Risky Business of CRYPTO, AI and ELECTIONS!
Yeah, We’ve got a Face only a Mama could love and a Whore would fuck!
Sure, We’ll pay. But there’s a lot more where that came from.
It’s ‘like taking candy from a baby’!
Hear crying CRYPTO and AI scaredy and sneaky cats.
‘Burning Men’ and ‘Straw Men’ scramble stalling for time!
Peter Thiel, ready to face your antichrist?
Sure, we share lawyers as Pimps share Whores.
But as ‘Butters’ we got a ‘bottom bitch.’
Think it’s a coincidence we hired Trumpster’s lawyer?
I mean come on, the SOB got off on charges that reek of the dead convicted pimp: child rape, sex trafficking, blackmail, fraud, money laundering…
But instead of a private island, our playground is publicly found on the ‘likes’ of Facebook and Instagram.
Sure, we don’t “play well” or what the Danish call ‘Lego.’ But what we build is in the ‘cloud.’
Betcha like for us to open our big META gates and share.
Brian Israel, as chief legal officer of Anthropic, how often do you share your ‘central library’? Would you share it with OpenAI?
Tom Rubin, yes he’s quite special. OpenAI, nice of your top funder to share his top lawyer.
Rubin, you’re said to be an expert on IP, trade secret, technology, internet…So you know that you don’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to.
And you don’t ‘sell’ compute models to a shitload of customers before you got the DC juice to power them. So instead of AI firms saying they can’t deliver, they stall for time by saying, ‘Let’s slow down’ and delay IPO.
Impetus? Midterms!
As I’ve said, ‘you dig for worms before you go fishing’! Question is how many losers will be left holding fancy fishing rods with empty bait bags? Starting with most vested – Trumpster!
Counselor, I imagine your reputation precedes you around the world. Rubin, I hear your past talks illuminated the audiences in Russia, China, and Korea. Perhaps you’d make an ideal envoy!
So you gotta know, US may be confused on controlling AI. China is not.
Curious, did your “first-ever prosecution involving the illegal interception of pager messages” interest the Israelis? Perhaps, their ‘Everbilt’ ducts could come in handy with keeping Data Centers cool.
Election? Bet I Got Your Vote!
Mark, the Ghosts of Cambridge Analytica are banging their chains!
Rubin, BTW, did you advise your past boss at Microsoft on their ‘ElectionGuard’?
Does it guard well on ‘Election Interference’? Or will 2026 be as I noted in 2020, ‘dirty politics’ bordering on dangerously criminal.
Suckerberg, either your present Advocate’s past connections to Trump and Gates will guard you from the Ghosts of Cambridge Analytica revisiting or they will be chains that choke you.
UK may need two billionaires to fund their party but appears US only needs one.
One big well-seated one: Andreessen Horowitz.
Mark or should I say Marc, the Geppetto to the Pinocchio?
Marc Andreessen, you have long been seated on Mark’s Board. And now you advise Mr. Donald Trump.
Did you advise or warn your techie bros about President Biden’s criteria on AI regulation and government control two years ago? Appears they are now ready to abide foreseeing a Democrat takeover.
No surprise the Trump tide has turned in Meta’s favor. Negative or Positive momentum?
Marc, appears your techno bros are three years late turning in their manifestos. Funny, no word from Meta, Apple or the googling bosom buddies, ‘Jack & Gil’.
Perhaps they failed to read yours, a “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” arguing “Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.”
Not sure MAGA will be open to what can be construed as an elitist and binary statement. I’m betting they’d vote for Protagoras, “Man is the measure of all things.” Now here’s an ambitious Individualist Male in all his Glory!
Andreessen, perhaps you too were early in your manifestation?
Marc did you advise Trump about ‘momentum’ and Mark about the use of symbol ‘infinity’? Funny, neither mind appears to have the affinity of classical concepts.
Nonetheless, both are likeminded in the use of insider information and misinformation against voters, be they shareholders or private citizens.
