Grateful that the @FreeBeacon has exposed this. No one should be shocked by this! 🚨Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed landed a $9,000-a-month consulting contract with Wayne County just six days after launching his campaign, allowing him to bill taxpayers roughly $300 an hour while running for office, the Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman reports. Public records obtained by the Free Beacon show that Wayne County approved the deal on April 23, less than three weeks after El-Sayed resigned as director of its health services department. The eight-month contract authorized up to $72,000 for 30 hours of work per month providing “strategic support” during the leadership transition. The payments were routed through AME Higher LLC, an entity El-Sayed created as a pass-through for consulting and speaking fees. “The news comes as El-Sayed has faced questions over his use of a tax loophole to avoid payroll and income taxes on payments he received through AME Higher LLC,” Goodman writes. His latest financial disclosure shows that he paid himself a $64,000 salary from the company and took another $103,000 as a “member draw,” a common strategy for avoiding payroll taxes, accountants told the Free Beacon. The Wayne County deal was not El-Sayed’s only consulting work during the campaign. He has also collected more than $82,000 from One Health Partners, a Chicago-area nonprofit health care company that former employees have called a “scam.” The Free Beacon reported that the company focuses on buying medical practices and “exploiting Medicare” to increase revenue. It is run by Ali Karim, one of El-Sayed’s largest campaign donors, who was sanctioned by Wisconsin regulators for defrauding an investor and has been accused of fraudulent business practices in multiple lawsuits. El-Sayed has bragged about his two-year tenure running Wayne County’s health department on the campaign trail, claiming he “led the rebuild from the studs” of its troubled juvenile detention facility. Investigators, however, found the facility “flooded with sewage and garbage” and littered with “dried feces and bodily fluids.” The facility later lost its full operational license and was placed on probation by state regulators.

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A recent series of papers suggested that nuclear power plants are responsible for more than 100 thousand cancers. Using their method, every landmark we tested causes cancer,

I am increasingly concerned about the AI psychosis inside Anthropic. Imagine zealously trying to build something you believe to be a conscious god while running around claiming it will end the world.

The chief prophet of the AI doom-cult favors legalized killing of children.

A one-hander duel between young guys... you love to see it.

WHAAAAAAAAT?! 😆 "The European Commission has rolled out an alternative to Microsoft Teams — but officials using it aren't impressed, with one describing the tool as 'absolute sh*t.'” politico.eu/article/eu-micro…

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Goating

And shrimp!

Has anyone ever become a billionaire without making a thousand people millionaires?

So let me get this straight. People at anthropic believe that they are birthing a new species, potentially conscious and human-like. They are concerned about the well being of Claude, etc.. The company then goes around talking to relugious leaders about potentially extending moral worth to AI models. If Anthropic is correct (very unlikely), they are basically saying that they have enslaved a sentient being and used it to generate billions of dollars. Apparently they are also concerned with how the Vatican is entirely focused on the protection of humanity in the age of machines and not giving any thought to the possibily of claude sentience. Zero self awarness on behalf of these people. This is all so strange. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/an…

"The world is going to end if we don't get our way" has become so commonplace and clearly the Doomers are frustrated that normal people aren't taking the bait. Yet the Anthropic IPO will deliver tens of billions to doomsday cultists, and the battle for sanity is only beginning.

Bukele is the wildly popular and democratically elected leader of El Salvador. The Economist call him the ‘Dictator’. Maduro, according to virtually all other countries, stole the 2024 election in Venezuela, but is solemnly described by The Economist as ‘the President’. I’d genuinely like to know how and why the editorial team at the Economist makes these sorts of calls.

19 more countries just aligned with the American tech stack. 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇨🇿 🇩🇴 🇬🇪 🇮🇸 🇲🇾 🇲🇹 🇲🇺 🇲🇦 🇵🇪 🇵🇼 🇹🇴 🇷🇴 🇷🇸 🇸🇮 🇻🇳 For U.S. companies, that means more trusted suppliers and more open markets. Our Super Intelligence partnership is 54 countries strong and growing.

Our @TheBTI analysis found that groups like the Center for Biological Diversity were involved in 75% of judgements in NEPA cases. BAAJA is a threat to their business model, not to the environment. thebreakthrough.org/issues/e…

Correction: they cancelled coverage for 760,000 phantoms! These were fake enrollments created by corrupt call centers and brokers to rip off taxpayers in a poorly designed program. No SSNs, no claims, a fully subsidized premium, and no contact EVER with the insurer.

This is one of the moments where the difference between a Trump & Harris presidency is most stark. 2024 campaign hardly featured AI, but were Harris POTUS, tech leaders would have had far less room to dissent from Anthropic-driven perspective on the technology. The panic of the last few weeks would’ve prompted a very different accord between the federal government and the AI industry — likely a quite dramatic regulatory expansion.