The TDS with these dumbfucks is strong.....

(🧵1/14) When OpenAI board members hired the law firm WilmerHale to investigate Sam Altman's firing over two years ago, many executives at the company expected to see extensive findings. Instead, OpenAI released a brief announcement with few details.

The White House just issued a sweeping federal directive transforming how dissent might be policed in the US—here’s why civil liberties groups are so alarmed.

How Wall Street turns your monthly bills into its debt payments.
#News #Finance #WallStreet #Debt #Infrastructure #politics

Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.

On December 30, a federal judge ordered the administration to continue funding the CFPB, blocking its attempt to starve the consumer watchdog of cash. The legal fight over the agency’s future is ongoing—and could reshape consumer protections nationwide.

Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released.

But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway.

Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.

(16/17) Reporting is why we have reforms that define our modern democracy—from the Pentagon Papers under Nixon exposing the lies of the Vietnam War, to the Snowden revelations under Obama ending bulk collection of phone records.

For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Does Local News Reduce Polarization? | Carnegie Reporter Summer 2024 | Carnegie Corporation of New York More than half of American counties are without access or have very limited access to local news. Political scientist and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Joshua P. Darr has been studying what the loss of local...

Research shows that when communities switch from local to national news, it measurably increases partisan voting.

This is part of what's polarizing America. When newspapers close, we only see partisan labels. Split-ticket voting drops nearly 2%.

www.carnegie.org/our-work/art...

The Post’s slogan is "Democracy Dies in Darkness." That isn't a metaphor: there is more darkness now.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

(2/14) One new disclosure in our @NewYorker investigation: there was no written report, and findings were kept deliberately out of writing.

Full story here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

And a thread below.

A beard made of silicone and plastic

The Man Who Broke Politics Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump’s rise. Now he’s reveling in his achievements.

Newt Gingrich used this technique while trying to impeachment Bill Clinton.

He teaches it in political science classes at conservative universities and symposiums

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

GOP uses the mantra
Repeat a lie often enough until people believe it is true
Seeing the same ad 10-12 times during one 30 minute show implants in your brain 'it must be true'

It's a psy-ops technique

Same way Trump & GOP repeat the same lies ad nauseum every time they can get near a camera

Love this
Congresswoman Jayapal SKEWERS Vought as he tries to evade answering questions

He doesn't know the Numbers
Statistics
Facts

He tries to deflect

Tell your leaders you don't want Palantir & why
Don't allow them to buy up large land parcels for data centers that consume more water & energy resources per square foot than humans or other businesses
Increasing electricity costs plu some US cities running low on drinkable water due to Data centers

Missing RFK Jr brain worm

DHS AI Surveillance Arsenal Grows as Agency Defies Courts A Department of Homeland Security AI inventory contains details on new tools used by ICE and border patrol agents in Trump's deportation campaign.

DHS AI Surveillance keeps growing as the agency defies courts

AI Surveillance and personal data storage is behind the explosive spread of data centers across the country, eating up farmland, water and utility resources at the expense of all living things.

techpolicy.press/dhs-ai-surve...

How ICE Uses AI to Automate Authoritarianism From the frontlines of ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis, Kairos Fellows senior campaigner Irna Landrum considers the use of AI in the immigration crackdown.

DHS
ICE
AI

Authoritarianism

techpolicy.press/how-ice-uses...

Bezos shaved his head to try to be incognito in this category

Karp, Thiel, Musk etal like Curtis Yarvin who espouses a dystopian Neo-feudalist system where billionaires divide up the globe into their own zones (US would be 7 zones) that they each rule
Uneducated civilians would be their worker bees
Feudalism failed in the 1200s, banned in 1400s
They don't care

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.

Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ma...

"They are not built to really solve a market problem . . . "

"They are built to make VCs and companies rich . . . "

"THAT'S SO META . . . "

"ASPIRATIONAL TRILLIONAIRES AND THE POLLUTION MACHINES FROM THE FUTURE . . . "

AMERICAN SPRING
MADE IN USA 2026

www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Trump is on TV now talking about perhaps resuming the bombing of Iran.

Almost two months since he started the war.

And the position of GOP members of Congress is that the people's representatives in Congress should have no say on this. They really do think Trump should have the power of a king.

"ICE is determined to expand its capacity to detain people to more than 100,000 people at any given time, which is really a shocking number and parallel to the number of Japanese Americans that were incarcerated during World War II."

Transcript: Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak as GOP Panics: “Alarm Bells” As Trump worries about becoming Jimmy Carter, a journalist who focuses on the imperial presidency explains why events are slipping away from Trump—and why that gives Democrats an opening.

Transcript: Trump’s Secret War Fears Leak as GOP Panics: “Alarm Bells”
#Trump