This is toxic masculinity on full display. Control through fear. The strong abusing the weak. Aggression masquerading as protection. People like Lonsdale are so insecure and afraid they'd prefer to smash the world instead of coexist within it. #Resist

Religion, generally, teaches the public that unfounded delusions are not only ok, but the very purpose of our existence. Without scrutiny or criticism, there is no limit to how deranged the protected delusions can become in these self-reinforcing and well-insulated echo chambers.

"What did we lose, when the US drove the world off gold in 1971, well we lost the alternative to keeping our savings in a way that did not finance the US military take over threatening our very existence today." Michael Hudson.

Watch the whole thing. Absolutely chilling.

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

Rage Against the Machine Learning

I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.

The PR campaigns and thinly-veiled advertising that is all of television, is so painfully blatant. They want to humanize this robber baron and add more AI hype to the over-hype pile. They want to undermine your intelligence as generational human beings with instincts and cultural wisdom.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

If we have to change our diets, eating the rich would be much more effective.

Immunity debt's "...explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year... A growing number of scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may instead be subtly altering our immune systems." 🛟😷medsky

The same transphobic pro-Israel Gavin Newsom who is pals with Peter Thiel, praised Steve Bannon and countless other fascists, criminalized homelessness, takes private jets to climate conferences and so much more?

Even if you think, incorrectly, that this repulsive technology has any place in mainstream culture, maybe it gives you pause that the worst people in the world are hell bent on making you use it.

A leaked DOJ memo obtained by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social reveals an effort to build a list of supposedly "anti-American" groups and individuals, an escalation of the administration's crackdown on dissent. The list targets "not just the left" but "anyone who isn't a Trump supporter," he says.

The effort is driven by "genuine fear" among Trump officials following the killing of Charlie Kirk that they could also become targets of political violence, says @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. It is "essentially the same sort of response to 9/11 — but in this case, it's directed at Americans."

One piece of this story that's often buried is that having prior authorization on Medicare AT ALL is new. That's in addition to AI being used for it.

Very cool. Lots of outlets I didn't know about.

Prior to the 21st century, the most effective way for an empire to build wealth, was unquestionably "Kill the Black and brown people, and steal their stuff." The empires growing weath the fastest, were the most belligerent. Dutch. British. American. But in the 21st century, that's less effective.🤷🏿‍♂️

So Chinese hospital ships are now in the Carribean, helping Jamaica.♥️🕊️ It's fascinating that we're all getting front row seats to see if threats and violence (US approach), or compliments and assistance (Chinese approach) will be more effective by 2030 at securing resources from developing nations.

it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Teaching children empathy = Marxist attack on western civilization Teaching children to glory in extrajudicial murder = Patriotic, Christian freedom juice

chat are we cooked

The fact that Democrats didn't know the public couldn't afford to live, to the point of "affordability" becoming a hip new buzz word to them, says all we need to know about Democrats, their interests, and the isolation of their social circles. A phoenix can only rise from the ashes of this party.

Unfortunately (for me), this is an Australian newspaper writing about what is happening over here. Even though it was ironically our government's study which went against the bubble last year. pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/04/d...

"Last week, a federal judge ordered a temporary suspension of Trump’s highly contentious deployment of Guard troops to Washington, finding that it was likely illegal. The Trump administration asked for that decision to be blocked after the shooting." How convenient. Problem-Reaction-Solution

It’s getting real for Home Depot. The flash mob is only the warm up, the nationwide boycott hits on November 27th. Chant: “Tax the rich tax, the motherf*cking rich.”

Gen AI is a strategy to disempower the labor force. It is bringing about austerity by reducing human labor demand, killing jobs, dumbing down the public, inflating and soon bursting an enormous financial bubble, and bailing out the ruling class on the backs of taxpayers. By fascists, for fascists.

the aoc-ification should from now on be called the mamdani-fication, cuz the mf just won and is already showing his true colors lmao

Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water. What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains. And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.

That's okay, Ghost. When the 99.99% starve to death in the street, I'm sure the bots will spend money on groceries to keep the economy going.

"Last quarter, the average job opening received 242 applications — nearly triple the amount in 2017, when the unemployment rate was at a comparable level. That means that when someone submits a resume today, they have the abysmally low 0.4% chance of actually getting the job."

The dystopia will be automated.

All these tech companies like Meta knew this was a bubble and structured these SPVs to get the equity bump while keeping the risk off the balance sheets. When this scheme eventually implodes, people need to go to prison. We can't have this happen again without consequences.

They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.

Yarse

Watching so many American "leftists" have the epiphany that Zohran Mamdani is full of shit *today* is maddening. Congratulations "voters," your continued support of the fake "democracy" is dooming people to continued fascism. www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-no...

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

In a system that generates so much wealth disparity, the rich can just inject harmful junk products into the public without a true market demand. And when you realize that market demand is also an asinine way to steer a society, you see how far removed we are from any responsible path forward.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

List and links to US massacres motivated by desires to maintain white supremacy. The fact that these aren't taught in schools is also motivated by desires to maintain white supremacy. www.zinnedproject.org/collection/m...

Bogalusa #tdih 1919 U.S. history textbooks: "you’re unlikely to find more than a paragraph on 1919 Red Summer; what you do find downplays both racism & Black resistance, while distorting facts in a dangerous 'both sides' framing." -- U. Wolfe-Rocca #TeachTruth ⬇️ zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

did u know every modern car reports directly to the NSA? whenever you see one of those 'CHINA WANTS TO SPY ON YOUR CAR!' it's there to distract people from the fact that America already is

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents.

Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration: @charlotteobserver.com

This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.

While reporting this, we came across this ProPublica story from 2019 about a Border Patrol Facebook group. Hardly any differences between this and other cop pages we've reported on. It's all the same dehumanization and racism, just different targets (w/ Chicago cops—usually it's Black people).

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...