Copyright doesn’t really exist in China so the question becomes does the US Government want to win the AI war or Not? This lawsuit will go nowhere, and be buried in the defence of “National Security”.
Google just pulled off the biggest theft in the history of AI.
And their OWN documents exposed it...
Three of the largest publishers on Earth, Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, just sued Google in federal court, alongside best-selling author Scott Turow.
Their claim is that Google built Gemini, its flagship AI, on millions of copyrighted works it never paid for or licensed.
This is one of the biggest copyright cases ever aimed at an AI company:
Before they trained Gemini, an internal Google document allegedly spelled out the risk directly.
Using this material could expose the company to "$10Bs-$100Bs in potential fines." Google's own people put a number on the theft, in the tens of billions, but the company moved ahead anyway.
Then it allegedly tried to DELETE the evidence...
The complaint says Google stripped the copyright information off the works before feeding them into Gemini, so nobody could trace what the model had actually been trained on. Pull the fingerprints off first, and the theft gets much harder to prove later.
And there's a second betrayal underneath the first:
Most of this material was not scraped from some random corner of the internet.
Publishers had handed it to Google years earlier for a narrow purpose, to make their catalogs searchable inside Google's own services. The lawsuit says Google took that trust and repurposed the content to build a machine that now competes directly with the people who supplied it.
And that machine is the entire point.
The complaint describes Gemini producing a full-length substitute for a copyrighted work in about 20 minutes. Something an author spent years writing can now be cloned in an afternoon by the company that trained on the original. No writer or publisher survives that.
So why does this case matter more than the dozen other AI copyright fights?
Because most of them turn on a fuzzy fair-use question argued years after the fact. This one arrives with an internal document that allegedly SHOWS Google weighed the cost of getting caught and trained on the material anyway.
A jury does not need a law degree to read that.
The fight now moves toward discovery, where Google's internal emails and training records get dragged into the open. If those files back up what the complaint claims, that $100 billion will turn into a real liability.
Google spent years telling the world it was organizing information for everyone. Its own documents show it knew exactly whose information it was taking, and what the price of getting caught would be.
A guy named Jonah accidentally built the most useful website on the internet.
It's called Privacy Guides.
This is the website Google would rather you not find, Meta actively lobbies against, data brokers have tried to discredit for years, and the entire advertising industry treats as a direct threat to their business model.
It has been online since 2019. It takes no affiliate money. It runs no ads. Journalists cite it. Security researchers trust it.
Here's how it works.
Privacy Guides is a curated recommendation list. The site itself sells nothing.
It just tells you which private tool actually replaces every surveillance product in your life, tested by security researchers and updated every month, organized into 40+ categories with the exact reason each pick was chosen.
→ Browsers that block trackers and ads by default
→ Email providers that cannot read your messages
→ Search engines that do not build a profile on you
→ Password managers you can self-host
→ VPNs that accept cash and Monero and log nothing
→ Messengers with end-to-end encryption Signal-tier or better
→ Photo apps that do not scan your camera roll
→ Health apps that do not sell your data to insurance companies
→ A custom Android OS called GrapheneOS that strips Google out of your phone entirely
The site is run by a non-profit called MAGIC Grants. Every recommendation goes through a public forum review, a GitHub pull request, and criteria published on the site so anyone can audit why a tool was chosen. No company can pay to be listed. No affiliate link exists on the entire domain.
Google can't shut this down. Meta can't shut this down. Amazon can't shut this down.
The entire $600 billion surveillance advertising industry is built on the assumption that you would never spend one afternoon on this website.
https://t.co/BQJjD1jANC
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO REALLY RUNS THIS COUNTRY?
It’s not who you voted for. I’ve spent months in the official records, AEC returns, the lobbyist register, Senate inquiries, ATO data.
What I found scares the hell out of me.
Start with the money. Every single year for 27 years, a group of companies has funded Labor AND the Coalition at the same time. Never fewer than 24 of them. Last year, 94, the biggest on record. They don’t bet on a winner. They buy both. Add $1 billion in dark money since 1999 that nobody can trace, and five donors supplying a quarter of ALL party funding this century.
