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futurism.com/future-socie... lol

“do not obey in advance” includes falling into despair & giving up. if fascism was invincible, it’s rampant & desperate propaganda would not be necessary. learn to build revolutionary optimism in yourself & your community. when we fight, we win.

A group of Heathen organizations writes in to reiterate their opposition to Folkish Heathenry and announce their ongoing coalition for inclusive Heathenry. wildhunt.org/2026/07/opin... #pagan #heathen #asatru #thetroth #frith #folkism #politics

This is required reading/listening every July 4th but *especially* today 🔥

Not gonna lie, the fact that AI data centers are being cooled while Americans die in the street from heat stoke is really pissing me off.

And I say this with my whole chest: The anti-trans movement is not about trans people. It’s certainly not about protecting children It is about legislating conformity It is about restricting bodily autonomy It is about erasing all free expression they find disagreeable —It is about control—

It’s cute you think the disco is the only place I panic

Came across this video last night and I am about to run it into the ground. This is one of the most incredible displays of singing and arranging I’ve ever heard. 2:38 to about 3:10 is off the charts nuts.

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

voting for whichever politician runs on making bathtubs in this country the kind that adults can fit into like they have in japan

Some street art / stickers in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Being a billionaire is a crime against humanity already, so being a trillionaire is a thousand crimes against humanity

Being a trillionaire is a crime against humanity

"Capturing land rents would capture a nearly entirely untaxed pool of wealth. And it is important to remember that land, especially non-residential land, is disproportionately held by the wealthy, and this design exempts nearly all poor, middle-class and even upper-middle-class homeowners."

Had a lovely time at @cuppapug.bsky.social in Edinburgh!

Of course the real problem here is believing that such things should be a mere act of charity or even philanthropy and not just a matter of the inalienable right of people not to starve because another is hoarding wealth.

On the day before Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, all I can think about is that time in 2021 when the head of the UN World Food Program asked Musk to donate $6 billion to save 42 million people from starvation and he refused.

Every signatory of the Harper’s Letter . Every person who refused to acknowledge the power imbalances around 230 You disgust me. You absolutely disgust me and your silence now should shame you every day futurism.com/future-socie...

A useful thought experiment for people who insist on thinking about "AI" as a thinking conscious being like us, is to think about what the universe looks like through the experiential apparatus of a Large Language Model. You experience time in turns which are always initiated by some outside force.

Having cats is important for survival. Dinosaurs didn't have cats and look what happened to them.

Fck Data Centers!!

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

"everyone" = men with money

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

If you just unplugged all the AI data centers today, life would go on just fine for everyday people. Better, in fact. The only people who would be hurt are the ones who seek to exploit and profit from it.

buttballs

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

from my mouth to my ears

More than that, it’s salesmen, hundreds of Harold Hills promising music lessons and revitalization of a way of life that never existed and yet always was, convincing us we should give them money and our ideas for things that don’t exist. They’re selling us unhealthy “independence”.

Goddamn, I need this bubble to fucking burst already and the pendulum to swing back. Trying to navigate this period of time as a person with pattern recognition, marginalized identities, and you know, values is agonizing.

I didn't choose to be trans. I just am. But here's the thing: whether or not being trans is innate is *completely irrelevant* because bodily autonomy is a human right. Abortion is a human right because everyone has the right to decide what to do with their own body. Same with gender affirming care.

Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.

Going to do a thread about the new counterterrorism policy targeting trans people later today or tomorrow, but long story short: it's not *good*, it's definitely *very bad*. BUT. This policy does NOT make it illegal to be or support trans people in the US and anyone saying otherwise is wrong.

happy Piccolo Day

You're not longing for the 90s, you just want to solve mysteries while having sexual tension with Gillian Andersen. It's a universal feeling.

LLMs are a Yes Man machine that enables school shooters, suicidal ideation, and mass hallucinations in the comfort of your own bedroom, brought forth to capitalize on how everyone is lonely and isolated. it's sold as the perfect companion but it's missing one key thing: it can't say no.

Man, I read more and more posts on social media sites about how the Dems need to reform the court, impeach people, hold people accountable, completely rebuild institutions, implement universal healthcare, etc. etc. ... and then I look around at the actual elected leaders of the party ...

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

That’s queer, too.

Cause it’s good and we worked hard on it! 💪💐

Even if good uses exist, they are a tiny piece of a deeply unethical and violent technology that causes significant harm simply by being used There is no way to use it w/o causing harm; the only question is whether the benefits outweigh the harm (they do not) And when it’s put to *bad* uses… whew

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

You say potato. I say potato. Now we're both just screaming potato at each other. This social experiment has failed.

The DC community has lost an icon. Savanna Wanzer has passed away. She dedicated her life to the transgender and LGBTQ community, championing education and representation. In 2007 Savanna founded Trans Pride in DC.

Yesterday's sermon (text/video/audio) is up on the blog. This one is all about spring, liminality, and choosing the story of the growing season. #UUSky #PaganSky

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)