In @equatormag.bsky.social, Melinda Cooper discusses how the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants.
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In @equatormag.bsky.social, Melinda Cooper discusses how the billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants.
"Israel has become the model of impunity to follow, the prodigal son that has been raised up past the image of its father. Its spectacular violence has subdued its regional rivals for now; but military dominance eventually provokes resistance from within and from without."
Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are showing a darkly modern pathway for users to bet on war and other morbid outcomes.
"The reporting of wars seems to have been inverted; what the powerful say and do is being reported first, and the killing of innocents is mentioned in passing, if at all.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation ft.trib.al/gemBmLZ
this is an almost comically stupid idea
AI art will continue to be ineligible for copyright after SCOTUS refuses to hear the case brought by the same man whose previous appeal for patents was also rejected.
In retrospect it will look like we’re pulling the ladder up with ourselves, when in the moment it’s more like we keep Indiana-Jones-rolling under one closing heavy stone door after another.
I think the shift towards "this technical literacy will lead to a six figure income at a government approved monopoly" contributes to its reframing as compliance training
if generative ai takes down the cloud, i might finally have something good to say about it
Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"
Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.
Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.
every post I encounter about LLMs reeks of a society incapable of the experience of shame or embarassment
“As it ponders perhaps its greatest privacy intrusion yet, Meta is betting on people looking the other way. No matter the touted benefits of facial recognition in Meta’s smart glasses, the trade-off isn’t worth it.”
Everyone should be asking this question all the time. Unfortunately it mostly seems to be gambling websites and cryptocurrency scams.
for all this social media research we have we sure don't actually use it to inform the social media we build
Dealing with this constantly. We all make our own choices and are responsible for what happens in our communities. It's a choice to keep using these platforms even when you know the atrocities they continuously inflict on our brains, our democracies, and the planet itself.
Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no
my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:
mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again
I think I'm flattered that AI suggested watching *my own video* to learn about some technical challenges I'm working with.
SSD prices have almost tripled since November 2025
Thanks, AI!
the Marxists are fighting, so i had to weigh in
www.theideasletter.org/essay/automa...
The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will
The weird & reactionary technopolitics of today are the result of 30+ years of debate among US technologists. Our paper with @arturocastro.bsky.social "Cryptofinancial Imaginaries" is out in the new issue of Journal of Cultural Economy.
Thrilled to be part of this debate: tinyurl.com/24ptrbkn
discoveries are by definition not objects of intellectual property - patentable subject matter or copyrightable work - let alone the fact that OpenAI is flagrantly free-riding on other peoples' labour and outputs
I compared the user interface in this photo to the leaked user guide I have for Mobile Fortify, and it's the same. Mobile Fortify is ICE's app for verifying someone's identity, immigration status, whether issued order of deportation. ICE says it overrides a birth certificate bsky.app/profile/donm...
I think "ESG" was always largely bullshit but this certainly settles it