Robin Seaman ☮️

designer, digital print wizard, guinea pig lover, she/her

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

OpenAI and Palantir are so terrified of this guy, they're spending millions to destroy him.

There's a Democrat running for Congress in New York's 12th District named Alex Bores.

Never heard of him? Well that's the point.

3 year state assemblyman. 30 bills passed. Co-author of the RAISE Act, the first real AI safety law in any major state.

Soft bill. Basic transparency. Safety plans. Incident reporting.

And for that, the AI industry has declared WAR on him.

A Super PAC called Leading the Future has already dumped $2.5 million into destroying his campaign.

Funded by Joe Lonsdale (Palantir co-founder), Greg Brockman (OpenAI co-founder), and Andreessen Horowitz.

They've said they may spend up to $10 million.

For a single House seat.

But the money isn't the crazy part...

The crazy part is what they've said OUT LOUD about why:

They're trying to make him SUFFER so publicly that every future politician who even THINKS about regulating AI runs the other way.

Bores' exact words: "They want to beat up on me so bad that when the idea of regulating AI comes up in the future, politicians run the other way."

This is literally political deterrence.

Terrorize one guy so brutally that Congress learns the lesson: Touch AI, end your career.

Now here's where it gets really insane:

Their main attack line is that Bores worked at Palantir "building ICE tech."

And who funds the attacks? Joe Lonsdale. Palantir co-founder.

The man who profits from ICE contracts is spending millions to attack a candidate for… once working at Palantir.

But Bores QUIT Palantir in 2019 because executives refused to put anti-deportation guardrails into their ICE contracts after Trump's first election.

He pushed internally. They said no. He walked.

So the billionaire who funds deportation tech is spending millions to smear a candidate for working on deportation tech that the candidate actually tried to stop.

You cannot make this up.

And the question everyone should ask is: Why THIS guy?

Bores isn't a radical. He's not anti-AI. Not Bernie Sanders.

He's a moderate Democrat with a CS degree who passed the softest possible AI bill.

Which is EXACTLY why Palantir and OpenAI are terrified of him.

Because he proved something dangerous:

You can actually pass AI regulation.

It's not impossible. You just need one competent legislator who understands the tech and refuses to back down.

Multiply that by 50 states and AI companies lose control forever.

So they're not just attacking Bores the candidate.

They're attacking the PROOF that AI regulation is possible.

And they're doing it while OpenAI quietly publishes policy documents that ADMIT most of Bores' proposed regulations are reasonable.

Third-party audits? They agree.
Red-teaming? They agree.
Kid safety provisions? They agree.

They don't disagree with the substance.

They disagree with the TIMING.

They want regulation to come AFTER they've bought enough political power to write it themselves.

That's what $2.5 million to destroy one assemblyman actually buys.

Not an election.

But a warning to every politician watching:

If a first-term legislator with a soft bill can get buried under $10 million of attack ads, imagine what we'll do to you if you try to pass a real one.

This is how industries capture democracy.

With FEAR.

And it's working. Members of Congress are already telling Bores in private: "We're watching this race. We want to see if this is an issue you can win on, or if money just swamps everything."

Which basically means: Tell us if we're allowed to legislate on this.

The crypto industry ran this exact playbook in 2024 through Fairshake. Hundreds of millions spent. Anti-crypto candidates destroyed. Congress rewritten.

Now AI is running it at 10x the scale.

Leading the Future: $125M raised. AI companies: $300M+ committed to the 2026 midterms.

More than crypto spent in the ENTIRE 2024 cycle.

All on one principle: Don't debate your critics. Destroy them so publicly nobody else dares become one.

Palantir isn't scared of losing a House seat. OpenAI isn't scared of one guy's bill.

They're scared of PRECEDENT.

Because if Bores wins, the lesson Congress learns is that you CAN take on AI and survive.

And that's the one lesson the industry can never afford them to learn.

What's your take on this?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Yesterday Meta told every US employee their computer will now record mouse clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots while they work. All of it goes into training an AI to do their job. In 30 days, 8,000 of these same employees are being laid off.

Reuters got the memo. The wording is the company's own: the recordings will be used to build "AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously." Reuters also confirmed the May 20 date and the number, 8,000 people, exactly 10% of Meta's global workforce.

Meta is spending $115 to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year, almost double the $72 billion it spent last year. The entire business only generated $115.8 billion in cash for all of 2025. Meta is now planning to spend more on AI in 2026 than the whole company brings in.

Part of the bill went to a company called Scale AI. Meta paid $14.3 billion for 49% of it last June, mostly to bring in CEO Alexandr Wang. Scale's whole job is to tag and clean the human-written data that AI models learn from. Meta wanted Wang because their old data supply ran dry.

The public internet is almost out of fresh material to feed these models. A group called Epoch AI ran the math and projects the world will burn through its supply of high-quality human-written text on the web somewhere between 2026 and 2032. The industry calls this the "data wall." Google and OpenAI are stuck on the same side of it.

So Meta turned inward, to the most expensive training material money can buy: their own employees doing their own jobs. Mouse movements teach the AI how to move around a screen, click by click. Keystroke logs hand it the exact shortcuts and rhythm an experienced worker uses, the muscle memory of the job. Screenshots show what a finished task should look like. The people being recorded in April are the raw material for the AI that replaces them in May.

