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Matt Clifford, Snake oil salesman, founder of Entrepreneur First startup incubator and chair of the UK's ARIA research committee (that hands out money to researchers) quietly doing a fascism* by joining anthropic whilst also continuing to be a civil servant. Other high profile anthropic ~~bribe~~ salary receivers include Rishi Sunak the former Prime Minister and George Osbourne the former Chancellor.
*from Wikipedia: Corporatism became a main tenets of Italian fascism, and Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy advocated the total integration of divergent interests into the state for the common good
oh boy do i have notes on this fucker, going back to jan 2025
Tonight's pivot article? 😊