Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
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Tech's biggest political spenders so far this cycle:
• Andreessen Horowitz: $93.5M
• Elon Musk: $85.2M
• Jeff Yass: $83.8M
• Coinbase: $59.3M
• Ripple: $55.1M
• Crypto.com: $38.7M
• OpenAI: $37.6M
• Anthropic: $20M
via influence.citationneeded.news
Crypto and AI companies have also poured $7 billion+ into Trump directly. Afterwards, 21+ SEC cases/investigations against crypto companies were dropped, regulators did a U-turn on crypto policy, and the industry was invited to write their own rules.
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"This creates a searchable database of everyone, not just the suspects of crime."
"if you were to build a graph of that sheet and plot it to a map, now it's as if you've had a GPS on your car for an entire month."
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flock
A couple things I think are worth adding: OpenAI is a big backer of KOSA and Elon Musk not only endorsed it but informed the language of the bill.
Passing KOSA/ID verification in exchange for state AI preemption is being framed as a “tradeoff” but it's exactly what big tech has been lobbying for!
I'm reading an article, I look at the sources, and I see in all the URLs `?utm_source=chatgpt.com` 🤦
Another day ending with 'y'
"Official misconduct charges have been filed against the Holiday Hills police chief accused of unlawfully using #Flock license plate readers and a law enforcement database to contact and track people he knew"
NoALPRs.com 🚫
#deflock #surveillance #alpr
Very important point: SoftBank was pledging *all* of its OpenAI stock (worth $60bn+ on paper) to get a $6 billion margin loan. Banks turned it down due to concerns about the value of OpenAI stock. Banks clearly do not think OpenAI is worth $852 billion.
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