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The Society of Authors (UK) is helping launch this: an identifier for human-authored (i.e. non-AI) books: https://humanauthored.co.uk/ EDIT: aaaaaand they used AI-generated artwork 🤦🏻‍♂️ EDIT UPDATE: they

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Mar 10, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Really looking forward to the AI bubble bursting. https://fortune.com/2026/03/08/joseph-stiglitz-ai-future-burst-bubble-job-security-assisting/ https://beth-kindig.medium.com/tech-bubble-warnings-cost-investors-a-550-nasdaq-100-run-6bf1b0cb54f5 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/ai-sell-off-stocks-amazon-oracle.html https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2026/02/27/the-state-of-the-17-trillion-ai-bubble-the-end-of-thinking/ https://archive.is/t1Z5l https://www.ft.com/content/a4c4dcf8-7a73-4912-9739-c94714985bfd https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/30/ai-bubble-mozilla https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/blinking-new-warning-sign-ai-industry https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

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Trump angry with Zelenskyy for defending himself against Russia last year: "You area gambling with world war 3!" Trump today: Now watch me move 41 percent of my active war ships, including two carrier

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Feb 28, 2026

@randahl@mastodon.social Trump will do anything to avoid the Epstein Files.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Feb 21, 2026

2/ Or pro-fossil fuel perspectives? Or pro-evangelical indoctrination? Or pro-slavery history lessons? What happens to the users of these AI companies when the startup goes bankrupt in the AI bubble? It's stolen data, what happens to the data in a bankruptcy? What happens when mandated use of an energy wasteful application comes before preventing an ecocide, mass unemployment, or double digit electricity rate increases? The dependency can be abused to get government bailouts & subsidies.

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@adafruit/116071513892549636 How to tell a formerly respectable brand has jumped the shark (after selling out to Qualcomm, who are their own special species of shitbaggery):

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Feb 15, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop The fossil fuel money funding AI initiatives are looking for something that wastes energy like cryptocurrency wastes it. By design, repeated queries are required because the answers are unpredictable & with a high error rate. It's genius level fraud created by an industry bent on keeping its addicts. Like any drug dealer, the fossil fuel industry is manufacturing a pool of addicts (captive consumers) with a dependency to something only they can supply. https://vocal.media/futurism/the-dark-side-of-ai-companions-the-quiet-rise-of-emotional-dependency-in-a-digital-age

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Feb 15, 2026

@cdarwin@c.im #TranslatedFromTheRepublican "Safety & security for me, suffering & misery for thee" When Republicans tell the world that they are "pro-life", remind them of this selfish hypocrisy. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/usaids-last-funds-are-paying-for-voughts-security-detail.html

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Feb 06, 2026

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Billionaires have worked very hard on their “Make People Miserable” movement.

They delude themselves that it will buy them permanent fascist rule as Republican voters shrink their empathy to “my & mine only” & blameshifting to the marginalized.

Here’s a list of the funders of fascism:

SpaceX $288,723,409
Adelson Clinic/Miriam Adelson $146,881,700
Uline Inc $146,027,201
Citadel LLC $108,669,316
Susquehanna International Group $101,468,362

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Feb 02, 2026

@maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza @wdlindsy@toad.social Alabama has been running trial slavery programs for several years. https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/nx-s1-5239966/in-alabama-work-release-for-incarcerated-people-more-common-than-you-might-think "Unsafe" to return to society but well qualified to work at McDonald's or pick vegetables for Walmart & Target in corrupt convict leasing schemes. https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit How does anyone compete with a business using slave labor? Withholding parole. Increasing sentences for minor crimes. Criminalizing homelessness. Jailing people for fines they can't pay. Debt peonage. 1/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 31, 2026

