Keoni Mahelona, in Empire of AI:
“AI is just a land grab all over again. Big tech likes to collect your data more or less for free—to build whatever they want to, whatever their endgame is—and then turn it around and sell it back to you as a service.”
“Trump is not in control of the Iran War. Netanyahu is, and Kushner is his lackey.”
Whether or not you fully agree with that statement, this piece is a must-read to understand better the influence of the Kahanist movement on current events and the push for “Greater Israel”:
Red Mafiya names key villains and locales, including Trump Tower, which functioned as a dormitory for organized crime. Mogilevich became an early investor in Trump Tower after fleeing the USSR by getting an Israeli passport in 1988 from Robert Maxwell, the father of Jeffrey Epstein's partner, Ghislaine. To say Red Mafiya is timeless is to acknowledge we've been frozen in hell for forty years. The False Prophet, on the other hand, is largely ignored. It is in demand but hard to find: used copies of the out-of-print book sell for over $100. I bought mine before the Kahanists — Kahane's acolytes — returned to power in Israel. I've been wanting to write about The False Prophet for years. I held back since it scares me more than any other book. If it were only history, I would not be so frightened. But The False Prophet describes current events: the extremism that Kahane espoused, and Friedman documented, now dominates Israel and in turn, the United States.
In discussing Robert Friedman’s 1990 book about Meir Kahane, “The False Prophet,” Sarah Kendzior notes she has been wanting to write about it for years but held back because it scares her. I can attest to that, as @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and I have privately talked about the subject for a decade.
The #WALeg House still has yet to vote on the Millionaires Tax! Our sources say that phone calls to lawmakers’ offices urging them to vote YES are what’s needed right now to keep the bill moving.
We've made that easy by setting up a simple way to plug in your info and call them with one click:
Online behavioral advertising isn’t just creepy–it’s dangerous. eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Every @democrats.org who is part of this "bipartisan" push needs to never work in politics again. Yes, let's give fascists MORE TOOLS to track down the people they don't like, all in the name of "protect the kids." Collaborator cowards are the worst. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
Surveillance capitalism:
Valuation uber alles
They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)
I really can't with Underground Sound
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@natebowling.com you see the company I keep!
Alex @alex.bsky.team • 2h our userbase is already conspiracy brained enough about our rationale for suspensions without us making it this easy for them to accidentally entrap themselves
Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained.
If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
Reminder: Annualized income is projected income. It's an "estimate of expected yearly income based on data from less than a full year."
What's hilarious about this is that California, which is the tech and AI capital of the country, has a state income tax, the highest rate of which is 12.3% (vs 9.9% in the WA proposal), and the tax is on all income, not just income over $1 million. Yet somehow Silicon Valley is doing just fine.
Since liberal pundits continue to go to the mattresses for The New York Times...
Believe us, trans people see when institutions with plenty of blood on their hands are still revered, even now, over communities facing brutal oppression.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war.
Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East.
No war with Iran.
Schumer wants this war. He’s just sad he was left out of the decision making.
I don’t trust any of these guys, but I especially don’t trust Altman (who is a serial liar and allegedly sexually abused his sister when she was a very young child) or Musk (who is a serial liar, eugenicist, and white supremacist with a breeding fetish).
So this is all going well.
time traveler from 12 months from now just sent me this
At least once a day, I think about James Vincent describing robots as avatars of capital.
What’s Driving the Push For Humanoid Robots w/ James Vincent #TechWontSaveUs share.google/S9oNr4FdWJqg...
Types of Mutual Aid: Labor Resources: childcare collectives, support with appointments, ride shares, community kitchens, translation services, shopping and deliveries, repairs. Physical reaources: food banks, tool shares, seed shares, community gardens. Community actions: rapid response networks, disaster relief, bail funds, legal resources. Safety: temporary housing, Healthcare funds, information gathering and distribution.
There are so many ways you can contribute to and connect with your community! Here are a few ideas.
A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
Trump about to announce he's creating The Supremest Court, which you can join as an associate justice by buying $11 million of his shitcoin and agreeing to adopt Eric.
