This week’s opener to The [Un]Sanction Citizen is a super cut from The Bureau’s Podcast coverage of Trump’s tackle of Greenland geopolitics at Davos’ global table.
WHAT IS WEF UP TO?
The technical identity environment is falling apart. Bill Gates and OpenAI still want to walk out on a corroding bridge to transit your med records and DNA; while BRICS FINCen is being repudiated as global authority by Western interests. Musk just wants his VC money back.
They are still up to their old anti-privacy, consent shunt grifts.
In the meantime… Nobody cares if Google ‘wins’ the AI competition, if Americans can’t manage the intellectual rights to the things they make. That’s why Comic Con lead a cultural counter point to GenAI images. A lawsuit adavanced against NVIDIA this week against AI training material sourced from pirate site, Anna’s Archive.
This week in AI Governance, Waymo still can’t stop for school kids, “The State of New York Adopts Two Bills Regulating Commercial Use of AI-Generated Content” and data centers go to Washington.
LIBERTY PIVOT TO CIVIL PROTECTIONISM
NEWS & SOURCES OF NOTE
GREAT WHITE NORTH [ATLANTIC]
China Mega Embassy Approved Despite Opposition
“It is rewarding China for spying on Parliament, interfering in the UK’s elections, and fueling Russia’s war in Ukraine,” said Rep. Moolenaar, chairman of the U.S. House CCP Committee.
BENZ PILLS
NED Built a Censorship Machine That Targeted Americans. Congress Just Voted to Fund It.
* Former NED Officer Admitted ‘Counter Disinfo’ Efforts Were Response to Trump
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