One of my favorite headlines of the month so far

Michael Parenti goes over the history of the US crushing democracy around the world and overthrowing leaders through CIA-backed coups… There is one common denominator: All leaders overthrown by the US tried to use the political system to change the economic & class structure.

"It's a really open question about whether he'll push policies that'll dismantle the infrastructure of mass religious and racial profiling and the pseudoscience of surveillance as safety, and focus on evidence based alternatives, or he'll be too afraid of the NY Post." www.wired.com/story/welcom...

Beer is on the wrong side of America's class war: www.fingers.email/p/beer-is-on...

I would go to school if this was the teacher

"Every effort will be made to sanitize the record of a war criminal and enemy of democratic rights who helped paved the way for the dictatorial actions of Donald Trump." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Rockstar are union busters, spread the word.

Do bosses need excuses to fire people? Do they push their "employees to produce lower quality results"? Are companies "forced to hire contractors to fix AI’s mistakes"? There's a lot of confusion out there, but if you think of AI as a Techno-Taylorist machine for crushing wages, it all makes sense

“Everything Amazon does when it comes to workers is to either maximize efficiency to physically dangerous, unrealistic rates or to manage dissent and reduce pushback, all while claiming not to be the true employer of their delivery drivers.” futurism.com/future-socie...

Our VP of Advocacy, Megan Abell, wrote a blog breaking down how this came to be, including the market dynamics at play in the cloud computing space. www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

It's all happening on X, the everything app.

2) Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down earlier this week and took half the Internet with it, revealing one of the dangers of companies capturing most of a market. @futurism.com @joeonhere.bsky.social futurism.com/future-socie...

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in news not at all related to the Broader Discourse: I wrote about DoorDash's new partnership with Waymo and its experiments with autonomous delivery robots—and why they represent a last-mile run to undermine the human Dashers who've agitated for better labor protections slate.com/technology/2...

One of the most unsettling things about our current moment is how geeked the Altmans Musks Gates suddenly are for a post-scarcity world

Trump's White House renovation gets at least thousand times more media coverage than his presidential directive targeting "anti-Christianity" as terrorism 👍

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Alex Jones trusts the Yzerplan #LGRW

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

everything's computer

Trump is sending our corn fed boys to Venezuela while our regional airports face an Uber driver shortage like nothing we've ever seen. What happened to America first? #AmericansBelongInAmerica www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

basically impossible to live in a cave these days without it becoming the Main Thing About You

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too www.404media.co/google-calls...

Nvidia isn’t the only Western company worried about an increasingly independent PRC, but it is an important bellwether. In fact, the CEO’s lust for economic superiority and geopolitical dominance over China follows over 125 years of US meddling in the nation’s affairs.

Sorry to see you go big dog. You were somehow ahead of and behind your time by 100 years

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US. The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

Who do I vote for if I want a party that's going to fight against things like the NDAA? Or is that just the cost of keeping real fascists out of office

had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus futurism.com/future-socie...

🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. State Department says it “will revoke” Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s diplomatic visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian protest outside UN headquarters in New York during the General Assembly. At Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, Petro invoked U.S. troops’ sacrifices against…

For anyone curious about what's going on with the world's first AI government official in Albania, this is a fantastic rundown from Erjon Curraj: balkaninsight.com/2025/09/16/a...

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What can you even say. Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal gave their lives documenting one of the most brutal military regimes of the 21st century, second only to the one that subsidized their murder. Heroes in an age of monsters.

After months of warnings from researchers and journalists about the danger its software posed, OpenAI announced vague "optimizations" for GPT-4o meant to address user safety. They didn't change much. futurism.com/openai-chatg...

In the new TMK, Ed chats with @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social to chat about the vast proliferation of AI bubbles across the US, Europe, and China—and their competing visions of the ideal global value chain for AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

In which we look at how tech industry figures are reacting to OpenAI investor Geoff Lewis' apparent ChatGPT-fueled mental health crisis: futurism.com/tech-industr...

"The voice of an aspiring journalist, 11-year-old Lama Nasser Al-Badrasawi, was tragically silenced when an #Israeli airstrike targeted her home near #Gaza City, killing her entire family. Lama was a contributor to the Palestine Chronicle..." www.palestinechronicle.com/the-voice-of... #Israel

Cancer of the markets metastasizing into cancer of the mind

I don't even know what to make of this. It's upsetting and horrible. This man is horribly mentally ill and these systems do something to people by agreeing with everything they say. They are only made possible through unrestrained growth taking over every lever of tech

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

NEW: A prominent investor in OpenAI has been making strange posts that sound as though he may be going through what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis," in which AI affirms users' unbalanced thinking and leads them down a dark mental health rabbit hole futurism.com/openai-inves...

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

TIL there's a budding industry emerging around for-profit wildfire detection

I often think about the essay from Sam Harnett about how tech media sold the gig economy to the public and overlooked the problems with the model it was rolling out, especially seeing what they’ve done with generative AI and chatbots.