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Elon Musk, gripped by race-fueled hysteria, is divining conspiratorial intent in the most mundane news items. According to the richest man in the world, Hollywood casting decisions are part of a larger scheme to “destroy Western Civilization” and enact “deliberate White erasure.”

Elon Musk’s descent into racist absurdity

“Nolan is racist towards White people, especially Greeks.”

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Over the last 14 months, Jeff Bezos, the centibillionaire owner of the Washington Post, has remade the historic newspaper’s editorial board into a guard dog for the ultra-rich.

Billionaires finally have a voice

The Washington Post editorial board's case against California's wealth tax falls apart under scrutiny

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meta, along with other social media companies, is facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that they have pushed a defective product onto adolescents.

The Zuckerberg Rules

Meta, along with other social media companies, is facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that they have pushed a defective product onto adolescents.

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1. Peter Thiel is pouring millions into a dystopian new start-up that seeks to discredit journalists reporting on wealthy people with a combination of retired intelligence operatives and a "jury" of AI models The company is even trying to pressure reporters to turn over the IDs of anonymous sources

A Peter Thiel-funded startup launched this month will use an “AI jury” to “subject the media’s claims to systematic investigation and judgment.”

An oligarch’s dystopian scheme to discredit journalism with AI

A Peter Thiel-funded startup launched this month will use an “AI jury” to “subject the media’s claims to systematic investigation and judgment.” That same system of AI adjudication assigns a numerical...

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xAI has boasted about the speed at which it has erected its data centers in Memphis. Now, as xAI attempts to replicate that pace to construct the Colossus 2 data center, it has identified another unnecessary inefficiency: a water recycling plant that it had promised to build for the community.

Musk leaves Memphis high and dry

xAI is draining millions of gallons from the Memphis drinking water supply. Musk's promised fix has been delayed indefinitely.

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With health care costs rising and more Americans losing their insurance, the leading AI companies are selling an alternative to the public: chatbots. In January, Elon Musk promoted a video clip that urged his followers on X to “upload your X-rays or MRI images to Grok” for a “medical diagnosis.”

Big Tech’s prescription: One chatbot, taken daily

With health care costs rising and more Americans losing their insurance, the leading artificial intelligence companies are selling an alternative to the public: chatbots.

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During a 2018 press conference at Kennedy Space Center, Elon Musk called for “a new space race,” one defined not by nations but by rival billionaires scrambling to commercialize and colonize the final frontier. Musk has since launched thousands of satellites and hundreds of rockets.

Are Musk and Bezos turning the sky into a landfill?

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As Zuckerberg’s profile, wealth, and political power have rapidly increased over the past 10 years, his favorability ratings among Republicans, Democrats, and independents have plummeted. This distrust was on display in 2 trials last week that found Meta liable for putting children in harm’s way.

Zuckerberg’s extreme makeover backfires

Mark Zuckerberg is a uniquely disliked figure in American life.

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A misanthropic drift has emerged in the commentary of Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Larry Page. It is also a recurring theme in the social media musings of Elon Musk. “AI bots will be more human than human,” he wrote Saturday.

The billionaires who think humanity is just a warm-up act

Human life is nothing more than a starter program for artificial superintelligence.

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While Amazon’s artificial intelligence buildout drives its vast carbon emissions to new heights, Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and executive chairman, is using his environmental charity to promote AI as a solution to the climate crisis.

Bezos' $10 billion climate charity has a new mission: promoting AI

The Bezos Earth Fund is focused on selling artificial intelligence — the technology driving Amazon's rising carbon emissions — as the solution to the climate crisis

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg closed a deal to purchase a $170 million mansion on an island in Miami. It was the clearest sign yet that he is looking to abandon California over a proposed ballot initiative that would tax the ultra-wealthy to cover federal cuts to healthcare and nutrition programs.

200 Billionaires v. California

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg closed a deal last week to purchase a $170 million mansion on Indian Creek, an island in Miami, Florida.

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With Trump a year into his term, the U.S. is nearing a right-wing cultural transformation — but not from a swing in popular sentiment. Instead, it is one wealthy family that has used its roughly $200 billion fortune in an effort to acquire, consolidate, and control news and entertainment media.

The era of right-wing nepo-media

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s second presidential victory, his media supporters began asserting that America had entered a new, definitively conservative cultural era.

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The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included thousands of mentions of prominent billionaires.

The Epstein class

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) release of millions of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein included thousands of mentions of prominent billionaires.

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Over the last year, Meta’s AI smart glasses have been used by deviant men to surreptitiously record videos of women and children. Such incidents could become more harmful if combined with the vast amounts of personal and biometric data that Meta collects on its billions of users.

Meta’s AI glasses empower creeps

Over the last year, Meta’s AI smart glasses have been used by deviant men to surreptitiously record videos of women and children.

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Over the weekend, Elon Musk announced a sudden revision to his long-stated dream of building a city on Mars. Instead of prioritizing Mars, he said that SpaceX — which is now competing with Blue Origin over a NASA mission to return astronauts to the moon — would focus on building a lunar “city.”

Musk puts Mars on ice

Over the weekend, Elon Musk, the centibillionaire CEO of SpaceX, announced a sudden revision to his long-stated dream of building a human city on Mars.

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Newly released emails from and to the late billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein show that he had a far more intimate relationship with Elon Musk than the SpaceX and Tesla chief has sought to portray.

The truth about Musk’s relationship with Epstein

Musk has downplayed the relationship. Emails between the two men paint a different picture.

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