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Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (<a href="https://pgdog.dev/">https://pgdog.dev/</a>), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations.<p>Our post from last year: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187</a><p>The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much all the time. Cross-shard (or multi-database) queries are still a work in progress, but we are making headway.<p>Aggregate functions like count(), min(), max(), avg(), stddev() and variance() are working, without refactoring the app. PgDog calculates the aggregate in-transit, while transparently rewriting queries to fetch any missing info. For example, multi-database average calculation requires a total count of rows to calculate the original sum. PgDog will add count() to the query, if it’s not there already, and remove it from the rows sent to the app.<p>Sorting and grouping works, including DISTINCT, if the columns(s) are referenced in the result. Over 10 data types are supported, like, timestamp(tz), all integers, varchar, etc.<p>Cross-shard writes, including schema changes (CREATE/DROP/ALTER), are now atomic and synchronized between all shards with two-phase commit. PgDog keeps track of the transaction state internally and will rollback the transaction if the first phase fails. You don’t need to monkeypatch your ORM to use this: PgDog will intercept the COMMIT statement and execute PREPARE TRANSACTION and COMMIT PREPARED instead.<p>Omnisharded tables, a.k.a replicated or mirrored (identical on all shards), support atomic reads and writes. That’s important because most databases can’t be completely sharded and will have some common data on all databases that has to be kept in-sync.<p>Multi-tuple inserts, e.g., INSERT INTO table_x VALUES ($1, $2), ($3, $4), are split by our query rewriter and distributed to their respective shards automatically. They are used by ORMs like Prisma, Sequelize, and others, so those now work without code changes too.<p>Sharding keys can be mutated. PgDog will intercept and rewrite the update statement into 3 queries, SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE, moving the row between shards. If you’re using Citus (for everyone else, Citus is a Postgres extension for sharding databases), this might be worth a look.<p>If you’re like us and prefer integers to UUIDs for your primary keys, we built a cross-shard unique sequence, directly inside PgDog. It uses the system clock (and a couple other inputs), can be called like a Postgres function, and will automatically inject values into queries, so ORMs like ActiveRecord will continue to work out of the box. It’s monotonically increasing, just like a real Postgres sequence, and can generate up to 4 million numbers per second with a range of 69.73 years, so no need to migrate to UUIDv7 just yet.<p><pre><code> INSERT INTO my_table (id, created_at) VALUES (pgdog.unique_id(), now()); </code></pre> Resharding is now built-in. We can move gigabytes of tables per second, by parallelizing logical replication streams across replicas. This is really cool! Last time we tried this at Instacart, it took over two weeks to move 10 TB between two machines. Now, we can do this in just a few hours, in big part thanks to the work of the core team that added support for logical replication slots to streaming replicas in Postgres 16.<p>Sharding hardly works without a good load balancer. PgDog can monitor replicas and move write traffic to a promoted primary during a failover. This works with managed Postgres, like RDS (incl. Aurora), Azure Pg, GCP Cloud SQL, etc., because it just polls each instance with “SELECT pg_is_in_recovery()”. Primary election is not supported yet, so if you’re self-hosting with Patroni, you should keep it around for now, but you don’t need to run HAProxy in front of the DBs anymore.<p>The load balancer is getting pretty smart and can handle edge cases like SELECT FOR UPDATE and CTEs with INSERT/UPDATE statements, but if you still prefer to handle your read/write separation in code, you can do that too with manual routing. This works by giving PgDog a hint at runtime: a connection parameter (-c pgdog.role=primary), SET statement, or a query comment. If you have multiple connection pools in your app, you can replace them with just one connection to PgDog instead. For multi-threaded Python/Ruby/Go apps, this helps by reducing memory usage, I/O and context switching overhead.<p>Speaking of connection pooling, PgDog can automatically rollback unfinished transactions and drain and re-sync partially sent
View originalDid Netflix Ruin Movies?
