Time owner Marc Benioff gave Trump a flattering cover and article and wrote a lying article called "The Truth about AI"

[highplainsdem]

Benioff's a tech bro, too, CEO of Salesforce.

Here's the cover and article Trump will just love:

https://time.com/magazine/us/7346869/january-26th-2026-vol-207-no-1-worldwide/

Benioff's bullshit about AI:

https://time.com/collections/davos-2026/7339209/ai-revolution-agentic-enterprise/

Not one word about how flawed the tech is or the harm it does. It's simply promoting AI, as the cover article promotes Trump.

This is a travesty of journalism.

[pat_k]

1. Yes. It is. A travesty.

The remedy to all the horrors of our current crisis lies in finding ways to inspire citizens to step up in ways that go far beyond voting.

Ultimately, a seriously engaged citizenry is the counterweight.

But to get there we need to be making some serious investments in supporting citizen action and citizen lobbying. Doing everything on a damn shoestring is a formula for burnout. Relying on electoral politics to save us isn't working. We need citizens kicking our electeds asses to ACTUALLY enact laws that serve us.

And if we value citizen participation as the bedrock of all, we must create ways to support it with technology and paid professional services.

More on that here:
https://www.greatergoodusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/what_next.pdf

[highplainsdem]

4. What is Greater Good USA? It isn't in Wikipedia, I can't find any news articles on it, or DU mentions.

[pat_k]

5. Oh jeez. It was a little project I started back in 2018.

I bought the URL and created a website. My plan was to discover organizations who were enlisting people in citizen action or lobbying campaigns and use the site to promote the doings and enlist others.

After setting up the basic structure of the site, life got in the way and I never got it off the ground. But I've kept the site as a place to host and provide links to videos, images, or PDF content.

Here's the content I wrote back then:
https://greatergoodusa.com

What I wrote back then has actually aged pretty well. Perhaps one of these days I'll devote time to making something of it.

Just an FYI, in additional to the domain GreaterGoodUSA.com/org, I own
ZenithCivics.com/org,
BeInspiredBeHeard.com/org
RedeemOurNationalSoul.com/org

The only one I still have hopes of doing something with is BeInspiredBeHeard.com/org.

Buying domains is easy. Actually making something of one, that's the rub.

[newdeal2]

2. That cover isn't flattering. Thinning hair and weird white lines under his eyes

Hands as big as his head. Someone at TIME must still hate him.

[dalton99a]

3. Trump will be the next Person of the Year

or he will have Bondi start a criminal investigation