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Chuck DarwinTrump reportedly fires head of US copyright office after release of AI report The Trump administration reportedly fired the head of the US copyright office over the weekend – within days of the dismissed official having published a report about how the development of artificial intelligence technology could run afoul of fair use law. The sacking of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shira</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a> as the register of copyrights and director of the copyrights office on Saturday, came two days after Trump fired the librarian of Congress, who oversees the copyright office. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/trump-fires-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/trump-fires-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Geriatric Gardener“Israel is gunning down children with Apache helicopters: They just keep unleashing new horrors...”by Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media on Substack <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@palestine</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@israel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@UKLabour</a> “Last night in Gaza, we operated on a 15 year old girl who was riding her bike when she was shredded by an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apache</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/helicopter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#helicopter</a>. She will be lucky if she keeps 2 of her limbs after 12 hours of collective surgery” - Dr Mark <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a> <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/israel-is-gunning-down-children-with?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/israel-is-gunning-down-children-with?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Children</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Slaughter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Slaughter</a>

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Charles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Charles</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Koch</a>, perhaps the most legendary Republican financier of recent decades, has never backed Trump, either. The political network affiliated with him and his late brother <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#David</a> remained officially neutral in the Presidential races of 2016 and 2020, and spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat Trump in this year’s Republican primaries, -- much of it supporting Haley. When she dropped out, the Koch network concentrated on down-ballot races. But Kochworld, like the Republican Party more broadly, remains divided. “There are a lot of donors in that network lobbying Charles from the perspective of, I know you don’t like him, but he’s better than the alternative,” Marc Short, who worked for a Koch-affiliated group and later served as Vice-President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, said. Nevertheless, neither Koch nor Pence is supporting Trump this fall —a remarkable rift, given the role that each of them has played in Republican politics.At the same time, Trump has cultivated a new group of what might be called <a href="https://c.im/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#maga</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/megadonors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#megadonors</a>. A study conducted for The New Yorker by the campaign-finance expert Robert Maguire, of the nonprofit good-government group <a href="https://c.im/tags/crew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crew</a>, found that, as of this summer, more than forty of the G.O.P.’s biggest super-pac donors during Romney’s 2012 campaign had never given to a pro-Trump super pac, including Oracle’s co-founder <a href="https://c.im/tags/Larry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Larry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ellison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ellison</a>, the Dallas real-estate tycoon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harlan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Crow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crow</a>, and the hotel magnate J. W. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Marriott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marriott</a>, Jr. Meanwhile, nearly sixty pro-Trump donors in the study, including <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lutnick</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mellon</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a>, and the Wisconsin shipping magnates <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Richard</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elizabeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Elizabeth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Uihlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uihlein</a>, had given nothing to the pro-Romney super pac. Others have significantly increased their giving. The <a href="https://c.im/tags/Adelsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Adelsons</a>, for example, donated $53 million to the pro-Romney super pac in 2012 and $90 million to support Trump in 2020, when they were the largest individual donors of the cycle. By the end of September, Miriam Adelson had given $100 million to back Trump in 2024.With such sums at stake, Trump has pursued what the former Bush Pioneer called a “high touch” approach to the Republican billionaire class. 🔥The ex-President has all but invited donors to view their contributions as business investments, telling oil-and-gas executives who went to see him in April at Mar-a-Lago, for example, that, 💥because he would allow unrestricted drilling, 🧨they should raise $1 billion for his campaign —a statement redolent of Sondland’s “quid pro quo” that soon leaked to the Washington Post. The campaign’s strategy, another longtime fund-raiser told me, was essentially to let Trump be Trump: “He talks the same book to everybody.”Oliver, the former Bush finance director, observed that the difference between the model of the Bush campaigns and Trump’s is the difference between having a large pool of “institutional investors” which had been built up in the course of years, and a series of ad-hoc “transactional” dealings with a relatively small group of the ultra-rich.Sean Wilentz, a historian at Princeton University, offered another key distinction. Trump’s billionaires—many of whom have made their fortunes as hedge-fund managers, activist investors, and corporate raiders—tend to be highly motivated ideologues and individual operators. “It’s transactional, but their end of the bargain is a lot different than just having access to the President of the United States,” Wilentz told me. “They see Trump as their instrument. This is an investment for them to take power.” Wilentz noted that, unlike the “traditional corporate conservative élite” dating back to the Gilded Age, this new “class of the super-rich” appears both more numerous and less civic-minded. “The other guys might have been robber barons,” Wilentz said. “These guys are oligarchs.”

