https://ktla.com/news/california/march-for-billionaires-in-san-francisco-is-not-a-joke-organizers-says/

Their website https://marchforbillionaires.org/

The Fiduciary Failure at OpenAI: Why Character Is a Mission-Critical Risk

In the high-stakes race to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the most dangerous variables aren't unaligned algorithms or rogue code—they are the human beings controlling them. For OpenAI, an organization legally bound to a "fiduciary duty to humanity," the governance crisis is no longer theoretical. It is here, and it has a name: the unchecked behavioral risk profile of its leadership.

The recent resignation of board member Larry Summers following the exposure of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, combined with the explosive federal lawsuit accusing CEO Sam Altman of childhood sexual abuse, reveals a pattern that transcends bad PR. When viewed alongside Altman’s financial embrace of a political figure civilly liable for sexual abuse, these data points form a constellation of "red flags" that no responsible board can ignore. Under Delaware law, specifically the Caremark standard for oversight, ignoring these indicators isn't just bad business—it is a potential breach of fiduciary duty that demands immediate intervention by state Attorneys General.

The Myth of the "Private Matter"

The prevailing defense in Silicon Valley is that a founder’s private life is distinct from their corporate stewardship. This creates a dangerous blind spot. In January 2025, Ann Altman filed a federal lawsuit (Altman v. Altman) alleging years of severe sexual and psychological abuse by her brother, Sam. The Altman family’s response—utilizing what forensic psychologists term "DARVO" tactics (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender) to pathologize the accuser—mirrors the very strategies of manipulation and reality distortion that former colleagues at Y Combinator and OpenAI have described in professional contexts.  

When a CEO is accused of predatory behavior in their private life, and that CEO controls technology capable of reshaping human civilization, "character" becomes a tangible asset—or a catastrophic liability. Delaware courts have increasingly recognized that personal conduct which destroys reputational capital can trigger derivative claims for breach of duty. By failing to rigorously investigate these allegations—dismissing them as "family disputes" rather than potential indicators of a psychological profile incompatible with safety-critical leadership—the OpenAI board is failing its duty of care.

The Company They Keep

The board’s negligence is further illuminated by the tenure of Larry Summers. Brought in to provide "adult supervision" after Altman’s brief ouster in 2023, Summers was forced to resign in late 2025 after emails revealed he maintained a "wingman" dynamic with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein long after Epstein’s initial conviction.  

How did a vetting process for the world’s most important AI company miss this? Or worse, did they know and decide it didn't matter? The failure to vet—or the decision to ignore—Summers’ toxic associations exposes a governance culture that prioritizes political connectivity over ethical hygiene. While Summers was allowed to quietly resign without facing a suit for reputational damages, his appointment proves that the board lacks the mechanisms to filter out high-risk individuals. They are operating reactively, cleaning up messes only after they become public scandals.

Ethical Incoherence as Governance Failure

Perhaps the most damning evidence of the board’s failure to enforce its "duty to humanity" is Sam Altman’s $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s inauguration. At the time of this donation, Trump had already been found civilly liable by a federal jury for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll.  

Consider the incoherence: The CEO of a nonprofit-governed entity dedicated to "humanity" is funding the celebration of a leader judicially determined to have violated the bodily autonomy of a woman. This is not a political preference; it is an endorsement of impunity. It signals to employees, regulators, and the public that judicial findings of sexual violence are trivial inconveniences. For a board mandated to ensure AGI is developed "safely," allowing the CEO to normalize sexual misconduct creates a culture of impunity that is fundamentally unsafe.

A Legal Theory for Intervention

Under Delaware law, the Caremark doctrine requires directors to implement and monitor information systems regarding "mission-critical" risks. For OpenAI, public trust is a mission-critical asset. A CEO with a high-liability behavioral profile and a board that tolerates predatory associations threatens that asset.  

Furthermore, OpenAI’s unique structure—a nonprofit controlling a for-profit arm—grants standing to specific enforcers. Because the board’s primary beneficiary is "humanity," not shareholders, they cannot hide behind the Business Judgment Rule to justify actions that enrich insiders while eroding the organization’s moral standing.

