Derek Raymaker

Looting now is at levels even it took Putin 20 years to attain.

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG made his career as a yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on news journalism in order to destroy it. 1/

If nobody goes to jail for this, we've entered the 'every man for himself' stage of empire decline.

💯 authenticity & creativity are endangered species.

Seems like an appropriate moment to remind everyone that Pearson is undertaking a multi-billion dollar capital investment program that includes new terminal space to accommodate an additional 15 million passengers annually. torontopearson.com/en/pearson-lif…

We keep seeing all the evidence...and we keep ignoring it because we don't want to believe it.

Trump, Netanyahu and Putin: plunging the world into barbarism, oligarchy and authoritarianism.

Laughter and song, the bonds of friendship, the joy of play, the wonder of art, the beauty of nature, the gift of attention – tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk don't care for ANY of it. They see humanity as redundant, as useless, as slop, and would rather replace all of it with AI.

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

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We need stronger guardrails. How is it that a single individual can push U.S. institutions and democracy to the brink of collapse while also holding the power to potentially cripple the global economy and upend the world order?

Shout out to Qatar for the worst return on a $400M bribe in history.

This is the way. chronicle.com/article/is-ai-…

"The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman" theonion.com/the-onions-exc…

The noose tightens

The largest, richest companies are chainsawing their work forces for this. No regulations. No oversight. No safety guardrails. Just destruction.

Absolutely true. Legislative branch, media, military, law enforcement agencies & about 90% of the judicial branch have fallen (save for a few federal judges). Free elections are the last on the chopping block.

@CarrieTait @tom_cardoso Albertans owe you guys a massive debt of gratitude for exposing this open sewer of corruption.

SCOOP: Two companies involved in building some of Alberta's addiction recovery centres are mired in litigation, including accusations of forgery on one side and allegations of intimidation involving Sam Mraiche, of MHCare theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… By @tom_cardoso and friend

@tommysantos14 Delusional.

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

This is 100% completely unsustainable as a society. Nearly 50% of all consumer spending now comes from the top 10% of earners. The bottom 80%? Their share keeps falling. This is why the economy can look strong in the data while millions of people feel like they're falling behind.