Chuck Darwin<a href="https://c.im/tags/Peltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peltz</a>, the billionaire who hosted fellow Republican donors in Palm Beach, also had direct access to the White House. A few months after Trump’s Inauguration, he met privately with the President in the Oval Office, presenting him with a written dossier that made the case that Amazon and its owner, Jeff Bezos, were responsible for the economic woes of the U.S. Postal Service. Trump, who had long attacked Bezos as the proprietor of the Washington Post, summoned a senior official to hear Peltz’s complaint. According to the official, Peltz told Trump that “the reason why the Post Office is in the red is almost entirely because of Amazon,” claiming, falsely, that it received preferential rates, benefitted from “unfair competition,” and ought to be considered an antitrust violator.Trump’s staff tried to figure out what Peltz’s interest was in the matter. It turned out that Trian Fund Management, Peltz’s asset-management firm, had recently taken a $3.5-billion stake in Procter & Gamble, the consumer-products giant. Peltz, an activist investor who buys his way into corporate-leadership roles, often by prompting proxy fights, considered Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods a threat to his business. On December 29, 2017, Trump tweeted, “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!”... <a href="https://c.im/tags/Isaac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Isaac</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a>, the former head of Marvel Entertainment, which he sold to Disney, in 2009, for $4 billion, was also at Peltz’s breakfast for Trump in Palm Beach. (Trump personally introduced the pair at Mar-a-Lago, where Perlmutter has a regular table next to the ex-President’s; last year, Peltz and Perlmutter joined forces when Peltz launched an unsuccessful bid to win a seat on Disney’s board.) Perlmutter donated $5 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign; his wife, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Laura" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Laura</a>, was a member of Trump’s Inauguration committee. Soon after Trump became President, he installed Perlmutter and two of Perlmutter’s friends from Florida as de-facto overseers of the Department of Veterans Affairs, an agency with an annual budget of some $200 billion. “On any veterans issue the first person the President calls is Ike,” a former Administration official told ProPublica, which revealed the arrangement.

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Guardian angel megadonors give $196M to influence 2024 elections <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/guardian-angel-megadonors-give-196m-to-influence-2024-elections" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/guardian-angel-megadonors-give-196m-to-influence-2024-elections</a>* guardian angels: donors who supply 40+% of committee (PAC/Super PAC)’s funds & are a political group’s top contributor<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EnablingFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnablingFascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trumpism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#libertarianism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YeffYass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YeffYass</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimDunn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimDunn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReidHoffman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReidHoffman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HaroldHamm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HaroldHamm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Winklevoss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Winklevoss</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StephenSchwarzman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StephenSchwarzman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Koch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CharlesKoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CharlesKoch</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mercer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mercer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Uihlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uihlein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeVos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MichaelBloomberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelBloomberg</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimothyMellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimothyMellon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KennethGriffin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KennethGriffin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ricketts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ricketts</a>

Rebecca Hartman-BakerWant to use <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/NERSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NERSC</a>'s <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a> system for your <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quantum</a> information science (<a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/QIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#QIS</a>) research? Submit a proposal for up to 20K <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPU</a> node-hrs (each node has 4 A100 GPUs) by March 1! This call is open to all who are doing open science research (results are publishable).For more info please see <a href="https://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/quantum-information-science/quantum-information-science-perlmutter/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/quantum-information-science/quantum-information-science-perlmutter/</a>Please spread the word!

Rebecca Hartman-BakerAfter a lengthy maintenance, I'm overjoyed to have reported to <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/NERSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NERSC</a> <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/HPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HPC</a> users that the <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/Perlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Perlmutter</a> supercomputer is back in service, today, the last day before the holiday shutdown. We made it! 😅 (Now I hope Perlmutter doesn't get lonely and demanding during the holiday. Our system administrators will be taking a well-deserved rest!)

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