One interesting thread to unravel is the deep connections between the face of Doomerism and the so-called "Effective Altruism" movement, from which Sam Bankman-Fried, his creepy girlfriend in their "Polycule," and the top figures in the FTX scandal all came.

Dario Amodei and just about everybody in the AI Safety community are all also connected with this rather creepy group, and the connections run much deeper than almost anybody knows. Much of the original funding for Anthropic, Amodei's company, came from a funding round led by Bankman-Fried, and the NGOs now pushing for Amodei's vision of an AI safety regime are all associates who have worked together through the EA movement.

These organizations are run by a tight circle of friends all sharing the same financial interests and ideological leanings, and any pretense of "independence" is entirely made up. They are, for all intents and purposes, a clan.

You may recall that SBF was a big advocate of a regulatory structure for cryptocurrency and was one of the largest donors to the Democrat Party back when he was a free man. He worked assiduously on Washington connections and made much the same set of arguments for regulation and how it should be implemented as the AI titans do now. The parallels are everywhere, and that is no accident. It is largely the same group of people.

Even the "whistleblowers" are part of this same set of people, which should at least make you suspicious. I can't wait to learn about the bizarre Polycules, should they exist, and wonder why such unattractive people wind up in the same cult.

Now the Effective Altruists start with some non-crazy ideas — that we should prioritize our charitable giving to the highest-value projects, not the most sexy ones. But from there, they go off the rails into arguments such as "giving money to rebuild Notre Dame is a form of murder, since that money could be used to save lives.

And one of the principles that pops out here, as we saw in the FTX scandal, is the strong belief that making gobs of money is necessary to be as altruistic as possible. SBF often justified his sketchy practices by claiming he did so much good with it.

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crazed silicon valley leftist psychos are the ones controlling a.i. rules and morals

Backed into a political corner, first-term New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill held a press conference earlier this summer to let everyone know that she was on top of a preventable assault on election integrity. The far-left politician posing as a moderate told reporters that she was “appalled by the reckless failures” that opened the door to thousands of noncitizens showing up on the Garden State’s voter rolls. She was equally disgusted by “the lack of transparency shown by those in charge at the time.”

“We have no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed,” Sherrill said.

Nearly two months later, we still don’t know whether that’s true. We still don’t know if the sparse information the Sherrill administration has provided is true. That’s because the Democrat has been less than transparent about a number of things.

“There’s still a lot we don’t know about, why this happened and why it took so long for the public to know about it,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., who chairs the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight, said this week during a Capitol Hill hearing on New Jersey’s voter registration debacle.

Titled “Restoring Election Integrity: Oversight of Voter Fraud in New Jersey,” the hearing gave Republicans on the subcommittee the chance to shine more light on an issue that Democrats desperately want to keep in the dark, while offering subcommittee Democrats like the ever race-baiting Rep. Jasmine Crockett the opportunity to turn the whole thing into a sideshow on Orange Man Bad. Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, the insufferable blowhard rep. from Maryland, jumped in for his own dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome theater.

In between the grandstanding, election integrity experts testified that the reported noncitizens on New Jersey’s voter rolls are likely just the “tip of the iceberg” in the Garden State — and in a lot of other states. That’s troubling less than 50 days until November’s general election.

In late July, Sherrill held her “it wasn’t me” press conference to confess that some 6,600 noncitizens had landed on New Jersey’s voter rolls in 2023 and 2024 — and about 400 went on to vote. She has since amended the numbers, asserting that only about 340 of the 6,600 “accidentally” registered noncitizens voted. The state has removed and placed approximately 5,100 of the wrongly registered in “deleted status,” the governor said. Another 1,450 or so have had their registration status changed to rejected, pending further review.

Sherill blames the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission’s longtime license printing vendor for what she has described as a software glitch. A spokeswoman for the firm, IDEMIA, which has contracts with several New Jersey agencies as well as the federal government, has said “there was no glitch or software error,” and the problem was not on the vendor’s end.

Van Drew said the company has been cooperating with his subcommittee’s investigation; Sherrill and her administration have not.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/09/18/thousands-of-noncitizens-on-jerseys-voter-rolls-represent-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/

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sherrill is a proven liar, going back to her days at the naval academy

At the beginning of August, Townhall reported on a young migrant woman who claimed she was trafficked and abused because of Xavier Becerra and the Biden administration's policies concerning unaccompanied migrant children. That came on the heels of a damning whistleblower report about the thousands of missing migrant children.

Tarek Kadourah was a site supervisor for MVM in the summer of 2021.

"MVM received a contract with Health and Human Services," Kadourah said. "Kids that were rescued, obviously. Their job was to make sure that they were fed, kept healthy, and then transported to sponsors. That transportation part is where we came in."

Kadourah said he was a liaison, meaning he was the on-site supervisor working directly with Health and Human Services (HHS) and the White House.

"I was the middleman. So I oversaw everything. The children always seemed to look like they were scared and uncomfortable and vulnerable, when they were supposed to be safe," he continued. "To me, those kids looked like, there's no other way to say it, they were still being trafficked."

Agents whom Kadourah worked with had concerns too.

"They were worried. Because, I mean, they felt like they were accomplices in a human trafficking operation," Kadourah said.

"He was telling me every time he was dropping off some of those kids, they would immediately cry and refuse to get in a van or the vehicle of that sponsor at the drop-off site," he added. "So I asked him, 'Why? Did you ask the kids why?' and they said they didn't know who those people were."

"And when I said the agents had paperwork from HHS saying that … this person was somehow related to that child — uncle, aunt, sister, whatever, right? None of it was verified," Kadourah said. "So Health and Human Services was giving us paperwork that was not fricking verified."

"All they were doing was picking up phone calls and saying, 'Oh, okay. You're so-and-so's uncle whatever?' and then stamping it and moving it forward," he went on. "They were treating it just like Becerra said: like assembly line. That's exactly how it ran."

Kadourah continued, "At this point, they were noticing a pattern. When it's not just one or two children crying, refusing to get in a vehicle with strangers, but it's like 20, 30 of them crying, saying, 'We don't know who these people are,' 'That's not my aunt and uncle.' That raised a lot of red flags and I think that's when they completely shut me out."

Under Becerra's watch, 319,000 migrant children went missing. To date, roughly 140,000 remain unaccounted for, and most were under the age of 13. Federal investigators, prosecutors, and Becerra's own staff said some of these children were released into "sexual exploitation" and "brutal jobs," including night-shift factory work, slaughterhouses, and construction sites.

https://townhall.com/news/amy-curtis/2026/09/18/becerra-whistleblower-trafficking-kids-n2683192