@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online
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May 02, 2026
The Bad Place
@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online
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Observer | The Met Gala Is Entering Its Billionaire Era With Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez by Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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The Met Gala is increasingly defined by billionaire involvement, highlighted by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez Bezos serving as this year’s honorary chairs and lead sponsors—a move that has sparked criticism and protests over the growing influence of Silicon Valley wealth on fashion’s biggest night. While the gala, founded in 1948 as a modest fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, has evolved from a social‑ite gathering to a global cultural spectacle under figures like Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour, ticket prices now reach $100 000 and tables $350 000, attracting tech giants such as Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, and Snap. Observers note that the tech sector’s deepening presence, exemplified by past sponsorships from Apple, TikTok and attendees like Elon Musk and Tim Cook, reflects a shift toward fundraising by the ultra‑wealthy, prompting both accusations of “billionaire era” commercialization and arguments that such sponsorship simply revives the event’s original fundraising purpose. The backlash against the Bezos couple underscores broader concerns about wealth inequality, the cultural impact of AI, and whether the gala will continue to depend on tech money.
Read more: https://observer.com/2026/05/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-bezos-met-gala/
#JeffBezos #LaurenSnchez #billionaires #LaurenSnchezBezos #NicoleKidman #VenusWilliams #AnnaWintour #DianaVreeland
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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Apr 28, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
#ElonMusk Set to Take Stand Soon in Blockbuster #OpenAI Trial
A lawyer for #Musk framed the consequential showdown with OpenAI as a moral issue [cuz Musk is so freaking “moral”]. A company lawyer said the case stemmed from Musk not getting his way.
#law #egotistical #billionaires #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #regulation #accountability #oversight
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/28/technology/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-trial?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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Apr 28, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
#Musk, #SamAltman & other #AI “researchers” founded #OpenAI as a “nonprofit” in 2015, vowing to freely share its #technology with the rest of the world. But Musk left the start-up in 2018 after a power struggle with Altman — & before the public launch of #ChatGPT in 2022 catapulted OpenAI to commercial success.
#law #egotistical #billionaires #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #regulation #accountability #oversight
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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Apr 28, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
#Musk sued #OpenAI in 2024, claiming that the nonprofit he funded with his own large donations took advantage of his financial resources. He also argued OpenAI breached its founding agreement by putting commercial interests over the public interest. [again, Musk has never been concerned about “public interest”]
#law #egotistical #billionaires #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #regulation #accountability #oversight
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@persagen@mastodon.social
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Apr 24, 2026
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
@persagen@mastodon.social
Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ☮ Ph.D. • YES! Social justice | human rights | environment | unions | democratic socialism | Trans lives matter #TLM • NO! Capitalism | billionaires | discrimination | misogyny | inequality | oligarchy | authoritarianism | theocracy • https://Persagen.org/wpi/ • Transgenocide: https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf • About: https://persagen.org/html/about.html • Me: https://persagen.org/about/victoria/victoria-bio-mastodon.html #NoBots
mastodon.social
🇺🇲 GOP Lawmakers Pushing “Alarming” Bills to Shield Big Oil From Climate Liability
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/republicans-ted-cruz-harriet-hageman-bills-shield-big-oil-gas-climate-liability-lawsuits
• Stop Climate Shakedowns Act (2026)
| • Ted Cruz
| • Harriet Hageman
I would hold every oil company exec pers. liable / seize all assets; bankrupt those corporation / penalize enablers
#IndustrialComplexes: military, prison, poverty ...
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
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@dougiec3@libretooth.gr
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Apr 22, 2026
Wokebloke for Democracy
@dougiec3@libretooth.gr
Semi-retired commercial artist living the life, painting, hiking, biking and spending way too much time on politics. I read A LOT, and continually. I post on a lot of different things, but mostly politics. Ex-Texan. I don't automatically follow back. There has to be some info on your profile. hee-haw
libretooth.gr
" Billionaire Justin Sun, who invested in a crypto project backed by President Donald Trump and his family, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a California federal court, alleging that his multi-million dollar investment was procured through fraud and the project is now 'on the verge of collapse.' "
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/markets/crypto/articles/breaking-billionaire-investor-sues-trump-002052827.html
#Crypto #Economics #Billionaires #Oligarchs #Trumps
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social #AOC 4 POTUS:?!
Not because the #USA "deserve" her, but the rest of the world "needs" someone who isn't ging:to waste two terms just to broom away shards, but getting shit done and bullshit undone!But since she and #BernieSanders don't appease the #Billionaires, they get systematically #cockblocked!
