More Public Humiliations for Tech Fascists, Please

We’re getting a little look inside the star-studded, ever-exclusive, cameras-off Oscars after-party on Sunday night, which ended in a drunken confrontation with our immoral tech fascist corporate elite! And I have to imagine this happens at every Hollywood function—no? Well, it should.

After the party, a source told Page Six that playwright Jeremy O. Harris—whose 2020 play, Slave Play, earned a record 12 Tony nominations—drunkenly confronted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, calling him the “Goebbels of the Trump administration,” due to the company’s recent contract with the Department of War. According to the source, the confrontation took place in front of an A-list crowd, including Michael B. Jordan, Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner, Teyana Taylor, Zoe Saldana, and you can imagine how many more.

Goebbels was known as the propagandist behind the Nazi regime—so it’s not a far-off comparison, considering how Trump has frequently spread AI slop on Truth Social, including a video of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and fighter jets unleashing shit on “No Kings” protesters.

Hilariously, Harris sent an email to Page Six afterward, clarifying his insult: “It was late, and I had a few too many martinis, so I misspoke when I said, Goebbels… I should’ve said, Friedrich Flick.”

Harris stood by it AND came back with a follow-up burn. We need more acts of resistance like this, please! Roast his outfit in front of Zendaya. Call him a virgin in front of Paul Thomas Anderson. Humiliate him! If AI CEOs want to destroy the human race, then they shouldn’t be welcome at the party.

Flick was a convicted Nazi war criminal who built his wealth with slave labor during World War II and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He ultimately only served three and went on to become the richest man in Germany. So, if Altman is Flick, maybe Geobbels is more like Palantir CEO Alex Karp, who recently flaunted that his AI’s potential to disrupt the voting power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat.”

Altman’s presence at the after-party sends a shiver down my spine. It’s a dark signal of AI’s continued infiltration into everyday life. In December, Altman appeared on Jimmy Fallon as part of a continued normalization campaign and said he “couldn’t imagine raising a child without ChatGPT.” The most man thing any man has ever said. What the hell are we doing here, Jimmy?

Celebs, take notes. Because as soon as I see Elon Musk on that Met Gala red carpet, I’m expecting a blind item the next morning of a well-dressed A-lister who tore him to shreds. 

• Pete Davidson is “ready to fight anyone” now that he is a father. [People]
• Netflix’s Ted Sarandos is fed up with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. [Variety]
• Zendaya rewore the iconic white dress she wore to the 2015 Oscars at the LA Premiere for The Drama. [Us Magazine]
• Jamie Lee Curtis doesn’t care for horror movies despite starring in the biggest horror franchise. [Entertainment Weekly]
• Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are making it through long-distance—Thank god!  [People]

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