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Anti-TESCERAList (any/all) High-Class Bluesky User JRPG protag w/ sword

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026
“Right now, the public backlash is so strong against Flock, and the public is not as well aware of the concerns with Axon and some of the other surveillance companies,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @thorbenson.bsky.social for @prospect.org.
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License Plate and Switch - The American Prospect
Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026
Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Happy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech Giants
Over the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems
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Tribute Games @tributegames.com · 30/09/2026
To celebrate Tribute Games' 15th anniversary, artist M. Roboto brought this mural to life, turning a simple brick wall into a little piece of our story. A huge thank you to our team, our past, present and future partners, and everyone who's played a part in these first 15 years. ❤️ #Tribute15
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/09/2026
Online behavioral advertising has always been creepy. AI makes it worse.
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DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...
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polymatt @polymatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A fast follow but a project ive had in the works for a while now: youtu.be/ZxjuEHTKXMw?...
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Why my tiny local AI beats Google's AI
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Brand-New Turn-Based JRPG From Chrono Trigger Writer Is Making New Game Plus Matter Again
Another Eden Begins is putting a fresh spin on New Game Plus, using repeat playthroughs to unlock new stories, choices, and endings.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
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How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
Sherry Turkle's latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines, comes out on September 29.
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Ryan O'Horo @ryanohoro.com · 17/09/2026
You were born curious and creative.
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Infinity Knives x Brian Ennals "AMDIA" [official music video]
YouTube video by Infinity Knives
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I still think it was Suge just sayin
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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
it's really not enough to just "be nice" "be kind" if that actually worked, we wouldn't have a group of fascists running the country we have got to let go of respectability politics if you look like me, that may have worked at some point in your past, but that was your privilege, not the reality
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
HUGE OPEN SOURCE WIN! www.tomshardware.com/software/lin...
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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Dozens of cities have ended their contracts with Flock Safety. That's amazing. But frustratingly, Flock is still spreading faster than its getting cancelled Want to deal a real economic blow to Flock? We have to go after their big corporate contracts Join actions this week! www.deflocklowes.com
Deflock Lowes homepage
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 19/08/2026
Many cities have fought to get their Flock contracts canceled only to find new ALPR companies & surveillance tech crop up in its place. This is one of the many reasons we are targeting some of Flock's biggest corporate contracts with our Deflock Lowe's week of action. Join us! www.deflocklowes.com
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DeFlock Lowe’s Home Improvement
Join us to build pressure on Lowe’s Home Improvement to drop its Flock contract and stop enabling mass surveillance.
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Super feeling Sneaker Pimps, like I guess they released music after Becoming X but they kick the lead singer Kelli out so like is it even worth listening to? Anyway Becoming X entire album is 🔥
Text reads: "Sneaker Pimps"
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." With three megs of hot RAM burning a hole in our pocket, we step into a computerised version of the Sprawl in 2058. 📺: Neuromancer, Interplay, 1988 (C64 version) Little 🧵 will follow
The title screen for the C64 version of Neuromancer with a pixel rendition of a guy with ginger hair and glasses with cables coming from his forehead, all against a cyberspacey background.
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jasmine mithani @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Everyone is talking about Flock but I've been reading the same article for 15 years about different technologies so I rage wrote about it for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/08/floc...
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Flock is just the latest example of using surveillance to stalk women
The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/08/2026
Wrote about Zuck's latest manifesto. At least the parts he's right about. But also why — even where he's right — he's the last person you should trust on this topic.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/08/2026
Trump’s crooked scheme is particularly outrageous because he uses Truth Social to berate journalists and even to announce his plans to sue them. Then, he makes them wait in line behind paying customers to find out about it unless they’re willing to subsidize the platform he uses to attack them.
“A president selling priority access to news he himself generates for the benefit of a private company he controls is so blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional that it would have been hard to even fathom just a few years ago,” said FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern. “Trump’s crooked scheme is particularly outrageous because, as documented by our Trump Anti-Press Social Media Tracker, he frequently uses his Truth Social account to berate journalists and even to announce his plans to sue them and criminally investigate them. Then, he makes them wait in line behind paying customers to find out about it unless they’re willing to subsidize the platform he uses to attack them. This brazen grift targets not only the markets but the First Amendment. It cannot stand.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/08/2026
ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
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Here's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves
ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/08/2026
ICE wants to spend tens of millions on electric shock gloves. The manual states the device should be deployed for 15 seconds. But a demo shows people falling to the ground almost immediately. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/heres-the-ma...
