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sb arms & legs<a href="https://metroholografix.ca/@billions" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@billions</a> Wow - <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ellison</a> is #2 and gates is off the top 10! Wtf happened? Did <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microsoft</a> lose a major contract to <a href="https://metroholografix.ca/tags/oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oracle</a>?

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Npars01" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Npars01</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@GottaLaff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Totalitarianism</a> Just to be sure, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LarryEllison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LarryEllison</a> is as big an enemy of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> + <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeterThiel</a>, but much more overlooked so far:"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a> predicted 👉a world of constant accountability for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Americans</a> of tomorrow, where computers keep everyone in line👈... 👉Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording + reporting," <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a> added,👈... "<a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113158599397318458" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113158599397318458</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113321498434439057" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113321498434439057</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111417287345355360" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111417287345355360</a>

Chuck DarwinBillionaire <a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Larry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a>’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: 'being smart in one arena doesn’t mean success in another'. As the WSJ reports, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> co-founder set out to reinvent agriculture on Hawaii’s Lāna‘i Island, which he scooped up for $300 million back in 2012. Thirteen years and more than $500 million later, the project is still floundering.Ellison dreamed of AI-powered greenhouses and robot harvesters feeding the world sustainably. Instead, Sensei has been tripped up by tech snarls and rookie mistakes — like Wi-Fi issues and solar panels battered by Lanai’s winds.Think greenhouses designed for Israel’s desert climate, when Lāna‘i is typically muggy. The company also mixed mature and baby plants together, a blueprint for a pest paradise.<a href="https://c.im/tags/Sensei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sensei</a>, co-founded by a medical doctor and led currently by a tech exec who runs Sensei from Boston, has had small wins, reports the WSJ. Its lettuce and cherry tomatoes now appear at the island’s few local markets and restaurants. But constant delays, leadership shake-ups, and pricey blunders, including cannabis grow houses that needed to be gutted and rebuilt, highlight a tough truth: even bottomless funding is no match for the hard lessons of a specialized industry.<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/the-lesson-of-larry-ellisons-misadventures-in-farming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/the-lesson-of-larry-ellisons-misadventures-in-farming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky</a>

Glyn MoodyLarry <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a> wants to put all America's data, including <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNA</a>, in one big <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> system for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> to study - <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/</a> what could possibly go wrong?

