ACC Weekend Edition 1-25-2025
AI will keep "citizens on their best behavior" - What?, Melei returns to Davos (with well earned swagger), USA says goodbye to The World Health Organization
Why is Larry Ellison anywhere near Trump?
For every win in the new Trump era, like for instance the recent pardon of Ross Ulbrict (of Silk Road fame), there are going to be less welcome developments from our perspective. Mr. “I love the techno police state” Larry Ellison, CTO of Oracle, cozying up to the White House to gain favor would be one of these.
Mr. Ellison is/will be part of the “Stargate” Artificial Intelligence program Trump revealed this week. Over four years it will cost $500 BILLION.
That is a hell of a lot of money and not exactly small government “conservative”. Even if much of it is privately raised no doubt billions will come from taxpayers.
We have long asserted that Trump is not really a conservative, especially when it comes to infrastructure schemes.
Stargate is being sold as a way to stay ahead of China and other rivals in AI. We’ll see.
(From the AP)
President Donald Trump on Tuesday talked up a joint venture investing up to $500 billion for infrastructure tied to artificial intelligence by a new partnership formed by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank…
…“It’s big money and high quality people,” said Trump, adding that it’s “a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” under his new administration.
Joining Trump fresh off his inauguration at the White House were Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Larry Ellison of Oracle. All three credited Trump for helping to make the project possible, even though building has already started and the project goes back to 2024.
It concerns us deeply that Larry Ellison, a man who appears to want a future superstate where citizens are kept “on their best behavior” by an AI superstructure is an important part of the effort.
Um…No.
Elon for the record says that there is no money for this effort.
Melei returns to Davos, explains why freedom is now on the march globally and that wokism is a “cancer”
Guess which country suddenly looks like it has kicked a century long benzo habit and is showing up at the house clean shaven and in a bespoke pinstriped suit?
Argentina it’s so good to see you again! Clean fiscal living suits you. So does getting rid of all your old cultural Marxist friends!
Milei, the Austrian economist turned President of the Pampas is achieving what almost no one thought was possible.
How Trump plans to take on censors -- and they plan to take on Trump
Free Speech! A thousand times! Free Speech!
Let the people find the truth: As Biden’s censorship wall falls, a welcome return to open society
“the past four years have seen a sustained effort to overturn the principles of the open society. The just-departed administration, of which Joe Biden was the decrepit figurehead, tried to impose by threat or mandate a version of reality that brooked no discussion.
Supported by its allies in the media, the university, and the bureaucracy, the administration became, in its own eyes, the guardian of truth.”
And how absolutely insane is that?
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