This is not just a Meta thing. Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate workers in January. Oracle let go of up to 30,000 of its people, about 18% of the company, on March 31. The cash they saved goes toward $156 billion in AI data centers. The whole pattern across big tech is identical. Record profits and record AI spending, paired with the biggest workforce cuts since the pandemic.

The thing they are building is a software worker that opens the dashboard, reads the numbers, drafts the email, books the meeting, and never needs a coffee break. The training data for that worker is a senior Meta employee doing all of that, on Meta's payroll, one month before their last day.

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

Jesus I was not prepared for how long that list was gonna be

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Well, you did it. You "owned the libs". You also destroyed the world order, the rule of law, an American constitutional democracy. Now what?

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Here’s why I’ve been quiet...

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Please watch this.

The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.

You need to know this, so you can help stop it.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

[Just Here For The News @ktho641521]

#Sinofi is releasing #Novavax in the #US.

To get your Novavax you can self-attest: "I discussed it with my healthcare provider, and they told me that they recommend a Novavax COVID vaccine this year. I was told I would not have to explain my status."

Also works with 👇

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Five women have died as a direct result of abortion bans.

More are being diagnosed with sepsis, a life threatening pregnancy complication that often comes from delayed care.

Now Tennessee is demanding data for every abortion performed under “life of mother” exceptions 🧵

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Breaking News: Trump implies that he will in the future "go further" by taking over additional American cities, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Oakland—an unmistakable assertion of an intent to become a dictator over the United States

[Hugh Thomas @DrHughT]

At the moment, a lot of twitter accounts appear to be copying each other and saying that we know nothing about the world prior to the creation of writing. So I thought I'd share one of my favourite pieces of ancient art. This is the 'Lion-Man' & it is about 40,000 years old. 🧵1/

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Everyone in America needs to read this FREE—I’ve gifted it below—report from the conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL about Trump and Epstein.

Apparently the president has now threatened to sue the WSJ over this 100% accurate report due to how damaging it is.
https://t.co/WHS8K0fPcs

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

Republicans are telling outrageous lies to get YOUR approval to slash funds for something YOU may be eligable for, now or in the future.

They want YOU to approve of this defunding specifically so they don't have to pay YOUR medical bills.

The cruelty is the point.

5/5

[American Academy of Pediatrics @AmerAcadPeds]

The American Academy of Pediatrics joined fellow medical leaders in a new op-ed in @statnews with a clear, urgent message: Vaccines work—and they save lives. https://t.co/WKuf2nJmVP

[🌊 🛰️ Politics_PR // Ops @Politics_PR]

South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts

[Dana Parish @danaparish]

🚨 PSA ON LYME+ 🚨

We’re off to a nightmare season already. I’ve never gotten more tick-bite-calls in May! My own dog was bitten in NYC this weekend, which is insane.

Important:

✅A LYME RASH IS DIAGNOSTIC & requires several weeks of antibiotics.
You don’t need a blood test to confirm. There is NO early blood test for Lyme.

✅ONE DOSE OF DOXY DOESN’T WORK. It only prevents a rash, further complicating diagnosis. Anyone offering you one dose of doxycycline for a bite is a fool. Demand more.

✅ TREAT THE BITE. THERE IS NO SAFE TIME FOR TICK TO BE ATTACHED as microbes can live in their saliva. Even Lyme.

✅Don’t wait for rash or symptoms. Once they start, it’s Russian Roulette. It’s a myth that treating at rash stage means lyme is easy to cure. It is not. It is very possibly widely disseminated by then and incurable. (Sorry. True.)

Specific Rx guidance in next tweet.

✅ It’s rarely ever “just Lyme!” Ticks can transmit multiple infections in one bite. Not all infections are treated with doxy. It is very important to see a Lyme doc if you’re treated early but still go on to have symptoms as you may have other infections that warrant treatment.

✅ Do not waste your time seeing ID or general med or rheumatology for Lyme. They don’t know shit unless they have a personal connection to it. See someone specifically trained in tick-borne diseases by https://t.co/hU8uCk0CcW (go to their site for recs) or see functional or integrative doc. Mainstream medicine knows nothing about chronic tick-borne infections. Time is of the essence when you get a bite. Don’t wait.

[Robin Seaman ☮️ @pirigraphics]

@_Thomas_Mix_ @CandidategenX @TizzyEnt It’s definitely not Luke Shaw. Shaw’s eyes are deeper set and his head shape is more angular. The racist has a more rounded head and his ears are closer to his head. Besides, the racist has an American accent. Shaw is British.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Just to crack the code for everyone: there is no evidence whatsoever that the Trump Administration *can* bring this man back, but it also cannot *admit* that it cannot bring him back, because if it admits that it will be conceding that it sold this man to El Salvador permanently.

[Robin Seaman ☮️ @pirigraphics]

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[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Sen. Dick Durbin: “On 4 hours notice, thousands showed up in Chicago to protest for Ukraine against Trump's decision to humiliate Zelensky. The American people stand behind the Ukrainians, who are fighting for our values.”

Awesome!