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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Artificial Intelligence is built on the creative work of millions of writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary people. That work has been stolen by Big Tech oligarchs.

Now's the time to reclaim it and ensure AI works for ALL, not just the few.

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈 @JackDunc1]

Personally I find US cities and hotels panicking at the lack of the attendance for the world cup a total joy.

No one wants to visit your backwards racist Trumpian hellscape.

[Charlie Potatoes Official @TepidButterASMR]

Personally, I think begging to go to Epstein Pedo Island is slightly worse morally speaking.

[Zynx @ZynxBTC]

The Blair family are looting the British people with the help of the government.

This is a tale of how your taxes flow into the pockets of those connected to power in a closed loop.

The UK government is handing £500 million of taxpayers money to a Sovereign AI fund to be led by Suzanne Ashman, daughter-in-law of Tony Blair.

That same government has already been funnelling tens of millions into Multiverse, an AI training company founded by Euan Blair, Tony Blair's son.

Yes, Euan Blair is married to Suzanne Ashman.

Multiverse receives up to £18,000 per person. Cohorts of 100. Multiple rounds. You do the maths.

They generated £79.6 million in revenue last year, largely from government contracts and taxpayers money. This is despite falling below the targets for the service they are supposed to be providing.

They don't need to compete for customers in any meaningful market sense. They need to maintain proximity to the people who control the budget. That is a completely different incentive structure.

No price signal exists to tell anyone whether £18,000 per head for an AI business analysis course represents value for money. No profit and loss mechanism. No competitive pressure. No consequences for overpaying.

The bureaucrat who signed off on this contract will never feel the cost. The taxpayer who funded it will never know the counterfactual.

Now look at Multiverse's AI Advisory Board.

Doug Gurr, former Chair of the Alan Turing Institute, the body that directly advises government on AI strategy, also sits on Multiverse's advisory board.

The same Multiverse being paid by the government whose strategy he helped shape.

Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia and member of Microsoft's AI advisory board, is also advising Multiverse.

Professor Michael Wooldridge, Head of Computer Science at Oxford.

Dame Wendy Hall, one of the most connected figures in UK technology policy.

Think about the circularity. The Alan Turing Institute advises government on AI strategy. Its Chair advises Multiverse. Multiverse receives government funding.

The people shaping the policy are advising the company that benefits from it.

It is a closed loop.

This is the Cantillon effect in its purest form. Money does not flow equally across the economy. It flows first and most generously to those closest to the people who control the budget.

This has received zero coverage from the mainstream media.

This should be a national scandal.

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

We’re all born Socialists until they try to indoctrinate you.
Just ask a child if everyone deserves food and shelter.

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

You heard it here first, guys

Tech CEOs have put up with too much misbehavior from their employees for too long and it has “removed their sentiment.” Time to pay up by becoming unemployed.

*S&P 500 tech companies pay CEOs an average of ~$18.9 million in total comp

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Bill Gates on whether we’ll still need humans with the rise of AI:

“Not for most things. We'll decide."

Herein lies the problem with capitalism: It has resulted in a handful of billionaires controlling the entire economy and making life or death decisions that impact all of us.

Every decision billionaires make is based on what brings them the most money. They don’t make decisions based on what is best for the people or planet. They don’t care about the common good or the community. They only care about profit.

That is why their ultimate goal is to use AI to replace as many of us as they can get away with, and anyone who thinks they’re going to provide UBI is in denial. They don’t care about us now and will care about us even less when they don’t need our labor.

Humanity’s only hope is to take back the economy [the means of production and technology] from the billionaires and put it directly in the hands of the people. That is the only way to ensure decisions around AI are made to benefit all of humanity instead of a handful of rich billionaires.

[Slim Jimmy @slimjimmy]

remember last year when a revolving door of CEOs were making bombastic claims about AI generated code every week?

microsoft, for instance, said "30% of their code was written by AI. by 2030, that'll be 99%"

but what have they shipped? how does this stack up?

- MS shipped a new windows run dialog that takes 100ms to load. that's right, a dialog with a text box and a button

- GitHub can't even ship a new CEO and keep the thing running for more than 5 minutes

- Amazon? crickets

- Google? crickets bar gemini and gemma

- OpenAI can't get GPT-5.5 to stop talking about goblins

- Anthropic is a walking disaster of poor quality, user hostility and unreliability

and yet how many times did we hear "you haven't seen what i've seen. you're not ready for what's coming"

so what IS coming? where is it? i cant see it

i only see bullshit, backtracking, bloat and bugs. at this point, i don't expect anything different than what we have now

and, after all his bluster, neither does sam altman

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

Been trying to get this across for a while now: Tech billionaires are antihumanist. They're technochauvinists (believe tech is superior to humans) who believe that once there are no more people apart a handful, they don't need money. They have everything. They've won the game.

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

The World Cup starts in 30 days and legit barely anyone cares.

In America, probably barely anyone knows the world’s biggest sport competition starts in a month.

This has been the worst rollout for the World Cup I have ever seen in my life.

It was a mistake to award it to Modern America.

It’s no longer a serious society.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

“Everyone can code now!”

Dude, no one can code now.

[Tom Burgis @tomburgis]

A mystery moneyman's donations could carry Nigel Farage to power. He lives in Thailand and is “intensely private”. I’ve spent months investigating who he is, what he wants and his crypto fortune. Here, for the first time, is the story of Chris Harborne https://t.co/CLCwSuTdRH

[Toon Polls @ToonPolls]

I genuinely think the disconnect that seems to exist between the club and certain sections of the fanbase started when Amanda and Mehrdad left in 2024.

They were excellent in their role as figureheads that fans really warmed to.

Alll of the significant appointments since haven’t been able to replicate that relationship with fans. At a club like ours, that’s a missed opportunity in my view. #NUFC

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Let me clear this up for them. Helping build a surveillance state to spy on innocent civilians? Bad guys. Still working for the CEO who wrote a manifesto on controlling entire populations? Bad guys. If you think a single corp should have this much power? Bad guys. Hope that helps

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.

On April 21st, the left screen moved first.

I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.

At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.

On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.

At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.

Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.

I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.

My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.

The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:

Reviewed.

That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

Let me show you my flags.

March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.

March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.

April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.

April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.

April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.

That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.

The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.

Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.

Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.

Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.

The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.

I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.

The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.

One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.

One account is a coincidence. But there were six.

Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.

My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.

March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.

The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.

The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."

Then the White House sent the email again.

I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.

I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.

But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.

Zero prosecutions.

As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.

The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.

In my field, we call this price discovery.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

More wealth is currently held by the top 1% of society than at any point in history. That includes the French revolution where the poor revolted and murdered the hoarding 'elites'. Is this the reason most of us can't afford to live? No, it's the migrants obviously.

[Lighstromo @lighstromo]

Starting to see complaints even on ClaudeCode sub. Not a good look.

It's one thing to frustrate your casual users, and another thing to frustrate the devs you actively advertise to.

#Anthropic #Claude #AI #LLM

[Markets & Mayhem @Mayhem4Markets]

"Mythos is too dangerous to release to the public"

Or, perhaps, more accurately, Anthropic is too compute-starved to serve a 10T parameter model at any reasonable scale.

Hence the hype fest.

That's not to say it isn't an impressive model.

But it's not as powerful as promoted.