Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1

Decent people resist Gestapo.

This entire weekend

But as I travel’d hither through the land, I find the people strangely fantasied, Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams, Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset. I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

repost with a song under 2:00 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ItT...

Basically a human lifetime, then. I've noted before that the new rise of fascism neatly coincides with the departure of the generation that fought World War II. They were, to a great or lesser extent, the antibodies against fascism's most overt expression. They're out of our system now.

suddenly I am obsessed with this song #nightwish www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHu2...

The dude abides #catsofbluesky

neato!

Post a perfect album from the 90s

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back. So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!) More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

I'm sure lots of other people already know about this, but in case you don't, "Sky Follower Bridge" did a pretty good job of finding accounts of here that matched to people I was following on the old hellsite. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...