Yet, momentum is a sensitive creature. Positive/Negative or Weak/Strong, one wrong move and one losses one’s footing. And just like that, it’s gone.
Quite sure a Pilot can share many a story. Ask Pentagon of their soldiers ‘setting foot’ on enemy ground. Of course, there will always be a Maverick who’s asked to ‘make believe’ and be portrayed as ‘Top Gun.’
An easy sell in a losing War and losing Election year!
Andreessen, but I strongly remind you of the words of Friedrich Nietzsche, “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” Best you advise both your clients.
Attorney Mahoney, is yours a fallacious dichotomy?
Think about it, your past Boss is either sitting on sex predator ‘files’ or as his trumpsters allege a voter fraudster ‘list’ on their desk.
C.J., just ask the Hairy Hillbilly, Trumpster Toad and Indian Crooked-Eye Cockroach Clown.
Counselor, the practice of law is not really risk adverse. So if you’re afraid to step into the courtroom, send in your AI Scouts.
John Arnold, speaking of risk, didn’t your Arnold Ventures sponsor an independent committee to look into Facebook’s role in elections and democracy? And now you sit on Meta board. Talk about hedging your bets and vote!
I remind you and Marc Andreessen, ‘Where you stand depends on where you sit.’
But forget not who’s pulling your chain.
Now let’s get to why you’re ALL really here – the BIG CHAIN!
Inside the Crypto “Circle of Trust”
Diem, aka Libra, or what I termed the “Circle of Trust” couldn’t be squared.
In other words, it didn’t get blessing to launch. So on that fateful day on September 18, 2019, Mark Zuckerberg made his Calibra farewell pronouncement.
Mark, working on a new DiemAI? Seven Year Anniversary or ‘Seven Year Itch’?
Any ideas on creating a point system and calling it ‘Zucker Cash’ or ‘Meta Points’?
CRYPTOS, the only thing Clear is ACT II failed.
Forget about ‘what’s in your wallet’.
May not be so easy to move ‘digital assets’. Got both CFTC and SEC eyes on your asses.
In 2011, Mark Zuckerberg said, “Our goal is not to build a platform. It’s to be across all of them.”
Funny, in 2011 China too had a goal. But they succeeded!
Xi, let’s Chat about WeChat – social media, instant messaging, and mobile payments.
U.S. President may have a new view on Banking Regulations & AI but not sure banks or your online ‘pay’ buddies have a change of heart.
You see Mark, the Pentagon may pull the chain of AI and get its Sexy Model, but the e-Commerce Wench is betting on getting Agentic AI, Rogue or not, because ‘Hell hath no fury like a Woman scorned.’
Of course, the NET connects the Wench with EVERYONE AND EVERY THING and with automation cashless crypto is the new King!
Zuckerberg, recall my October 7, 2019 paper, “Facebook’s Calibra and Libra – “Mastercoins” and the “Circle of Trust”?
“On November 1, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto reportedly “posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.”
Does anyone else find intriguing the timing of Nakamoto’s paper? Was it by chance? Or, by design to address the 2007-8 global financial and economic crises?
Regulating Cryptocurrency
Timing, why now? I’m sure you’ve heard that Facebook, and other tech giants, are reportedly being investigated. So why announce their interest in cryptocurrency? Is it a form of distraction from the antitrust probing? Or, did Facebook see election year as a perfect time to make their announcement as politicians themselves were already distracted? For those of us who have actually payed attention and listened to Facebook’s CEO and COO, Calibra and Libra came as no surprise.
Is there “Honor Among Thieves” and Alliances?
Zuckerberg, I’ll trade you my gold “Mastercoins” for some Calibra coins.” Trust me, I “mined” them myself.”
Last Days of ‘Zuckerberg Law’ and the ‘Match King’?
Big Tobacco? Hell, do think only the Devil has an Advocate!
The suit may not make the man but it sure puts a big smile on my face!
Today, Influencers are not only Barbie and Mickey.