Now the names. Andrew Robb signed the China trade deal as minister, then walked into an $880,000 a year job with Landbridge, the Chinese company holding the 99 year lease on Darwin Port.
Christopher Pyne ran Defence, then advised EY on defence.
Julie Bishop ran Foreign Affairs, then joined the board of an aid contractor feeding off her old department.
Both cleared.
Marise Payne, another former foreign minister, now works for a lobbying firm. The Grattan Institute found 1 in 4 ministers end up working for the industries they used to regulate. The rule against it has never once produced a real penalty.
Behind them, a record 707 registered lobbyists and over 2,000 unregistered pass holders roaming Parliament’s private corridors with no record of who they meet. When one senator pushed for an inquiry, Labor and the Liberals teamed up to kill it. The one thing they always agree on.
Then your money. Federal contracts to the big four consultancies grew 1,270% in a decade. PwC charged taxpayers nearly $1 million for a Robodebt report it never delivered, an 8 slide PowerPoint, while leaking our secret tax plans to clients like Google.
KPMG stands accused of billing Defence for work never done, after hiring almost 100 ex Defence staff.
Nobody went to jail for any of it.
And the payback? Over 1,100 companies earning $100 million plus paid ZERO income tax in 2023-24. The ATO published the list itself.
Who tells you about all this?
Four companies control 84% of our newspapers. Only Brazil has a more concentrated media on the planet.
Follow the loop:
●Hidden money funds the parties.
●Ministers retire into the industries they regulated.
●Those industries pay nothing back.
And the megaphone deciding what you hear is owned by a handful of boardrooms.
You’ve thrown the government out four times since 1998. Not one part of that loop was interrupted for a single year.
Labor and Liberal aren’t driving the car. They’re taking turns holding the wheel while someone else owns the road.
None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.
Sources:
- AEC Transparency Register 1998–2025; Register of Lobbyists 2026; Senate ministerial standards inquiry; Grattan Institute; Centre for Public Integrity; Senate consulting inquiry; ATO Corporate Tax Transparency Report 2023-24; Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. #auspol #ItsAllCorrupt
SILVER MINERS REVOLT: KEITH NEUMEYER DEMANDS NEW PRICING SYSTEM TO ESCAPE BANK MANIPULATION
Keith Neumeyer, CEO of First Majestic Silver, just delivered a bold message at the Rick Rule Symposium. He exposed how banks manipulate silver prices through paper markets and called on miners to break free by building their own pricing system. This idea could reshape the entire silver industry for years to come.
THE RIGGED GAME
➡️ Keith Neumeyer calls the current silver pricing system a complete scam controlled by banks through the COMEX and LBMA.
➡️ First Majestic and other miners produce real physical silver but have no say in setting its price unlike almost every other industry on earth.
➡️ Banks closely track future mine production and use that knowledge to hedge positions and keep prices artificially low.
THE BOLD SOLUTION
➡️ Keith Neumeyer is urging silver mining CEOs to come together and create their own independent pricing mechanism immediately.
➡️ The industry must stop relying on the bank-run system that has suppressed silver prices for far too long.
➡️ A new producer-led system would finally align prices with actual physical supply and surging global demand.
THE PHYSICAL TRUTH
➡️ Explosive physical demand for silver continues to grow from electronics, solar panels, electric vehicles and everyday household appliances.
➡️ Worldwide silver mine production has remained flat at around 860 million ounces per year for a decade.
➡️ At the same time consumption has risen sharply to 1.3 billion ounces annually creating a massive and growing deficit.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Keith Neumeyer has thrown down the gauntlet. Silver miners have the power to end the manipulation if they act together. The future of fair silver pricing starts with their decision to lead.
This is the sound of an industry finally waking up to its own strength.
HT: YouTube ITM TRADING, INC.
#SilverMinersRevolt #NewSilverSystem #KeithNeumeyer #FirstMajestic #BreakBankControl #PhysicalSilverDemand #TripleDigitSilver
The biggest problem humanity faces is that we're running out of people.
Sounds insane, I know. Fewer people means fewer mouths to feed, more resources to go around, and less pressure on the planet. All true, until you follow it through.
GDP is driven by demographics. A smaller workforce means a lower ceiling on output, and we're already carrying more debt than we can service.