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Blast Professing @gaymerherb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
3 years ago i wrote about all the options gamers have to enjoy videogames outside of the big corps and our values as consumers since then i've thought about writing about it again, but everything that needed to be said is already there give it a read gaymerherb.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/h...
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Hurry Up!
Like many media enthusiasts, gamers have a subscription to relevance. We want our games and we want them now, at any cost. We’ll pre-order $400 limited run, steelcover, collector’s edit…
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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lady from GTA saying "$50 whatever you want baby"
Guy in car "can you sit in the room with me while I play Silent Hill 2 so it's less scary"
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New: Flock planned to use cameras in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery driver vehicles as a way to collect more license plate data. Pitched the idea to an Attorney General. Would basically turn Uber/Lyft into roaming surveillance vehicles www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The primary was the beginning. The real work starts now to make sure Abdul and other progressives across the Midwest win in November. Help us get there: kapow.works/events
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Four Thieves is dead! Long live Four Thieves! fourthievesvinegar.org
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Four Thieves Vinegar Collective
Right to Repair–for Your Body. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have t...
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/08/2026
NEW: Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely after backlash to Flock, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
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Rep. Ro Khanna @khanna.house.gov · 06/08/2026
Today, I'm introducing the first-ever Data Center Bill of Rights. Communities deserve the right to reject data centers, protect their water, keep electricity bills down, and prevent states from shoving data centers down their throats.
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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 06/08/2026
someone recorded the twin peaks OST on a reel, spliced the tape, made loops and messed with them until this album was born. been up all week and only has 2,000 views. lends itself to my admittedly self-serving theory that the best stuff on youtube isn't being seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL7J...
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Torn Peaks - A Twin Peaks Fan-Album made with analogue tape loops
YouTube video by glimlicht
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Mr. Mysterious! @mrmysterious.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Omg I'm soooo fuckin high right now yall it's wild wccftech.com/square-enixs...
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Square Enix's Lost Final Fantasy VII Spin-Off Resurfaces After 20 Years, Cracked By a 90-GPU Server Farm And $900
Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episodehas been recovered as Final Fantasy VII Revelation is set to incorporate more elements from the Compilation games
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 05/08/2026
AI companies scraping websites at scale is a real problem. But a proposed NY law could make it harder for libraries, journalists & researchers to preserve the web and investigate the powerful. That's why we've joined @eff.org & others in a letter to Gov. Hochul. blog.archive.org/2026/08/04/i...
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Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots | Internet Archive Blogs
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...
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Analysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock cameras
Inappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
When you can’t afford a PlayStation Original post
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
Developers beware: these ad-tracking libraries will give up your users’ location data by default to third parties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location
An EFF investigation identified several advertising software development kits (SDKs) that publicly acknowledge collecting and sharing users’ location by default when embedded in apps granted location
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
welcome to the Losers Backing Winners club, it’s very exclusive
me and Nate Blouin at Abdul’s election night party, I am on my tiptoes and heels and barely come past his shoulder
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
The internet shouldn’t become an ID checkpoint. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...
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Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint
Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
KOSA doesn't just threaten free speech—it threatens privacy. It will push more online services to age verification, requiring people to hand over more personal information just to read the internet. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks
The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the SCREEN Act, the CHATBOT Act, and
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
Should you have to prove your age before you can read or speak online? KOSA would pressure online services to build age verification systems that put everyone's privacy at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy Risks
The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the SCREEN Act, the CHATBOT Act, and
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 03/08/2026
COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.
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Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout
Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...
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Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint
Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Graph showing what hot summers were compared to what we're experiencing now making it clear that endless increasing heat is without question climate change
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter on Monday encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to veto Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to
EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter
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Eromancer @eromancer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026
This week, the Senate Commerce Committee is considering a package of internet bills that would expand age verification and restrict online speech. The Youth AI Privacy Act is no exception. Congress should reject it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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The Youth AI Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox
The Senate Commerce Committee is poised to consider the Youth AI Privacy Act, a bill that would require AI companies to create kids-only privacy rules and implement so-called “safe design features,”
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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Retro Rick’s is worth checking out if you find yourself in Arkansas. I’m in Little Rock tonight and tomorrow doing shows.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/07/2026
Per UBS, OpenAI and Anthropic will account for 27% of Google Cloud's 2026 revenue and more than 48% of 2027's. Investors are being sold a story about diverse AI demand that is simply not true - hyperscalers spent a trillion dollars to feed money back to themselves and pretend it's real growth.
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