Western elites have spent two years actively colluding in mass slaughter in Gaza - widely identified by experts as a genocide - and then labelling any opposition to it as antisemitism or terrorism.

Those same elites twiddle their thumbs as the planet burns, refusing to give up their enriching addiction to fossil fuels, even as survey after survey shows global temperatures relentlessly climbing to the point where climate breakdown is inevitable.

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The Epstein files proffer an answer. What feels like a conspiracy, they suggest, is indeed a conspiracy - one driven by greed. What was always staring us in the face might actually be correct: there is a steep entry price for being accepted into the West’s tiny power elite, and it involves putting to one side any sense of morality. It requires discarding empathy for anyone outside the in-group.

Maybe a soulless, flesh-eating elite in charge of our societies is less of a caricature than it appears. Maybe the Epstein files have such purchase on our imaginations because they teach us a lesson we already knew, confirming a cautionary tale that predates even the West’s literary canon.

An example of how inauthentic social media can be. LBC is a major news outlet in the UK, and they posted a video with the title "Ex-MI6 Spy insists Epstein was a Russian spy and blackmailing Trump". The actual video, though, was an LBC presenter interviewing UK Housing Secretary Steve Reed about an urban regeneration program. Literally nothing to do with Epstein or Russia anywhere in the video, save for the presenter asking about the appointments of a UK politician exposed in the files at the end. Every single comment, though? Deflecting from Russia towards Israel.

To be clear I do not doubt Israel's involvement. I think it's silly to argue that other countries can't also be involved, but that too is besides the point. My point is more how clearly absolutely none of these comments are from a person that watched the video. The unfortunate reality is that real people do engage with these comments, despite the reputation that youtube comments deservedly have, and they will have no idea that said comments have been flooded by inauthentic activity well before any humans got there.

I'm not surprised, but I don't think I've ever stumbled across quite such a blatant example before

The original video has been taken down now and Wayback doesn’t seem to have caught it, but here is the link in case anyone knows something they can do with that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY4bBbwndQc

At such a triumphal moment, it was striking that the company was forced on the defensive, not least for its involvement with the controversial US agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which began in 2011. ICE has drawn criticism for its activities in Minnesota over the last month after its agents shot and killed two American citizens while bystanders captured the events on video.

As it announced its booming financial results, Palantir was prepared. CEO Alex Karp told CNBC: "If you are critical of ICE, you should be out there protesting for more Palantir. Our product, actually, in its core, requires people to conform with Fourth Amendment data protection."

With the Liberal International Order (LIO) in decline, scholars have focused increasingly on the possible return to a Westphalian great power system marked by sovereigntist claims and balancing among states. The actions of the Trump administration, however, raise a number of significant puzzles for such accounts—the US seems willing to sign deals with traditional adversaries including Russia and China, while targeting long-standing allies like Canada and Denmark. At the same time, transactional politics often serve narrow personalist interests rather than national objectives. In short, a Westphalian lens focused on states and sovereignty may generate intellectual blinders that misreads the emerging international order. To overcome these limitations, we propose an alternative account, which we label neo-royalism. The neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites, which we term cliques. Such cliques seek to legitimize their authority through appeals to their exceptionalism in order to generate durable material and status hierarchies based on the extraction of financial and cultural tributes. This short paper lays out the key elements of the neo-royalist order, differentiating it from the Westphalian and Liberal International Orders, and applies its insights to better grapple with the emerging system being promoted by the United States under Donald J. Trump. For policymakers and scholars, the neo-royalist approach clarifies recent events in US foreign policy. Theoretically, the field should take contending ideas of international order seriously, and establish a research agenda beyond a backward looking view to the Westphalian moment.

What happened: HB 1471 PASSED out of the House Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee by a vote of 14-3. Next, it moves to the House Education & Employment Committee for consideration. SB 1632 is scheduled for a committee hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, February 3rd at 1:00pm ET.

Rep. Kimberly Daniels (D-Jacksonville) and Rep. Mike Gottlieb (D-Davie) voted in favor of the bill with Republicans.

