The $1.5 trillion pentagon budget will be used as a massive bail out program for the Israeli state as it faces global isolation. I never thought it could be so brazen. open.substack.com/pub/weareund...

William Casey, who we can thank for Iran-Contra and the Casey Taskforce which raided pension funds for VC, was himself a VC. He ‘focused on the fields of information and communications and on technological and financial innovation’ www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

“.. which means that SpaceX and other big IPOs won’t be fast-tracked into the index.” @barrons.com #$SPCX www.barrons.com/articles/spa...

Mood! LET'S GO KNICKS! 🟦🟧🧹

I am dumbstruck that the utterly banal Naval Ravikant is a demigod to every rich asshole and tech dipshit. He gives retail investors the fantasy of being Angels or VCs, the inanity flourishes

@kigongo.bsky.social I am dumbstruck that none of the Dad Rock skaters, Baker etc, have used Steely Dan. Seems like Scott Johnston "Peg" remains the most iconic video part www.skatevideosite.com/artists/stee...

Mood! LET'S GO KNICKS! 🟦🟧🧹

Unsurprising but its still jarring to see that this is the file photo NYT used for the great Dick Gregory

After teen girls were targeted by AI-generated CSAM, Radnor Township High School in Pennsylvania has become a case study in how schools and police around the country grapple with how to response to deepfake crimes involving children. @samleecole.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

NZ's boomer death cult politics means sacrificing real jobs and services as a ritual offering to AI, a technology that has yet to provide substantial business use cases. Endless welfare to asset owners and tech oligarchs.

The Zionazi wants to feel hysterically persecuted by the accusation of the thing that they think is good and funny. It's what fuels them to keep doing the thing.

Throwing up bricks at Fryatt

Throwing up bricks at Fryatt

Calling all article heads. Has there been an article or substack about the Professor Jiang phenomenon? Or just fake YouTuber philosophers in general?

East Coast podcasters are pumping California Forever, the massive private city tech billionaires seek to build in Solano County. But the project aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states.” They don't mention this: newrepublic.com/article/1777...

NZ’s right wing government wants to saddle uni students $10k + additional debt having given their landlords approx $3 billion in tax cuts at the expense of govt coffers. This is Boomer death drive politics

The Free Speech bromides of NZ's right was always about surrendering our media and digital sovereignty to American oligarchs like Elon Musk.

Rixi Moncada was a presidential candidate in Honduras' last election, and she is from the party that has been fighting Prospera (the Network State colony) like mad. Here she addresses the Hondurasgate leaks:

This BSA scrapping bears out the arguments myself and @ojutel.bsky.social made in this article (shameless plug). The problem is not social media misinformation, its "existing right-wing media/political networks and the corporate degradation of journalism". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Tucker "MAGA was betrayed by Israel" is totally delusional. Here is Tucker's boy JD glazing Netanyahu in a way that is completely illiterate

23 hours from now

Hereweka Clyde slide

Heel flip at the DIY brick bank

I’m giving a talk on Jameson and Postmodernism next week….and you can join! Signups below:

Delighted to have @matthiasellis.bsky.social Zoom into our program for a seminar "What Was Postmodernism?". All welcome, Tuesday May 5 10am (NZ Time). Zoom registration, abstract and details follow.

On April 28 10am (NZ time) Dr Kiri West from the University of Auckland will be giving a seminar in my program on "Resisting Colonial Threats to Thinking in the age of AI". Zoom registration details below

The Israeli tech press is amazing in just spelling out the function of Israeli tech sector. From hasbara, cyberwar to controlling our core digital infrastructure. Here is a profile of Gen AI for Good the company making sexual violence claims as incitement www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/ar...

If I get asked to stop chewing my nails “The division of labour in the production of goods only serves to brutalize the workforce. If to produce cheap and excellent nail scissors, we have to reduce the workers to machines, we would do better to cut our finger nails with our teeth”.

A huge Dub for the BDS movement in Aotearoa NZ. Tip of the hat to comrade Minto www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Israelis really do things like name their unit 8200 cyber security companies “Check Point”

Attn #FilmSky my department is hosting Dr Sophie Gilmore (Harvard) for a seminar on "Algorithmic Hollywood". You are welcome via Zoom to attend (April 14th 10 am NZ time, April 13th 6pm EST). Registration Link follows.

Episode 16 of the @proteanview.muftah.org podcast: Venture Capitalism and Tech Utopianism with, in which I speak with @ojutel.bsky.social www.muftah.org/p/venture-ca...

I did a podcast with Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bishra from @muftah.org on VC accelerationism, Marc Andreessen and Israel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

We chat with @ojutel.bsky.social about why Marc Andreessen lacks "introspection" and what that has to do with the crisis of over-accumulation, accelerationism, and the utopian delusions of our tech overlords. Enjoy!

I did a podcast with Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bishra from @muftah.org on VC accelerationism, Marc Andreessen and Israel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Attn #FilmSky my department is hosting Dr Sophie Gilmore (Harvard) for a seminar on "Algorithmic Hollywood". You are welcome via Zoom to attend (April 14th 10 am NZ time, April 13th 6pm EST). Registration Link follows.

WW3 anguish skate. Glory to the resistance. Long live the martyrs. Free Palestine and Lebanon from the demonic entity.

WW3 anguish skate. Glory to the resistance. Long live the martyrs. Free Palestine and Lebanon from the demonic entity.

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

NZ's foreign minister views the forthcoming energy and economic crisis and USrael's deadly flipping of the global chessboard as a distraction from the real problems at home.

A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...

My university has inked a deal with an Israeli cyber war giant. What a Shonda www.odt.co.nz/opinion/otag...

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

This is a great look at the egg man's runny yolk www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...

Long live the death of NFTs! www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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