Me vs. Ennui

@Ric_RTP Beyond time to start taxing these assholes. Any wealth over USD100 million should be taxed at 100%, year on year. Time to remove the loopholes allowing the parasitic class to hide their wealth in offshore accounts. Time, also, to stop corporate sponsorship of politicians.

This Wall Street insider just exposed the secret doomsday escape plans of AI billionaires. 1 in 3 billionaires has a fully funded plan to abandon civilization when things collapse. They meet their pilots at Oakland airport, board a Gulfstream 650, fly to New Zealand, and disappear into a bunker that cost tens of millions to build. And this isn't some conspiracy theory. There's literally PROOF: Sam Altman told The New Yorker he stockpiles guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, and gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force. He owns a patch of land in Big Sur he can fly to when society breaks down. His backup plan is flying with Peter Thiel to Thiel's compound in New Zealand. Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen in 2011 after spending only 12 days in the country. He bought a 477-acre estate for $13.5 million and submitted plans for a bunker-style compound embedded into a hillside with a 1,082-foot glass-lined guest lodge for 24 people. Mark Zuckerberg is building a 5,000 square foot underground shelter beneath his $270 million compound in Hawaii. Blast-resistant doors made of metal and concrete, its own energy and food supplies, and an escape hatch accessible by ladder. Every construction worker signed an NDA and different crews were forbidden from speaking to each other. Larry Page, co-founder of Google, quietly disappeared to Fiji during the pandemic. He reportedly bought at least one private island in the Mamanuca archipelago. When local media reported his presence, Fijian authorities ordered the article taken down. Scott Galloway sat with one of these billionaires who walked him through his entire exit strategy step by step. His response: "You don't think your pilots are going to kill you and fuck your wife? You don't think the people in New Zealand are going to come take the rich guy's shit?" But here's the thing that really matters... These are the SAME people building AI. The same founders telling Congress that AI will cure cancer have already decided they're leaving when it goes sideways. Galloway confirmed a secondhand account from someone close to one of these AI CEOs. The CEO admitted he believes there's a 7 to 10% chance AI results in a catastrophic event for humanity. And he doesn't care because being the person who summoned this intelligence is "more consequential than whatever happens." These billionaires don't use public healthcare. They have concierge medicine delivered to their living room. Their kids attend $75,000 per year academies while public schools spend $10,000. They fly private. They have private security instead of police. Galloway's words: "The 0.1% are no longer invested in the well-being of America. They've totally dissociated because they're sequestered from it." And the incentives to reach that level are so extreme that founders will make ANY decision necessary to get there. Galloway called it the Darth Vader pipeline. Every tech CEO follows the same arc: Sam Altman was "the gay son we all wanted." Soft spoken, testifying before Congress about safety. Now he's subpoenaing nonprofits that criticize OpenAI and telling people to stop complaining about energy costs. Galloway on all of them: "These guys would sleep with their cousin for a nickel." The next chosen hero is Dario Amodei at Anthropic. Galloway says he'll follow the exact same path because the system makes it inevitable. Then he dropped his most dangerous prediction: He thinks there's a 1 in 3 chance AI ends up like jet transportation, vaccines, or PCs. Technologies that changed civilization but where NO group of companies ever captured serious shareholder value. The entire airline industry across all of history is at break even. Moderna is down 90%. AI models are converging. Open weight Chinese models are free and a third of corporations are already using them. His prediction: Go short the AI ecosystem. The winner of AI might be us, the users. Not the companies. And if he's right, the domino effect is terrifying... 40% of the S&P is tied to AI. Most GDP growth over the last two years came from AI capex. So if corporations start dropping OpenAI and Anthropic for free Chinese models, the entire market could crash. This is just like the Chinese steel dumping in the 80s: Flood America with cheap AI, kneecap the companies propping up the stock market, then trigger a recession without firing a single shot. The billionaires building AI have escape plans ready. They've detached from society entirely. They know there's a real chance this ends badly and they're building it anyway. Every tech hero turns villain on a shorter timeline. And the financial system is so dependent on AI valuations that one move from China could bring it all down. And we're still trusting these people to self-regulate. What do you think?

@saucefunk2 It's so beautiful!

think about it a long time #projecthailmary

@cevangelista413 It was ahead of it's time. Society has caught up now.

The culture shift around this movie has been fascinating. I distinctly remember the reaction was mixed-to-negative when it hit theaters. Now, it seems like Nolan’s most popular movie

@joelmillerd The Met Gala is not the Met Gala any longer, anyway, with that Bezos woman in charge. She has zero taste, let alone fashion sense or knowledge of fashion.

Ryan Gosling will not be attending the Met Gala: "I wasn’t invited," the actor explained to TMZ.

@herainhistory Shouting and screaming into a pillow helps. A lot.

I don't think I'll ever be able to get over the fact that 80% of autoimmune patients are female, and new research is basically showing us that autoimmunity is connected to suppressed anger and rage

@tsuyonpu Enjoy!

I had a rough day but my copy of project Hail Mary just arrived and I’m so ready and excited to read omg

@vlucasrocha Such a great idea!

cada membro da família ficou responsável por tirar fotos focadas em uma cor e esse foi o resultado

@atrupar Instead of blaming (we all know Biden is not the one to blame, in any case), isn't it their job to rectify?

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blames Biden for high beef prices and calls climate change a "hoax"

@WUTangKids Something I really wish I could unsee. These people are depraved. And the poor rhino's horn has been hacked off.

Wtf is this?

@em_Lazzy Just shows how bad the system is.

IT BLOWS MY MIND HOW ONE PERSON CAN FUCK UP THE ENTIRE WORLD

@GuntherEagleman You're very confused. US troops weren't in Europe to protect Europe. They were stationed in Europe so the USA could launch military attacks from within Europe. Europeans don't want USA bases in Europe now the USA has become a hostile power.

🚨 CONFIRMED! President Trump is BRINGING OUR TROOPS HOME! First batch of 5,000 U.S. soldiers starting immediate withdrawal from Germany! NATO is panicking!

@WhiteHouse You have made the office of POTUS a joke.

In a galaxy that demands strength - America stands ready. This is the way. May the 4th be with you.

@realgerhardtvdm So Airbnb all over again, but now screwing over the working/lower middle classes in developing nations. Huh.

🇺🇸DAMN: A Record number of Americans are currently fleeing the U.S. in search of a better life in other countries

@modernhistory Everything was so much better when it wasn't all in our pocket, or on demand, or via subscription.

Everything in this picture is now in your pocket

@BRICSinfo So much winning.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 US calls on China to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restore energy flows.

@neathestars Love this so much!

colored the grace sketch from yesterday ⭐ #projecthailmary

@ramzpaul Driving the USA downhill is causing a lot of people to lose a lot of money.

@AngryCitizenxx You've got this!

Day 15 of being Sober. Today might be harder guys.. Keep me in your hearts.

@SpencerHakimian This cannot possibly be real.

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@slickomode <3

emojis can try but they will never embody the sheer, unadulterated joy like :D does