it took an expensive, coordinated effort & a lot of people saying “this doesn’t matter” to get from a bathroom ban costing one state $400 million & a gubernatorial race to “trans people must turn in their documents which become invalid in a few hours or face fines & potential jail time” in 10 years.
People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
New video! How the Senate Failed Us
I mean, there's a lot of ways they have, but in this video I go back to the beginning of the Senate to pinpoint the very moment where it got real bad. And then also I insult Mitch McConnell a bit (who is unfortunately out of the hospital)
youtu.be/sZxW6-OrZ3Y
Nuremberg trials are the compromise position at this point.
A fist punching a toy robot with the chatgpt butthole logo on its chest. Text reads: FUCK AI
Just so we're clear.
An algorithm can't make art.
Be extremely disdainful of anyone who would want an algorithm to take their place.
#NoAI
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
No new art!!!! Not allowed!!!! He Man with notorious sex pest Jared Leto!!! The Mummy 4 coming in 2028!!!! You will die with the taste of recycled gray sludge in your mouth and you will like it!!!!
anne frank died from typhus in such a "prison"
every person perishing of disease or medical complications from being denied care is another anne frank we have created. they may have their own diaries we'll never read.
it's a concentration camp. you can, and should call it what it is.
don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps.
now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
Shutting it down for the night. I hope everyone revels in the fact that antifascists are going to win. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.
In case you missed the moment.
Art is powerful
half a billion dollars per year for a single concentration camp. the dhs nazis are bleeding this country dry
My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere.
(Plus resources and my must-reads list!)
I'm starting to doubt the power of the art I'm helping to usher into the world. It's getting harder to get it into people's hands & to find an audience that cares, and all that combined with all *this* [gestures wildly at the state of things in the country/world] has me really, really down.
picture of a black streetlight post with a skeleton drawn on it in silver sharpie. the skeleton is doing a fancy little shuffle step. beneath it are the words "YOU CANNOT PICKPOCKET A NAKED MAN"
can't stop thinking about this local street art i stumbled across today
Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.”
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It should be clearer than ever that the “justice” system isn’t about justice for us. It’s about protecting the wealthiest white men first and foremost.
Any system that makes intervention illegitimate will eventually make failure irreversible.
hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
Love is also just chemicals, art is just pattern recognition, belief is just updating priors, and when pizza's on a bagel you can have pizza any time.
the billionaire class wants to destroy the world order as it stands for the same reason soviet bureaucrats drove the USSR to its grave — it's far easier to style oneself as a petty lordling in despotic anarchy than it is in a robust interconnected system
"yes im envisioning a future where im the most special boy and everyone else is. idk probably dead or something not really my business"
reposting with alt text for accessibility:
Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
He's wearing the soap scum that haunts my shower.
Nothing is a distraction from anything else, they just have limited mental capacity to be mad and we don't, so multi-task that rage, y'all.