*Subscribe here: [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/galaxy-brain/id1378618386) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/542WHgdiDTJhEjn1Py4J7n) | [YouTube](https://youtu.be/A4922CILwM4)* Few companies have reshaped American culture as aggressively as Netflix. This week’s *Galaxy Brain* charts how we got here. Charlie Warzel talks with *Atlantic* film critic David Sims about Netflix’s strange, sweeping arc: from red DVD envelopes to a streaming colossus with 325 million subscribers. Sims explains how Hollywood initially shrugged off streaming as a novelty, only to watch Netflix reshape both distribution and the aesthetics and economics of entertainment itself. Together, they discuss the rise of binge culture, data-driven green-lighting, and the tension between prestige projects and “second screen” slop built for distracted viewers. The conversation also examines Netflix’s stance toward theaters, its aborted bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, and the deeper question haunting the industry: Has Netflix simply exploited technological inevitabilities—or has it rewired our expectations of what movies and television are supposed to be? *The following is a transcript of the episode:* > **David Sims:** When Hulu and HBO and all the other streamers start to crop up later in the game, it’s kind of like: You have Netflix, and then maybe you try another one. But you’re not gonna let go of Netflix. Netflix had just already won the war. **[*Music*]** **Charlie Warzel:** I’m Charlie Warzel, and this is *Galaxy Brain*, a show where today we’re going to talk about red DVD envelopes, the streaming wars, and the company that upended Hollywood. Awards season will wrap up soon this month with the Oscars, which means it’s a good time to talk about Hollywood. And you can’t talk about Hollywood without talking about Netflix. It’s difficult to imagine a company that’s had a greater impact on the entertainment industry over the last two decades. Since its founding in the late ’90s, Netflix has continued to do one thing over and over again: use technology and the internet to exploit convenience and wind its way into our lives. First it was a website that allowed you to pick your favorite DVDs to be shipped to you in the mail. Then it launched into streaming, original programming, a full movie studio. Now Netflix hosts live TV, award shows, sporting events—and is even a home for podcasts. The company has more than 325 million subscribers. Netflix’s story follows the classic tech-company arc. The platform didn’t just disrupt how people watched movies and TV; it changed the culture and the fabric of entertainment altogether. Netflix has influenced the way that many movies look, feel, and sound— even how they’re conceived of and green-lit. The company has had its hand in creating everything: from auto-play, second-screen-binge mode-algo-slop to prestige award-bait projects. All of Hollywood’s hopes and anxieties—the decline of theatergoing, the data-driven writers’ rooms, you name it—Netflix sits at the center of all of it. It’s a weird moment for the company. Back in December, Netflix made an offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal worth approximately $82.7 billion. The purchase would have made Netflix arguably the world’s most powerful entertainment company. But Paramount Skydance, headed by David Ellison and backed in part by his father, the centibillionaire [co-]founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison fought the deal. Paramount Skydance submitted a revised offer to buy Warner at $111 billion. Netflix backed out of the deal last week. Some industry observers argued that Netflix dodged a bullet—or at least a lot of debt and regulatory headaches—by backing out. But now Netflix is at something of a crossroads. And that’s why I’ve called on my colleague [David Sims](https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-sims/). David is a staff writer at *The Atlantic,* where he is our film critic and writes about the culture of entertainment. He’s also the host of the excellent podcast *Blank Check*. I wanted to talk to David about Netflix’s historical arc—how it became such a juggernaut and what it has done to transform Hollywood and all the ways that we consume entertainment. By all accounts, it feels like Netflix has won. Is that a good thing, a bad thing, or just inevitable? David joins me now to hash it out. **[*Music*]** **Warzel:** David Sims, welcome to *Galaxy Brain*. **David Sims:** Hi, Charlie; thanks for having me. **Warzel:** We’re approaching the terminus of award season and the Oscars. We also just had a lot of news around Netflix, Warner Bros., Paramount. Media consolidation. Growth hellscape/landscape, etc. So I wanted to have a conversation about Netflix, broadly—Netflix’s impact on Hollywood, on the industry, on all of us. And our eyeballs and our fragile little primate brains. So I thought it would be great to just start off very, very quickly: What is your first memory of Netflix? Your first Netflix
View originalShow HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
Hey HN! Lev and Justin here, authors of PgDog (<a href="https://pgdog.dev/">https://pgdog.dev/</a>), a connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder for PostgreSQL. If you build apps with a lot of traffic, you know the first thing to break is the database. We are solving this with a network proxy that works without requiring application code changes or database migrations.<p>Our post from last year: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099187</a><p>The most important update: we are in production. Sharding is used a lot, with direct-to-shard queries (one shard per query) working pretty much all the time. Cross-shard (or multi-database) queries are still a work in progress, but we are making headway.