The fossil fuel industry is desperately seeking every possible avenue to keep their captive consumers & stop a necessary phase-out of their toxic products.
The standard for scientific study is "Is it reproducible?"
OpenAI & others of its ilk, only rarely spits out reproducible results on anything but its original data set.
In the meantime a wholesale attack on privacy is being waged to gather data to feed LLM's.
That data is enormously useful for creeps stalking dissidents, imposing surge pricing & "personalized pricing", enabling ICE raids, spreading disinformation & for fraudsters.
@bluemoon @hissingmeerkat
Koch Network has waged a multi-decade war on public transportation
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html
Hate anything where the races & classes mix.
Even kept money-losing ripoff artists like Uber & Lyfft afloat to kneecap public transit
https://jacobin.com/2019/08/uber-koch-brothers-david-charles-rideshare-public-transit
The fossil fuel industry is desperately seeking every possible avenue to keep their captive consumers & stop a necessary phase-out of their toxic products.
That includes funding fascists.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
@mirrorwitch @BlueMonday1984
What a shame
#FFFO
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/05/amazon-pulls-melania-from-cinema-after-owners-criticism-as-rumours-mount-over-fake-ticket-sales
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-white-house-ballroom-is-being-bankrolled-by-genocide-and-ice-profiteers/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/world/europe/icc-judges-us-sanctions-trump.html
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/amazon-prices-trump-tariffs-andy-jassy-davos
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/media/amazon-melania-trump-film-critics.html
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/01/business/melania-box-office-amazon
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/amazon-jassy-trump-tariffs-prices-shoppers.html
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/jeff-bezos-washington-post-defends-trump-demolition-white-house-east-wing-ballroom-1236561444/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/03/trump-ballroom-donors-contracts-enforcement/
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4962902-billionaires-2024-election-bezos-musk/
"Fund a Fascist and Find Out"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/tech/tech-leaders-supported-trump-lost-money-dg
https://www.commondreams.org/news/amazon-tax-breaks
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/27/neil-young-gifts-music-greenland-removes-from-amazon-over-trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/trump-inauguration-donors-include-meta-amazon-target-delta-ford.html
https://www.wsj.com/business/trumps-tax-law-sharply-cuts-amazons-corporate-tax-bill-ee94ac24
Boycott these too
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/apple-google-trump-white-house-ballroom-donors-21118578.php
@jackwilliambell @BioMan @BurgersMcSlopshot
The standard for scientific study is "Is it reproducible?"
OpenAI & others of its ilk, only rarely spits out reproducible results on anything but its original data set.
In the meantime a wholesale attack on privacy is being waged to gather data to feed LLM's.
That data is enormously useful for creeps stalking dissidents, imposing surge pricing & "personalized pricing", enabling ICE raids, spreading disinformation & for fraudsters.
@ProPublica@newsie.social
Republican grift & public corruption takes many forms.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-law-firm-diversity-programs-jones-day-2025-3
https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates-securing-trump-3rd-term/?id=120551202
Trump's demands for fealty from law firms is part that grift.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-accuses-trump-of-trying-to-kill-all-the-lawyers-in-brutal-ruling/
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/17/here-are-the-go-to-law-firms-for-gop-controlled-wisconsin-legislature/84436076007/
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5232148-gop-attorneys-general-law-firms-dei-trump/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/tax-status-non-profits-terrorism-republicans
@ProPublica@newsie.social
The fossil fuel industry owns Texas.
The industry pays Republicans to ignore climate change, no matter the death toll.
Campaign finance since Koch Network bought Citizens United is public corruption on steroids.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/18/greg-abbott-texas-fundraising-governor-donors/
Here's a list of who is paying off Abbott's corrupt GOP:
S. Javaid Anwar, Kenny Troutt, Jim Pitcock, Joe Gebbia, Alex Fairly, Jeff Yass
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/greg-abbott-peachtree-trust-joe-gebbia-20772497.php
https://www.governing.com/politics/texas-donor-pledges-20-million-to-create-true-republican-majority
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/billionaires-swoop-in-to-fund-abbott-s-texas-school-voucher-push
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/big-oil-445m-trump-congress
@BlueMonday1984
Its not a coincidence that the fossil fuel industry wants that same immunity. The fossil fuel industry funds AI initiatives.
The gun lobby pioneered that regulatory capture.
https://truthout.org/articles/big-oil-is-taking-a-page-from-gun-manufacturers-immunity-playbook/
There's estimates on the damages caused by the fossil fuel industry.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fossil-fuel-companies-emissions-climate-damage-study/
Wonder what the damage costs for AI will be? Perpetual religious wars? World war with AI drones?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-heads-uae-it-hopes-advance-ai-ambitions-2025-05-15/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/trump-artificial-intelligence-uae
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2600787/amp
@BlueMonday1984
The stages of genocide:
AI is the perfect vehicle for genocide
https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
The oil industry estimates 1 billion famine deaths from climate change & they are flooding AI with investment
"The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines"
Frank Herbert
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Apple's investors want a backdoor.
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
The House of Saud often uses American or UK proxies to preserve their interests & pursue dissidents
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241213-saudi-crown-prince-uses-126bn-investment-to-pressure-uk-over-dissidents-case/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohammed-bin-salman-saudi-arabia-palace-interview/622822/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14152749/Executions-Saudi-Arabia-hit-highest-level-300-2024-number-prisoners-killed-surges-rocket-speed-MBS.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz8934wrro
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-trade-mission-business-saudi-arabia-controversy-riyadh-lethal-force-neom-gulf-cooperation-council-great-futures/
The fossil fuel industry is prepared to do anything to stop climate action.