This is what happens when you buy your fascism on TEMU.

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

Nope. She's teaching it to simulate moral capacity. Incidentally, simulating moral capacity is a sociopathic trait.

Imagine taking to the opinion pages of large news org to demonstrate how good you are at completely missing the point.

Time is a flatulent circle.

Cognitive deskilling in the wild. With almost no upside. 🤦

TACO!

Once again, @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy explains the current AI moment with a clarity I can only admire as an educator. This is going on my critical tech course syllabus.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

"Watch what he does, not what he says", as Rachel Maddow often says. But one social media rant, and people can't look away from what he says. Sigh.

Just think: This man could have been our VP instead of a baby who accused the leader of a democratic nation under invasion by a despotic world power of not saying "thank you" enough.

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

I'm trying to find a good term for this. Temu Fascism? Retro-colonialism? But I know there's a better term for it ...hmm... it's something to do with a color and some kind of word akin to "superiority." It's right on the tip of my tongue. It will come to me in a second.

Danish media report that the Greenlandic-Danish delegation expressed relief after meeting w/ Rubio and Vance. As I have said all along, an invasion is not possible - the U.S. is already the biggest military force in Greenland. It's political theater on both sides to improve negotiating positions.

You can say what you want about those NATO troops, but their snow camo is really excellent!

FFS. It is technically impossible for the U.S. to invade Greenland, because the U.S. already has a larger military presence there than anyone. Personnel count: U.S. base, Pituffik: 150. Danish military: 94. While I appreciate Senator Murphy's video, I just wish people would remember this.

In case anyone is wondering how Greenlanders feel right now (credit: @andershemmingsendk.bsky.social on FB)

Former taxi drivers are walking past singing "It's like raaaaiiin on your wedding day..."

AI, like all computing, is electrons passing through silicon. Unlike humans, AIs need a steady current supply from humans to do the most basic processing. They will never be human-equivalent for that reason alone. Those of us who study AI in society need to keep insisting on this framing.

I'm binging Homeland as a way to take my mind off the doings of the Temu Fascists and reminisce about better days gone by. Only around season 5 have I realized how absurd the above sentence is.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "PHYSICAL AI" ALL AI IS PHYSICAL, MATERIAL AND A BURDEN ON NATURE. The level of industry gaslighting is just astonishing.

For those of us interested in how people's realities are constructed through media, it will be fascinating to watch how people will try to hold this together with the video footage and the fact that, theoretically, all of it could be synthetic and AI-generated. I hope people believe the video, tho.

Not all heroes, capes, etc. Good job, @danielsuitor.com .

I never ever want to hear anyone say that this is not America because people have been shot by law enforcement for nothing for YEARS. That being said , the woman in Minneapolis was murdered.. just like George Floyd.

I would prefer not to write positively about the GOP leaders of the House and the Senate. But they have both come out publicly against Millerlini's Greenland plans. That's at least something. time.com/7344316/repu...

Proof that Texas GOP lawmakers and those who obey their orders really are the intellectual equivalents of cave-dwellers.

Not all Republicans have lost their minds. What would a 'military option' actually look like? Wouldn't it just be an expansion of the presence the U.S. military has had there since 1951? Trump could do it and say that GL is now the U.S. but Iike 'Gulf of America', no one else would give a 💩

NVIDIA is now marketing the "Physical AI" term for robots, autonomous vehicles, etc. The "physical" qualifier makes zero sense. There is no such thing as "non-physical" AI. ALL computing is physical and material. You'd think one of the world's largest consumers of silicon would know this.

Let's see. Vikings from Norway and Denmark settled in Greenland in 982. Denmark formally colonized Greenland in 1721, but devolved its control over domestic affairs in 1979 and 2009. Greenland remains part of the Kingdom of Denmark for all foreign affairs and their economic ties are substantial.

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

This is Herschel. She spent 15 minutes at the gym before deciding to switch her New Year's resolution to self acceptance. 12/10 (IG: cfsbk)

Time is a flatulent circle.

Baudrillard was right. This is proof.

A joke for a smaller audience, but it's still good.

The immorality and illegality aside, this is as stupid as it gets politically. - Actions in Venezuela are not seen as "America first" by MAGA - Everyone else still can't pay for groceries - It will be forgotten by the midterms - If it isn't, it's because of legal actions against the U.S. or Trump.

So much I want to say right now, but I think little Marco face says it all. He's complicit too, he just hates hearing his embarrassing benefactor speak

You’d think the will of 8 billion people would be able to stop like 4 tech bros.

I'm sure these warehouses will have names such as Trumpblinka, Millerdanek and Kulmhof-ChelNoem in a tribute to the most efficient dehumanization tradition in Western history. Merry f*cking Christmas.

Chris Rea had stopped smoking. One day he was driving and 3 Miles Davis songs in a row came on the radio, followed by the news that Davis had passed away. Rea immediately pulled over and lit a cigarette. Later he wrote this song. "Gonna miss what I never had/Now that cigarette is gone."

Well, for the Americans on here, this won't mean much. But most Europeans know him and his songs. Chris Rea has been one of my top 5 favorite music artists all through my life. An insanely gifted songwriter and slide guitarist. I knew he was sick. But this one still really hurts. RIP, Maestro.

Well, JD, I've never felt the need to apologize for being white until now.

...or, if you have to use AI to help you write because of a disability, a language barrier, or because your talent lies in numbers and not words, AT LEAST care enough about your work to do your own editing, proofreading and CHECK THAT THE DAMN SOURCES ACTUALLY EXIST.

This feels similar to how the Pruitt-Igoe collapse video symbolized modernism's crumbling from the pressure of postmodernity. Perhaps it's metamodernity crushing postmodernity? Or neo-materiality crushing the age of the immateriality trope? Or just a massive reality check?

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

Really? I thought the Diablo Canyon plant had already gone tits-up? (I am SO sorry! I will see myself out now.)

This.