Category: AI and Tech Capital

The Humans Elected a “Useful Idiot” for AI; They Will Be Repaid with Everything But Kindness

Trump’s AI orders clear democratic constraints for Thiel, Sacks and capital pools seeking data centers, automated labor and war at sovereign scale.

The Death Warrant for the Petrodollar and America’s AI Future, Signed by Trump and Netanyahu

The decision to blow up Iran takes the petrodollar and America’s AI buildout down with it.

The War That Broke the AI Boom: Economic and Supply Chain Disruptions from the Iran Conflict

Iranian strikes have crippled Gulf energy infrastructure, leaving Iraq output at 1.6 million barrels daily and Qatar LNG disrupted for years.

How the Tech Billionaires’ Cold War on China and Iran Is Consuming the American Empire

Palantir, Pax Silica and Silicon Valley allies use U.S. power against China and Iran to protect monopolies while America loses its industrial base.

E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y: The AI Data-Center Boom, the Jobs It Will Destroy, and the Question Nobody Is Asking

Wake up: The scale of what’s being built defies easy comprehension. So does the silence about what comes next.

Hanged With Its Own Rope: How One Interrogation Extracted a Full Confession From an AI Platform (And it wasn’t easy)

The author treats an AI platform’s statements about prestige bias, dissent and training as an internal indictment of its operating model.

The AI Problem Exhibited by Perplexity but Common to All: Why Institutional Consensus Amplification Is Not Knowledge

An AI platform is accused of ranking institutional prestige above evidence, filtering dissent and presenting consensus amplification as knowledge.

AI at The Gates of Thebes: The Knowledge Workers Are Already Dead

AI has already breached the walls protecting 70 million U.S. knowledge workers, while professionals debate regulation and integration instead of survival.

Diogenes Found His Honest Man, Elon Musk, And the Uni-Party Promptly Destroyed Him

A freshman Republican’s aborted NPR funding cut shows how donors, rural stations and party leaders protect the bipartisan system Musk threatened.

Larry Page Built Google on Public Funds, Then Fled California to Avoid the Wealth Tax He Funded Democrats to Support

The restructuring, completed before a proposed 5% levy, exposes Silicon Valley progressives who finance wealth taxes but flee their costs.