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Philanthropy drains public money into gala dinners and million-dollar prizes for the elite,for what?To worship its own virtue?While independent thinkers and researchers can’t get small grants,the privileged collect tax-subsidized millions.This is unjust. No one speaking of justice should accept it.

Am I the only one who has a problem with philanthropic entities benefiting from taxpayer subsidies giving huge sums of money to Harvard scholars who aren’t in need? Isn’t this a misallocation of public resources, a reinforcement of elite ecosystems, and a symptom of a deeper problem in philanthropy?

Quite grounded, to spare your children from the decadent way of life of Hollywood, instead of being a living symbol of its decadence.

This is a key point I pick up over and over again when reading what I can in modern theories of mind and consciousness: one of the things we can say about it is that it's embodied. It emerges not just from the brain (central tho it is) but from the physical function & experience of the whole body.

This is my own thinking, born from lived awareness, not academic repetition.

1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism. 👇

Over 200 Vietnamese trainees vanished from a Berlin college. Campaigners fear modern slavery. Germany must hold those who profit from trafficking accountable—and educate, not exploit, the people who come to work because the country needs them. #DWNews #ModernSlavery

What such prepping says about the beliefs of tech elites regarding the future of society? They know they’re breaking the world, yet believe they can rule its ruins—blind to the fact that no bunker shields you from the collapse you cause. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The EU says it needs to scan everyone’s private chats to “fight child abuse. Meanwhile, UK police literally had an informant convicted of 38 offences who was spying on activists. Maybe the problem isn’t lack of data — it’s who’s trusted with power. See Epstein 😉 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When social media is used as a tool of psychological warfare and political destabilization, sending kids to psychiatric yards, when #AI already degrades minds and robs children of childhood — what do you think “symbiosis with AI” will mean? And who stands to profit from it? #WakeUp

Epstein had a clique that remains a connected network.

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What is a self-serving person without empathy, if not the biblical image of a demon? And if late capitalism multiplies such traits across the earth, what is it if not a systemic hell? A world that rewards the heartless manufactures its own inferno.

I recently hosted a teen from China who had never left her country before. She could hardly speak English. What felt to me like strict German discipline seemed to her like a holiday. I was surprised how little tech time under-18s are allowed by law in China.

The best way Americans can defend democracy isn’t by fighting wars abroad, but by winning the one within — against the forces hollowing out their own state. This fight matters for all of us, because these elites won’t stop at America. Their drive for global control leads only to catastrophe.

The U.S. state mutating — power and money draining into tech and finance that no longer need citizens. The state is being privatized from within, turned into a shell. A democracy without people is a façade. This is a mistake leading straight to catastrophe. yalereview.org/article/dasg...

I saw O Último Azul yesterday — such a refreshing film. Subtle, different, and deeply human. After years of Hollywood’s shallow, formulaic, self-centered storytelling, this felt like a breath of real cinema again — perception rather than performance.

Power and money reshape the brain, dull empathy, and breed delusional arrogance. The powerful start to believe they’re above consequence — but their delusion is our best chance to take power back. jacobin.com/2025/10/trum...

1/5 Silicon Valley doesn’t just sell tech — it bills you for it.You pay higher energy costs to keep their data centers running, subsidize their”research”and hand them tax breaks that drain public services.You even fund their propaganda.Their so-called “philanthropy”bankrolls outlets like Noema

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” That line should ring alarms. Stewart Brand bridged counterculture and Silicon Valley — now backing biotech and geoengineering that profit a few, align with monopolies like Monsanto, and gamble with nature itself. #TechHubris #SiliconCreed

Tucker Carlson calls Israel and Trump terrorists for killing innocent people…

The “AI boom” is built on subsidies and tax breaks—public money feeding private giants. These data centers drain jobs, brains, power, and water so billionaires can chase trillions while media celebrate GDP growth. This isn’t growth or innovation; it’s extraction. Wake up.

37 states now give data centers sales tax breaks — the same facilities that drain jobs, power, and water. A clear reminder: the state and both parties exist not to serve people, but to protect capital and keep workers subdued.

It’s not just Noema. Silicon Valley “philanthropy” — Berggruen Institute, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Long Now Foundation — gets tax breaks to sell flawed science as salvation. Not ethics or rigor, just moralized marketing. #TechPropaganda #Philanthrocapitalism

1/7 Blocked by Noema Magazine for an accurate critique. That’s how “open dialogue” works when you expose their faults. A glossy outlet posing as philosophy — really a propaganda mouthpiece for its owner’s bets on AI and synthetic biology. #NoemaMagazine www.noemamag.com/editing-natu...