penworksDystopian Society is knocking at the door.Dont say Ive not been trying to warn you for a long time now. STOP playing along. Ignore that this mentions Blair, bc all politicians, all HE policy (eg the sad JISC), everyone, are behaving like headless cattle about this stuff. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-12/oracle-s-ellison-calls-for-governments-to-unify-data-to-feed-ai" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-12/oracle-s-ellison-calls-for-governments-to-unify-data-to-feed-ai</a> Remember, Ellison is the guy that said “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on”. <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/</a> Throw away your ring doorbell. Throw away your Alexa, Echo, Siri. Throw any smart tech in the trash right now. Stop using your phone to pay for everything, use a dedicated card. Dont use Google as much as you can. Stop using loyalty cards. Use throwaway email accts. Im not a conspiracy theorist, Im an ordinary mid level tech person. At least think about this a little bit. There are many highly technically literate ppl who now refer to themselves as Luddites, bc we are against technology that does harm.<a href="https://lor.sh/tags/luddites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#luddites</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#surveillance</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ellison</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academicchatter</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://lor.sh/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Larry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a>, who briefly became the world's second-wealthiest person last week when his net worth surpassed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jeff</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bezos</a>' for a short time, ⚠️outlined a scenario where AI models would analyze footage from security cameras, police body cams, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dash cams.♦️"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place. "We're going to have supervision," he continued."...if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."Ellison's vision bears more than a passing resemblance to the cautionary world portrayed in <a href="https://c.im/tags/George" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#George</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Orwell</a>'s prescient novel 1984. In Orwell's fiction, the totalitarian government of Oceania uses ubiquitous "telescreens" to monitor citizens constantly, creating a society where privacy no longer exists and independent thought becomes nearly impossible.But Orwell's famous phrase "Big Brother is watching you" would take on new meaning in Ellison's tech-driven scenario, where AI systems, rather than human watchers, would serve as the ever-vigilant eyes of authority. Once considered a sci-fi trope, automated systems are already becoming a reality: Similar automated CCTV surveillance systems have already been trialed in <a href="https://c.im/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#London</a> Underground and at the 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/Olympics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Olympics</a>.<a href="https://c.im/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#China</a> has been using automated systems (including AI) to surveil its citizens for years. In 2022, Reuters reported that Chinese firms had developed AI software to sort data collected on residents using a network of surveillance cameras deployed across cities -- and rural areas as part of China's "<a href="https://c.im/tags/sharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sharp</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/eyes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eyes</a>" campaign from 2015 to 2020. This "one person, one file" technology reportedly organizes collected data on individual Chinese citizens, leading to what The Economic Times called a "road to digital totalitarianism."<a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Charles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Charles</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Koch</a>, perhaps the most legendary Republican financier of recent decades, has never backed Trump, either. The political network affiliated with him and his late brother <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#David</a> remained officially neutral in the Presidential races of 2016 and 2020, and spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat Trump in this year’s Republican primaries, -- much of it supporting Haley. When she dropped out, the Koch network concentrated on down-ballot races. But Kochworld, like the Republican Party more broadly, remains divided. “There are a lot of donors in that network lobbying Charles from the perspective of, I know you don’t like him, but he’s better than the alternative,” Marc Short, who worked for a Koch-affiliated group and later served as Vice-President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, said. Nevertheless, neither Koch nor Pence is supporting Trump this fall —a remarkable rift, given the role that each of them has played in Republican politics.At the same time, Trump has cultivated a new group of what might be called <a href="https://c.im/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/megadonors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#megadonors</a>. A study conducted for The New Yorker by the campaign-finance expert Robert Maguire, of the nonprofit good-government group <a href="https://c.im/tags/crew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crew</a>, found that, as of this summer, more than forty of the G.O.P.’s biggest super-pac donors during Romney’s 2012 campaign had never given to a pro-Trump super pac, including Oracle’s co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Larry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a>, the Dallas real-estate tycoon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harlan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Crow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crow</a>, and the hotel magnate J. W. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marriott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marriott</a>, Jr. Meanwhile, nearly sixty pro-Trump donors in the study, including <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lutnick</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mellon</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a>, and the Wisconsin shipping magnates <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Richard</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elizabeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elizabeth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Uihlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uihlein</a>, had given nothing to the pro-Romney super pac. Others have significantly increased their giving. The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Adelsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adelsons</a>, for example, donated $53 million to the pro-Romney super pac in 2012 and $90 million to support Trump in 2020, when they were the largest individual donors of the cycle. By the end of September, Miriam Adelson had given $100 million to back Trump in 2024.With such sums at stake, Trump has pursued what the former Bush Pioneer called a “high touch” approach to the Republican billionaire class. 🔥The ex-President has all but invited donors to view their contributions as business investments, telling oil-and-gas executives who went to see him in April at Mar-a-Lago, for example, that, 💥because he would allow unrestricted drilling, 🧨they should raise $1 billion for his campaign —a statement redolent of Sondland’s “quid pro quo” that soon leaked to the Washington Post. The campaign’s strategy, another longtime fund-raiser told me, was essentially to let Trump be Trump: “He talks the same book to everybody.”Oliver, the former Bush finance director, observed that the difference between the model of the Bush campaigns and Trump’s is the difference between having a large pool of “institutional investors” which had been built up in the course of years, and a series of ad-hoc “transactional” dealings with a relatively small group of the ultra-rich.Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton University, offered another key distinction. Trump’s billionaires—many of whom have made their fortunes as hedge-fund managers, activist investors, and corporate raiders—tend to be highly motivated ideologues and individual operators. “It’s transactional, but their end of the bargain is a lot different than just having access to the President of the United States,” Wilentz told me. “They see Trump as their instrument. This is an investment for them to take power.” Wilentz noted that, unlike the “traditional corporate conservative élite” dating back to the Gilded Age, this new “class of the super-rich” appears both more numerous and less civic-minded. “The other guys might have been robber barons,” Wilentz said. “These guys are oligarchs.”

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<a href="https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@SrRochardBunson</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Legal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MassSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassSurveillance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a>(2/n)...Infrastructure and advanced AI, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a> predicted 👉a world of constant accountability for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Americans</a> of tomorrow, where computers keep everyone in line👈..." 1)"...👉Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting," <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a> added,👈 though it's not clear what he sees as the source of those recordings - police body cams or publicly...2) <a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110386514828183897" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110386514828183897</a>

Chuck Darwin💥Omnipresent AI cameras 💥 will ensure good behavior, says <a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Larry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a>❌ "We’re going to have supervision," says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Haven't reread <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/InvisibleMan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InvisibleMan</a> in a while. It's time. It's brilliant. Published in 1952. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a> writes this in the 1981 Introduction: "a novel could be fashioned as a raft of hope, perception and entertainment that might help keep us afloat as we tried to negotiate the snags and whirlpools that mark our nation's vacillating course toward and away from the democratic ideal." <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/bannedbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bannedbooks</a>

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