9 #witnesses in the #criminal cases against #Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, & a grant of shares & cash from Trump’s media co.
Attempts to exert undue #influence on #witnesses have been a repeated theme of #Trump investigations & #criminal cases over the yrs.
Trump’s fmr campaign mgr & fmr campaign adviser were #convicted on #WitnessTampering charges in 2018 & 19. The adviser told a witness to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli’”–a character in “The Godfather Part II” who lies to a Senate cmte investigating #OrganizedCrime. Trump later #pardoned both men….(He didn’t pardon a co-defendant of the campaign manager who had cooperated)
White-collar defense #lawyers say the situation #Trump finds himself in—…defendant & boss of many of the …primary #witnesses to his alleged #crimes —is not uncommon. Their standard advice is not to provide any unusual benefits or penalties to such employees. Ideally, decisions about employees slated to give #evidence should be made by an independent body….
Feeling pushed triggers our 'anti-persuasion radar,' even if the push aligns with our goals. Many want to speak up more in team meetings. However, when it's a corporate drive, we question if it's our choice or a push, leading to silence.
Has anyone seen Agile transitions fail because of this?
The TidePod challenge grew from a warning that felt like a restriction. When people perceive a threat to their autonomy, they tend to rebel. To have real influence, start with understanding their needs
THREAD: This might sound crazy, but in Ursula von der Leyen's official schedule, which you can view online, there wasn’t a single meeting with environmental activists listed at any time in the past year. What we did find, in the past 4 months alone, were 3 separate meetings with farming groups.
The latest #doxxing attempt fits a pattern of #threats against people who speak out against Trump.
The addresses & phone numbers of fmr Trump lawyer Cohen's family members were posted to a doxxing website after Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts in connection w/a scheme to illegally #influence the #2016election.
Well, now we can finally declare AI as a foreign destination and declare it as such. Then the eavesdropping and exertion of influence would at least be "honest" clowns.
»The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings:
Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.«
#Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection w/a #HushMoney payment made to a porn star to influence the 2016 election. The case could be in the jury’s hands as early as Wed.
charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
The prosecution’s discussion of the deal w/ #KarenMcDougal —brokered in summer 2016— demonstrated that the payment was part of a #conspiracy to #influence that year’s #election.
Pecker said that McDougal’s payment was disguised as a contract for services, to avoid violating #CampaignFinance#laws.
#Trump has his posse again. Today it’s more #Republican elected officials. Today, Trump will be joined by the #House speaker, #MikeJohnson, as well as #NorthDakota’s governor, #DougBurgum, a contender to be Trump's running mate. Also present will be Representatives #ByronDonalds & #CoryMills of Florida, & #VivekRamaswamy, who was one of Trump's primary rivals this year. Both Donalds & Ramaswamy are longshot hopefuls to be Trump's running mate.
#Hoffinger, the prosecutor, asks #MichaelCohen why he paid the money to #StormyDaniels. Cohen says he did so to #influence the #election, & that he did so at #Trump’s direction. This is a summary of the key themes & may signal that direct examination is coming to an end soon.
Trump’s lawyers are on edge thru this part of Cohen’s testimony. #Blanche & #Bove pass notes.
Trump, however, appears to be dozing peacefully. #NodFarter
[…] "Im Moment wird der Einsatz von KI in erster Linie von Geschäftsmodellen, Investitionen und Profit getrieben – vom Kapitalismus. KI ist ein Werkzeug unter vielen, um kapitalistische Strukturen zu stärken. Dabei geht es nicht um Gerechtigkeit, Fairness oder Gleichheit, sondern eine Welt der Ungleichheit." […]
🧵 …auch wenn viele Menschen die KI nicht selbst bewusst nutzen, heißt dies noch lange nicht, dass es keine Auswirkung auf die Menschheit im allgemeinem hat. Dessen Einsatz ist öfters Staatlich kommerziell, siehe oben.
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»New AI tools much hyped but not much used, study says:
Very few people are regularly using "much hyped" artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT, a survey suggests.«
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CARMINE APPICE Knows For A 'Fact' That JOHN BONHAM Was Influenced By His Drumming
In a new interview with RadioBypass, legendary drummer Carmine Appice was asked if he thinks LED ZEPPELIN's John Bonham "picked up" any "tricks" from him when ZEPPELIN opened for VANILLA FUDGE early in the latter band's career. Carmine responded: "I know [it] as...
#ElonMusk has steadily ramped up his criticism of #Biden…. Musk has posted about Biden ≥7X a month since Jan, attacking the president for everything from his age to his policies on immigration & health. Before that, he posted about Biden twice in Dec & not at all in Nov. In all, #Musk had posted nearly 40X about Biden this year, compared w/about 30X for all of last year.
In contrast, #Musk had posted >20X this yr about #Trump. In those posts, #ElonMusk defended Trump, arguing that he is a #victim of #media & prosecutorial #bias in the #criminal cases that Trump faces.
Musk’s posts…signal…a willingness to tip the #political scales as the owner of an influential #SocialMedia#platform, something that no other leader of a social media firm has done. And Musk exerts outsize #influence over the political discourse on X, where he regularly posts to his 184M followers
Journalists in the west now seem to finally be admitting that our media environment has seen a radical shift towards anti-democratic forces.
Yet. This didn’t come out of nowhere.
Remember those same people posting RT clips daily back in 2015?
As far as my home country goes, we have pretty solid evidence that even if we have only ourselves to blame for supporting these people, #Russia had an #influence and provided a lot of the #disinformation ammo they shot with.
#Influence at Work - Asking someone in leadership to take the perspective of the development team will be a challenge if that leader doesn't have prior development experience. We need to establish common ground on a relevant subject. We need to find a shared experience that that is relevant to our work. Example if the problem is frequent interruptions to our dev team, then find ask them about the effect of interruptions on their own focus work. Ask open ended questions and truly listen.
#Influence At Work - asking for something too far away from what someone already agrees with will harden their current position and not move them. Distance.
Berger uses a football field to describe opinions, with extreme views in the end zones + moderate in the center. Each person has a 'Zone of Acceptance' around their opinion; opinions beyond this enter the 'Region of Rejection.' Presenting an idea far from someone's current stance reinforces their existing view.