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1 hour agoSo by EO all AI must be biased, but we don’t need to worry about bias in AI.
You can pick your bias. You can pick your AI. But you can’t pick your AI’s bias (bc it has already been baked in by government mandate).
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Paul Weyrich and Robert Kriegel of the Heritage Foundation and Free Congress Foundation held mock elections in Moscow before the collapse to teach Soviet politicians about “democracy.” Another Heritage Foundation member who created the State Policy Network (SPN) is quoted as telling Kriegel “You capture the Soviet Union, I’ll capture the states.”
Weyrich later said in 1996 that allegedly they had been tailed and intimidated by KGB while they were in Moscow holding the fake elections and spreading “democracy.” Someone told him after the coup that Kryuchkov, the head of the KGB had gone to Gorbachev and asked him to crack down on Weyrich. Gorbachev just responded with silence, so Kryuchkov started organizing the coup the next day out of anger. That sounds like total BS, but I’m not sure if Weyrich made it up or if somebody else did and Weyrich believed it.
In 1999, Weyrich started writing about how he believed the moral majority had lost the “cultural war.” So rather than continue fighting to take back institutions, the movement would need to follow the model of homeschooling and create their own institutions from scratch (bc if you just admit you’re trying to overthrow a government people ask too many questions). Over 20 years later, the most recent version of the Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership (Project 2025) is ready to deregulate and dismantle all federal government. Once it collapses, similar to the power vacuum in post Soviet Russia, they will be ready and waiting to replace it with a new far right government led by a small group of wealthy individuals who control local resources.
Similar to Russia, I’m not sure how much control they will actually retain once it collapses and is replaced, but they’ve used essentially the same strategy. Doing all of this out in the open, putting the pieces in place, training and recruiting people to be ready to betray their own country. Yet when you point all this out, people want to pretend it’s just a conspiracy theory.
The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE
I think several of them have quit by now, but I’m sure they would still appreciate your helpful feedback.
Oh shit sorry, my bad! Thought you were replying to about a different post. Yikes, sorry again
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If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty sure the God Father of the new right, who created the Heritage Foundation and is responsible for the existence of the project 2025 obsession with deregulation and dismantling of the current federal government, was inspired by your gang and kinda fell for believing he was actually saving them from communism and converting them into a nation of free market Christian capitalists. (Except as you probably know, his idea of a free market just meant freely controlled by those in power while removing any public regulations or protections)
PBS Documentary about Weyrich and Krieble involvement in Collapse of USSR Playing For Power (2012)
How One Man Influenced The Republican Party’s Transformation Into The Grand Old Putin Party
Gee, who could have seen this coming?
May 12th, 2025: The White House Strategy to Profit from AI Deregulation & the Consequences for Civil Liberties & Human Rights
Sam Altman defending the ban on Republican state AI regulations in 2025:
Altman, during the hearing, said that Texas had been “unbelievable” in incentivizing major AI projects. “I think that would be a good thing for other states to study,” Altman said. He predicted that the Abilene site would be the “largest AI training facility in the world.” But Altman also later cautioned against a patchwork regulatory framework for AI.
“It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulations,” said Altman. “One federal framework that is light touch, that we can understand, and it lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for, seems important and fine.”
Aww, would it make it “difficult” for you to create your technocratic dystopia? 😭🎻
“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”
Not beneficial for the country or the corporations? Always thinking about the children first, even back then. Please tell me more about how we’re just too dumb to understand how all of this is for our own good.
There was an episode of behind the bastards I was listening to a while back where they mentioned some dude who was using an AI tool to scrape the internet to steal other people’s art, so people started doing something that prevented him from optimally stealing their art.
I can’t remember what exactly, but the guy started whining that whatever people were doing was “illegal” bc it was damaging his tool he was using to steal other people’s shit for his own profit. Like somebody telling you that it’s illegal to prevent them from efficiently stealing your property bc it interferes with their livelihood. How dare you!
Anyway, that’s the kind of vibes I get from this.
