I've felt for ages that the continual push of AI has less to do with art, advertising, or even spending less money on competent employees; I think it's always been about creating an even more thorough panopticon for the security industry and military industrial complex.

They've tried to push through an amendment ("countering foreign interference") that is worded in such a way as to make climate protests illegal; unsure yet whether that's been successful or not but I only found out about it the same day public submissions on it closed

They've been doing a whole bunch of fucked shit over the holidays. Nikola Willis' has also done a bait and switch with tourism industry funding, increasing the tourism tax so she can take crown money earmarked for tourism and use it to fund tax cuts for the rich.