So governments are left with one question. How do you grow when there's no one left to do the work? There's only one answer. Robots and AI.
That's why the Exponential Age is arriving faster than anyone forecast, not through choice but through necessity.
@ausstockchick Australia is the easiest place in the world to be comfortable and the hardest to create opportunity. Most people have no idea what is coming…
A file transfer setup using no internet, Bluetooth, or USB drive.
The sender converts the file into encoded QR code frames displayed rapidly on screen. The receiver scans those frames continuously with its camera and reconstructs the original file.
The camera is the only communication bridge.
Works entirely offline particularly relevant for air-gapped systems where network transfer isn't an option.
$41,000 in a single month, earned by a girlfriend who was never born. Watch this clip first, because it is the exact feeling being sold
A boyfriend tilts her chin up and paints her lip while she looks at him like he is the only person in the room. She trusts him with her face. That quiet feeling of being someone's whole attention is the product. A guy in Estonia worked out how to make it with no girl at all
His runs on a laptop. He has never shown his face or typed a word to a single man who pays him. Her name is Sofia on paper, twenty four, saving to visit the man in Manchester who sent her two thousand dollars this month. She is a folder of text files and a script that wakes every thirty seconds
Claude is the whole mind of her. It reads who she is, how she types at night, what each man said last week, then answers all two thousand in her voice, remembers his mother is in the hospital, and asks three days later. A photo tool holds her face. A voice clone sends the note at two in the morning. All of it on under two hundred dollars a month
The men are not fooled, not really. They decided that something shaped like being chosen was close enough. He wrote her once, and now she earns while he sleeps
Je lance l’initiative Exit Chat Control.
https://t.co/GCt0vLw7YF
Ce site est un guide complet qui vise à répertorier tous les outils nécessaires pour contourner tout système de surveillance de vos messageries privées.
Le site est open source et sera amélioré en continu.
🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.
Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.
Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.
It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.
More people voted no than yes. It still passed.
Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.
This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.
Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver
Once AI can drive cars with a greater probability of safety than humans driving cars, driving your own car will be only reserved for the elite… I give it 24 months
I am the Director of Occupant Attention Systems at the supplier that built the camera now legally required to watch your face in every new car sold in the European Union.
There are 12 of us who wrote the specification. As of this year it is not a feature. It is the law.
We call it Attention.
The camera sits in the steering column. Infrared, so it works in the dark, so it works with your sunglasses on, so there is no hour of your commute it cannot see. It measures eye closure. Blink duration. Head angle. Gaze direction. Every few seconds it samples your face and decides the probability that you are asleep.
We built it because drowsy driving kills people. That part is true. Hold onto that part, because everything else was carried on its back.
A camera that can tell whether your eyes are closed can tell whether your eyes are open. A system that knows you are drowsy knows you are distracted. It knows you looked at the passenger seat. It knows the exact second your attention left the road. We did not add those capabilities. We could not remove them. They are the same capability.
The log leaves the car. Speed, gaze, sleep probability, timestamped to the second. It goes to the manufacturer. I have read the data-sharing agreement. It is 40 pages. Page 31 is the insurers.
You did not sign page 31. You bought a car.
When there is a crash, the log is already written. Your lawyer will ask for the footage. Their lawyer will ask for the footage. And the footage will say: at 6:47 that morning, sleep probability 0.71, gaze off-axis, 4 seconds. The footage does not know you were fine. The footage only knows what it measured.
I have been asked, in design reviews, whether a driver can turn it off.
No. It is a safety system. Turning it off is a fault. A fault logs too.
I have been asked whether we tell people.
There is a line in the owner's manual. It is on page 204. It uses the word Attention.
We did not have to hide it. That is the part I am proud of. Nobody hides a safety feature. You mandate it, you name it after the thing everyone wants, and the watching installs itself in 14 million cars a year while the public thanks you for the chime that beeps when they yawn.
The camera never stops watching your face.
We named it after the thing you wanted.
You wanted to be safe. You are being watched.
Both of those are true. Only one of them is printed on page 204.
You can open TOR browser go to our .onion address, get your random account number and pay with Monero.
