The billionaires who own the social media algorithms, who own the cable news networks, who own the politicians fighting on our screens, they are turning neighbor against neighbor. They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion, so we don’t notice that they’re picking our pockets…

Soldiers controlled by Trump and Hegseth will patrol Washington, D.C. *for the rest of Trump’s second term*, under the bald-faced lie pretext of assisting law enforcement during a "crime emergency"… So, why do you think they're there, really? What purpose could they *possibly* be there for? ???

The struggle against fascism, waged in popular culture, will *transform* popular culture in the process.

Don't rely on the State, or on the wealthy or influential, for defense. Doing so means that you are close to losing.

Twenty-first century fascism will massively enhance the domination of capital over human beings, in every sphere. Paul Mason [ paulmason.bsky.social ] How to Stop Fascism

The masses should not allow themselves to be groomed for exploitation by the rich, and not the other way around. Nietzsche had it backwards.

A sample of great tracks from a couple of years ago: Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Also — insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 6: 2023 [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/2ni...

Fascism is the elite's go-to con, which they reach for whenever liberalism fails them…

In the world of propaganda, uprooted masses can feel at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and real experiences deal to human beings and their expectations. Hannah Arendt [ @hait-tud.bsky.social ] Origins of Totalitarianism

When a group of people want radical change, they start to frame the whole of reality around that desire, ignoring all the facts that contradict it. Karl Mannheim Ideology and Utopia

The adjunct lecturer is a vagabond: errant, restless, a wanderer. R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ] 888 An Anti-Memoir rgvasicek.substack.com/p/888

As we get older, we become more like ourselves. R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ] Underground Lecture #1 Are You Ready to Quit? rgvasicek.substack.com/p/undergroun...

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 5: Cinema [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/2PW...

Misinformation, divulged under official pretext, for the purpose of allowing insiders to steal hundreds of millions of dollars overnight from oil futures investors; (1/5)

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 4: Electroclash [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/5zc...

The State Dept. is finalizing a plan to put Trump's picture On U.S. passports. 😭😭😭 www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

In the age of the smartphone, where people aren’t joining clubs and don’t know their neighbors — and are emphatic about conspicuous consumption and preoccupied with status — we have become envious, isolated, lonely, and distrustful… We’re going to get more Trumps. [Alan Elrod] @aselrod.bsky.social

Experiment. Never interpret.

The NSDAP constructed a "lying world, which was more adequate to needs of the human mind than reality itself." "They did not believe in the reality of their own experience; they did not trust their eyes and ears, but only their imaginations…" Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

Last night, Trump excoriated his own propagandists — Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, et al. — in retaliation for criticizing his Iran war. Next, he published a SNUFF VIDEO of *a man murdering a woman with a hammer* — captioned with further screeds against Hatians and… Joe Biden. (1/2)

Trump went from making genocidal threats this morning to hyping a "golden age" in Iran hours later, having received no concessions in between. He’s a basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies… Aaron Rupar [ @atrupar.com ] #Trump5150

Regarding this morning's "a whole civilization will die" proclamation, wherein Trump threatened to genocide Iran *tonight*: This post is from a deeply unwell man — a man with access to a nuclear arsenal, who should be nowhere near power. A man who needs to be 5150'd. Seriously.

RENT: Unearned income which accrues without production, or effort. Low-rent economies motivate people to *create* wealth. High-rent economies reward elitists who *capture* wealth. … Has rentism replaced capitalism as our economic system? Is that what's happened!?

Our only hope is for counterculture to rise up, and take audiences from the technocracy.

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 3: Ambient House [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/5OW...

Go to war with the weapons you have — not with the weapons you dream of.

Fax from the Fourth Dimension: neural.it/2014/11/tach...

This is not over. Denmark's distrust, and challenge, will persist as long as Trump pursues his project to expand U.S. territory. And Trump is here for three more years… www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Money is nothing but an imaginary construct, whose sole function is to stratify society. Just get rid of it!

Jello Biafra had a stroke the other day. Why wasn't this in the news?

The part about how police may now instantly surveil everyone by tracking their mobile phones hit hard. What countermeasures could thwart this? Melissa Dykes from Rex 84 and the Plan to Silence Dissent Truthstream Media x.com/truthstreamn...

Honey-flavored daytime cold medicine is the worst 🙁

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 2: Alienation [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/51d...

Camps: www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

Just read that The Who's legendary Live at Leeds LP (1970) was recorded in the Student Refectory of Leeds University — which is basically a large *cafeteria*… with a *tiny* stage. Capacity = 2,100. (1/2)

Now Spinning: Pretenders - Live at the Santa Monica Civic (1981) www.discogs.com/release/1352...

Russia has targeted AI training data with millions of attack chain "articles": AI models encode this data as "knowledge", and subsequent queries return propaganda. But sure, we should continue blindly trusting the veracity of AI… right? Source: Atlantic Council DFRLab x.com/gOPwbi7qqtWe...

Terror is loud. Horror is silent.

camps

Excellent idea.

I will never understand how it wasn't obvious to everyone that crypto has no real function except speculation and crime

It's a bitterly cold Thursday pre-morning in Bushwick. Therefore, on a whim, I decided to listen to *this*. wajazz.bandcamp.com/album/wajazz...

Watching the Grammys the other night was difficult. It was difficult to pay attention to a bunch of glamorized multi-millionaires who thrive by soaking up other people’s attention. It was like donating blood to a vampire.

An angel is whispering into one of my ears, and a devil is whispering into the other… But I can't tell which is which.

Camps. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

A visceral moment where audiences, around the world, will begin to taste the boot that the American establishment so blithely licks: www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

They’re arresting journalists, now.

When we dream that we dream, we're beginning to wake up.

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. mixtape 1: Modern Classical open.spotify.com/playlist/0VG...

Until the masses of our people are organized, we will remain powerless and thus the victims of all vicious powers that seek to exploit us.