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social @mattblaze@federate.social https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/ https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/01/penn-trump-greenland-ronald-lauder-donor-financial-ties The new fed chair nominee is also the son in law of Ron Lauder, the billionaire who wants Greenland. https://fortune.com/2026/01/30/who-is-kevin-warsh-new-fed-chair-robert-lauder-president-trump-greenland-college-friends/ https://www.reuters.com/business/five-things-know-about-kevin-warsh-trumps-central-casting-fed-chair-pick-2026-01-30/ Trump's billionaires are determined to get a WW3. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/01/30/who-is-kevin-warsh-trumps-fed-chair-with-family-ties-to-billionaire-gop-donor/ https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/01/15/an-abandoned-building-a-billionaire-trump-pal-and-the-battle-for-greenland/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 28, 2026

@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot The tentacles of the fossil fuel industry reach deeply. It's funding the destabilization of every democracy with the fortitude to act on climate. Scotland's wind farms means autonomy & sovereignty. That enrages the billionaire bigots who fund fascism & dysfunction. https://theweek.com/environment/climate-change-national-security-trump https://thebulletin.org/2025/12/trump-is-manipulating-national-security-to-stop-energy-projects-he-doesnt-like/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-military-analysis-1.7592647

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 27, 2026

@nemo@mas.to Microsoft has joined notorious fossil fuel fascist Charles Koch to impose AI on users. Koch wants to dismantle the EU. They're setting aside $1 billion for forced user acceptance of AI. Moving away from Microsoft means less money funding a fascist movement. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html The resources being devoted to AI-enabled election meddling are enormous. https://theconversation.com/world-first-social-media-wargame-reveals-how-ai-bots-can-swing-elections-273358 https://euobserver.com/digital/ar149a85be https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gauging-ai-threat-free-and-fair-elections https://www.euractiv.com/news/how-ai-is-influencing-europes-elections/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Heartbreaking, but also very clearheaded. May they find peace and strength.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 25, 2026

@mattblaze@federate.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social We need to understand the funding that's going into this fascist movement. https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-vance-email-invites-donors-to-endorse-ice-raids-in-their-state It is growing & going global. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/republicans-challenge-limits-on-campaign-donations-in-a-case-before-the-supreme-court They know what Trump & MAGA means & they're throwing money at it by the boatload. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-megadonors-major-business-government-back-trumps-super-pac-rcna252867 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-donors-fundraising-benefits.html Kelcy Warren -- preparing https://www.thelocal.de/20260124/us-firm-owned-by-trump-donor-buys-german-oil-storage-giant https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/oil-donations-republicans-trump-anti-environment-bill https://abcnews.go.com/US/officials-probing-georgia-gop-donor-accused-140-million/story?id=123693671 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/peter-thiel-republican-donations-palantir-federal-contracts-house-control-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/top-20-billionaires-american-elections/ https://www.vox.com/politics/470957/supreme-court-republican-nrsc-fec-campaign-finance

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Whenever you see what #ICE is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those wor

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 17, 2026

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The fascism has funding. Lots of it.

Democracies continue to underestimate how badly the fossil fuel industry & the rich want to retain control

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

https://theaimn.com/the-ipa-just-exploded-their-argument-that-the-atlas-network-is-tinfoil-hat-conspiracy/

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2020/12/17/billion-dollar-dynasties-these-are-the-richest-families-in-america/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations

https://www.desmog.com/2016/01/21/beyond-koch-brothers-scaife-olin-bradley-jane-mayer-dark-money/

These are the people funding the far right

Elon Musk $291,482,587
Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
Richard Uihlein $143,498,936

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LLMs are spam generators. That is all. They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent". But really, al

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 16, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop Yet Saudi Arabia alone is laundering $100 billion of its looted national treasury on spam generation? Perhaps 10% is being used on the spam-making software, the rest is being spent on a fossil fuel funded fascist movement, complete with civil rights erosions, state surveillance platforms, hoon squads, concentrationcamps, and financial fraud. We continue to underestimate how badly the fossil fuel industry wants permanent rule. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/ai-deals-saudi-arabia-eyes-artificial-intelligence-partnership-with-pe-firms https://www.semafor.com/article/11/07/2025/uae-says-its-invested-148b-in-ai-since-2024

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 08, 2026

@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social The alumni of the John Birch Society & the Heritage Foundation have waged a century of warfare against democracy. They're particularly keen on the various ways to disenfranchise women. Oddly enough, their fascist Policies of Immiseration are suppressing the birth rate. They're having trouble understanding why women refuse to have children after having been shot in the face by one of their goons. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/08/heritage-report-promote-marriage-births/ https://archive.ph/nzZcx 1/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 03, 2026

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These are the American oligarchs who want to loot the natural resources of nations.

