Love that this is nearly 7 years old and is just as spot on as ever
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Love that this is nearly 7 years old and is just as spot on as ever
neither nor there but having grown up getting conscended to about how the desire of misguided leftists to, say, end hunger would actually inevitably mean a planet of gulags, watching these stone cold freaks blow up the world out of sheer lust greed and pique hits real special
The YouTube algorithm imo has been the backbone of radicalization around the world for over a decade. The only reason we don't constantly talk about it is bc we all still use it for our own fun non-fascistic purposes too.
That's got to be the point the Democrats hammer home.
"If this is necessary, why didn't it happen last shutdown?"
"Why are you choosing to do this?"
"Why is being able to kill Americans so important to you that you're willing to throw everyone else under the bus with your tantrum?"
I spent my childhood being told not to be like the German church under Hitler by the same people speedrunning fascism
So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w
Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?
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If you ever see someone who is not explicitly a subject matter expert on short-term interest rates or repo posting about repo, immediately ignore them. That goes triple for anything sourced to Reddit.
NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
I really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.
There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
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.
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
Thing about hacking away at the Clean Air Act and lots of Clean Air Act enforcement is that Congress isn’t likely to return to New Deal State-ish legislation anytime soon, and that’s what makes the CAA so powerful. The people doing the hacking ofc know that
One good point from this piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social is that ICE doesn't need guns to do its job (if they are going after 'bad hombres', they could ask for aid from other agencies). I bet if we banned their guns, a fair number of them would quit because it's not fun anymore.
The man in this image is Sheriff Chuck Jenkins, a known white supremacist and supporter of ICE. His department in Frederick Maryland has a 287g agreement with ICE and his deputies actively help with kidnappings. An ICE Camp is being built 30 minutes for Frederick. He’s up for reelection this year.
jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
Wasn't the reason "disastrous" become an obligatory attachment to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan that he wasn't able to get all the Afghans out who had worked with us? Now that Trump is just sending them back, I guess this was just the media's way of trashing Biden in "news" stories.
Martinez ends her testimony with this:
"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
But definitely peg the rates to specific goals (retirement and AARP) rather than dollar amounts. That way it can be automatically adjusted for inflation and other policy changes. When we reduce healthcare costs for all, the numbers automatically adjust down.
Make the wealth tax progressive and marginal: Start small, 1%, at the amount needed for a reasonably comfortable "middle class" retirement. Rapidly ramp it up to the AARP (actuarially assumed rate of return, 7%), to cut off passive investment income. By a billion $, it's siginificantly above 100%.
Exactly. The 'taxpayer money' myth is their masterstroke.
They framed the public budget as a finite household checkbook, making investment in our own well-being seem like theft.
It transforms a citizen's dream for a better society into a 'cost' we supposedly cannot afford.
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
Whether it's Democrats wanting the federal government to release the names of people who raped children with Jeffrey Epstein or Republicans wanting state governments to release the names of people who voted Democrat in 2024, both sides are seeking names for retribution.
Takeaway:
Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service"
This has 2 parts:
1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data
2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse
Nothing creates huge populations of profoundly desperate and totally unprotected children like poverty and warfare.
If you’re a Trump or an Epstein or a Musk, fostering conflict and misery is a strategic method of keeping your supply chains of children to rape open.
2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
My non-techie teenager bought themself a Linux laptop (which I cautioned against more than recommended, because I knew they wanted to use it for DAWs) and they've happily used it for Steam games, Discord, installed the Windows version of FL Studio (using Wine), etc. With zero tech support from me.
As a card-carrying member of The Linux Crowd (been my primary OS since 1998), 1) I still don't *recommend* Linux desktop to non-techies, and 2) I think it'd surprise you in how far it's come. Of course, many people have specific software they need that often rules it out as a serious contender.
