Jamiroquai talked about virtual insanity, but someone should've sang about virtual nonconsensual extractivism just as a warning.
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Jamiroquai talked about virtual insanity, but someone should've sang about virtual nonconsensual extractivism just as a warning. -
Hearing a lot of people are canceling US Thanksgiving plans with MAGA relatives.YMMV is a fair caveat.
Havent talked to mine in 3 years. I feel more at peace with my values and less torn up when I hear their transphobic Hunter Biden rhetoric, I'll say that.
Siloed/isolated as I am.
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Hearing a lot of people are canceling US Thanksgiving plans with MAGA relatives.Hearing a lot of people are canceling US Thanksgiving plans with MAGA relatives.
Unsolicited - I endorse the shit out of this. If they ask why, explain you think they support a lover of Hitler who uses rhetoric Hitler used to ascend to power.
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Here are my overarching points todayHere are my overarching points today:
Non-modifiable factors:
1. Putin / Thiel are who they are, they are going to do what they are going to do.
2. Some people are racist and misogynist and want to vote for the fascist, and wont choose the Law & Order Establishment fash lite person over a chaos-loving fascist.Modifiable factors:
1. Housing costs 1,800 times the cost of housing in Rockford Illinois for the entire state of California is a choice.
2. Prison labor endorsement & acting on criminalizing the homeless is a choice.
3. Not engaging in open counterwarfare with the moneyed interests like FDR advocated for is a choice.
4. Maintaining inequality as is makes people much more likely to look for Othered folk & scapegoats and to do the bidding of Thiel/Putin. -
Real talk - would Peter Thiel's redpill/Gamergate bullshit campaign have even worked if all the institutions and major poltiical parties in the US were NOT simply fighting to fellate the next billionaire donor?Real talk - would Peter Thiel's redpill/Gamergate bullshit campaign have even worked if all the institutions and major poltiical parties in the US were NOT simply fighting to fellate the next billionaire donor?
It's the inequality as a root cause.
I don't give a fuck what any choads are verbally expressing.
People are choosing chaos and a deconstruction of institutions that they felt haven't served them for years over continuing them.
You innoculate by addressing the needs of, and improving the lives in demonstrable ways (NOT with crumbs while billionaires rake in %$5.5 trillion) of, the most vulnerable. You don't tell them to eat shit sandwiches or that their lived economic experiences "dont match what the data says." Perchance most of the wealth has just gone to billionaires, thought of that?
The CIA uses the Gini coefficient for a reason. Would be nice if we had updated calculations for these. Were handy in 2008.
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Democrats have a working class problem, and I don't mean "working class" in the sense of non-college white conservatives, many of whom are actual millionaires, which is what Republicans and all too often Democrats mean by the term.@gwynnion I was about to ask if this was quoting Gavin Newsom, then saw the thread post history.
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I fucking guess Parisians were "advocating for violence" as Hans Guderian raced through the Ardennes to claim the French capital.I fucking guess Parisians were "advocating for violence" as Hans Guderian raced through the Ardennes to claim the French capital.
What victim blaming mother fucking shit is this fucking shit today?
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Again, will Trump have to BUILD a police state?@AnarchoNinaWrites alright now im pissed.
Richard Evans in the Coming of the Third Reich explains,
Hitler used NOT JUST weaknesses in Weimar Legislation, but bolstered authoritarian bulkheads (ostensibly intended to prevent a Nazi takeover) against his political enemies.
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Real talk: stimulant shortage about to skyrocket with that White House. -
Real talk: stimulant shortage about to skyrocket with that White House.Real talk: stimulant shortage about to skyrocket with that White House.
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A French, Jewish Leftists take on the election & the past 20 yearsA French, Jewish Leftists take on the election & the past 20 years:
Now will you listen to us? (Probably not -an open letter to the management)
— No, Harris did not lose because the Democratic Party dumped Biden. — No, Harris did not lose because she was nominated without a primary. — No, Harris did not lose because she entered the race too late. — And most importantly: no, Harris did not lose...
Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)
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Slavery in prison is a real thing & until some square that reality w/ the fact that "law & order" in institutions designed to be unjust & favor the white ownership class is a losing, divisive, anti-solidarity message, this will rinse-repeat.55% of California voting to MAINTAIN slavery protection exemptions for prisoners means theres a lot of horizontal, grassroots organizing, educating, & innoculating to do when it comes to injustices & the consent manufactured for such by billionaires.
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Slavery in prison is a real thing & until some square that reality w/ the fact that "law & order" in institutions designed to be unjust & favor the white ownership class is a losing, divisive, anti-solidarity message, this will rinse-repeat.Slavery in prison is a real thing & until some square that reality w/ the fact that "law & order" in institutions designed to be unjust & favor the white ownership class is a losing, divisive, anti-solidarity message, this will rinse-repeat.
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"How he’s developed and wielded this influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and underappreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic.@timnitGebru @alshafei Thank you. Been trying to highlight his hubris as socially injurious to the global community.
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Susan B Anthony was a bad person.@mekkaokereke nobody ever taught me this shit.
Sigh.
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I dont forget Nazis nor do I forgive them, though if they wish to renounce their hate and adhere to a long since burned social contract, they're nominally, cautiously welcome to give it a shot & do the lifelong work to prove it.I dont forget Nazis nor do I forgive them, though if they wish to renounce their hate and adhere to a long since burned social contract, they're nominally, cautiously welcome to give it a shot & do the lifelong work to prove it.
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Mainstream society stop falling for "move fast" billionaire tech bro scams challenge: [Not even trying]Mainstream society stop falling for "move fast" billionaire tech bro scams challenge: [Not even trying]
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Besides the obvious dangers of AI confabulating a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer or, say, a need to resect a liver tumor, the entire intention to replace human abstraction, inference, and meta-analytical capabilities w/ thinly-veiled "appearance of tho...Besides the obvious dangers of AI confabulating a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer or, say, a need to resect a liver tumor, the entire intention to replace human abstraction, inference, and meta-analytical capabilities w/ thinly-veiled "appearance of thought" is fucking insane.
Say no to AI in medicine.
I did.
Oh, and it doesn't reduce burnout if you believe in medical oversight: it's no different than having to supervise the worst resident ever, except your worst residents in this case ALSO engage in magical thinking, make shit up, and thus require a fine-toothed comb versus a rubber stamp.
And, your resident isnt really capable of predictable learning & revision in this case.
These "improve margins" posts get to the core: cut costs, harm people, move fast so they don't get caught.
It is purely a new scam by them. That's all.
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.
AP News (apnews.com)
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Justice dept to Musk: "please., don't election fraud, perchance stop whence this twixxes our Nethers & forces us to hire 17 independent counsels for overt bribery, just stick to website-redirect chicanery."Justice dept to Musk: "please., don't election fraud, perchance stop whence this twixxes our Nethers & forces us to hire 17 independent counsels for overt bribery, just stick to website-redirect chicanery."
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Fuck Trump, fuck Vance, fuck techbros, fuck billionaire oligarchs.Fuck Trump, fuck Vance, fuck techbros, fuck billionaire oligarchs.
If they all collectively completed suicide on November 5th, that'd be actually, effectively altruistic for the rest of us.
Gotta call balls & strikes, that's the straight truth
