We finally learned Elon Musk's DOGE-show was only a new fancy toy for a big kid to play with. The outcome: no efficiency improvements and a few important tools broken

Meanwhile, with less noise, other big kids got their hands on another larger and deadly tool-box

www.authoritarian-stack.info

After getting various answers from ChatGPT that obviously were based on Wikipedia, I asked it if Open AI supported Wikimedia. It found Apple, Google.org, plus individual donors like Omidyar Network did, but not OpenAI. So I asked it to prepare a call for social media. This is it. Let's use it:

Picture emerging from US is one of grift. New president sets up various opaque cryptocurrencies/wallets for himself and family, deregulates them and forces everyone to negotiate - DoJ threats, tariffs... Then just cash in, giving Americans few benefits to feed the news to keep the business running

Reminder: 136 countries offered the United States assistance after 9/11.

Not one asked for our mineral rights in return.

At the upcoming #AIActionSummit, Europe has a chance to pioneer a different approach: creating an AI ecosystem that prioritizes public value over extraction.

Read my latest on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social ➡️ www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...