Left or right, we must wake up: the real threat isn’t ideology, it’s the hoarders. The rich who built this rigged system through lobbying and think tanks—empty, self-serving gamblers turning the world into a mirror of their own misery. The world doesn’t need them. newrepublic.com/article/1958...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Ursula von der Pfizer? Nein — von der Lying? Ach genau: von der Leyen. Scan my messages, Madame. #Chatkontrolle

Oh, just wait until the AI-run hospitals start optimizing for efficiency. Death rates will finally hit their quarterly targets. #privatizatiiin #HealthcareForProfit #HealthCrisis #CapitalismKills

Germany’s ruling CDU/CSU party made it clear today: there will be no #chatcontrol - as pushed for by other EU countries - with this German government. 40 Sekunden kurz und präzise: Mit der CDU/CSU wird es keine anlasslose #Chatkontrolle geben, wie sie von einigen Staaten in der EU gefordert wird.

The Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to Greta Thunberg & the participants of the Sumud Flotilla for being able to break the genocidal Israeli blockade after 19 years and for successfully promoting human rights and international law by putting their lives at risk. @nobelprize.bsky.social

“Curtis Yarvin, the anti-American “Dark Enlightenment” guru credited as “the philosopher behind JD Vance,” believes the Trump administration is doomed to fail.” Some good news as,long as he doesn’t flee to Europe or Latin America. Where do you think he should go? www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Für alle die sich gerade Fragen warum die Diskussion um die #Chatkontrolle gerade wieder so brennt. Wir stehen kurz vor einer erneuten Abstimmung im Rat. Der dänische Vorschlag ist das schlimmste von allen in einem (edri.org/our-work/den...) 1/6

The EU claims #ChatControl will “protect children.” But child abuse plays little role in this — authorities already have the tech to act. If they don’t use it, something else is protecting abusers. Just look at Epstein’s list.

Stock markets no longer allocate capital for growth, they’re casinos for the rich, driven by speculation and short-term greed. They should be abolished and replaced by a public capital allocation system that serves society, not shareholders.

AI was built on decades of publicly funded research—universities, DARPA, NSF. Now corporations privatize the results, hoard the profits, and externalize the harm. That’s not innovation; that’s systemic corruption.

Bratton probably doesn’t even know that without Europe many of these chips would not be fabricated.

1/3 Benjamin Bratton poses as a realist, but his #AI rhetoric mirrors the elites he defends—abstract, self-referential, blind to social damage. He mistakes technocratic power for progress and calls critique “paralysis.” #TechCritique #Noema #Bratton

2/3 Bratton’s vision sells deregulation as courage. In practice it means public funds for private labs, fewer safeguards, and deeper inequality. It’s neoliberalism disguised as philosophy, not realism. #AI #TechEthics #Neoliberalism

3/3 By ignoring mental-health crises, inequality, and the #AI bubble, Bratton echoes the same Silicon Valley ideology corroding society. What he calls “synthetic agency” is just elite insulation from responsibility. #AICritique #SiliconValley #AIRegulation

part of the plan theresistancechronicles.com/how-tech-bro...

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

After years of tech hype vs. reality, I coined a word: IgNoble — for the “visionaries” who justify unprecedented inequality and the draining of the present as a quest for humanity. Musk is one of them, dreaming of Mars while dismantling Earth.

1/4 Think tanks shouldn’t get tax breaks to fund elite echo chambers. Public money should support public good — not private clubs recycling the same ideas for prestige. Real thinkers exist outside those circles and deserve the resources instead. #ThinkTankEconomy onthinktanks.org/articles/the...

Please keep your appliances unplugged.Sam Altman needs the power more than you do.Every surge in your electric bill fuels another “breakthrough for humanity.”And of course,he’s such a philanthropist — becoming a billionaire purely for our sake,just like Musk #AI #TheFutureIsBrightForPhilanthropists

1/3 Benjamin Bratton poses as a realist, but his #AI rhetoric mirrors the elites he defends—abstract, self-referential, blind to social damage. He mistakes technocratic power for progress and calls critique “paralysis.” #TechCritique #Noema #Bratton

Bratton’s recent career is defined by picking personal fights on X while his owners at Berggruen buy him platforms at biennales. His point is nothing but “build!” without rationales while trolling those who ask “why?” — or even “how.”