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Hashim Mteuzi

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Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 8d

MAGA was always about Black people. If you don’t see that, you don’t understand MAGA.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 12d

Every right you have depends on your willingness to stand up for it, even when harassment is the price.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 22d

“Antifa” simply means anti-fascist.

In a democratic society, everyone should oppose fascism.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 23d

Racists should be automatically disqualified from holding power.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 25d

Settler-colonialism is theft. It’s violence. It’s genocide.
I will always stand against it.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 27d

The trap of liberal ‘middle ground’ is that it treats anti-Black racism as a matter of opinion. But when the premise is that our humanity is conditional, there is nothing to debate. Only harm in entertaining it.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · 29d

Do people only say “rhetoric” when they’re too scared to admit someone’s just being racist?

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Sep 5

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 28

Reminder: 99.9% of all mass shooters in the U.S. are cisgender.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 25

Routine reminder that executive orders are not laws and are invalid and unenforceable when they conflict with existing laws or the Constitution.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 19

Almost everything you need to know about the United States today can be explained by Christmas Day, 1868.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 18

Many folks forget or just don't know that the Black Panther Party was at the forefront of the fight against capitalism and imperialism.

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 12

Imagine a system where workers have political power, and the economy is planned to meet the needs of the people and the planet.

That’s socialism.
Who’s mad at that?

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

If you’re not careful, you’ll mistake this for generosity.
But this is NOT benevolence.
It’s capitalism at its most sophisticated and strategic.

$1 today.
Billions tomorrow.
And we, the people, foot the bill, in more ways than one.

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Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

This is NOT about innovation.
It’s about building dependence, extracting value, and consolidating power.

The government becomes a client.
The worker becomes a data source.
The public becomes an afterthought.

All in the name of “AI for good.”
11/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

Remember: this isn’t new.

Gillette gave away razors to sell blades.
Amazon sold Kindles at cost to control e-books.
Netflix offered free trials to dominate streaming.
Now OpenAI is giving the government ChatGPT Enterprise for an entire year.

And then comes the bill.
10/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

They call this “public-private partnership.”
But it’s not partnership, it’s capture.

📌 Workers are exploited.
📌 Public data is extracted.
📌 Government capacity is hollowed out.
📌 Corporate power expands.

And it all starts with a symbolic $1.
9/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

This is about class power.

The ruling class is digitizing state functions and handing control to fellow billionaires.
AI is just the next phase of privatization.

And the government isn’t just complicit, it’s dependent.
8/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

And don’t forget who benefits.

This is a gift-wrapped market monopoly.
Smaller AI companies? Priced out.
Open-source competitors? Excluded.
Democracy? Compromised.

All so one company can embed itself inside the federal government for pennies.
7/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

This $1 deal also helps OpenAI shape future AI policy from the inside.

By becoming the default tool inside federal agencies, OpenAI can set standards, write guidelines, and influence regulation to benefit itself—while the public is locked out of the conversation.
6/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

This is the logic of platform capitalism:

→ Offer the tool “for free”
→ Extract value from user behavior
→ Monetize the patterns
→ Replace the worker
→ Sell access to government dependency at scale

The worker is not the customer.
The worker is the product.
5/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

Government workers using ChatGPT aren’t just users—they’re data generators.

Every prompt, every workflow, every decision becomes behavioral surplus which is valuable metadata for OpenAI to study, monetize, and refine its tools.

And none of that value goes back to the public.
4/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

This is the same playbook Amazon used with AWS, Google used with Chrome, and Microsoft used with Windows.

First: give it away (or close to it).
Next: make yourself indispensable.
Finally: monetize the lock-in through contracts, subscriptions, and total data control.
3/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

This isn’t a favor. It’s a bait-and-capture model.

The $1 price tag is designed to lock in government dependency, gather behavioral data, and pave the way for massive future contracts, all while giving OpenAI influence over the rules, ethics, and infrastructure of public sector AI.
2/x

Hashim Mteuzi @hashimmteuzi.com · Aug 7

OpenAI is giving the U.S. government access to ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 per agency.

TechCrunch says it’s basically free.
Let’s talk about why that’s not generous, but instead it’s a strategic power grab wrapped in a loss leader.

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