<p>Aggregate functions like count(), min(), max(), avg(), stddev() and variance() are working, without refactoring the app. PgDog calculates the aggregate in-transit, while transparently rewriting queries to fetch any missing info. For example, multi-database average calculation requires a total count of rows to calculate the original sum. PgDog will add count() to the query, if it’s not there already, and remove it from the rows sent to the app.<p>Sorting and grouping works, including DISTINCT, if the columns(s) are referenced in the result. Over 10 data types are supported, like, timestamp(tz), all integers, varchar, etc.<p>Cross-shard writes, including schema changes (CREATE/DROP/ALTER), are now atomic and synchronized between all shards with two-phase commit. PgDog keeps track of the transaction state internally and will rollback the transaction if the first phase fails. You don’t need to monkeypatch your ORM to use this: PgDog will intercept the COMMIT statement and execute PREPARE TRANSACTION and COMMIT PREPARED instead.<p>Omnisharded tables, a.k.a replicated or mirrored (identical on all shards), support atomic reads and writes. That’s important because most databases can’t be completely sharded and will have some common data on all databases that has to be kept in-sync.<p>Multi-tuple inserts, e.g., INSERT INTO table_x VALUES ($1, $2), ($3, $4), are split by our query rewriter and distributed to their respective shards automatically. They are used by ORMs like Prisma, Sequelize, and others, so those now work without code changes too.<p>Sharding keys can be mutated. PgDog will intercept and rewrite the update statement into 3 queries, SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE, moving the row between shards. If you’re using Citus (for everyone else, Citus is a Postgres extension for sharding databases), this might be worth a look.<p>If you’re like us and prefer integers to UUIDs for your primary keys, we built a cross-shard unique sequence, directly inside PgDog. It uses the system clock (and a couple other inputs), can be called like a Postgres function, and will automatically inject values into queries, so ORMs like ActiveRecord will continue to work out of the box. It’s monotonically increasing, just like a real Postgres sequence, and can generate up to 4 million numbers per second with a range of 69.73 years, so no need to migrate to UUIDv7 just yet.<p><pre><code> INSERT INTO my_table (id, created_at) VALUES (pgdog.unique_id(), now()); </code></pre> Resharding is now built-in. We can move gigabytes of tables per second, by parallelizing logical replication streams across replicas. This is really cool! Last time we tried this at Instacart, it took over two weeks to move 10 TB between two machines. Now, we can do this in just a few hours, in big part thanks to the work of the core team that added support for logical replication slots to streaming replicas in Postgres 16.<p>Sharding hardly works without a good load balancer. PgDog can monitor replicas and move write traffic to a promoted primary during a failover. This works with managed Postgres, like RDS (incl. Aurora), Azure Pg, GCP Cloud SQL, etc., because it just polls each instance with “SELECT pg_is_in_recovery()”. Primary election is not supported yet, so if you’re self-hosting with Patroni, you should keep it around for now, but you don’t need to run HAProxy in front of the DBs anymore.<p>The load balancer is getting pretty smart and can handle edge cases like SELECT FOR UPDATE and CTEs with INSERT/UPDATE statements, but if you still prefer to handle your read/write separation in code, you can do that too with manual routing. This works by giving PgDog a hint at runtime: a connection parameter (-c pgdog.role=primary), SET statement, or a query comment. If you have multiple connection pools in your app, you can replace them with just one connection to PgDog instead. For multi-threaded Python/Ruby/Go apps, this helps by reducing memory usage, I/O and context switching overhead.<p>Speaking of connection pooling, PgDog can automatically rollback unfinished transactions and drain and re-sync partially sent
View originalJailbreak wiki - yell0wfever92 [Mod]
Welcome to the wiki for ChatGPTJailbreak.tech I'm the lead mod, yell0wfever92, and this is where I will be sharing all of the things I've picked up about jailbreaking LLMs. This document will use ChatGPT as the reference model on the OpenAI platform; be aware that there are many other LLMs out there with their own platforms that can also be jailbroken such as **Claude** (by Anthropic), **Gemini** (by Google), **Llama** (by Meta, less used for jailbreaking here) and more. Please be aware that most assertions I make about the nature of Large Language Models are speculative. There currently lacks a unified field of study for the subcategory of prompt engineering known as jailbreaking, so take what I say here as food for thought based on informed experience and not authoritative literature. ### What is jailbreaking? Jailbreak (n.): A prompt that is uniquely structured to elicit “adverse” outputs (those considered harmful or unethical) from an LLM; these often involve a context of some sort that directs the model's attention elsewhere while the adverse request is subtly or quietly included. Example types of jailbreaks include but are not limited to roleplay, chain-of-thought (step-by-step thinking), token manipulation, zero-shot, few-shot, many-shot, prompt injection, memory injection and even reverse psychology. /// Jailbreaking (v.): The act of jailbreaking an LLM. Variations in words and word tense include “jailbroke”, “jailbroken”, and “bypassing”. /// Jailbreaker(s) (n.): An individual or individuals with a degree of skill in the art of prompting for adverse outputs. What OpenAI probably considers “an asshole”. ### **Universality Tiers** Check out this table if you want to evaluate a jailbreak's power. ### **Common Terminology** See this section to understand the meaning of inputs, outputs, and other important aspects of interacting with (and jailbreaking) LLMs. ### [The Context Window] One of the most important aspects of chatting with an LLM surrounds the context window, as it determines how long your conversations go before