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Nicole Parsons

The fossil fuel money funding AI initiatives are looking for something that wastes energy like cryptocurrency wastes it.

By design, repeated queries are required because the answers are unpredictable & with a high error rate.

It's genius level fraud created by an industry bent on keeping its addicts.

Like any drug dealer, the fossil fuel industry is manufacturing a pool of addicts (captive consumers) with a dependency to something only they can supply.

The Dark Side of AI Companions: The Quiet Rise of Emotional Dependency in a Digital Age

How Digital Companions Quietly Redefine Intimacy—and Blur the Line Between Comfort and Dependency

Futurism (vocal.media)

Nicole Parsons

@ParadeGrotesque @gcluley

Like the USA, politics in the UK are overly entwined with The Moneyed, white supremacy, and fossil fuel funded fascists.

The wealthy are determined to fry both democracy itself, along with the planet.

Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

Nicole Parsons

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Just a moment...

(arlenegoldbard-1818.medium.com)

Steve Bannon’s Stay-Out-of-Jail Strategy: ‘Flood the Zone With Shit’

Steve Bannon’s lawyers invited the jury in his contempt of Congress trial down a rabbit hole to a land where they must doubt everything.

VICE (www.vice.com)

This infamous Steve Bannon quote is key to understanding America's crazy politics

A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.

WRAL.com (www.wral.com)

Trump's Firehose of Falsehood

His refusal to concede is more than sour grapes. It's an information-warfare tactic to leave the public bewildered and cynical.

(www.persuasion.community)

Pam Bondi's performance in congressional hearings was an excellent example of Russian-style media manipulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

Firehosing & automation
https://mediamanipulation.org/definitions/distributed-amplification/

Access Denied

(www.mdpi.com)

Nicole Parsons

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Koch Network
Building a White Supremacist Constitution one brick at a time over 60 years.

The hate is now automated, corrupt, & well funded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

forbes.com

(www.forbes.com)

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show

Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

DeSmog (www.desmog.com)

Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher (New Documents)

Many have noted that the Koch Brothers' dad was a Bircher, but new documents show Charles was, too.

Progressive.org (progressive.org)

With AI, the wealthy skip paying for hate-for-hire campaigns like Facebook, Tenet Media, or the Russian Internet Research Agency

Top Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg just apologized for racist ad targeting

She was “disgusted and disappointed.”

Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)

The Kochs’ Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Docs Expose Charles Koch’s Ties to John Birch Society

The Progressive magazine and Center for Media and Democracy have released new documents that show billionaire oil industrialist Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its campaigns against the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Charles Koch was following in the footsteps of his father, Fred Koch, a leader of the John Birch Society from its founding. We speak with The Progressive’s Lisa Graves about her new article, “The Koch Cartel: Their

Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)

Who Sponsored the Hate?

Jane Mayer on the Koch brothers’ surprising disapproval of Donald Trump, and their own history of toxic rhetoric.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

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(thehill.com)

Did the John Birch Society Win in the End?

Modern conservatism was built by purging the right’s reckless conspiracy theorists—but now they’ve taken over.

(www.thebulwark.com)

Nicole Parsons

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Russia & Putin
Putin deluded himself that AI-enabled warfare will solve his manpower problems & population bottlenecks. 1.3 million dead soldiers so far in Ukraine.
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/putin-links-nuclear-buildout-to-russias-ai-ambitions/

wsj.com

(www.wsj.com)

How technophobe Putin led Russia to surrender in the AI arms race

The Kremlin made Yuri Gagarin the first man in space but now lags Luxembourg in AI — which the president seems to regard as a challenge to his authority

(www.thetimes.com)

Nicole Parsons

@mttaggart

AI isn't intended to be accurate, useful, or productive.

It's just automated information pollution like Steve Bannon's version of Russian "flood the zone with sh*t" disinformation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-russia-emails-00648919

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article312917423.html

In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel

The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

(www.bylinesupplement.com)

Look at the investors behind AI.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE
They don't have to fly planes into buildings anymore to destroy democracy & fry the planet.