So if cops and surveillance stopped drunk and distracted driving, then the US, a country with no data privacy law and the biggest carceral apparatus in the world, would have the lowest rates of both. Turns out we have among the highest. Almost like cops and surveillance don't stop it. 🤔

because that's how everything works now. If something happens that is inconvenient for your political beliefs, it's fake news, an AI hoax, a false flag, etc. Liberals and leftists do this less often than conservatives, but the gap is closing fast

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

How deep does a boot have to be down your throat to genuinely think this is a good thing. You should already be choking to death with it that deep.

There is a direct throughline from this and the rise in global authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is actively hostile toward the arts and intellectualism, and thus imagination. When people say that AI is a “fascist project,” this is explicitly what they’re referring to.

eugenics is the official policy of the U.S. government (and it was under Biden too with his let it rip strategy for covid)

This reads so Onion-esquely wrong that it sounds almost funny...and don't give me some "oral history" nonsense...this is part of normalizing total surveillance & possibly using every bit of real conversation as AI "training data"!

History doesn’t end, like you can talk about a left-liberal alliance defeating fascism but not without that being immediately followed up by liberalism turning around and destroying worldwide communism (or attempting to) and how that led to resurgent fascism under a single global superpower

New illegal boat strike in the Caribbean yesterday. Boat strikes' civilian death toll now stands at 182. 18 in the past 9 days. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

this is not a tiktok it is a documentary

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

One thing that a lot of trans people have been doing (esp trans women) is silently dropping out of public life. The MSG is obviously extreme but the panopticon of pressure trans ppl experience in a heavily surveilled America is a lot. Safer to just stay home, forfeit public life

About 15% of all U.S. hospitals are Catholic and their current policy is to provide zero trans healthcare including to adults. There have also been multiple accounts of trans people being turned away entirely for unrelated issues because of who they are. So suck the Pope off harder please

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

I don't mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran. I hope this war collapses the entire US empire. My only loyalty is to humanity, and being on Team Human in today's world means being against the US empire and against Israel.

This number is dramatically misleading. While the article itself is horrifying and should be spread ror awareness,that number is attributed to monthly visits to a porn site

deflecting by saying "why arent you complaining about joe biden???", a guy who famously was not criticized for this also this is the kamala campaign account so like, bro, this was what you ran on too, why are you trying to score an own here?

“you all deserve to rot in hell” isn’t a death threat

The basic concept of, making felons unable to run incentivizes those in power to criminalize their opponents should be obvious with an admin trying to jail their opponents. But we lack that collective awareness i fear.

We should have learned our lesson with felon disenfranchisement. Bigoted selective enforcement has left a lot of BIPOC without voting rights.

it goes like this - the economy is strong - no, there's a lot of money in the economy it's just going to 11 people - yeah, that means the economy is going strong - but 80% of us are struggling - but on average the economy is strong - gas prices are ten bucks and I can't afford rent - (transphobia)

"The bourgeoisie is unfit to be the ruling class in society because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society." Karl Marx, "The Communist Manifesto"

It is always the case that any radical action by workers to resist the power of capital is "violence" but the constant suffering of poverty, absence of healthcare, hunger, surveillance, wage theft and the rest of it, well... that doesn't really count as "violence."

Because there isn’t you all are quite enamored with what the police do in the United States.

It’s going to become increasingly harder and harder for people to separate mass deportation from policing and Mullin and the administration are quite sure there’s no appetite for addressing policing.

Greta Thunberg is right.

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

All the zuck cucks tend to stay there

This is getting attention, but afaik the second part is not accurate. New mRMA projects will not be initiated *under BARDA*, HHS has said. But mRNA research on pancreatic cancer and other initiatives are still going, as far as I know

It's insane, fucking Jokerifying, that it was revealed that the world is run by pedophile rapists, but then we made no changes to the fact that these same people are the ones steering legislation to "protect the kids" Have we considered that they might be LYING

Hans Zimmer is composing music for Harry Potter. No applause for him.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

lmao this is one of those fun little domino commodities that doesn't seem like a crucial lynchpin of the global economy but definitely is

The Yorknew City arc in Hunter x Hunter is so cool because it’s three of the main characters looking on eBay for a PlayStation 1 game off screen while the fourth develops a Martial Art centered entirely around being history’s greatest hater.

Guy who voted for Geogre Bush twice writing in a place called The Liberal Gazette: As we approach 2028, Democrats should be doing unpopular things that make them look stupid

hillary clinton back in 2008 during her Presidential run - "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran." American blue maga genocidal democrats & liberals: "How on earth did she lose? She lost because they don't want a strong white feminist in power. Same as kamala."

The mass repression of student protesters under Biden set the stage for Trump's on-campus escalations, which have, indeed, stifled student protest during a crucial moment. Everyone who supported that repression should feel guilty and foolish now, and the people who perpetrated it deserve worse.

A study from Finland has been used to cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth. But Finland never offered gender affirming care. Perhaps invasive, adversarial, fruitless years of assessment harm trans youth? New opinion by @evanurquhart.bsky.social: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...