@johannab some of that realized that decades ago and don't know good things to do to convince other people to do well and fight arrogance

@johannab either these guys are incompetent or are getting really close to living out their apocalypse fantasies, or both i guess

@johannab

As an op against democracy, the fossil fuel industry's AI funding has outdone itself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/08/microsoft-announces-saudi-arabia-east-datacenter-region-will-be-available-in-november-2026/

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-google-hand-dissident-data-to-saudi-arabia-activists-say-2023-7

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366649170/Microsoft-sets-November-launch-for-Saudi-cloud-region

https://houseofsaud.com/humain-infra-sar-2-5-billion-ai-financing/

https://news.microsoft.com/source/emea/2026/02/microsoft-accelerates-ai-skilling-in-saudi-arabia-helping-3-million-people-acquire-ai-skills-by-2030/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260721-microsoft-strikes-multi-billion-dollar-deal-to-expand-france-ai-firm-mistral

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/business/saudi-arabia-tech-deals-near-15bn-as-aws-microsoft-and-major-ai-investments-revealed

https://datacentremagazine.com/news/when-will-microsoft-saudi-data-centre-region-go-live

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

Oh, and then this, too?

https://mstdn-social.com/@fishcharlie/117611427802807067

Kinda wondering if my event tonight will have drink tickets or if I should stop at a bar on the way there. It's very hard to orient myself to an agenda at a technology-related conference when you know it's going to get wiped clean for a whole new topic before the next coffee break concludes.