Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Climate change lawsuits are intended as a tax on oil companies and consumers is a lie.

There is dearly nothing more toxic to the climate of Earth than the petroleum industry and attempting to put fear into consumers that their demand for alternative energies and the past polluting habits of petroleum is some kind of huge conspiracy theory is a lie. There is a strong moral content to all the people seeking to hold the petroleum industry responsible for the damage to Earth's climate when they knew full well it was very dangerous and deadly.

October 20, 2025
By Kamden Mulder

...As environmental activists (click here) across the country increasingly turn to the legal system to target oil and gas companies, a key attorney behind a case that may end up before the Supreme Court is saying the quiet part out loud: Climate change lawsuits are intended as a tax on oil companies and consumers, their legal merits notwithstanding.

David Bookbinder, director of law & policy at the Environmental Integrity Project, worked for years on the legal team that brought a suit on behalf of the county of Boulder, Colo., alleging that two major energy companies concealed the impact their products would have on climate change and are therefore liable for the resulting damage to the county....

In less than six months Zuckerberg is consolidating any idea that might be affiliated with AI.

It is a national security issue.

April 3, 2025
By Mimi Montgomery

Mark Zuckerberg (click here) will be spending more time in D.C. after he paid $23 million in cash for a home in the tony Woodland Normanstone neighborhood, Politico reports.

Why it matters: The purchase indicates a heightened interest in D.C. from the private sector, with bigwig CEOs seeing a Beltway property as a "personal embassy" from which they can court the Trump administration, Politico's Michael Schaffer writes.

The big picture: Zuckerberg is one of several tech titans to buy D.C. digs — a cohort that featured prominently in President Trump's latest inauguration....

October 22, 2025
From Facebook

Meta just announced it’s cutting ≈ 600 jobs in its Meta Superintelligence Labs AI division.
Meanwhile, the company has been on a massive hiring spree, poaching top talent from OpenAI and others with compensation packages reaching hundreds of millions.
Meta didn't have to do this.
They posted $62 billion in net profit in 2024.
Layoffs come with a massive cost.
They should be a LAST resort for companies.
For many people, especially those on visas, it’s not just a job loss.
It’s a life upheaval.
Layoffs like these are short-sighted.
Meta’s mission is to “build community and bring the world closer together.”
You don’t build community by cutting people loose.
You don’t bring the world closer together by laying off 600 people in one of the most profitable years in company history.