Ukraine

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-minerals-zelensky-putin-ukraine-russia-fossil-fuels-1235292274/

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290

Nigeria, Venezuela, Greenland, Canada are targets.

Sanction these oligarchs first.

Elon Musk $291,482,587
Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
Ken Griffin $108,402,284
Jeff Yass $101,128,680
Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
Marc Andreessen $42,365,113

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I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Jan 03, 2026

@Gargron@mastodon.social https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-17/hedge-funds-paul-singer-and-elliott-join-higher-stakes-corporate-game https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-vulture-fund-elliott-chosen-as-winner-of-citgo-court-mandated-auction/ Sanctions were placed on Russian oligarchs in the wake of the war in Ukraine. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-03/trump-says-venezuela-s-maduro-captured-and-flown-out-of-country-mjy3kziv Place sanctions on American oligarchs. Paul Singer won the Citgo lawsuit. It's not the 1st time this vulture capitalist seized ships & bankrupted a nation. https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/11/the_vulture_how_billionaire_rubio_backer He's Trump's 7th largest donor. Elliott Management is the 9th largest corporate donor to the GOP. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-22/singer-plowed-247-million-in-fund-that-masks-who-gets-the-money https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/how-elliott-s-paul-singer-is-driving-wall-street-s-war-on-wokeness

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Dec 27, 2025

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @ifixcoinops@retro.social Corporate America set itself the goal of undoing FDR's New Deal & ending every future program like it, including the Green New Deal & the ACA. They had a solid 30% forever voting bloc of religious bigots to work with. Over a period of 60 years they remade American democracy into a Nazi state Hitler would have envied. The pinball machine of tiny wires & widgets of progressive democracy was remade into stagnant corporate fascism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Dec 16, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Remember who she was being funded by... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/09/american-accountability-foundation-project-2025 #MadMarjorie was & is still a Koch Network funded disinformation chaos operative. Koch Industries https://georgiarecorder.com/2021/01/28/big-campaign-donors-stick-by-election-denier-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene/ Cynthia Howalt Dalton’s Textile Rubber & Chemical Co Bill Pope, the owner of Texas-based NCIC, a paid phone and messaging system for prisoners Thomas Beckwith L. Lin Wood Alander Pulliam

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There’s a myth in the US that the only way to enact change is to elect sympathetic politicians and hope they do the right thing. But history shows that the most effective way to get politicians to act

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Dec 12, 2025

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social Ex: #TeslaTakedown caused a big drop in sales, because Musk enshittified Twitter with Nazis & his DOGE effort was just a data theft. Tesla is the worst car in its category for safety, longevity, & reliability. Taking out Tesla was a public service that likely saved lives. Musk has had to resort to various circular financing schemes to evade a blowout on the Tesla stock valuation that keeps him out of bankruptcy. Economic warfare on the billionaires funding fascism work well.

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Pro-Brexit Majority Of 2016 'Has Literally Died Out', Polling Expert Reveals The founder of YouGov said there is now an 8.1 million majority in favour of rejoining the EU. (Also: National Bureau of Ec

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Dec 09, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop After the elections of Donald Trump, Brexit remains one of the biggest accomplishments of Putin & his Koch Network fossil fuel allies.

