Ellie de Villiers 🌻 🇺🇦 🇺🇲 🇿🇦
@gordonrink
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Realistic optimist. I like to make things better. Card-carrying member of Team Telco. I care about competition, consumer rights, digital rights, & antitrust.
Joined February 2009
This is one of the best threads I've read. Full stop.
I try not be understanding, but I really do NOT understand anyone, especially an elected representative, veteran, news source saying - "Ukraine is not our fight. Not our war. We should not be spending U.S. money to support Ukraine to fight Russia. We have our own problems."🧵
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IF the Federal government had real AI standards. I would fully support this. But it doesn’t. So states need to take care of themselves. And we shouldn’t deny states the rights to do so.
Trump calls for federal AI standards, end to state 'patchwork' regulations 'threatening' economic growth https://t.co/OhsU7b0r2E
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Pretty trashy country, weighed on the merits.
NEW: Dozens of executives RSVP’d for the White House dinner with Mohammed bin Salman per lists I obtained. Expected attendees: Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Trump Org. exec and Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr., Apple CEO Tim Cook and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Cristiano Ronaldo,
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While this is swell and all, it should be noted that this is the purest signal of Team Russia’s agency presently available in Congress. Team Russia is doing an info exposure operation to control the President and the US — just so we’re clear.
Rep. Ro Khanna, Rep. Thomas Massie, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hold press conference with Epstein survivors.
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Extraordinary words by Sir John Major on #Brexit at LSE last night: 🧵 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 1. “In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to lead to European Union across the world, our enemies celebrated and our friends despair.” “We left Europe on a minority vote of 37% of
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Money will be irrelevant that's why I insisted on a $1 trillion pay package.
NOW - Elon Musk says if current AI and robotics trends continue "money will stop being relevant in the future."
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A former Palantir exec published an extortion letter in the Wash Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.” When I challenged her, she blocked me. Tech’s moral rot, exposed: https://t.co/2XguFtdPMo
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Ex-Palantir Exec Warns Democrats to Bow Down or Lose the Future
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"These aren't startups figuring things out, these are the most sophisticated tech firms on the planet and their returns are getting worse."
🦔Rothschild downgraded Amazon and Microsoft to neutral, arguing AI infrastructure requires six times the capital to generate the same economic value as the original cloud shift. For every $1 spent on AI infrastructure, the estimated net present value is just 20 cents, while
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What Americans don’t yet grasp is that pardoning people who do you favors and enrich you is just the beginning. Shakedowns with lawsuits and threats are low level. Sham prosecutions, jailing the disobedient and looting their assets is the next step of Putinization.
President Trump’s pardon of Changpeng Zhao came shortly after Zhao’s company, Binance, helped catapult the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial, into international recognition. The firm is a major source of the Trump family's fortune. 60 Minutes reports,
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BREAKING: Leaked October 27 letter from OpenAI to White House shows that • OpenAI had begun asking for Federal guarantees over a week ago. • Sam’s long attempted walkback yesterday on X after the huge backlash was a total lie. You cannot trust this man, ever. That’s what
Here is an OpenAI document submitted one week ago where they advocate for including datacenter spend within the “American manufacturing” umbrella There they specifically advocate For Federal loan guarantees Sam Lied to everyone, Again
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Incredible reporting by @Reuters. Meta makes more money from ad fraud - as much as $16 billion - than all the NFL TV partners put together make on NFL ad sales. Theft on an epic scale.
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show https://t.co/sMmL09NETp
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In 2014, Russia began massively spreading disinformation. Now, 11 years later, comes the brutal response from Ursula von der Leyen and the EU. The Guardian reports that the EU is establishing a Center for Democratic Resilience. According to the European Commission, Russia is
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You read that headline right. The FBI is saying what we’ve been saying for months. Masked agents in our communities who don’t identify themselves is creating a trust and safety issue. It has to stop.
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Russian agents turned out to be Russian agents. The era of the most obvious discoveries continues. AfD is russian funded neonazi party🤦♀️
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Hey remember that @TheEconomist story from last week suggesting that there was no correlation between AI data centers and electricity bills? You know, the one that strangely compared rates at the state level (rather than at local levels), and plotted data centers against
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Since 1975, when the top marginal tax rate was reduced from 70% to 37%, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, according to that bastion of socialism the RAND Corporation. Trickle down economics is a total scam.
If you want to help the poor, then lower taxes on the rich. What helps the poor is a productive economy that makes goods and services more abundant and less expensive, while creating employment opportunities. The capital investment that makes that possible comes from the rich.
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My dad was an AP photo journalist. What I noticed from the video was the set up. As the panicked Oval press staff shooed the press out, one photographer was able to be the last out and, on the fly, snapped this historic shot. Credit @andyharnik
U.S. President Donald Trump stands by as attendees help a guest after he collapsed during during an event on lowering drug prices in the Oval Office at the White House on November 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by @andyharnik /@GettyImages)
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This sociopath is literally saying, "Yeah, I'm making billions building up a bubble, but that's okay, because when it bursts, the American taxpayers will bail me out, so I can keep making more billions." Hard to even find words for the depravity of these MFers.
In a new podcast Sam Altman says: " When something gets sufficiently huge ... the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we've seen in various financial crises ... given the magnitude of what I expect AI's economic impact to look like, I do think the
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I’m excited to launch my new series on Russia and the far-right. I’ve worked on this for so long, and over the coming months will share my research and documented info in one place so everyone can see how Russia has weaponized the far-right to subvert democracy in the U.S. and
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The GOP won’t allow elections to happen. And when they do, they don’t allow the winners to be sworn in and seated. Be very worried about 2026 and 2028. Be very worried. This is now an openly and proudly anti-democratic party.
Eight months ago, Rep. Sylvester Turner D-TX died. His seat in the U.S. House is still vacant. On Tuesday, two Dems advanced to a runoff for that seat. When is the runoff?? We don't know. That runoff date still must be set by Gov. Greg Abbott.
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ICE officials testify in open court that the believe it's ok to arrest people for their political opinions, and that the have ORDERED officers to arrest people for their speech.
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