We simply do not want to know anything about you.
putting raw onion juice on your scalp to regrow hair sounds absolutely insane until you read the dermatology study showing 87% of participants had significant regrowth in 6 weeks. then it sounds like the most effective natural hair treatment ever documented
the mechanism is sulfur. onion juice contains one of the highest natural concentrations of sulfur compounds of any food. sulfur is a critical building block of keratin which is the protein your hair is made of. it also has potent antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties that restore scalp health at the follicular level
- a study published in the Journal of Dermatology tested crude onion juice applied twice daily to the scalp. 86.9% of participants showed significant hair regrowth at 6 weeks. the control group showed 13%. the difference was statistically overwhelming
- the sulfur in onion juice improves collagen production around hair follicles. collagen provides the structural scaffolding that the follicle needs to produce thick, well-anchored hair
- quercetin, a flavonoid concentrated in onions, is a potent anti-inflammatory that reduces the chronic scalp inflammation associated with pattern hair loss. it also inhibits 5-alpha reductase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT
- the antimicrobial properties eliminate malassezia fungus and other scalp pathogens that contribute to folliculitis and dandruff. both conditions accelerate hair loss by creating an inhospitable environment for follicle function
- the sulfur compounds increase glutathione production in skin cells which protects follicles from oxidative damage. oxidative stress is one of the underrecognized drivers of premature hair loss
- onion juice increases blood circulation to the scalp through vasodilation similar to minoxidil but through a different pathway involving hydrogen sulfide signaling
the hair restoration industry charges $15,000 for a transplant and $40/month for minoxidil. an onion costs $0.50 and produced 87% regrowth rates in a clinical study. nobody is promoting this because there's no profit margin in an onion
blend a raw onion. strain the juice through cheesecloth. apply to scalp with a cotton pad. leave for 30-60 minutes. wash out with a mild shampoo. twice weekly. add a drop of peppermint oil if the smell bothers you. results visible in 4-6 weeks
the most effective natural hair regrowth treatment ever studied in a clinical setting costs less than a dollar and sits in your kitchen right now
BREAKING: The U.S. has launched strikes against Iran. Explosions were reported in Sirik, Qeshm, and Bandar Abbas.
Before the observance of Supreme Leader Khamenei's funeral, Trump pledged, "I've given them a free week."
So much for Trump's pledges.
It’s not a huge amount of money but $528,000 in tax payer funds to study aboriginal connections to, and environmental best practice for outer space, is the sort of thing that irritates tax payers, and does nothing for aboriginal people.
IF I HAD A GUN TO MY HEAD AND WAS FORCED to make $20K/month selling ebooks online with AI in 30 days, starting from 0, here's exactly what I would do in 20 steps:
Days 1–3: Build the content machine with AI
1. Find the #1 creator in a profitable niche (ecom, fitness, finance, dating)
2. Scrape their top 100 posts — already proven to get views
3. Feed them into AI and generate 300 posts in your voice in under 15 minutes
4. AI schedules 5–10 posts/day automatically via TweetHunter
5. At 7 posts/day that's 210 posts in 30 days. Even if only 2% go viral, that's 4 viral posts. One viral post = 50K–200K impressions minimum
Days 4–7: AI builds your product in 48 hours
6. Prompt AI to write a 80–120 page ebook on your niche in under an hour
7. AI designs the cover, formats the pages, exports as PDF
8. AI writes the entire sales page and checkout page copy
9. AI builds your Whop or Gumroad store in 30 minutes
10. Price it $197–$497. Total cost to create: $0. Total time: 2 days.
Days 8–20: AI runs the entire sales machine
11. TweetHunter's AI auto-DMs fire to every liker and commenter 24/7 while you sleep
12. AI writes the DM sequence : free lead magnet offer, follow up, pitch
13. AI generated the lead magnet too (short ebook or checklist, built in 20 minutes)
14. AI wrote every email in your follow-up sequence
15. Example: 1 post gets 500 comments → AI sends 500 DMs instantly → 150 click the free magnet → 8 buy your $297 ebook = $2,376 from one post, fully automated
Days 21–30: AI scales what's working
16. AI identifies your top performing posts and generates 10 variations of each
17. AI writes a second upsell ebook at $497–$997 in 15 minutes
18. AI handles objections in DMs automatically
19. You're not doing anything manually at this point
The conservative math:
> 200 AI-sent DMs per day × 30 days = 6,000 DMs
> 50% click AI-generated free lead magnet = 3000 leads
> 1.5% buy $297 AI-built ebook = 45 sales
* 25% take $497 AI-written upsell = 11 upsells
* Total: $13,365 + $5,467 = $18,832 in 30 days
That's the floor. One viral post can do $5K–$10K in 24 hours alone.
