data-jacked…

Court Painter & Sam Altman American entrepreneur and investor CEO of OpenAI

 This is really a key dynamic of the next few years: being told we should be very worried about what the authoritarian Chinese are doing by Silicon Valley authoritarians we should also be extremely worried about. For us little people, the choice seems to be between being data-jacked and screwed over by the undemocratic Chinese, or being data-jacked and screwed over by the post-democratic tech bros. Once again, it’s the old syphilis or Ebola menu choice.

Marina Hyde The Guardian January 31/24

If China has done to Sam Altman what his OpenAI has been accused of doing to creatives, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh

Court Painter with portrait of Sam Altman, CEO Open AI

Click link for article

Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/tech-bros-deepseek-china-sam-altman-openai?CMP=share_btn_url

MAGAfest Destiny…

‘Democratic America Drowning’

MAGA expansionism has become a defining feature of contemporary U.S. internal and external policy, rooted in the belief that the “Make America Great Again”(MAGA) movement holds a unique role and responsibility to reshape the world according to its autocratic vision.

This modern iteration, which adherents have dubbed “MAGAfest Destiny,” is marked by a focus on promoting kleptocratic governance, leveraging economic advantage through financial and military threats, asserting technological dominance, fostering global instability, advancing Christian white nationalist ideals, and embracing a stance of humanitarian non-intervention by withdrawal of monetary and moral support,at home and abroad.

Critics argue that this approach risks significant overreach and unintended consequences, undermining global stability and democratic norms. However, its leader and entertainer, Donald J. Trump, and supporters view it as a necessary and assertive form of Big Boss leadership in a complex and interconnected world—one that they see as ripe for financial exploitation,ideological dominance and realignment in favour of American morbidly rich priorities.

This MAGA ideology prioritizes unilateralism, autocratic governance, kleptocratic principles,ideological purity and the consolidation of power : at the expense of American democracy , international cooperation, long-term global equity and stability.

USA seen at the event horizon of a black hole

Court Painter seen with painting “Democratic America Drowning”.

USA seen being sucked into black hole.

Historical note: Manifest Destiny propounded during the second half of the 19th century, the concept that it was the divinely ordained right of the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond.

Tech Broligarchs in a squeeze…

OOOPS!

The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Sam Altman, the CEO of tech giant OpenAI, stood behind the presidential seal at the White House and praised the newly sworn-in president for the $500 billion “Stargate” initiative he was joining to build an artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States.

BREAKING: January 27/2024

DeepSeek buzz puts tech stocks on track for $1 trillion drop

Investors question bloated valuations for some of America’s biggest companies

How China’s New Open Source AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance

‘A little-known AI lab out of China has ignited panic throughout Silicon Valley after releasing AI models that can outperform America’s best despite being built more cheaply and with less-powerful chips. DeepSeek, as the lab is called, unveiled a free, open-source large-language model in late December that it says took only two months and less than $6 million to build. The new developments have raised alarms on whether America’s global lead in artificial intelligence is shrinking and called into question big tech’s massive spend on building AI models and data centers. In a set of third-party benchmark tests, DeepSeek’s model outperformed Meta’s Llama 3.1, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5 in accuracy ranging from complex problem-solving to math and coding.’

Source CNBC January 24/24

The Court Painter Enterprise in a ruthless personnel move has booted the studio scribe Chatterley Gonad Preposterous Thunderbuns (Chat GPT) and contracted a new shiny AI scribe DeepSeek, who in the studio goes by the nickname DeepCheapSeeker!

DeepCheapSeeker was given the task of writing in Shakespearian rhyming couplet style, selected Headlines sourced from the January 27 National Newswatch


On Mark Carney’s Favour in Liberal Race


Mark Carney's star doth brightly shine,
While Freeland's glow doth less define.
In Liberal race, the people's voice,
Doth crown him as their favored choice.

On Doug Ford’s Strong Support


As election's call draws ever near,
Doug Ford's support doth loud appear.
The masses cheer, his strength they see,
A leader bold, as he claims to be.

