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Tires that talk to your town about the state of roads are on the way
Pirelli's Cyber Tire can work for the greater good as well as the driver.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/11/tires-that-talk-to-your-town-about-the-state-of-roads-are-on-the-way/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
"ICE subpoenas Pirelli's spyware tire logs to add to its Ring camera footage, Flock vehicle spyware, and NSO Group dissident monitoring."
Google is rolling out conversational shopping—and ads—in AI Mode search
Conversational shopping is Google's first big swing at monetizing AI Mode search.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/google-rolling-out-conversational-shopping-and-ads-in-ai-mode-search/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5608188/data-center-ai-space-lizards
"The fossil fuel industry burns tons of its toxic products for each of these AI-enabled spyware features.
Keep up the good work Google! The planet is frying.
#PrinceBonesaw is visiting Trump in November and you know how he gets when he's disappointed."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/jamal-khashoggi/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/jamal-khashoggi-killing-cia-report.html
https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/world-news/widow-of-slain-journalist-demanding-compensation-from-mbs/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/
"Like the British Empire before it, Trump's billionaire cronies seek opportunities to remake global fossil fuel supply to favor themselves at the cost of millions of lives
The fossil fuel industry is the most corrupt on the planet. It doesn't do equitable distribution"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-gaza-genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/gas-gaza-and-western-imperialism/
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation/
https://www.mesp.me/2024/02/13/between-tales-and-facts-the-long-saga-of-gaza-marine/
Trump wants to recreate the 1920s mandate structure in Palestine.
"This is imperialism masquerading as a peace process."
Trump is pushing an Israeli-crafted UN resolution to eliminate the possibility of a Palestinian state.
It would establish US control over Gaza; separate Gaza from the rest of Palestine, & allow the US, & therefore Israel, to determine when Israel would supposedly withdraw.
#USPol #Europol #UKPol #BDS #USImperialism #Palestine @palestine .
"Like the British Empire before it, Trump's billionaire cronies seek opportunities to remake global fossil fuel supply to favor themselves at the cost of millions of lives
The fossil fuel industry is the most corrupt on the planet. It doesn't do equitable distribution"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-gaza-genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/gas-gaza-and-western-imperialism/
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/09/ecocide-imperialism-and-palestine-liberation/
https://www.mesp.me/2024/02/13/between-tales-and-facts-the-long-saga-of-gaza-marine/
This guy runs the Windows unit at Microsoft, and he's telling you that the company intends to infiltrate "AI" into every aspect of the operating system.
If you use Windows, this is an injection of a living, self-replicating virus into your digital existence.
Yes I use Linux.
https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/jamal-khashoggi-the-washington-post
" #PrinceBonesaw wants his energy hogging state surveillance platform, no matter the price."
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/bill-gates-chartered-saudi-prince-superyacht-06152025.php
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/
Reminder: #PrinceBonesaw is very interested in knowing the location of women. So is the GOP.
https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-google-slammed-for-siding-with-saudi-government-app-2019-3
And hacking the phones of billionaires
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/01/mohammed-bin-salman-jeff-bezos-hack-could-be-a-ticking-time-bomb
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/bezos-hack-amazon-saudi-mbs-whatsapp/605755/
“Billionaires are spending outrageous sums to stop Mamdami.” is an incredible endorsement.
"Billionaires sincerely believe in socialism, but only the type that sees taxpayer dollars going into their insatiable maws only.
They don't like the kind of socialism that benefits everyone."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/opinion/us-capitalism-socialism.html
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2019/jun/06/socialism-for-the-rich-the-evils-of-bad-economics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_for_the_rich_and_capitalism_for_the_poor
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/so-much-for-socialism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/29/socialism-for-the-rich
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/imf-uk-tax-cuts-inequality-neoliberalism/671651/
Weak EV demand sees GM lay off 1,700 workers at two plants
The automaker expects the regulatory environment to seriously slow EV demand.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/weak-ev-demand-sees-gm-lay-off-1700-workers-at-two-plants/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
"Trump's tariff wars on EV are temporarily slowing the EV transition.
His fossil fuel megadonors are ecstatic as they get to keep their captive energy markets a little longer.
Making EV's more expensive & harder to get is how you manipulate fossil fuel demand artificially."
So much for the "Freedom" party and "free market" libertarianism. Hypocrites.
The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
"Pandemics & bailouts are very profitable to our fascist billionaire donors.
Can't wait until the next Excess Mortality Event like covid."
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-oxfam-report
https://jacobin.com/2022/01/covid-asset-bubbles-purchases-billionaires-wealth-inequality
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-rich-get-richer-1.6147415
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/opinion/rich-billionaires-philanthropy-covid.html
Well, THIS isn't ominous or anything:
"Bank of England chief warns of ‘worrying echoes’ of 2008 financial crisis"
"Andrew Bailey says a close look is needed at the private credit market after collapse of two big US firms"
(The BoE is about as staid and dull as they can possibly be: this is the equivalent of them setting their beard on fire and running screaming through the marketplace.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/republican-budget-bill-ai-laws
"Koch Network funded a massive disinformation campaign lying about 'free markets' and 'deregulation', and bankrolled a felon into a presidency.
Free markets are now monopolies & price gouging cartels owned by the same billionaires who corrupted the courts.
Deregulation means kneecapping the NLRB, SEC, FEC, DOJ, IRS, CFPB, EPA, ... leaving crooks free to fraud.
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"Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years," per CNBC
"Republicans are paid by billionaires to orchestrate financial crashes, then begin land grabs.