Social Media got a sharp dressed ‘Sugar Daddy’!
Kids addicted to phone? But isn’t that the point!
Yep, they’re ‘damaged goods,’ but they’re OUR goods!
Ask ChatGPT and Claude.
Parents, admit it, you’re ADdicted as your kids.
You ‘shop till you drop’ while your kids ‘socialize’ till they pop.
Easy to sue. Question is, how much was your cut?
Before I throw the Law Book at your Faces, as the Master of the Card said, “There are some things money can’t buy.” And you gave them to me.
Lawyers know the kids are worth more dead than alive and go after ‘deep pockets.’
But witty and bold attorneys go deeper.
“It bothered me that little kids recognized Joe Camel the same way I recognized Mickey Mouse when I was a kid.” – Janet C. Mangini
In November of 1998 in the California Lawyer, we discover ‘How a team of lawyers defeated big tobacco.’
In “The Last Days of Joe Camel” by Nina Siegal a reporter for the New York Times we find
Janet C. Mangini, Mangini, Caplan, and Neumark “fashioning a different attack…The attorneys shifted their focus to Joe Camel promotional advertising such as caps, jackets, and mugs that could be “bought” with redeemed “Camel Cash.”
Well Mark, as I said earlier, any ideas creating a point system and calling it ‘Zucker Cash’ or ‘Meta Points’ is out of the question.
Cartoon: “I GOT A 90% RECOGNITION FACTOR WITH SIX-YEAR-OLDS NOW! MY SHARE OF THE ILLEGAL CHILDREN’S MARKET HAS GONE FROM 1% TO 30%! I’M TAKING IN $500 MILLION IN SALES TO MINORS…” – Garry Trudeau
Get them when they’re young seems to be longtime strategy – ‘cradle to grave’:
“A 1984 confidential report outlined the importance of attracting “presmokers” ages 12 to 24. “Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers,” an R.J. Reynolds market research analyst summarized in the appendix to her report. “Less than one-third of smokers (31%) start after age 18. Only 5% of smokers start after age 24.”
But all things come to an end!
“In July 1997 the company agreed to most of terms and prepared to terminate the Joe Camel campaign.”
But the end is the beginning for others. Ask the Swedish “Match King” who’s got a ‘Zyn’ for kids.
Of course the old gimmick of ‘points’ and ‘rewards’ gets suckers every time.
META/FACEBOOK, sound familiar? Mark, no surprise you too rebranded Facebook in 2021.
“Law of Unintended Markets
In a 2012 MIT Technology Review article, “The Law of Online Sharing”, Paul Boutin notes that “Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will eventually have to deal with the fact that all growth has limits.” Some in tech point to Gordon Moore’s law of exponentials, but Boutin points out that *“Gordon Moore put it well in 2005 when reflecting on the success of his own law: ‘It can’t continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens.”
Based on U.S. legislature, it appears the law of unintended markets has triumphed. Why? Because “Today, the law of social sharing is a useful way to think about the rise of social computing, but eventually reality will make it obsolete.” Realities that arise from the physical space: war, famine, lack of medical care, and adverse effects of climate change.”
Transience and Mutatio Motus
Symbol of ∞ is looking more like a pretzel. Appears Elections&Crypto&AI got tied up in a knot.
Mark, in your BlackBook of Faces, got your dealer, users, and products/services on ALL platforms!
Techies, betcha like to think you succeeded in Stanford course on “How to rule the world”.
But when it comes to the concepts of infinity and momentum, Wallis and Newton may agree, you failed both badly.
In the algorithmic ties, you lost sight of the ‘variable key’.
Marc Andreessen, as He who pulls YOUR strings knows well, “The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing -else!” Thus has spoken Friedrich Nietzsche.
Zuckerberg, in the end, will your followers turn your likes upside down and give YOU the finger?
SiliCON Men, what will your final destination be, ‘Straw Man’ or ‘Burning Man’?
In the words of Sheryl Sandberg: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?”