Opinion article: Someone has to drag the US out of the hellscape of Trumpism. Who better than AOC? AOC is a fighter. Let’s not write her off as too young or too female. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

owns most of billionaires row in malibu. has a private bank in the bahamas. doesnt pay any tax. #resist #ice #NoKings #Terrorism #Fascism #immigration #medicade #epstein #gestapo #union #1u #fightthepower

And from the look of his face, he's had a lot of "gender affirming" work (ie, plastic surgery)

Larry Ellison is worth $392 billion. He's bought: —Sailing team ($875 million) —Estate in Cali ($200 million) —98% of a Hawaiian island ($300 million) Now he's trying to acquire TikTok, HBO, CNN—and push them right. A lot of good his giant tax breaks are doing the rest of us.

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Meanwhile, Senators Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, Ed Markey and Chris Van Hollen have announced an investigation into Nexstar and Sinclair, major TV station owners that account for roughly 70 ABC affiliates across the U.S., who are refusing to air “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

"number of civilians killed since October 7 is the highest in any war in the 21st century" Haaretz

Harry Enten: "If Donald Trump's idea was to give Jimmy Kimmel more press and more viewership, he absolutely did so"

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No he didn’t actually. He got nowhere near 77 million votes. The election results are fake. 2024 NSA Audit results were that Harris actually won by a landslide and Trumps vote counts were not very good. It’s been kept quiet because of Epstein, Trump and International Organised Crime.

What a pos. Also...

A friend of Jens Spahn, a dubious German politician.

I have to admit to not having heard of Yasmin Williams before reading this article, but to support her for facing these jerks, I went to Apple Music and started streaming her music so that some royalties go to her. And I have to say, I'm glad I did for another reason ... she's incredibly talented.

“This was the culmination of months of antagonism from Grenell. In April, Williams emailed the interim president asking him if Trump’s overhaul of the center would lead to any logistical changes. She described what he sent back as “absolutely insane.””

No sé si lo estará haciendo bien o mal (bien) pero Sánchez está empezando a ser un referente en una gran parte de Europa.

None of Kirk’s supporters can defend his racist and bigoted rhetoric. What they're angry about is that we're holding them accountable by echoing his harmful words back to them. They're becoming unhinged because we refuse to participate in their attempts to rewrite history and sanitize his image!🫩

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Também recomendo a leitura pro público brasileiro (se possível, coloquem no tradutor). O negacionismo científico e o charlatanismo estão crescendo no Brasil também. Os comentários no post do Ministério da Saúde sobre a segurança do paracetamol são assustadores, inclusive de médicos influencers.

It fits perfectly with the Epstine distraction 👌

They waited a whole year for this and then they got it and they are disappointed! This is because they have giant voids in their lives that can never be filled!

Extremely funny things are happening www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Social proof isn't merely real, it's one of the most persuasive tools that exists to shape "common sense" & with it action. People do (& say) the things people like them do (& say). Essential reading:

"The Spanish government approves a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called “the genocide in Gaza.”" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

gives lie to the whole “but no one knew they were like that back then” (also would be nice to see someone bring her book back out)

It's all predictable on: - they care more about science as a vibe and lifestyle brand than about following scientific thinking when it includes challenging their own prejudices - science as a vibe = white male boy's club, full of the toxic misogyny of any of them - undervaluing humanities

I wondered if folks had seen this gofund.me/f0f86d022

Nearly every libertarian I've met has been a privileged white dude. Hand them obscene amounts of money, and they get worse.

Which is why so many of them have deteriorated into pimping for the worst kind of corporate fascism... like Yarvin, Thiel, Andreessen, Srinivasan and others. Network state etc is absolutely not libertarian ideology.

I was a liberal arts tech “retread” in the 80s and went on to a successful software tech career. I often had to bite my tongue during lunchtime political conversations. The level of sophomoric bullshit, espoused with complete confidence, was mind-boggling.

This is extremely accurate. I think actual Heinlein would hate them.

I've always believed that these men (they're almost always men) read too much Heinlein in middle school - they came for the sex scenes in his later works, but got marinated in the puerile libertarian rants.

Also, as someone who has been immersed in tech culture all my life (MIT undergrad in the mid-80s), I find techno-libertarians hugely annoying. The supreme irony is that these are folks whose very living depends on state power to enforce copyright on the software they write.

Note that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in a whole lot of the "Wired Magazine"-like tech culture that started in the 90s - ironically a lot of the reporting on this is in Wired: www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

I've just looked 'Cyberselfish' up on the Internet Archive. Like you say it's funny, prescient & startlingly relevant.

I still have my copy! I second the recommendation — very good book!

You mean a woman noticed it and everyone ignored it? Well, well, well…

You won’t see Borsook’s Cyberselfish reissued by Stripe Press any time soon, but she and Doug Rushkoff, Cliff Stoll, and Sherry Turkle were far more accurate than the access journalists on here who rose with their inflated subjects.

This is because the nerds who started the tech revolution, did it just to see what they could build, and then the money came. Now, they care more about becoming filthy rich than they do about what they can build.

11/ There are still some copies available, but this book deserves a reissue with a introduction by somebody famous.

10/ Instead of centering men who missed the boat (and still don't seem to get it), let's lift up the work of Paulina Borsook, who saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago. Someone should do a profile of her very interesting life. And hey, let's drop some cash into her GoFundme!

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

8/ Unfortunately, “Cyberselfish“ predicted the future but did not sell well. Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.

7/ During a decade in which the USA's favorite “tech critics” were busy shining the shoes of people like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, Borsook saw very clearly where things were headed. Because these things were obvious by the late 90s, at least to journalists like Borsook.

6/ Borsook described “paranoid” anti-government rantings and a tech libertarian culture in which the “gestalt is of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands.” And soon, these guys would morph into multi-billionaires...

5/ Borsook warned that “cypherpunk” paranoia about government intrusion was leading them to create “a society where there is ever more surveillance and computer-retrievable information about people's private lives.” Sound familiar?