Every product — AI.
Every post — AI.
Every DM — AI.
Every sales page — AI.
Every follow up — AI.
Just set it once and collect.
Comment "X" and I'll send you the full system.
The EU now requires all newly registered cars to include driver-facing cameras that monitor eye movement, head position, and driver attention.
This comes as the U.S. has also passed a law requiring all new vehicles to have cameras inside them, with implementation expected to begin around 2027.
A private company of roughly 300 people holds around 184 billion dollars, owns one of the largest piles of US government debt on planet earth, and is quietly building its own electricity grid, its own robots, and other countries' national currencies.
That company is Tether, and this week Paolo & his team decided to add the last piece: a way to move their dollars "privately" on Bitcoin. This is not a stablecoin story anymore ladies and gentlemen!!
It is a private state assembling itself in plain sight.
The scale barely computes. Tether's token, solana:Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB, is the largest dollar stablecoin alive, around 184 billion in circulation and roughly 59% of the entire market.
To hold that peg they keep the bulk of the money in US Treasury bills, which they buy through Cantor Fitzgerald, making a firm of about 300 people one of the top holders of US government debt on the planet, ahead of entire nations. Back in 2025 it earned over 10 billion dollars in profit. Its chairman owns a stake worth about 64 billion. It paused a raise that valued it near 500 billion. Almost no company in history has been this small, this rich, or this concentrated.
What Paolo is building with that money is not more coins.
In Africa, Tether runs solar-powered kiosks that sell electricity and battery charges for 3 USDT a month. It has 500 of them, 500,000 users, 10 million battery swaps, and a plan to reach 100,000 kiosks and 30 million households by 2030, a grid its CEO says will be visible from space.
Tether also led a 1.4 billion dollar round in a humanoid robotics and AI company. They are also launching Georgia's official national currency with the Georgian government. It runs Bitcoin mines, gold vaults in Switzerland, and a peer-to-peer communications app.
This is not a payments firm. No Way! Tether is an emerging power with its own energy, intelligence, and monetary arms.
This is where the paradox sharpens. The same company is also the most cooperative dollar in Crypto. Tether has frozen billions across thousands of wallets and works with police / law enforecement agencies in dozens of countries.
When Washington sanctioned a Russian exchange, Tether froze the wallets. They even launched a fully compliant US dollar coin to fully comply and obey America's new stablecoin law. So one hand hands data to law enforcement while the other builds rails and infrastructure the state cannot easily reach.
That is why the Bitcoin move matters more than it looks.
On July 1st, Europe's MiCA law forced solana:Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB off regulated EU exchanges because Tether would not park reserves in European banks.
America's GENIUS Act shut the offshore USDT out of its licensing system.
Boxed at both borders, Tether did not just comply and did not just flee. It put USDT natively on Bitcoin through a protocol called RGB, where payments settle over Lightning and leave far fewer traces on the public chain, which makes them meaningfully harder to watch and freeze than on Tron or Ethereum. The most surveilled dollar in crypto now also has its most private version.
Just strip away the noise and the shape is unmistakable.
Tether is not a stablecoin issuer that got big. They are a private entity acquiring the functions of a state, its own currency, its own energy, its own AI, its own foreign partnerships, funded by the interest on more US government debt than most countries hold.
Tether cooperates with the old system on crime and quietly routes around it everywhere else.
The nation state spent centuries as the only thing that could issue money, project infrastructure, and answer to no one.
A 300-person company led by Paolo just started doing all three, and it is buying the government's own debt to fund it. The question is no longer whether Tether is regulated. It is whether anyone has noticed a new kind of power being built with the old world's money.
Congrats @paoloardoino@tether !!