#AmericanOligarchy #USpol #US
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org for better or worse, it ain't #nobility nor #billionaires being minced.
I mean, do you know how much #drugs those have in them?If #Musk was livestock, the veterinary inspector would not just condemn his corpse like a wild boar from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, but mandate incineration!Compared to that, Racing Horses that got doped to the maximum permissible for their sports are safe, and even those ain't permissible for consumption.
#Sarcasm #Shitpost #Commentary
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@wdlindsy@toad.social
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Mar 14, 2026
William Lindsey 
@wdlindsy@toad.social
Interested in building a better world and standing in solidarity with others who share that goal. For biographical information, please see https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/109539508828689842 "Writing is the way I fight." ~ James Cone #solidarity #democracy #HumanRights #LGBTQ
toad.social
"The Epstein Class is laughing all the way to the bank, drinking our tears as sugar for their expensive coffee. ... As we die and suffer, they laugh and make money off of AI, Crypto, and war."
~ Wajahat Ali
W. Ali points to recent statements of Palantir CEO (and Peter Thiel best bud) featured in the image below.
#Trump #Iran #war #EconomicElites #EpsteinClass #billionaires #TechBros #broligarchy #Palantir #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #crypto #AI
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-epstein-class-is-creating-world
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@Solomon_G@mastodon.social
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Apr 09, 2026
Kevin Stevens
@Solomon_G@mastodon.social
Pro-freedom, pro-egalitarianism, pro-social democracy Anti-fascism, anti-naziism, anti-zionism Alt-source links for paywall headlines
mastodon.social
GENERALSTRIKE - May 1, 2026!!
https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplepowerunited/p/workers-families-people-over-billionaires-a-may-day-demand-no-ice-no-war?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#workersrights #billionaires #labor #greed #democracy #taxtherich #justice #uspol #noice #ice #fuckice #war #nowar #families #peace #publicmoney #opportunity #corporatepower #oligarchy #plutocracy #kakistocracy #lobbyists #superpacs #pac #students #generalstrike @peoplepowerunited@mastodon.social
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@drrjv__dup_31966@vmst.io
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Mar 18, 2026
DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic
@drrjv__dup_31966@vmst.io
“A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness” — Edward Gibbon (who wrote ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’)
vmst.io
An issue, dear to my heart
America needs a movement to curb billionaires' power
Not a day goes by without some news about billionaires throwing their weight around to bend the system in their favor or about politicians giving them tax cuts, government contracts or pardons. In today’s new Gilded Age, the 900-plus #billionaires in the US have far too much influence over our elections, our economy, our government policies and our news media, and it’s urgent for Americans to create a movement to curb their power in order to preserve what’s left of our #democracy and assure we have an economy with …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/15/billionaire-curb-power-movement
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@rberger@hachyderm.io
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Mar 09, 2026
Robert J. Berger
@rberger@hachyderm.io
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... PC Revolutions, C compilers clacking huge Floppy Disks , Lisp Machine Nirvana, Unix Wars, building an early ISP, Metro Wireless, #Startups that went down, Hardware Image Processing, Objective C training from Brad Cox, first C++ Conference, unreadable Perl, lots of Python, Ruby, #Clojure and now back to #Python, #DevOps, #AWSCommunityBuilder, #Serverless, #Sourdough Software System and Cloud Architectures. Not time to die! #AntiFascist tootfinder
hachyderm.io
One of @pluralistic@mamot.fr's best posts and one of the best reasoning as to why we need to get rid of billionaires.
"The problem isn't whether rich people believe stupid shit; it's the fact that when a rich person believes something stupid, that belief can turn into torment for dozens, thousands, or millions of people.”
