Friday, May 8, 2026



Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions of dollars alongside its now-CEO Sam Altman. Now in 2026, he’s suing to unwind the entire project with a civil suit, claiming that Altman betrayed the nonprofit’s mission by turning it into a profit-seeking machine — never mind the fact that Musk also runs his own for-profit AI company, xAI.

The civil trial, taking place in San Francisco, pits two of tech’s most powerful egos against each other in a duel for control over the broader AI ecosystem. That being the case, it’s already devolved into a circus just days into the case, with the erratic Musk emerging as a key liability in his own proceedings.
During day three of the trial, Elon Musk struggled to present a confident front, which led to a number of unforced errors. One of his major blunders came when the billionaire claimed that “Tesla is not pursuing AGI,” or artificial general intelligence, the north star for American AI developers broadly defined as the point at which AI reaches human-level intelligence.
That might seem like a no-brainer — Tesla is an electric vehicle company, after all — but it stands in direct contradiction to Musk’s own comments not even two months earlier.
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Futurism 

 



THE BILLIONAIRE WHO DIVIDES THE WORLD 🌍💰
For decades, one name has repeatedly appeared behind political upheavals, media influence, financial speculation, and ideological movements across the globe.
George Soros.
To some, he is a philanthropist shaping modern society.
To others…
he represents the invisible hand of elite influence operating above governments themselves.
Under the surface emerges a disturbing pattern:
massive funding networks tied to political campaigns, activist organizations, migration policies, economic interventions, and global narratives capable of reshaping entire nations.
The public sees humanitarian language.
But critics argue the real objective is control through destabilization.
Economic pressure.
Social division.
Cultural conflict.
Financial dependency.
Because modern power no longer needs tanks in the streets.
It operates through foundations, NGOs, media systems, and market influence invisible to the average citizen.
The deeper people investigate global financial networks…
the more they realize the world may not be controlled only by presidents and parliaments…
but by individuals wealthy enough to influence reality itself from the shadows.
And perhaps the most unsettling part is this:
most people will never know who truly funds the narratives shaping their perception of the world.


 
The Identity of the Perpetual Debtor 🦬
By Anna Von Reitz
The British Crown Corporation(s) have been acting as the Perpetual Creditors and the Holy Roman Empire's Municipal Corporations have been acting as the Perpetual Debtors within the so-called Federal Reserve System.
This is convenient, because the British Monarch gets 40% of the profit from all the profiteering, graft, identity theft and commercial crime promoted by these organizations, and the Pope gets 60%.
This guarantees that the King gets his bit, plus operational expenses, and the Lion's share goes to the Holy Roman Empire.
And together, they control the bookkeeping.
As a result, the credit and the assets actually owed to the living people of this planet are never brought forward and balanced against the debt ledger.
This guarantees that the debt appears to grow exponentially and gives the Perps an excuse to charge interest on a non-existent debt, in addition to everything else they are chiseling out of the hapless victims of this fraud.
These thieves have been illegally, unlawfully, immorally soaking the American Public for $4.7 Trillion dollars worth of phony income taxes per year. And harassing, jailing, fining, and levying bank accounts of people and businesses that never owed these thugs a dime.
They've had lots of other concessions, too.
Property taxes. "Home" mortgages. Purloined copyrights to Proper Names. Child labor bonds. Securitization of living flesh (slavery).
Undisclosed enfranchisement (peonage). Utility charges. Licensing of occupations of common right. Marriage licensing. Land titles and descriptions. PKI bundling of individual intellectual property interests. All the "National Debts" and the interest on all the National Debts.
And it's all phony.
This does not count hidden income streams and slush funding hidden in "government" programs and investments and encumbrances.
This does not count a fiat currency system based on a debt note that is passed around endlessly, but only accounted for once.
This does not count a legalized rigged betting system based on court cases bonded as assets providing commissions to crooked judges.
This doesn't count a rigged commodity market.
This doesn't count a rigged bond market.
This doesn't count a rigged stock market.
The Perpetual Debtor was never competent to justify the credit extended to it, never owned what it claimed to own. And the Perpetual Creditor never paid for what the Debtor owed.
It was all phony, all based on identity theft and identity substitution.
Donald Trump represents the British Crown Corporation(s) -- the phony Perpetual Creditors who never paid for a thing, just soaked their Employers to pay for everything, then falsely claimed to be the Creditors themselves.
This is a story of identity theft, identity substitution frauds, and corporate wrong-doing on a vast scale.
But one thing is abundantly clear --- all the assets came from and belong to the living people of this planet, and all the credit, too.
We are not the debtors. We are the ultimate creditors.
~ Granna


