Nice! AI is the new ponzi scheme, but 'stakeholders', including the governments are in too deep to stop it.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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Lasher—who no AI company spent big money to elect—had just beaten Alex Bores, a state assemblyman who became the unlikely center of an extraordinary bidding war between rival AI factions. Pro-safety AI super PACs, including Public First Action backed by Anthropic, poured $19 million into supporting Bores. Leading the Future, tied to OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, spent $8 million trying to destroy him. Lasher won with 39% of the vote (while Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg came in a distant third place). And then Lasher pledged to pursue the same AI regulation agenda as the man he beat.
Regardless of letter by the name, absolutely no amount of money can buy as many votes as anyone would get by not taking AI money...
No one actually wants this shit except the politicians who have been bribed to make it happen no matter what.
Pushing this hard on one of the only issues that actually has widescale support is going to really backfire. Even people who see AI is inevitable, none of them want datacenters anywhere near them.
What's fucking crazy, is no one is trying to build out in Alaska.
Cold as fuck, sparsely populated, huge tax breaks for everyone, and I gotta assume there's major internet connections they could tap into when it crosses continents at the shortest point.
Or like Japan building underseas by thermal vents, but in America they build them in fucking neighborhoods, likely knowing it will crash all surrounding property values giving them easy expansion down the road.
There are exactly zero undersea cables from Alaska to Asia. I think the reasons should be obvious. There is one to Alaska from the lower 48.
Yeah, looks like Anchorage goes to Seattle, and then to Japan.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/acs-alaska-oregon-network-akorn
It seems kind of apparent to me that despite their wealth, these people just aren't that bright. They throw money around like it's nothing... There has to be a way we can grift them. Maybe create local level voting 'blocks' where you get thousands of people to basically sign on to a charter where they will vote in line with the group, and they just need to pay like 5 million to the block, which then gets divided to everyone in the block.
But here's the fun part... People can just do whatever the fuck they want to do, and even vote against that candidate. There would be no legal recourse. Just get the money up front paid to the llc front you make for the block. Distribute, then do your thing. As they get more desperate they may try shit like that.