For a breakdown from the Florida Senate, click here

According to the House's bill analysis,

The bill creates s. 943.03102, F.S., to empower the Florida Chief of Domestic Security within the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to designate an organization as a “domestic terrorist organization” or a “foreign terrorist organization” if he or she finds that the organization meets specified criteria.

The bill also:  Requires the Department of Law Enforcement to adopt rules to implement this new section. (Section 7)  Adds a definition of “domestic terrorist organization” to various criminal statutes. (Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)

Domestic Terrorist Organization Criteria To designate an organization as a domestic terrorist organization, the Chief of Domestic Security must find that: 

• The organization is based in or operates in the State of Florida or in the United States.
• The organization is engaging in terrorist activities that either involve illegal acts dangerous to human life, or that are intended to:
• Intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
• Influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
• Affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping. 
• The organization’s terrorist activity is an ongoing threat to the security of the State of Florida or the United States. (Section 7)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62940729

Found on whitehouse.gov.

From section 1, paragraph 4: (in bold for emphasis by me)

There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.” These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fascist” to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution. This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations. For example, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin engraved the bullets used in the murder with so-called “anti-fascist” rhetoric.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/54558476

What? Headquartered in Toronto, the technology and media giant has three active contracts with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. One, awarded in 2021, covers a “law enforcement investigative database subscription. Another, awarded in 2023, is for “risk mitigation services.” A third, awarded in 2025, is for a “maritime analysis tool” and “subject matter expert support services to the support the homeland security investigations, operation national initiative for illicit trade enforcement program.”

How much? The 2021 contract is worth US$22.8 million. The 2023 contract has seen Thomson Reuters awarded US$2.7 million to date, and has a potential award amount of US$4.6 million. The 2025 contract has so far garnered the media giant US$1.8 million, with a potential award amount of $3.6 million. Together, the three contracts are worth a potential US$31 million.

Canadian government money? Yes. Thomson Reuters has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal government contracts since 2022, largely for subscriptions, data and database access services.

Response? Thomson Reuters did not respond to a request for comment.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/2705362

Hi everyone,

Share what you know about how ICE identifies and tracks people - MIDM (Man in the middle attacks) to intercept cell traffic, scraping social media, etc.

Also other surveillance stuff they use.

It would be nice if everyone shares what they know with each other so we can build a larger knowledge base :)

Wake up. It's 5:20 am. You're still tired from the night because your daughter is sick and you spend half an hour cleaning vomit off a Pikachu plush. You hear the sound of Lease by Takeshi Abo, a familiar song if you circle niche aesthetic forums. It brings a slight bit of comfort in the otherwise existential dread of the routine you stumbled into. The rut.

You didn't make a rut, you stumbled into one that was premade for most people like you. The rut was already made by people who existed long before you.

Loving wife, beautiful daughter, a comfy desk job with full benefits, and a salary that's just big enough for said wife to be able to stay home and raise your daughter.

You feel this dichotomy. By seemingly most measures of societal success, you've won the game. It's all side-quests from here. So why does it feel hollow? Is it because a significant part of your life is taken up by the mundane and exploitative nature of corporate America? The fact you spend most of your life either asleep or working for a group of people so out-of-touch with the needs of the people they deem beneath them? You've gone through this thought pattern before you've even brushed your teeth.

You get dressed in attire that you hope screams "I refuse to participate in this masquerade", kiss your sleeping wife, and walk to the garage. You get into your boring car, turn it on, look for what album you want to listen to for your hour long drive to your cognitive labor camp while the car warms up.

There's almost a dissociation that occurs between the half hour mark and the near-end of you commute. Lapses in consciousness that make you wonder how you even got there if you look it in the eyes. Only ever seemingly disrupted by cars with headlights that were engineered to make even Stevie Wonder think it's too bright. I am Jack's burning retinas.

You arrive at your office. You take a light puff of your THC vape pen, a jingle from a Serj Tankian song plays in your head:

anti-depressants controlling tools of your system. Making life more tolerable, making life more tol-er-a-ble.

You walk out into the city, it's quiet. No surprise, it's not even 7am yet. It feels almost like a liminal space to your liminal space between home and home. You get inside and walk to the kitchen...

(Continues in the blog)