@hannu_ikonen I've never heard the term "extractivism" before, but it's a good one

@hannu_ikonen It was cool for like the first six years or so; not getting invited to weddings and stuff on account of like, obligation avoidance or whatever. The years when everyone else took COVID seriously made it easier, too.But I feel like I was just coming around to maybe extending an olive branch and; nah. Not after this week.Shit's heartbreaking.

@hannu_ikonen Ah, but consider that if Putin were to appear in a personal audience with his maker and not come back, there would be another to take his place, and if Phiel were to have an unfortunate accident with one of his immortality potions or something, there would be no more Phiel. They're not the same.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @hannu_ikonen Good breakdown. Thanks for that vid!

@[email protected] the appropriate protest is always invisible, the appropriate time is never.

@aud yeshttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

A French, Jewish Leftists take on the election & the past 20 years:https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/6/2283351/-Now-will-you-listen-to-us-Probably-not-an-open-letter-to-the-management

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.

Sidenote: just because someone isn't openly a member of a fascist party doesn't mean that they don't have a lot of internalised racism, and definitely doesn't mean that they should be trusted anywhere near power. Kier Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, I'm looking at you.

Mainstream society stop falling for "move fast" billionaire tech bro scams challenge: [Not even trying]

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. https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14#AI #Healthcare #BillionaireScams #Crypto #NFT

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."

@tompearce49 @hannu_ikonen They're still scared of it considering the amount of anti-protesting laws the former Home Secretary and (Alleged because she'd totally come find me) Kitten Stomper put in to place.French politicians are also terrified of another May 68, so really you just need to do one big one and they'll be appeasing you for years

There's a movie called Reagan and it makes me long for days when you could rent videos with cash & without a traceable account. I'd replace that shit with a porno at every single video rental store across the country.

@hannu_ikonen Donald Trump is a fascist maniac who is seeking to become a dictator. We have to stop him.

Thanks phone engineers for making this keyboard so fucking small that I accidentally called someone a typoed coward when I meant the opposite.Function over form, assholes.