrat leadership...

It might be a good idea to sleep in undisclosed locations for a while.

@Daojoan

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511540/silicon-valley-foreign-money-china-saudi-arabia-cfius-firrma-geopolitics-venture-capital

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-24/price-alwaleed-s-elon-musk-ties-are-boosting-his-comeback-bid

The tech industry has been handed billions of dollars from people frying the planet & who want to keep doing it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub

$100 billion buys a lot of awful.
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/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/01/21/how-fossil-fuel-industry-funds-fascism

https://fpif.org/the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-lining-up-behind-far-right-authoritarians/

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/andreas-malm-interview/

https://www.sunrisemovement.org/movement-updates/to-win-on-climate-we-must-crush-fascism/

It also buys a lot of murder & war too.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

@randahl

Trump is a copycat.

He's imitating how the Soviets kidnapped Alexander Dubček, the Czechoslovakian Prime Minister, in 1968 and ended the Prague Spring.

The Soviets also sent in military in the dark of night to kidnap a leader.

Czechoslovakia would remain a Soviet vassal state until 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

https://english.radio.cz/we-commemorate-learn-president-pavel-relates-1968-soviet-led-invasion-present-8860472

https://english.radio.cz/abductions-czechoslovak-citizens-soviet-union-after-wwii-8082127

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic

@lauren

https://developingtelecoms.com/telecom-technology/data-centres-networks/19571-work-begins-on-massive-government-data-centre-for-saudi-arabia.html

Remember who funds both Trump & Sundar.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money

The fossil fuel industry.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943

Koch Network has had an intelligence capability for decades than many a despot would envy.

Saudi Arabia has desired an expansion of their domestic state surveillance to an international platform for years.
https://www.arabnews.jp/en/saudi-arabia/article_159243/

https://theweek.com/60339/things-women-cant-do-in-saudi-arabia

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

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@shaknais

The fossil fuel industry owns US foreign policy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

Oligarchs like Paul Singer have done this before, purchased a politician & a war.

https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-vulture-fund-elliott-chosen-as-winner-of-citgo-court-mandated-auction/

https://prospect.org/2025/12/01/marco-rubios-sales-pitch-war-in-venezuela/