This is definitely what that is, but I take it this also means he’s saying pirating is ok for people and not just tech corporations. Safe to assume? Bc otherwise it just seems like more entitled rich fucks making the rules for everyone else that they can ignore
71·7 days agoResults 445 included studies reported on outcomes of 85 477 transplants. 412 (92.5%) failed to report whether or not organs were sourced from executed prisoners; and 439 (99%) failed to report that organ sources gave consent for transplantation. In contrast, 324 (73%) reported approval from an IRB. Of the papers claiming that no prisoners’ organs were involved in the transplants, 19 of them involved 2688 transplants that took place prior to 2010, when there was no volunteer donor programme in China.
It’s also funny you’re doing some impressive gymnastics to defend a government against genocide.
Nobody is defending the Moonies, especially not this current affairs publication owned by a Japanese media corporation. Here’s plenty of examples of them calling out the Unification Church: https://thediplomat.com/tag/unification-church/
Anybody can be nominated to be an ambassador for peace, it’s also associated with the UN. https://www.upf.org/core-program/ambassadors-for-peace
Launched in 2001, Ambassadors for Peace is the largest and most diverse network of peace leaders. As of 2020, there are more than 100,000 Ambassadors for Peace from 160 countries who come from all walks of life representing many races, religions, nationalities, and cultures
Literally she has no other ties to the Moonies/unification church, and how about the human right lawyer she directly quotes.
Or the bioethicist and part of the coalition to End Transplant Abuses in China (ETAC)? All just cold war propaganda?
Results 445 included studies reported on outcomes of 85 477 transplants. 412 (92.5%) failed to report whether or not organs were sourced from executed prisoners; and 439 (99%) failed to report that organ sources gave consent for transplantation. In contrast, 324 (73%) reported approval from an IRB. Of the papers claiming that no prisoners’ organs were involved in the transplants, 19 of them involved 2688 transplants that took place prior to 2010, when there was no volunteer donor programme in China.
Anyway, keep spreading that there is no genocide propaganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-radio-free-asia-cuts-china-propaganda/
Two months after the Trump administration all but shut down its foreign news services in Asia, China is gaining significant ground in the information war, building toward a regional propaganda monopoly, including in areas where U.S.-backed outlets once reported on Beijing’s harsh treatment of ethnic minorities.
The U.S. decision to shut down much of RFA’s shortwave broadcasting in Asia is one of several cases where the Trump administration — which views China as America’s biggest rival — has yielded the adversary a strategic advantage.
The author is a Muslim woman who has won awards for her work as a journalist and written for several other major news outlets…
The article is about the list of Putin’s inner circle since the beginning of the war in Ukraine (2 in just the last week).
Starovoit is among a number of state officials and prominent businessmen who have died in mysterious circumstances since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Putin’s foes and critics have often met with violent deaths.
I think most people know the number of individuals who have fallen out of windows would be a much bigger list. 6 very prominent individuals with direct links to Putin have been killed, just over the past week 2 more have been killed and several have been arrested. It seems like Putin is taking over any resources he needs and cleaning house in an attempt to defeat Ukraine.
Also, that was the suggested auto title, and how it appears on the homepage of the news website.
Fair enough. That’s never been a doubt to me. I still don’t understand how the Zodiac killer could hold office as long as he has, but as long as he’s got power, he’s going to keep trying to destroy this country.
Fingers crossed. Not sure how many children and innocent civilians you have to intentionally murder for absolutely no reason in 2025 to get charged with a war crime, but it must be a pretty high bar bc…
? I don’t see them trying to sneak an AI regulation ban again anytime soon. This is about the strongest bipartisan support against anything I can recall in my life.
Many of the people that voted against this are to blame for many of the other problems we are about to be hit with.
However, of all the scary shit in that bill, this was one of the most concerning to me. Specifically in terms of irreversibility to the damage it would do, the creation of national AI surveillance databases being built across the country, and the kind of environmental and safety regulations that will have to be ignored in order to power them.
The closest thing to hope, I hold for my own state, is that I just hope whatever lesson we ended up serve as in future history books isn’t on the same scale or worse than Chernobyl.
I can breathe a little easier knowing that the entire country won’t be facing a mandatory federal law demanding they be more like Louisiana in terms of deregulation in order to make a terrible idea actually profitable, regardless of how many people it hurts.
No, I could see how archived Washington Post articles written at the time of the events in 1989 and 1991, plus an entire documentary about their involvement made by the Carnegie Institute in 2012 reads conspiracy minded.
I’m sure their system of deregulation via automated vibe coded AI that by EO must reflect a “non-woke” bias will make a lot of sense.