Well, I think far worse about Anthropic than I did before seeing this news.
Microsoft? Not so much, my esteem for them was already in the shitter.
Isn’t it traditional to reward those “elected” who boosted one’s “lobby”?
He’s still got his ties in gov’t: he can continue “influencing” gov’t for his owners’ sake, obviously…
Lobbying needs to be openly declared to be bribery & criminally-undermining.
( like that’ll happen within my lifetime… )
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Why?
He’s a useless twat, what good will he bring Microsoft other than helping kill them?
An AI startup sounds about right for him, but why is MS employing him?
A) because they have more money than they know what to do with it.
B) because they think that greasing his palms will help them schmooze and collude with even more ultra-wealthy people, and get them even more money and influence.
C) he already did things to benefit them or tried to do so, and this is the payment
Didn’t Nick Clegg go to work for Facebook?
Rishi Sunak can still influence the government on Microsoft’s behalf.
Isn’t Rishi Sunak married into an Indian billionaire IT family?
Sunak’s wife is the daughter of the founder of Infosys (who’s also a bigtime Modi crony).
Isn’t that the same Infosys that is involved in scamming the H1B visa programme by using “projects” with non profits to bypass the H1B cap? I think it is.
Human trafficking with more steps, making a small group of people obscenely rich.
Why do useless rich dickwads always have the need for another grifting position?
At what time do they go enjoy their free time and be as free of the world as someone can be?
If this were truly a democracy, his constituents would get a referendum on whether he can both represent them and Microsoft at the same time.
I thought we at least used to try to hide the corruption.
Prime ministers have very few constraints on their money-making once they’ve left office. Sunak’s far from the first to get his snout in the trough.