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Hypothesis: the AI bubble is being supported by the fossil fuel industry's network of paid lobbyists *precisely* because it's the last remaining driver of increasing demand for their products. https:/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/donald-trump-jr-friend-gentry-beach-03824825?mod=article_inline https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-rosneft-russia-oil-talks-f524e81f?mod=article_inline The scope of the treachery by AI & cryptocurrency data centers with the fossil fuel industry is enormous. https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/115632353606756385

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Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody". Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as h

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 29, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social It's also the kind of reprehensible act that starts world wars. Trump & his oil oligarchs are gearing up for a war. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-saudi-deal/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Lusitania

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World's smallest violin needed, again: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/openai-loses-key-discovery-battle-why-deleted-library-of-pirated-books-1236436363/ "OpenAI Loses Key Dis

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 27, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop Even if OpenAI destroyed the list of copyrighted works they stole to train AI, the AI themselves reveal they contain the results of plagiarism If you ask an AI to find the source of this quote & it finds it... "A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls. Her hair forms a smoky wreath around her open and curious face. She's interested in me" Reasonable inference is kind of cool https://www.williambarabino.com/blog/2018/07/27/inferences/

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FFS. For the first time, non-citizens will be charged a hefty surcharge to enter US national parks (an extra $100/person, and annual passes for noncitizens will cost $250 instead of $80). Our national

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 26, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social The fees aren't the goal. Selling America's birthright for a bowl of pottage is the aim. When visitors stop coming to see the parks and revenue doesn't meet expectations, it builds a narrative for an elite land grab like Hungary's. The goal is to sell national parks, privatize public lands, and hijack the revenue to profit GOP megadonors. These billionaires are desperate to drill in Yosemite, contaminate wildlife refuges, log the last old growth forests, ... 1/

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If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you. I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues. So I'd love to tell you al

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 24, 2025

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online Mao had the same plan to keep power, politically motivated "back to the farm" forced relocations. 30 million Chinese people died of famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine When fascist billionaires like Tim Mellon buy public office for cruel wingnuts like RFK Jr, they have the same aims as Mao, the extension of power. Stephen Miller wants to drop the US population: "if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller."

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In a few days many of us will participate in a sacred American ritual with well-defined roles. Some of us will feed our extended families. Some of us will be the racist uncles. And others of us will q

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 23, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Service to the benefit of humanity, it's often demonstrated by tiny acts of kindness to friends & family. Pat on the back for making the world a little bit better. Now, let's all do the same.

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 23, 2025

@skry@mastodon.social Depleting aquifers, never a good idea. Soil subsidence is California is triggering salination as rising sea levels seep into the sinking soil of the best farmland in America. https://www.newsweek.com/california-sinking-land-local-homes-lose-value-2108418 https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-13/la-me-california-sinking-real-estate https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153920/where-californias-land-is-sinking-and-rising https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/07/31/groundwater-depletion-sinks-home-prices-californias-central-valley Drinking water in New Orleans becomes salinated & increasingly polluted with fossil fuel contamination from Cancer Alley as sea levels rise. https://lailluminator.com/2025/09/30/forever-chemicals-found-in-nearly-all-southeast-louisiana-drinking-water-samples/ The man responsible https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

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Ooooooh shit: the AI boom sits on top of a $610Bn stock fraud (detected by trading algorithms on Thursday evening) https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 23, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money-capital-risk/2025/11/21/washington-is-all-in-on-ai-voters-not-so-much-00664289 Trump & his billionaires were so looking forward to using AI to mess with elections & stock markers. So sorry. Not. It is amusing to see that an AI stock market fraud was detected by AI fraud detection software. A legendary example of Shakespearean "Hoisted by one's own petard'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard

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One of the reasons I'm skeptical of the practicality of e2e verifiable voting schemes is that every system proposed so far is fragile. A single mishap can result in an unverifiable election (and, in w

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 23, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social The most secure elections so far seems to be paper-oriented with tech enabled auditing. Considering the aims of AI & tech oligarchs regarding elections, referendums, and polling, any "electronic only" system is vulnerable. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/trump-dominion-voting-machines-sold-republican.html https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/dominion-voting-machines-sold-elections Especially since Republican abuse the "power of the purse" to defund the FEC, curtail election security budgets, and lay off election & tech experts. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/10/fec-joint-fundraising-committee-ads-00183356 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/dick-durbin-mitch-mcconnell-russian-interference-1309624 1/

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@Npars01@mstdn.social · Nov 22, 2025

@ScottLucas@journa.host Ukraine will get its territory back. All of it. Trump will be consigned to the dustbin of history, just like Neville Chamberlain. Trump's failure to protect democracy is the utmost treachery.

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