On Trudeau’s Senate Plans


A source doth whisper, soft and low,
That Trudeau plans, ere he doth go,
To stack the Senate, fill each seat,
Before he maketh his retreat.

On Freeland’s Plan Against Trump


Freeland doth vow, with steely might,
To stand 'gainst Trump, to wage the fight.
Two hundred billion goods she'll tax,
A bold retort to his fat ass.

On Mark Carney’s Rise


Who is this man, this Carney bold,
Once central banker, now we're told,
He seeks to lead, to take the reins,
And guide the Liberals through their pain.

On Tech’s Shift to the Right


In Canadian tech, a shift is seen,
To Poilievre's side, where hopes convene.
They seek his touch his promised plan,
To innovate, as none else can.

On Ford’s Alcohol Expansion


Ford's haste to speed the drink's decree,
Shall cost the province's treasury.
Six hundred million, gold and more,
A heavy price for the liquor store.

On Hogue Inquiry’s Final Report


The Hogue report, with wisdom writ,
Doth seek to shield from falsehood's split.
Election's sanctity to defend,
'Gainst interference's wicked end.

On Jesus’ Shaking Head


Even Jesus, Lord of peace and love,
Doth shake his head at deeds thereof.
Such folly seen, such strife and woe,
That even He must sorrow show.

On Trump 2.0 and Liberalization


In Trump's new reign, the second round,
The premiers'voice doth resound.
"Diversify or die,"some cry,
While at home not all comply.

On History and Inclusion’s Bond


To know the past, to pledge anew,
To inclusion's path, both just and true.
These twined together, hand in hand,
Shall guide the fate of this fair land.

The Fabulist Age…

The true villains of modern history may be the social media overlords – Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, above all – who have stripped away any fetters on far-right lies and demagoguery.

Click link for Zeteo article

https://zeteo.com/p/the-internet-made-donald-trump?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Excerpted from article

Consider which ideas spread fastest online: not the ones that are most accurate, but the ones that receive the most attention.

This has turned large swaths of the internet into little more than a contest for liars. 

After all, online, who cares if claims are true or not, as long as people share them? The social and financial rewards of online attention are barely reduced when the underlying claim is false. Indeed, truth-tellers are at a massive disadvantage on the internet since they’re forced to compete with wild, hysterical, or completely manufactured material that has been engineered specifically to attract notice and be shared. Many people have persisted in publishing true facts anyway – but they often sink out of sight, occluded by the more viral claims of skilled fabulists.

A familiar ring…

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

― John Kenneth Galbraith

‘The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man’s oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities. The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor. The man who has struck it rich in minerals, oil, or other bounties of nature is found explaining the debilitating effect of unearned income from the state. The corporate executive who is a superlative success as an organization man weighs in on the evils of bureaucracy. Federal aid to education is feared by those who live in suburbs that could easily forgo this danger, and by people whose children are in public schools. Socialized medicine is condemned by men emerging from Walter Reed Hospital. Social Security is viewed with alarm by those who have the comfortable cushion of an inherited income. Those who are immediately threatened by public efforts to meet their needs — whether widows, small farmers, hospitalized veterans, or the unemployed — are almost always oblivious to the danger.’

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian-American economist, diplomat, author
Speech (1963-12-13), “Wealth and Poverty,” National Policy Committee on Pockets of P0verty

Court Painter with portrait of John Kenneth Galbraith

January 20 in America…

Martin Lurther King Jr. Day was signed into law in 1983, and first observed three years later on January 20, 1986. It continues to be celebrated each year in the USA on January 20th.

In March 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.brought together a group of more than 50 leaders representing Black Belt sharecroppers, Appalachian coal miners, Chicano farmworkers, and American Indians, among others, to join the Poor People’s Campaign. The poor, “both white and Negro, live in a cruelly unjust society,” he said. “If they can be helped to take action together, they will do so with a freedom and a power that will be a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life.”

On January 20/2025 Donald J Trump was inaugurated as the US 47th President. Convicted felon Donald J Trump brought together a group of supporting tech billionaires, millionaires, election denying Republican lawmakers, grifters of all stripes and numerous merchants of Trump merch. The President’s wife Melania in celebration of the event launched her own cryptocurrency Sunday on the eve of her husband’s presidential inauguration, just a day after his own cryptocurrency was launched. Ethics be damned!

