Companies including Palantir and Meta also rushed to hire Washington lobbyists with closer ties to Democrats ahead of their anticipated victory. OpenAI hired Jessica Schumer, daughter of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.

Since the election, AI companies have talked about rebranding data centres as “compute campuses” and promised a suite of incentives such as school funding, power investments and environmental concessions to entice local residents.

https://archive.ph/20261106125419/https://www.ft.com/content/bda53f77-f391-4750-ab5d-55e09cbbdb7c

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    Corporate lobbying and professional lobbyists should be made illegal. That’s just bribery with extra steps.

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    I’m curious how fast Super Intelligence will disappear from the mouths of Fuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, Nadella, Huang, Benioff and the other fascist collaborators. If they keep using it, it’s gonna follow them like a bad fart in an elevator.

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    If my daddy was a senator, would I get the high paying jobbie too?

    Would they expect me to get my daddy to kiss their ass at his jobbie too in return for my jobbie?

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    The American voter is a fickle bitch

    Nobody can figure out why, and all the people who used to be considered experts now just laugh at how stupid it was to even try. Some believe all those experts have gone insane… Others know they just got drunk.