Orban from Hungary gave us the idea on how put farms into bankruptcy, oligarchs snap up cheap property, then get subsidies & bailouts to profit oligarchs. "
1. Create a crisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-farmers-aid-china-trade-war.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/business/farm-aid-40-concert-farmers-crisis-hotline.html
2. Get a bailout that profits oligarchs
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-farmers-bailout-brazil-brothers-1427346
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/world/europe/eu-farm-subsidy-hungary.html
“U.S. military officials are drawing up options to target drug traffickers inside Venezuela, and strikes within that country’s borders could potentially begin in a matter of weeks, four sources told NBC News.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-preparing-options-military-strikes-drug-targets-venezuela-sources-s-rcna233734
"Trump seeks to provoke a war to justify a 3rd term.
The USA is already $37 trillion in debt. A war & financial crisis is what brought Hitler to power."
https://people.com/trump-jokes-no-more-elections-if-united-states-at-war-11792856
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-third-term-democracy-will-have-already-ended.html
Billionaires like Erik Prince, Elon Musk, & Peter Thiel see world war as an opportunity to profit.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/elon-musk-and-peter-thiels-war-on-democracy/
"Republicans do nothing but public corruption & donor maintenance.
Trump & his billionaire donors get to orchestrate a financial crash & benefit from low interest loans to buy up bankrupted businesses & homes cheaply.
Trump can balloon the national debt with impunity & impose more tax cuts for the rich.
Russia can refinance its war on Ukraine more easily."
https://fortune.com/2025/08/20/national-debt-lower-base-rate-budget-trump-powell-pressure/
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bond-buying-how-much-return-fed-interest-rate-cuts-2025-8
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/interest-rates-have-broken-global-wealth-pump-2023-06-23/
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"Republicans do nothing but public corruption & donor maintenance.
Trump & his billionaire donors get to orchestrate a financial crash & benefit from low interest loans to buy up bankrupted businesses & homes cheaply.
Trump can balloon the national debt with impunity & impose more tax cuts for the rich.
Russia can refinance its war on Ukraine more easily."
https://fortune.com/2025/08/20/national-debt-lower-base-rate-budget-trump-powell-pressure/
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-bond-buying-how-much-return-fed-interest-rate-cuts-2025-8
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/interest-rates-have-broken-global-wealth-pump-2023-06-23/
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"But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness."
That is Ezra Klein.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/opinion/charlie-kirk-assassination-fear-politics.html?smid=tw-share
"Our version of 'politics the right way' calls for the murder of political opponents and marginalized groups.
All while being paid for these calls to violence by Koch Network billionaires.
The preservation of wealth for rich bigots was all Charlie Kirk did."
Charlie Kirk; paid to radicalize the young
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2020/04/13557/koch-foundation-criticizes-turning-point-usa-even-koch-network-funds-group
https://medium.com/@jackapedia/why-making-fun-of-charlie-kirk-rules-aa9e1084a8b9
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/trump-rightwing-groups-funds
https://medium.com/@mboedy/debunking-the-charlie-kirk-origin-story-b718907ce9ca
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/15/turning-point-trump-battleground-states-00163563
"Saudi Arabia is in a race with the UAE to replace the geopolitical interference of the Russian Internet Research Agency."
Oracle signs on to train future generations of disinformation trolls.
Internet mercenaries available for hire to the highest bidder
https://mcit.gov.sa/en/news/oracle-collaborates-mcit-national-elearning-center-train-50000-saudis-ai
https://qz.com/openai-palantir-anthropic-aws-ai-startups-us-defense-1851693801
https://w.media/oracle-announces-us-14-billion-investment-into-ai-and-cloud-in-saudi-arabia/
https://waya.media/saudis-stv-and-google-launch-usd-100m-ai-fund/
https://www.techinasia.com/news/saudi-arabia-launches-statebacked-ai-firm-humain
https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/25/ai-surveillance-palantir-openai-data/85341278007/
"Apple bends the knee to #PrinceBonesaw and begins Search Engine Enshittification. Just like Google.
Ever since he hacked Bezos's iphone, the Saudi Crown Prince has a compulsion to get his own internatiomal state surveillance platform, with a side bonus of energy-wasting data centers"
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
https://thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-ai-and-surveillance-capitalism-are-undermining-democracy/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/07/25/ai-surveillance-palantir-openai-data/85341278007/
"Apple bends the knee to #PrinceBonesaw and begins Search Engine Enshittification. Just like Google.
Ever since he hacked Bezos's iphone, the Saudi Crown Prince has a compulsion to get his own internatiomal state surveillance platform, with a side bonus of energy-wasting data centers"
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
"The billionaires behind Trump succeed in ending the American advancement of science, progress, and innovation."
Here are their names: they all believe in 'personal responsibility'
1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039
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Government that’s going all in on “AI” urges you to delete old emails and pictures to save water. You couldn’t make this shit up. https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115016993942039602
"Government is colluding with the fossil fuel industry to end any democracy acting on climate.
Deleting emails prevents AI from picking up on that.
Thwarts the lawsuits and FOI inquiries too."
"If Rubio & Lavrov can sit with murderous petrostate despots like MBS to discuss a Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact version 2.0 to split up the arctic territory of Greenland & Canada in their absence, what's stopping Koch Network from funding a Project 2027 to order up splitting any nation to the mutual benefit of the oil industry?
Nothing,... they think."
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-us-saudi-arctic-energy-rdif-ukraine-russia-capital/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
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