OrvalWintermute

The car dealership I bought a vehicle from is using AI for all appointments, and it is quite highly functional, voice operated.

Suggest Apollo is not doing a good job of measuring improvements since these are soft costs and harder to measure. But, instead of saying that, they are just repeating a low IQ take.

TLDR;

They were committing fraud fraud fraud

We need clawbacks from the C-suite and disgorgement of illicit profits

We need clawbacks from these companies’ c suites, present and past, that were awarded compensation based on criminal practices

This has the potential to seriously hurt their subscription model business

Throughout history we’ve been able to retell stories, to copy content, to create shallow clones or synthesis

It is only now in human history that we are able to create nearly perfect copies, and we’ve been taxed incredibly for this with overpriced everything.

People have always said the idea of the devices listening to conversations was all a conspiracy theory.

Welp, looks like it is a fact.

ITAR and EAR were built to keep U.S. military and dual-use technology from strengthening countries that could use it against the United States or its allies, like Europe

There is nothing illegal about using a contractor lawyer for both commercial work and your own business provided you get it reviewed by Ethics & Govt General Counsel. As this was done then I see no issue in it.

There is a potential COI mentioned below, for which Feinberg agreed to donate the profits to charity, if such a settlement happens. The guy is from a Whiteshoe law firm anyways, the allocated funds are tiny, and this seems pretty above board.

Much ado about nothing!

> In a statement to the Prospect, the Department of Defense wrote that the arrangement was aboveboard. “OSC [DOD’s Office of Strategic Capital, which leads the Pentagon’s rare earths investments] maintains a rigorous, multi-layered ethics framework that includes a detailed screening process and operates in full compliance with all federal ethics laws and regulations,” the statement said. The DOD did not comment on whether Waldenberg is involved in other Pentagon activities, or specify its ethics protocols. Waldenberg’s firm, according to the federal government’s public contracting database, has a contract with the DOD worth $1.5 million that runs through August 31, 2026.

> The DOD has said that “any profit [Feinberg] may receive from a potential Ligado settlement will go to a charity to support America’s veterans,” though a spokesperson declined to say which charity would receive the prospective donation. The Capitol Forum recently reported that Ligado is hoping to receive $5 billion from the feds, citing sources familiar with the case. That would surpass the federal government’s 2010 $3.4 billion settlement with Native American tribes, compensating them for the centuries-old confiscation of tribal lands.

The earth is both gaining mass and losing mass at the same time

We are losing gases and energy (hydrogen, helium, radioactive decay)

Concurrently, we are aggregating cosmic dust, micrometeorites, meteoroids, and the occasional larger body

Overall a tiny loss

$30 a month?

Lolz, get out of here.

You left out the bodypart business they are now in too.

Huawei has a long history of “borrowing” IP & source code from US companies

I’m happy to see our metrics being improved because much of the economic policy seems to have been based around what was good for boomers.

Not what was good for young people who, for the most part, can’t afford to live in houses and these days are getting ripped off with overly expensive apartments too, so they never have a chance to buy a house and build equity.