#billionaires
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/autocrats-of-trade-2/#witness-the-firepower-of-this-fully-armed-and-operational-battle-station
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@midtsveen@kolektiva.social
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Mar 08, 2026
Erik L. Midtsveen ✯☭
@midtsveen@kolektiva.social
Hey, I’m your friendly neighborhood leftwing extremist; anarcho-syndicalist, anti-imperialist, non-binary mess (they/them, bi as fuck) from Bergen, Norway. I overthrow capitalism in my free time because states are silly, bread is for the people, trans rights are sacred, and Thinkpads reign supreme 4eva, lol!! 🏳️⚧️💻 
🏳️⚧️ 
🏳️🌈 
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #NonBinary #Linux #TransRights #GenderFluid #Thinkpad
kolektiva.social
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💕💁
#Billionaires #Capitalism #Anarchism #USA #US #Politics #Economic #LucyParsons #Inequality
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@metin@graphics.social
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Mar 06, 2026
Metin Seven 🎨
@metin@graphics.social
🎨 Designer, sculptor 🤖 No degenerative “AI” slop 🌍 Eurasian in the Netherlands 🐣 Born in Brussels 🥕 Herbivore ⛔ Lifelong car-free 🚶 Hiker 🌳 Nemophilist 🔠 Hyperlexic polyglot ⌛ Former… 🧑💻 Blender Foundation Technical Artist 🧸 Toy designer 💬 Comic creator 📰 News cartoonist 🫖 3ds Max beta tester 🌐 Web developer 📺 TV show animator ✍️ Magazine author, editor, illustrator 💾 demoscener 🕹️1990s game dev: Moon Child, Hoi, … #️⃣ #TeamHoi
graphics.social
Thanks to a minority of obscenely greedy egomaniacs and their submissive supporters, "survival of the fittest" has become "survival of the shittest."
#billionaires #government #war #injustice #oppression #autocracy #GlobalWarming #environment #ClimateChange #climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #ClimateAction #pollution #future #nature #Earth #world #humanity
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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Feb 27, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
The Times’s examination also offers a window into how #Musk used private #companies to support #Trump during the 2024 #election. Tapping these companies to cover the expenses of a #superPAC is “highly unusual”, #CampaignFinance experts said, & ended up obscuring how #money was being spent because they are not subject to the disclosure requirements of super PACs.
#law #business #fraud #elite #impunity #power #billionaires
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@WillStealYourUsername@piefed.blahaj.zone
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Feb 23, 2026
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@ami@mastodon.world
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Feb 23, 2026
Ami
@ami@mastodon.world
I am a woman who enjoys tech, gaming and more! I am a privacy advocate. If I get banned for free thinking, speaking the truth or otherwise not being victim to social desirability bias, Ill be back and re-follow everyone I follow now. F♥♥k fascism! NoBot NoBots NoIndex
mastodon.world
#Society and #democracy in the #west is going to break down.
This is a case of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.
They, the #billionaires and #corporations have already pushed us too far, and are still pushing.
#Governments are not going to stop them. Eventually there will be an uprising which will be kerb-stomped, and people will react like with the #ICE shootings.
The reaction will become unstoppable.
We are in the early stages of a #revolution this is history being written.
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@grrlscientist@mastodon.social
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Feb 21, 2026
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ 🇺🇦
@grrlscientist@mastodon.social
PhD scientist in evolutionary ecology & ornithology SciComm @Forbes Formerly SciComm @guardian, Evolution Institute, Bird Note Radio, ScienceBlogs Twitter legacy :verified: Vegan
mastodon.social
wow. imagine of ameriKKKans actually got their shit together and went on strike together? it might look something like this massive strike (that NO ONE is talking about) in India!
#STRIKE #GeneralStrike #Billionaires #PredatoryClass #EpsteinClass
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@KimPerales@toad.social
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Feb 18, 2026
Kim Perales
@KimPerales@toad.social
Californian with a wide variety of interests, but since 2016, seeking justice, democratic norms, improving public: education & health, access to the arts, inclusivity, ethics in government, finance & business, human rights, IMM, ENVIR & worker protections, accountability for the oligarch criminality in the US & helping America turn blue.
toad.social
"WSJ🚨warns Trump’s billionaire tax cut is hurting the US economy"
Even Murdoch's WSJ⚡agrees that the 1% should be taxed at higher rates to save the #economy.
Journalists see the irony: "Notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich."
-P Gourevitch
"A look at who picks up the tab when #billionaires🚨scrimp on taxes, & how wealth concentration is affecting the wider #economy *issue:⚡not going away."
#TaxTheRich #Oligarchs #TaxEvasion #TrumpRegime #Protest #USPol
https://www.alternet.org/billionaire-tax-2675280364/
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@nando161@partyon.xyz
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Feb 07, 2026
Nando161
@nando161@partyon.xyz
#Ausgov #politas #Australia 18+ #Antifa #Antifascist #AntiAuthoritarian #ClassWar #161 #1312 all activists should have this website: https://prism-break.org/en/ If you have any bitcoin to spare I would very much appreciate your mutual aid as I live in poverty: 3PFqFCac1m32J8ebGC8DPvnNcwNoN1sRhR
partyon.xyz
A #homeless guy lifts a bread out of hunger, it's called burglary, but a cool-looking guy rips off an entire #population, while spreading disparities wider than ever, it's called #entrepreneurship. What a #world! What a pathetic world!
Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
#quote #quotes #billionaires
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