[2] …Elon Musk as the world’s first (imminent) trillionaire, Sanders also focused on how AI data centers will further enrich few and immiserate many.

We’re glad to see that Bernie is serious about campaign finance reform. It is the issue of our time.

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[7] AI may be useful in some settings, but it is not the genius force that many think it is, and the fate of this market bubble depends upon when users find this out. Moral: Think twice before presuming AI will be worth its global investment anytime soon.

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[6] Says Marcus, people “look at these machines and make the mistake of attributing to them an intelligence...a humanness that is not really there, and they wind up using them as a companion, and...thinking that they’re closer to solving these problems than they actually are.”

[5] …they generate immense revenue. Add in that AI eliminates jobs, harms the power grid and the environment, sickens those living near data centers, and undermines education (students already have synthesized, no-calorie answers to everything), and the cons outweigh the pros.

[4] …former cognitive scientist and longtime AI researcher. AGI is theoretical AI that possesses human-like reasoning abilities, and isn’t just a fancy amalgamator. The problem further extends to AI companies, whose expensive data centers prevent them from profiting even if…

[3] …the values of the S&P 500 down by a trillion dollars, due to a massive sell-off (acc. Fortune’s Nick Litchenberg). GPT-5, the newest version of the famed ChatGPT chatbot, “was basically sold as AGI [artificial general intelligence], and just isn’t,” says Gary Marcus,...

[2] …speculative behavior, followed by a sharp contraction, acc. Investopedia). The botched rollout of OpenAI’s GPT-5 has contributed to this sharp contraction in AI investing. After CEO Sam Altman admitted that his company "totally screwed up," rattled tech investors sent…

[5] Are we going to invade and topple another resource-rich country by force, all while selling the public on a false premise? Sounds like Bush in Iraq, which even Trump eventually criticized as the debacle it was. Why would it go any better this time?

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[4] With the US under stress due to outdated infrastructure and growing demand from AI data centers, that amount of oil would be a game changer. Meanwhile, economic rival China has an oversupply of energy and has invested $67 billion as a trade partner with Venezuela since 2007.

[3] Maybe it’s about something more than drugs. Per the US Energy Information Administration, Venezuela has “the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves, estimated at around 303 billion barrels as of 2023," or approximately 17% of global services. This makes a lot more sense.

[2] Trump claims that he is fighting “narcoterrorism,” despite little proof that these specific boats had intended to transport drugs to the US. According to his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in Vanity Fair, "He [Trump] wants to keep on blowing things up until Maduro cries uncle."

[2] If you care about these poor, misunderstood critters--heck, if you care about us humans too!!--join us at Wolf Pack. Ah-oooo!! Is that a good wolf howl?

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