Static Before the Storm

Mate. Thank you so much for this link. Wow. Never crossed my mind...

Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams "Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are ...

Labour union approval hits 68% - near historic highs - while trust in Congress and big corporations crashes. Even as Trump strips workers' rights before Labour Day, the tide is turning. People are waking up. Tomorrow's 1000 cities "Workers Over Billionaires" protests can't come soon enough.

The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here's What They Were Hiding Alan Macleod exposes how the CIA operated 885 covert websites disguised as blogs and fan pages, spying globally—including on allies—leading to devastating intelligence failures in Iran and China.

Nothing new here, but nice to have it documented - CIA's informant web spans 885 fake websites, from Johnny Carson fan pages to soccer. Plus they've infiltrated Facebook/Google with ex-spies and fund 6,200 journalists worldwide. Billion-dollar propaganda machine disguised as "independent" media.

I mean from an IT guy's perspective this article don't say anything new. It's been done many times already, it's being done in various ways now (hybrids troll farms+LLM, censoring publicly available AIs, etc).
But saying it aloud "we are going to do this" is a different thing.

Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.

Pentagon's wet dream is basically copying Russian troll farms but making it fully automatic. AI bots will "suppress dissenting arguments" and craft propaganda in real-time. Soon you won't trust any social media account you don't know personally. All to sustain this sick system.

Sooner than it seems.

Some fun for the resistance, same as crickets in a jar at a conference. :)

ICE Targets App Delivery Drivers — and the Tech Giants They Work for Stay Silent As part of the federal takeover of D.C., ICE agents have been targeting delivery drivers for the likes of Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash.

Speaking of #CowardICE, their newest prey are the delivery guys. Armed agents with tactical vests swooping on moped drivers bringing you your food. Tech giants like Uber stay silent while their workforce gets disappeared. Capital doesn't give a fuck about fairness - they never did.

Best thing I've heard about ICE and it rhymes and has some guitar.

People used to play circus melodies during right wing marches. This is a well-fitting background for their cowardly raids.

First of all - thank you. I will be far more active now.
Yeah, the reason is quite mundane. I worked like 12hrs a day last few months and didn't have mental space for any social media.

There's a big difference between "UBI will not redeem this system or make it functional for everyone." and "It really makes no sense". The first is true. The second means that you haven't really read what I shared.

Oh, yes. There's more to me.
I feel that if whatever IT creation can bring about the real change we all are waiting for, it's actually not AI. it's Bluesky.
I am here to assist the Revolution, mate.
Now please excuse me, I need to go to bed, I am CET now.

This is the first time I am called to explain my likes ;)
Well, we both hate oligarchs, that's basically it.

As for my Bluesky absence, life happened and I preferred to connect to Nature rather than zeros and ones.
Is this ok?

I also don't know, but I am quite happy to see at least some "socialist" things proposed on that level of decision making.

Violence deconstructed: Hysteria over Zohran Mamdani’s crime platform rooted in lie that cops make women safer Mamdani’s critics have launched a smear campaign that ignores that police pose an existential threat to victims—and all of us

High time we stopped believing in "good cop" fairytales. Real world data shows we're basically oppressed by police - 40% abuse their own families, 25% of DV victims calling 911 get arrested themselves. Police don't prevent violence, they ARE the violence. #Mamdani is right.

Fair point.
The difference between their wealth and ours stays more or less the same.

The Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban Basic Income Experiments The Foundation for Government Accountability - a Florida-based lobbying group backed by the richest 1% - is working to get basic income experiments banned by state legislators across the U.S. (This...

This article is huge.
Billionaires spend millions to tell us Universal Basic Income doesn't work. Same playbook as companies pumping money to smear unions, same as US Army targeting any socialist government on Earth.

Yes, exactly.
I wonder when factories start doing gig apps. Or industrial farms. Or army.

Global Rights Index - International Trade Union Confederation Building Workers' Power

People defending capitalism love comparing our times to Medieval times - how about comparing to just the last 10 years? Workers' rights are collapsing globally. Europe hit worst score since 2014. Only 7 countries have top ratings now vs 18 a decade ago. We're going backwards, fast.

Indigenous-led environmental movements fight on amid repression Under the guise of national security and economic growth, governments and corporations worldwide are escalating legal strategies to suppress Indigenous activists and organizers

Open dictatorship like Milei's Argentina or "democratic" majority rule of people disconnected from Nature. Under banners of economic growth and national security, the last refuges of biodiversity and sacred Indigenous grounds get handed to the richest to turn into money. And yet they still fight!

President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare A new executive order called “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the AI Action Plan, seeks to strong-arm AI companies into modifying their models to conform with the Tru...

Super interesting short article about Trump vs his imaginary nemesis "Woke AI". Sounds funny, but when you see where that leads...
Do you think that they mutilate this way only the public AIs or do they really believe that it produces better models?
By the way - have you heard about Mechahitler?

The Gig Trap The 155-page report, “The Gig Trap: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US” focuses on seven major companies operating in the US: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, ...

Gig companies cracked the code - call workers "contractors," dodge labor laws, pay fuck all. It's global now, 777+ platforms worldwide. Algorithms control everything: pay, shifts, even firing you. We're literally becoming slaves to the machine. This is capitalism's endgame.

The Authoritarian Playbook in Action: What Global Cases Tell Us About Trump’s 2025 Military Deployments The cases of Canada, South Korea, and Turkey illustrate a dangerous escalatory pattern: When elected leaders rely on the military to resolve domestic challenges, they often accelerate democratic backs...

Trump's testing waters - troops vs protesters in LA & DC. Classic authoritarian escalation. Once they do it, they'll keep doing it till normal. When real street uprising against this shit comes, we'll face soldiers and nobody will blink. Revolution's almost here but boot's on our necks.

The post is a news article from the future. The title reads "Last POTUS Isolated", dated on July 19, 2027. With the era of presidential rule officially over, Donald Trump is transported to a remote island. Streets fill with joy as the world embraces a new age—one without politicians. Fireworks lit up the skies in cities across the globe as news spread of the historic event. Crowds danced, strangers hugged, and children were told bedtime stories of a world before, when leaders bickered over power instead of solving problems.

#art #artivism #resist #protestart #politicalcartoon #NWT

Oppressors stranded alone—banished to atone.
Starved of attention sought,
Let tyrants be distraught.

In remediation of duplicitous rot—
Abandon unconstructive thought!
Merit earned, camaraderie wrought,
Follow, Share, we're all we've got!

thank you for sharing.
we don't talk about peaceful protesting.
we propose doxxing + SHAC7 / ELF tactics, to be clear.
super effective, more people can take part, can be done remotely, lots of examples of no-risk pressure.

it is - until you imagine a crowd of thousands (and the support for Luigi Mangione is seriously bigger) concentrating their efforts on ONE person.
there are hundreds of examples of it working - just doxx the CEO and don't let them rest. paralyse communication, halt transport, pressure partners etc.

thank you for sharing.
read about SHAC7 or ELF - they were quite successful in *annoying* and they were just a bunch of kids basically.
if you doxx any single CEO and focus the *annoying*, they are proper f***ed.

again i can relate.
i am a tattoo artist and sometimes people do come to me with some ai generated "tattoo ideas".
no, ma'am. i'm afraid skin does not have such resolution. and no, i don't use microscope while tattooing.