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"The flood of money into #AI has made America’s #billionaire #oligarchs far richer.
By Forbes’ count, 20 of the most notable

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble
They’re likely to burst.

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…

Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Startup Mints World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket’s 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club and intensifies its rivalry with prediction market competitor Kalshi.

The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/jd-vance-right-plan-billionaires-elections-1235445122/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p62#a251013p62

"Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we all be worried?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1o2y5db/tech_billionaires_seem_to_be_doom_prepping/
yes, you should be.

Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.
When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking …

China fertility facts of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
A Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more—all through surrogates. When Pellman called Xu Bo in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, he never entered […]

In case you were wondering whether you should cancel your Paramount subscription…
“Ellison’s [spawn of the Oracle billionaire] goal is to turn Paramount into a MAGA-friendly environment, with content in the TV and movie divisions expected to be more ‘America-centric’ and geared toward ‘the middle of the country.’”

Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.

Reporting truth from the front lines, Georgio is an inconvenience to those billionaires who would prefer to murder, rape, and steal everything they can grab.
Western and US media could tell us all the truth, if they would bother to show up and do their job.
Instead, they regurgitate the Kremlin's lies and talking points, as if it were truth, as if they were anything else beside the pathetic lying lap dogs of evil billionaires.
Georgio shares the friend link to bypass th…

Peace in Ukraine Is as Distant as Information in Europe
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Environmental Regulation of Dust and Star Formation Unveiled by Subaru Dual Narrow-band Imaging: Degree-scale Balmer Decrement Mapping across a z = 0.9 Supercluster
Zhaoran Liu, Tadayuki Kodama, Brian C. Lemaux, Mariko Kubo, Jose Manuel P\'erez-Mart\'inez, Yusei Koyama, Ichi Tanaka, Kazuki Daikuhara, Roy R. Gal, Denise Hung, Masahiro Konishi, Kosuke Kushibiki, Ronaldo Laishram, Lori M. Lubin, Kentaro Motohara, Hidenori Takahashi

Environmental Regulation of Dust and Star Formation Unveiled by Subaru Dual Narrow-band Imaging: Degree-scale Balmer Decrement Mapping across a z = 0.9 Supercluster
We present results from a dual narrow-band imaging survey targeting the CL1604 supercluster at z = 0.9 using the Subaru Telescope. By combining the NB921 filter on HSC and the NB1244 filter on SWIMS, we can detect redshifted H$α$ and H$β$ emission lines from the supercluster. This unique technique allows us to measure both star formation rates and dust extinction for a sample of 94 emission-line galaxies across the supercluster. We find that dust extinction, estimated from the Balmer decremen…

Man who firebombed Josh Shapiro's residence pleads guilty (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3849356/cody-balmer-firebomb-josh-shapiro-pennsylvania-governors-residence-pleads-guilty/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p61#a251014p61

Billionaires are spending massive sums on politics. A backlash brews.
Christina Persson,
a 55-year-old English teacher in a small town of just over 2,600 people,
is fed up with billionaires.

In May, during the debate over Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,”
she spearheaded a move to erect a billboard reading,
“Tax breaks for billionaires. CUTS for everyone else.”

Two months later, she set up shop at the county fair and sold
“Eat the Rich” ice c…

Billionaires are spending massive sums on politics. A backlash brews.
An anti-oligarch protest in a small Indiana town shows the depth of the national backlash against the concentration of wealth and power.