Right now, there’s more AI billionaire drama than a Bravo Reality TV show - we break it down below along with:
Billie Eilish for climate
Climate unites US politics?
Big Plastic conspiracy
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Billie Eilish just dunked on every world tour
Billie Eilish is a big-time climate advocate. Last week, she sat down with National Geographic to talk sustainability.
She states the obvious about the concert business: It’s a giant, beautiful, money-printing trash machine.
Private jets.
Diesel trucks.
Plastic everywhere.
Enough tour merch to clothe a small nation.
So she changed it.
Cleaner production.
Lower emissions.
Less waste.
Millions raised for climate projects.
Same arenas.
Same screaming fans.
Less planet-destroying nonsense.
Elon Musk sues ChatGPT
OpenAI [aka ChatGPT] began as a nonprofit.
Build AI safely.
For people & planet.
Not for profit.
Elon Musk donated $100 million to this cause.
Then ChatGPT got huge.
Billions of $ in revenue.
OpenAI abruptly changed to for-profit, dumped Elon Musk
So Elon sued OpenAI: accusing OpenAI of “betraying their mission of benefiting humanity”.
And OpenAI sued Elon: claiming Elon is “motivated by jealousy, regrets walking away”.
The trial just started… this is trashy reality tv style drama… and these are the exact same billionaires:
Building illegal data centers in Memphis.
Downplaying concerns about AI’s water and energy use.
Promising AI will “definitely, absolutely, totally not replace humans”.
Does maximum $ profit no matter the cost sound familiar? We wrote about Allbirds ditching their Benefit Corporation status (what requires them to generate a positive impact on society and the environment) in order to build data centers.
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Rep the mission
A hat, but it actually stands for something.
Corduroy. Clean. Easy to wear.
The Earth patch makes a statement.
Profits fund clean energy and climate projects.
The King talks climate
King Charles III, another big-time climate advocate, came to Washington and talked about two things:
Climate
AI
His quote “we have a shared responsibility to safeguard nature” received a standing ovation by everyone in the room (both Democrats and Republicans).
Turns out, protecting the planet is not actually a radical idea.
It should be the easiest thing to agree on.
Climate Conspiracy
Rainn Wilson [aka Dwight Schrute] just called out Big Plastic.
Quick breakdown:
For decades, Big Plastic knew plastic recycling didn’t work at scale.
But they spent millions convincing you it did.
The bins.
The labels.
The little green arrows.
The guilt trip.
Even with their PR spin, plastic is still 100% non-biodegradable, meaning it will stay in landfills for 1000s of years after we’re gone.
Here’s what we’re going to do about it:
Reuse more.
Buy less plastic.
Recycle what actually works: aluminum, glass, paper.
Appreciate you being here. What you do matters.
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