 
Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the cure-all for society’s problems, regular working-class people remain resentful of the technology at best, and downright petrified at worst.
At a contentious county commission meeting in Box Elder, Utah, for example, sheriff’s deputies held irate community members back after three county commissioners rammed through a hyperscale data center backed by Canadian billionaire Kevin O’Leary. A growing number of younger workers, fearing life in a market economy in which their labor is made obsolete, are actively sabotaging AI in the workplace. A not insignificant number of concerned citizens have started ripping AI surveillance cameras out of their mountings.
Tech executives and AI experts, meanwhile, are stoked about the new technology. Corporate consultants no longer bite their tongues when they talk about devastating workplace austerity regimes, while tech executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman brag that AI is upending the basic foundations of liberal democracy.
On the outside, it may seem obvious that the people building AI and the people simply living with it would see it from different angles. What’s less obvious, however, is the sheer scale of the disconnect. As a new report by Stanford University’s AI center argues, this perception gulf between everyday people worried about the future and giddy industry insiders is massive.
According to the study, nearly two-thirds of US adults expect AI to reduce the number of available jobs over the next two decades, while a huge number report concerns about AI’s effects on society’s cognitive abilities.
Academic researchers, tech industry insiders, and analysts, meanwhile, “report more optimism than the US public,” the report found. For example, a whopping 84 percent of “AI experts” surveyed expect positive impacts on medical care, compared to just 44 percent of regular US adults. For the economic impacts, 69 percent of experts expressed optimism, compared to just 21 percent of normal folks. (Intriguingly, there are a few things that the public and the AI insiders are collectively cynical about, like news media, personal relationships, and elections.)
While the Stanford study doesn’t try to explain the rift, there is a plausible explanation: the success of AI necessarily hinges on the creation of a permanent underclass, a massive social shift which tech insiders are all too aware of — indeed, some even publicly boast about it. And make no mistake, the tech bros understand the math: a bunch of unemployed peons with nothing means a tiny handful of people will get everything.
Whether we actually end up in this hellscape is hard to say. Currently, there’s little evidence that AI is actually capable of disenfranchising the world’s workers en masse — if there was, tech billionaires would certainly have thrown the switch by now.
Still, be very suspicious of anyone telling you the real battle lines are elsewhere. More than likely, they’ve got an AI startup they’re trying to sell you on.
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Futurism


Since those salad days, its trajectory has never been quite the same. Sure, it’s maintained market share with a series of cynical acquisitions of would-be competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp, but Facebook’s feeds have been inexorably taken over by industrial-scale engagement bait and sleazy ads as users failed to stick around.
By 2026, after a failed pivot to the Metaverse — oh yeah, it changed its name to Meta back in 2021 — scrolling Facebook feels like an infinite timeline of AI slop, ads, and lazy misinformation, none of which the company seems to have an iota of interest in cleaning up.
Add it all up, and you start to wonder whether the behemoth venture has entered the long decline that eventually killed other former stars of the web like Yahoo and AOL. That’s the case that acclaimed investigative journalist Julia Angwin made today in the New York Times:
Meta’s earnings are starting to show the strain from years of growing consumer disaffection and reckless spending. The latest earnings, released on April 29, revealed a dip in user numbers for the first time since it started reporting these figures. And the slumping stock confirms what we have all known in our guts for a while: This is a company entering its zombie era.
Death is different on the internet. Lifeless companies like AOL and Yahoo are still technically with us. You can visit their websites. They have customers. They may even be profitable, as they cut staff and monetize their last remnants of traffic. But they are, as the kids say, peak cringe. Many teens wouldn’t be caught dead with an AOL account, a Yahoo email address — or a Facebook profile.
If she’s right, it’s hard to imagine that this death spiral will cause any human on Earth quite as much suffering as Zuckerberg, who got a little taste of true cultural clout during those golden years after he dropped out of Harvard and, for the one stretch in his life, was the head of something genuinely cool.
He’s trying, of course. Ever since his pivot to VR failed, he’s been practically setting money on fire to try to establish dominance in the red-hot AI space — but so far his efforts have lagged far behind the competition and the only real tangible effects are that Facebook’s feeds are more clogged with garbage than ever before.
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Futurism
 

 
Ted Cruz just handed Democrats a gift, standing in front of a room full of billionaires, he admitted on camera that Trump Accounts are a backdoor scheme to dismantle Social Security.
At the Milken Institute conference in Beverly Hills this week, Cruz called Trump Accounts, the baby savings accounts created under last year's GOP budget law, "Social Security personal accounts," then added: "Here's the dirty little secret: Trump accounts are Social Security personal accounts."
This wasn't a slip.
Cruz spelled out the endgame: once kids grow up with these accounts, Republicans pitch parents on diverting their payroll taxes, the money that funds YOUR current Social Security into private Wall Street investment accounts instead.
His prediction: within five years, that becomes a "really compelling constituency."
Cruz isn't the first to brag about it. At a Breitbart forum last summer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described the accounts as "a back door for privatizing Social Security."
And while Republicans were telling the public these were just cute little baby bonds, Axios reports the idea of replacing or augmenting Social Security with Trump Accounts has been discussed behind closed doors with lawmakers for some time, they just didn't want to "touch the third rail" publicly.
Now they're not bothering to hide it.
The strategy is two-pronged: build up Trump Accounts with one hand, and gut the Social Security Administration with the other, so when the agency collapses under DOGE cuts, they can point at the wreckage and say "look how broken it is."
Polling shows just 15% of Americans support privatizing Social Security. The other 85% better start paying attention.
They've been plotting this for 50 years. Cruz just told you exactly how they plan to finally pull it off.



AI Resource Hogs
Convential data center: draws as much electricity as 10,000 to 25,000 households (not good! think about what you do)
AI data center: uses as much electricity as 100,000 households.
"Data centers truly are resource-ravenous. Even a mid-sized data center consumes as much water as a small town, while larger ones require up to 5 million gallons of water every day—as much as a city of 50,000 people.
"Powering and cooling their rows of server stacks also takes an astonishing amount of electricity. A conventional data center—think cloud storage for your work documents or streaming videos—draws as much electricity as 10,000 to 25,000 households, according to the International Energy Agency. But a newer, AI-focused “hyperscale” data center can use as much power as 100,000 homes or more. Meta’s Hyperion data center in Louisiana, for example, is expected to draw more than twice the power of the entire city of New Orleans once completed. Another Meta data center planned in Wyoming will use more electricity than every home in the state combined."

Learn more at https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/