DIY, pirated medicine is becoming increasingly accessible and easier to make due to automation, new tech, and new software developed and released by Four Thieves Vinegar Collective:
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‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses.
New: Lobbymatic, the AI lobbying firm secretly run by convicted fraudster Jacob Wohl, showed demo screenshots that it had massive clients, including Microsoft, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, etc. Six of those companies tell me they've never been clients, and some say they've never heard of the company & that their logos/names were used without permission:
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Big Tech ‘Clients’ of Jacob Wohl’s Secret AI Lobbying Firm Say They've Never Heard of It
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with th...
What do "Power Tool Institute," the “Irrigation Association,” the “Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers” & tractor companies have in common? They’re lobbying against military right to repair legislation
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Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair
The U.S. military deals with the same repair monopolies consumers do.
After months of digging and reporting, I have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized. Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff
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Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influence...
New: OpenAI—a company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billion—has made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAI’s logo.
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OpenAI, Mass Scraper of Copyrighted Work, Claims Copyright Over Subreddit's Logo
“It does not seem wise for OpenAI to start enforcing copyright claims,” one Redditor wrote.