#ai as Normal Technology by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (Apr 16, 2025) (It's a VERY long text - have not read it all yet, just bookmarking for reference). https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-normal-technology

LED headlights and infotainment center screens are some of the worst things to happen to cars

Massive profits of the starved Gaza Palestinians - reporting from Mada Masr: www.madamasr.com/en/2025/12/1...

Holy hell... I will log out now. #hellworld #chomsky #bannon #epstein

#TogetherForPalestine #Lullaby Released today (12 Dec 2025). "All profits from the single go to the Together for Palestine Fund, held by Choose Love (charity no. 1177927)" youtu.be/G957oaAZwhc?...

David Pope cartoon, Eurovision and Israel.

Cursed times. #AI

Assume all famous people are the enemy unless they are explicitly and emphatically pro-trans and anti-genocide

It's not at all staggering just how authoritarian, right-wing, gaslighty and pro-establishment this ALP government is. That's long been the trajectory. What's staggering is that so many people refuse to see it.

Switzerland bans Palantir "The fear is that Palantir is handing over sensitive data to the US and from there to Israel" (Note: Palantir currently has many UK government contracts and is bidding fir many more ...) meme via Anti-Capitalist League

These ridiculous mega-projects like "datacenters in space" (doomed by thermodynamics) make a LOT more sense when you realize they're massive Ponzi schemes designed to transfer wealth from pension funds to VC's through "fee stacking." It's the old Assets Under Management con. It should be illegal.

My mate in biz school is from Vene and he assured me Maduro is a devil. You see, turns out bro’s family owned the majority of tenements in some Caracas slum and Maduro shut it down. So fwiw slum lords don’t support Maduro.

The Nightmare Sequence is out now in Australia, the UK, North America and is coming soon to Italy through Wojtek Edizioni, translated into Italian by Enrico Terrinoni 🙏🏽💜

This needs lots more views #anthonylowenstein #theanthonylowensteinpodcast #youtube #podcast #surveillance #trump #palantir youtu.be/B0_5Qraq6Hc?...

Anybody who is impressed by Glenn Beck talking to an AI-generated George Washington should be placed back in their crib to stare at the mobile

Btw - Australian government official website (esafety.gov.au see attached) recommends and encourages (even provides instructions how to!) the use of #VPN... So, there!👍

"Atlas Network was born in this context with a clear objective: to inject the neoliberal doctrine not merely as one socio-economic model among others, but as a rationality unto itself." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, TU and AR.

So looking forward to this! (Altho it's at 5am in Melbourne🥱) #CoryDoctorow #BrianEno #DavidGraeberInstitute www.youtube.com/live/4-AlIT-...

Here's what we know about Noam Chomsky's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. My conclusion is that Chomsky has done a great deal of good in the world, but he's displayed a long pattern of extremely poor judgment and low moral standards in his personal life. A 🧵.

Witch Hunt: The Heretic and the Inquisition: Why the West Fears Francesca Albanese www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/w...

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago

Weekend reading sorted. A mind-blowing 3-part investigation by Nafeez Ahmed (@nafeez.bsky.social of @bylinetimes.bsky.social) "How #Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump’s New Tech Order" c/c @lucyham.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...

Friends, take some time to read this wonderful article about Ariel Koren & Respond Crisis Translation. Ariel was pushed out of Google for uncovering & organizing against Project Nimbus, Google's collaboration with the Israeli military on cloud services & "AI." 🧵 www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...

"#AI is Destroying the University and #Learning Itself" "Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, #degrees become meaningless, and #tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher #education." Ronald Purser Full text […] [Original post on aus.social]

If you have only one thing to read today... "Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 It 's so mad I can barely speak We ought not to be so complacent as not to think that corporate control - and ownership - of our drinking water is in fact much worse than we realise WAKE UP!

so it begins

This will end well 😩 New report from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, written by Dr. Sofia Guerra @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social. Link: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

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:

"Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and More Unite for Palestine Benefit Single" '“Lullaby,” a version of the traditional Palestinian song “Yamma Mweel El Hawa,” will be released on December 12, aiming for the coveted UK Christmas No. 1 slot.' pitchfork.com/news/brian-e... #Palestine #SolidarityWithPalestine

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

Some good people are releasing a single for Palestine's children: "Lullaby, a reimagining of the traditional Palestinian lullaby Yamma Mwel El Hawa (Mama, Sing to the Wind). Lullaby reflects their beauty, their longing and their hope." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

We're so atomized across too many platforms now. I would love if we can make Upscrolled happen. It's Palestinian owned so they won't ban or censor us and you can do all the fun stuff you do on IG, Tiktok or X share.upscrolled.com/en/post/e3b3...

Yesterday, Genova’s streets transformed into a celebration of resistance, standing against the genocide in Gaza, the EU’s relentless march toward war, and the unjust spending cuts that harm society’s most vulnerable. We must keep resisting, for a Europe of peace, freedom, and dignity for all!

Please sign and share if you can. Dr Abu Safiya is a hero. He sacrificed everything to save lives in Gaza – and now Israel is holding him, and reportedly torturing him, without charges. Doctors around the world are rising to free him and other Gaza medics. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Today (29 Nov) is the celebration of the ☭Day of the Republic☭ of Yugoslavia* Živeli! youtu.be/vAwAZtQ2Xxo?... (*Project temporarily withdrawn)

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

When every day is black Friday After #RonCobb

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

liberal talking heads proving they have absolutely no convictions other than power and consulting contracts with how quickly they turned around on oil pipelines and climate policy

Posljednja slika Ive Lole Ribara i njegova konja Liska

#AusMusicTshirtDay 🤘

Labor and the Coalition voted against me moving a motion to recognise Israel's genocide in Gaza. After Israel has murdered thousands of Palestinians, destroyed Gaza, starved children, blocked aid, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, Labor still refuses.

@naomiaklein.bsky.social: ”Where the Surrealists made irreverent and untameable art, the fascists sought a world of perfect symmetry. While the Surrealists embraced the frailties and mysteries of the human body, the fascists waged war on deviance.’’ www.equator.org/articles/sur...

"This powerful and emotive reimagining of a traditional Palestinian lullaby sees over 15 UK and Palestinian artists come together to send a message of hope and solidarity to the very place where the Christmas story began". @itspetergabriel.bsky.social

My doctor didn’t say, listen to Fela Kuti albums every day, in order of release as best you can, and twice through at least for maximum Afrobeat. But it would’ve been splendid advice, because it’s increased the measure of joy in my life considerably.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Today, singer-songwriter Jayden Kitchener-Waters will find out if he still has a job with the NSW Premier's Department. His alleged infringement was attempting to perform at a departmental event with pro-Palestine slogans written on his guitar. www.deepcutnews.com/p/nsw-premie...