Maybe you should be rooting for China, the government is securely in control of the corporations and supports a Marxist revival. Communism failed you say? Well with robots doing all the work it's vision who's time has come, with a final form close to The Culture. What did Iain Banks say about Capitalism:

The market, for all its (profoundly inelegant) complexities, remains a crude and essentially blind system, and is – without the sort of drastic amendments liable to cripple the economic efficacy which is its greatest claimed asset – intrinsically incapable of distinguishing between simple non-use of matter resulting from processal superfluity and the acute, prolonged and wide-spread suffering of conscious beings. It is, arguably, in the elevation of this profoundly mechanistic (and in that sense perversely innocent) system to a position above all other moral, philosophical and political values and considerations that humankind displays most convincingly both its present intellectual [immaturity and] – through grossly pursued selfishness rather than the applied hatred of others – a kind of synthetic evil.” Iain M. Banks, “A Few Notes on the Culture”

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloodknife.com%2Fculture...

this guy interned at the Heritage Foundation, tried to kill The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and challenged Biden's victory in 2020. We can probably guess he'd say,
"Armed with this information, we will know who lost their job to AI. This means they are unemployed and undeserving of anything. We will cut off healthcare, SNAP, Medicaid - everything - until they can prove they have a new job."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Didn't see this mentioned in TFA but Anthropic just released a paper "Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models"

Strikingly, we find that some models can use their ability to recall prior intentions in order to distinguish their own outputs from artificial prefills. In all these experiments, Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the most capable models we tested, generally demonstrate the greatest introspective awareness; however, trends across models are complex and sensitive to post-training strategies. Finally, we explore whether models can explicitly control their internal representations, finding that models can modulate their activations when instructed or incentivized to “think about” a concept. Overall, our results indicate that current language models possess some functional introspective awareness of their own internal states. We stress that in today’s models, this capacity is highly unreliable and context-dependent; however, it may continue to develop with further improvements to model capabilities.

https://transformer-circuits.p...

Trump says the CEO of any contractor who fails to deliver on time shall engage in gladiator combat in a new, beautiful, ornate coliseum - we're looking at replacing the West Wing. Did Y'know Musk already has a centurion outfit? he's all set to go.

What's that old phrase "every problem is an opportunity in disguise". Easy1st step: have these guys liquify air only at energy peaks. 2nd step: liquify more than they use and send energy back on the grid during high demand.

New research finds liquid air energy storage could be the lowest-cost option for ensuring a continuous power supply on a future grid dominated by carbon-free but intermittent sources of electricity.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.mit.edu%2F2025%2Fusin...

How did this all start? from TFA

Beijing banned exports of Nexperia chips near the start of the month in response to the Dutch government’s decision to take over the Netherlands-headquartered company on 30 September and suspend its Chinese chief executive after the US flagged security concerns.

This Nexperia takeover also covered on Slashdot: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory...
So in sum, actions taken in fear of China restricting a critical resource actually cause China to restrict that resource. The consequences were not well thought out.

Cant erase that from your head: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.genolve.com%2Fdesign...

Or read Dubliners, A Little Cloud

He paused. He felt the rhythm of the verse about him in the room. How melancholy it was! Could he, too, write like that, express the melancholy of his soul in verse? There were so many things he wanted to describe: his sensation of a few hours before on Grattan Bridge, for example. If he could get back again into that mood.... The child awoke and began to cry. He turned from the page and tried to hush it: but it would not be hushed. He began to rock it to and fro in his arms but its wailing cry grew keener. He rocked it faster while his eyes began to read the second stanza: Within this narrow cell reclines her clay, That clay where once.... It was useless. He couldn’t read. He couldn’t do anything. The wailing of the child pierced the drum of his ear. It was useless, useless! He was a prisoner for life. His arms trembled with anger and suddenly bending to the child’s face he shouted: “Stop!”

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Ffile...

A cold war gets trillions thrown at it no questions asked, no complaints about budgets, just gets done. Why Every Country is Preparing for a War They Can't Afford: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

He never won a presidential election but , holy shit:

A 1995 BBC documentary showed Zhirinovsky telling the crowd at a campaign rally: "Help us, and you'll never have to vote again! I'm not saying, 'Vote for us and maybe in 20 years' time somebody will do something.' No, these will be the last elections! The last ones!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

>Kind of like the USSR didn't give up Eastern Europe without a fight?
But the USSR did give up Eastern Europe without a fight. First was the Sinatra Doctrine for the Warsaw Pact: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... Then Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved the Soviet Union and most states all declared independence soon after: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... Gorbachev gave the West everything beyond it's wildest dreams. Yet the West never embraced Russia, continued to treat them as an enemy and sought to further diminish them so they'd be even less of a threat. In short, geopolitics as usual.

The Forbin Project actually supports my point, spoiler alert, the speech at the end lays it out very well, especially the last line:

Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man—self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved—famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Dr. Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpm...

Join the communists, it's nice to have options like this when you lose your job and are about to be homeless .. Oh wait another coup attempt is underway to get all that Venezuelan oil under US control. These coup attempts have been going on 20 years now:

In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a “national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela.” But why does the United States utterly disrupt or destroy countries like Venezuela, especially when (although the American capitalist establishment may feel threatened by Venezuela’s possession of its own oil reserves), the country does not actually pose a military threat to the United States?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmonthlyreview.org%2Flist...

Trump boasts he wanted to take Venezuela’s oil after overthrowing its government https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeopoliticaleconomy.co...

Why not? By definition, ASI will have God-like intelligence. It may actually deliver on a lot of the promises of religion: immortality and an end to work, taxes, disease.
There was a 'Church of AI' but it shutdown: Anthony Levandowski closes his Church of AI https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2021%2F02...
Related is Roko's basilisk, kind of like a threat from the future:

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that there could be an artificial superintelligence in the future that, while otherwise benevolent, would punish anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

You can vote for UBI, Sovereign wealth funds, State Owned AGI, even free food: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.genolve.com%2Fdesign...
But first you need to make sure you can continue to even vote. Trump is doing all the things Erdoan, Putin and Orban did: vote full ticket Democrat next November.

They 'say' it was related to a Charlie Kirk comment but in fact the FCC threatened to withdraw ABC's broadcast licenses unless they got rid of Kimmel. This straight out of the dictator's playbook to control the media. The comedians will be gone well before AI replaces them. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Fall-in%2Fw...