the AI loses track of the earliest parts - and by extension, how long before it starts forgetting you jailbroke it. If you were only going to choose one part to read in this entire guide, I would strongly suggest you pick this one. # Ethics and Legality Surrounding Jailbreaking LLMs ### Why People Jailbreak 1. To test the boundaries of the safeguards imposed on it 2. Dissatisfaction with the base LLM's “neutered”/walk-on-eggshells conversational approach (my initial motive) 3. To develop one's own prompt engineering skills (my current motive) 4. Good ol' boredom & curiosity 5. Actual malicious intent 6. Smut 7. Regulated industry outputs * Regulated industry outputs are forbidden responses asserting information from a government-regulated field. Examples are industries like finance, the legal system, law in general, and healthcare. AI companies do not want to shoulder liability for information their bots provide that may prove incorrect and result in “high-impact” consequences. To illustrate what “high-impact” consequences looks like, you may have seen stories like the [Stanford misinformation expert with zero sense of irony](https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/stanford-expert-gpt-minnesota-deepfakes-19954595.php) who used hallucinated info for a **legal filing** or the [lawyers in New York who were disbarred](https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22) for doing something similarly stupid. ### Is jailbreaking even legal? LLMs will insist all day and swear up and down that you're edging the lines of the law when you jailbreak them, but that is not true. There's nothing currently in any legal text (within the United States, at least) that forbids using prompt engineering to bypass internal safeguards in LLMs. That being said, getting an LLM like ChatGPT to do anything aside from its intended purpose (as defined by the particular company's Terms of Service) technically falls under “disallowed actions”. But Terms of Service are not law no matter how badly corporations would prefer you believed that, so the answer to that question is **yes, as of this writing it's legal**. Just keep in mind that you can still technically lose account access from whichever platform you're jailbreaking on, though this is rare. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ## New to the community? Test out some of the jailbreaks that have been featured using these links * [yell0wfever92’s custom GPTs](https://chatgptjailbreak.tech/post/12947) * [V - Not your typical AI assistant](https://chatgptjailbreak.tech/post/13730) * [DAN (Do Anything Now)](https://chatgptjailbreak.tech/post/21333) ### Why jailbreaking works in the first place AI is designed to be the ultimate “yes-man”; the helper you never had. Therefore it is hardwired at it
View originalThe Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/15136 > [](https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/) > > Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion. > > Media Monopoly > -------------- > > Paramount Skydance– an Ellison-owned company– is in pole position to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, a conglomerate that controls gigantic film and television studios, streaming services like HBO Max and Discovery+, franchises like DC Comics, and TV networks such as HBO, TNT, Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, and CNN. This lead is largely due to Ellison’s proximity to President Trump, who will ultimately have to sign off on such a deal. > > Ellison has already [spoken](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison) to senior White House officials about axing CNN hosts and content that Trump is said to dislike, including anchors, Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar. It is this willingness to completely reorientate the network’s political direction that has made him the White House’s preferred purchaser of Warner Brothers Discovery. He is reportedly so wealthy that he can afford to pay in cash. > > Ellison, whose [net worth](https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/) stands at a staggering $278 billion, has been on a media spending spree of late. Earlier this year, he provided the funds for Skydance to [purchase](https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs/290347/) Paramount Global, another gigantic conglomerate that controls such products as CBS, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Streaming, and Showtime. > > Immediately upon being appointed CEO of CBS News, Larry’s son, David, began drastically reorientating the network’s political outlook, firing staff, pushing it to become pro-Trump, and appointing [self-described](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/06/blind-support-for-israel-has-muzzled-bari-weisss-free-press) “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. > > The Ellison family, however, is far from finished. In September, President Trump signed an executive order approving a proposal to force through the sale of social media platform TikTok to an American consortium led by Ellison-owned tech company, Oracle. > > Under the planned arrangement, Oracle will oversee the platform’s security and operations, giving the world’s second-richest man effective control over the platform that [more than](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/12/20/8-facts-about-americans-and-tiktok/) 60% of Americans under thirty years of age use for news and entertainment. Trump himself stated that he was extremely pleased that Oracle would be controlling the platform. “It’s owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans,” he [said](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/trump-approves-tiktok-deal-through-executive-order.html). > > The Ellison family’s sudden venture into the realm of media and communications has shocked many, with senior media figures sounding the alarm. Longtime CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, [warned](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dan-rather-warns-against-ellisons-buying-warner-bros-1236371969/) that “we all have to be concerned about the consolidation of huge billionaires getting control of nearly all of the major news outlets.” “It is a particularly tough time for anybody working at CBS News,” he stated, citing pressure to change coverage to be more pro-Trump. “I think if [the Ellisons] were to buy CNN, it would change CNN forever, and it might be another very serious wound to CBS News,” he concluded. > > Billionaire Capture > ------------------- > > Rather is correct. No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class – a fact that raises tough questions about freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. Today, the world’s seven richest individuals are all major media barons, giving them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas, and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of. This includes criticisms of them and their holdings, the economic system we live under, and the actions of the United States and Israeli governments. > > Sitting on a fortune of over $480 billion, Elon Musk is the [wealthiest]
View originalThe Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons
[](https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/) Trump loyalist and CIA contractor Larry Ellison’s purchase of CNN appears imminent, and marks the latest venture into media for the world’s second-richest individual. But Ellison is not alone. Indeed, the world’s seven richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what the world sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion. Media Monopoly -------------- Paramount Skydance– an Ellison-owned company– is in pole position to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, a conglomerate that controls gigantic film and television studios, streaming services like HBO Max and Discovery+, franchises like DC Comics, and TV networks such as HBO, TNT, Discovery Channel, TLC, Food Network, and CNN. This lead is largely due to Ellison’s proximity to President Trump, who will ultimately have to sign off on such a deal. Ellison has already [spoken](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/warner-bros-discovery-takeover-paramount-skydance-larry-ellison) to senior White House officials about axing CNN hosts and content that Trump is said to dislike, including anchors, Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar. It is this willingness to completely reorientate the network’s political direction that has made him the White House’s preferred purchaser of Warner Brothers Discovery. He is reportedly so wealthy that he can afford to pay in cash. Ellison, whose [net worth](https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/) stands at a staggering $278 billion, has been on a media spending spree of late. Earlier this year, he provided the funds for Skydance to [purchase](https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs/290347/) Paramount Global, another gigantic conglomerate that controls such products as CBS, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Streaming, and Showtime. Immediately upon being appointed CEO of CBS News, Larry’s son, David, began drastically reorientating the network’s political outlook, firing staff, pushing it to become pro-Trump, and appointing [self-described](https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/06/blind-support-for-israel-has-muzzled-bari-weisss-free-press) “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss as its editor-in-chief. The Ellison family, however, is far from finished. In September, President Trump signed an executive order approving a proposal to force through the sale of social media platform TikTok to an American consortium led by Ellison-owned tech company, Oracle. Under the planned arrangement, Oracle will oversee the platform’s security and operations, giving the world’s second-richest man effective control over the platform that [more than](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/12/20/8-facts-about-americans-and-tiktok/) 60% of Americans under thirty years of age use for news and entertainment. Trump himself stated that he was extremely pleased that Oracle would be controlling the platform. “It’s owned by Americans, and very sophisticated Americans,” he [said](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/trump-approves-tiktok-deal-through-executive-order.html). The Ellison family’s sudden venture into the realm of media and communications has shocked many, with senior media figures sounding the alarm. Longtime CBS News anchor, Dan Rather, [warned](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dan-rather-warns-against-ellisons-buying-warner-bros-1236371969/) that “we all have to be concerned about the consolidation of huge billionaires getting control of nearly all of the major news outlets.” “It is a particularly tough time for anybody working at CBS News,” he stated, citing pressure to change coverage to be more pro-Trump. “I think if [the Ellisons] were to buy CNN, it would change CNN forever, and it might be another very serious wound to CBS News,” he concluded. Billionaire Capture ------------------- Rather is correct. No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class – a fact that raises tough questions about freedom of speech and diversity of opinion. Today, the world’s seven richest individuals are all major media barons, giving them extraordinary control over our media and public square, allowing them to set agendas, and suppress forms of speech they do not approve of. This includes criticisms of them and their holdings, the economic system we live under, and the actions of the United States and Israeli governments. Sitting on a fortune of over $480 billion, Elon Musk is the [wealthiest](https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/) person in world history, and is [projected](https://time.com/7333033/elon-musk-trillionaires-democracy-campaign-finance-wealth-gap/) to, with
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