Characteristics of a good mother include protecting, enabling and fostering the growth and development of their progeny. I suggest Congress has been an able mother for America's TechGods and frankly it's hard to raise a toast to their preference of "digital anything" over the rights and safety of citizens.
It frosts my backside the way our government has facilitated the mistreatment of citizens and mal-use of their information by predatory forces. Elected officials protected social media over children, turned internet browsing history/geolocation data into company owned proprietary products (to use against its generators) and flung open the gates of government information to artificial intelligence pinheads.
"America is leaning harder into surveillance, speed and simulated control."
The people who are intensely in our business should be kept out by our government, not invited in and provided concierge services.
The flipping irony is TechGod founders are libertarian, small government, free speech, live forever pinheads who've jettisoned much of their principles for money, access to power and all the accoutrements that go along with such nonsense.
Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, David Sacks and Elon Musk are among the worst, completely self-serving arrogant gits. Government should be restraining these people, not enabling them. Instead of using taxpayer dollars for endemic surveillance Congress should tax social harm.
Instead we have:
Money is free speech and can say whatever it wants about Gaza. People cannot.
TechGods can buy votes. This is in addition to the influence of their social media platforms
Thank heaven for the break provided by the elevation of Pope Leo XIV to the papacy. Prediction markets, which are falsely dressed up as knowledge, failed miserably. In the day their algorithms would have picked Goliath.
Congress is and has been full of Goliath enablers.
We need some "digital rock" Davids to take down the one eyed TechGods tormenting our planet. I'm afraid it's going to take a very big rock to break all the spying screens.
Update 5-12-25: It turns out Trump II, the digital Caligula, is also a good AI parent enabler.
