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Hi folks. What’s with all the AI slop on Bluesky? Hard to build an effective movement if we can’t even manage to reject the use of harmful techno fascist Gen AI. I just don’t get it. Geez.

AI is not inevitable in education. It’s not inevitable anywhere. We can choose not to comply. Choose not to accommodate to power and nefarious forces. You don’t have to participate in the destruction of our world for profit. Look into your heart. You know this is wrong. Please. Fight back now.

When you grew up as a Beatle fan, and you listened to Hey Jude on the regular, you came to know that music is life-affirming. Listen to Hey Jude. Don’t give up.

“AI is coming whether we like it or not” “AI is inevitable” “We’ve got to learn how to use AI” “AI has good and bad” “If you don’t adopt AI, you’ll be left behind” Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Told you so.

New reads

I am 56. I love my 50’s. I’m so much more relaxed. I still care very much about everything, but the worries of youth have faded into the background. I don’t waste time on trifles, at all. I feel a new confidence, borne of living a life. Grateful.

Soon

In hindsight, Wild Life is a fun, loose, ragged, vibey first release for Wings. Inane. Sure. Should Paul have taken the time to write more proper songs? OK. Half-baked. Fair. But put it on. It is strange and wonderful.

Capitalism is great at socializing risk and privatizing reward. This must end.

Things are irrefutably bleak. However, I’m listening to The Who’s Quadrophenia on vinyl, drinking imperial amber ale, and watching Italian zombie films with the sound off. All is not lost. 🤘🏻🤪

Economist Steve Keen said on Al Jazeera that we are 2 months away from global famine. Fascism

Starting to get the feeling that many people have had it with capitalism. I hope that’s true.

Rewatching Metropolis. It is so prescient. “Machine-man” is where we are headed with AI and capitalism. Metropolis is not a happy story.

Get prepared as best you can. Things are going to get hard in the next two weeks.

Hug your loved ones.

Nazis are bad. Very, very bad.

Hey fellow musicians. Let’s work to normalize matinee shows. Some of us like to rock in the daytime, and sleep at night.

“When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten and the last stream poisoned, you will realize that you cannot eat money.” -Cree Native American prophecy

State and Revolution - Lenin I recommend it

Books that you find particularly relevant in this moment? I’m currently reading Huey Newton’s Revolutionary Suicide.

So many people rushing to say the NDP is finished with Lewis as leader is leading me to believe that the opposite may be true.

People sometimes ask me how I define fascism, so I’ll give it a go. Fascism is a political system where everything sucks really hard.

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War won’t make people forget the Epstein files. 🎯 #SheShed #Voices4Victory

I don't give a good goddamn about the Oscars in these circumstances. I don't give a damn who wins. I don't give a damn what they wear. I don't give a damn who attends and walks on the damned red carpet. Hollywood is way beyond complicit.

In years to come We may discover What the air we breathe And the life we lead Are all about But it won’t be soon enough For me - Paul McCartney (from Tug of War LP, 1982)

Trump on Iran: “Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today…I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”

Dark times in the world, but Bobby “Blue” Bland is one of the greatest singers I have ever heard. So, there’s that.

Reports from multiple sources say the US is using drones to hunt and kill people in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Over 1000 dead so far, including children. Draw appropriate conclusions.

Oh boy, am I done with this “future governor” shit. Goddamn Nazis.

I’m searching for the word that best describes my feeling towards the US right now… Got it. Contempt

I have a serious question. What is the plan if we are attacked by the US? Please don’t debate the likelihood. My concern is what we will actually do. It seems ill-advised to wait until it happens to make plans.

Don't go to university in Florida unless you want to be a Nazi scheel.

40% of Americans STILL support Trump. Think about that. Like, really sit with it.

Retirement is pretty wicked. I sit around all day drinking beer, reading books, watching weird horror movies, smoking weed, filling the woodbox, hanging out with Alma, Olive, and my Mom. But I feel so damn sad for people who don’t have a chance to experience the same.

Canadian socialist here, and, believe you me, I am sick of this bullshit. Solidarity, friends.

Hegseth reportedly told US soldiers that this war is for “armageddon” and the return of Jesus. His generals are running around in “a state of euphoria” spouting the same madness. Nice work, Amerikkka. Thanks for hell on earth.

Rich men’s wars are always paid for by poor men’s blood. #SendBarron