the people angry at this seem captured by the delusion that "immortality" would somehow trickle down to the masses. This ignores two key things:

1. Most tech oligarchs see "immortality" as uploading themselves to the cloud

2. They want to make themselves gods and don't desire your company

CBP is deporting cruise ship crew over child pornography allegations without evidence Advocacy groups say more than 100 cruise ship crew members have been deported in recent months, and they're not being shown the evidence against them.

Latest: CBP has been targeting cruise ship crews for deportation and revoking their work visas based on allegations of viewing or posting child pornography.

But detainees aren't shown the evidence against them or given any due process before they're summarily deported reason.com/2025/08/13/c...

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truly, a grand jury

The AP provides a model of effective press resistance Credibility is more important than access.

"If Trump is denying access to outlets that refuse to lick his boots, then any media outlet that has access is compromised. Journalists who want to be worthy of the name have a moral obligation to follow the AP’s example in enraging the toddler in chief."

"Curiosity killed the cat. Integrity killed the journalist." -Mystery Case Files: The Black Veil, hidden object game

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We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next? How to navigate the future without a map.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

Fuck. This is so fucking stupid.