A star supporter of the new president , the morbidly richest man in the world Elon Musk exemplified the spirit of the event with his enthusiastic remarks and straight arm salute very reminiscent of a Seig Heil.

the need for sincerity…

Front runners Mark Carney & Chrystia Freeland in the Liberal leadership stakes!

Click link for article

https://open.substack.com/pub/justinling/p/nothing-is-sincere-and-everything?r=1sx7vz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Nothing Is Sincere, and Everything Hurts

How troll politics are setting up an unreal era

JUSTIN LING

Court Painter with portrait of journalist Justin Ling

JAN 17, 2025

Excerpted from article:

The Need for Sincerity

‘I don’t know what four more years of Trump means. I have to suspect that it will not mean the annexation of Canada or Greenland. I believe it will mean cruelty to migrants whose only crime was trying to chase the American dream, trans people who just want basic respect, and a host of others who don’t fit into the reactionary vision Trump represents and who are easy targets for his high-velocity online propaganda machine.

And I know that the hollow patronizing from his liberal critics isn’t going to be an effective check on his power nor a popular alternative.’

Trump demonstrating an interest in geography!

‘For years, liberals have remained fundamentally stuck in their ways — while the left and non-reactionary right have only tried to emulate their tactics. They have lectured their critics to stop whining, insisted that things are better than they may seem, and defended their half-measures as sufficient, all the while insisting: We hear you.

Yet when Trump comes along, fundamentally in charge of the pervasive frustration present in Western society, he forces them to do more in a few days that they’ve done in years.

Trump demonstrating an interest in geography.

Now is the time to dismantle this rigid, inflexible, and paternalistic liberalism of self-fashioning, and figure out what an actual democratic, participatory politics would look like. It’s not enough for our politicians to become the symbol they think we want, it’s time they actually start speaking to people in real terms — offline, whenever possible — and leave the absurd conventions behind.

Now would be an ideal time for Carney, or one of his competitors, to model good behavior, drop the vacuousness of this modern liberalism, and show everyone what better can look like.

We don’t have five or ten years to figure this out. It needs to happen today.’

Justin Ling

we don’t know…

Court Painter was dragged out of his studio to explain ‘what the hell is going on?


He mumbled something to the affect that “we don’t know’.


Those in attendance thought that was a well considered and accurate accessment of …well…everything..

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A Hardon MacKay Court Painter’s Press Attache and Sales Manager thought this an opportune time to roll out inventory of previous Court Painter unsold gems to underscore Court Painter ‘s prescient words.

Court Painter with portrait of the upcoming”leader of the free world”.

Court Painter with portrait of the recent version of Capt Canada

Court Painter’s depiction of Alberta Premier Smith during her recent vacation trip to Mar a Lago

Court Painter with portrait of Robert Kennedy Jr. holding his symbol of health

Court Painter with portrait of Truth to Power Charlie Angus NDP MP

Court Painter with recent wartime deadly combination

Court Painter with candid portrait of Kevin Wonderpants O’Leary bearing his soul.

Court Painter with munching portrait of aspiring prime minister Pierre Poilievre

Court Painter with recent portait of leading contributing figure in civilizations race to the bottom: Mark Zuckerberg.

The RIGHT Stuff…

Court Painter went on a random painting spree in Mar A Lago ,capturing in memorable revelatory works some of the latest diehard Right leaning newsmakers and grifters during their ring kissing mission.

So many to choose from so little space!

The friends you keep!

Kevin Wonderpants O’Leary seen with Alberta Premier Smith and Jordan Rotter Peterson

Alberta Premier Smith seen with Mara A Lago regular Donald Trump

Albera Premier Smith seen with autograph hunters Don & Kevin

Court Painter seen with painting The RIGHT Stuff

Poster commissioned to be part of the inauguration ceremony for President Donald J Trump who modestly insisted on being in the background.

Court Painter proudly displays a recent The RIGHT Stuff painting

Poster commissioned to mark the Donald J Trump Presidental Inauguration 2025