Tech Monopoly Resistance

As they should. I spent an hour in my SUV along the coast yelling at ppl to get off the beach after the last major tsunami in Japan, before watching the water actually recede on the shoreline. I only left for higher ground only after watching 4 on-lookers get swept away with 1 ft swells.

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The AI Revolution Is a Heist | The Walrus Behind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation

"THE AI REVOLUTION IS A HEIST: Behind the promises of progress lies a simple play: take what others built, offer nothing back, and call it innovation"
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P2025 is right on plan halfway through this year to be complete by end of 2025.

The dismantling began in the evening of Jan 31st, 2025 via DOGE’s access to gov servers.

The fight is now. We cannot wait. Midterm seats aren’t in motion until January 3, 2027.

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There’s a brand of political thinker (call them “normie optimists”) that reflexively treats this all as ephemeral.

“Just wait for the midterms. Focus on the right messaging and win those swing districts.”

I just want to stare at them and say “Emil Bove has been confirmed to a lifetime judgeship.”

Every word of this thread 🧵✊🏻

Vought, another Handmaid’s Tale psycho decimating our entire scientific and medical infrastructure.

P2025 is right on schedule.

Good 🧵on global tsnuami watches & warnings

For California, on watch:

“in the early hrs of Wed AM, potential waves would reach Monterey at 12:15 a.m., San Francisco at 12:40 a.m. Wednesday, the Los Angeles harbor at 1:05 a.m., Newport Beach at 1:10 a.m., and Oceanside and La Jolla at 1:15 a.m.”

Happy Birthday! I forgot why I was following you, took a look at your posts again and said to myself: “Oh yeah, that’s why. Cool, optimistic vibe with excellent, fearless reporting on the resistance in SoCal”

Thanks 🙏🏻 for all that you do and solidarity ✊🏻

They did

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Tsunami watch issued for Hawaii after M8 earthquake off Russia The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the earthquake struck at 1:25 p.m. HST off the east coast of Kamchatka.

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32% in U.S. Back Israel's Military Action in Gaza, a New Low Americans' approval of Israel's military action in Gaza has fallen to a new low, along with the worst opinions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to date.

…and b/c of “we ever can’t criticize our dear leaders” Blue MAGA, I have to waste my time stating the obvious about the other major party:

“In contrast, 71% of Republicans say they approve of Israel’s action in Gaza, up from 66% in September.”

Yes, that’s even more repulsive.

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Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

“The mounting Int’l. horror (over Israel’s war in Gaza is being) reflected inside Israel itself - and within the wider global Jewish diaspora.

Israeli human rights groups (released reports assessing that) Israel was conducting a genocidal policy against Palestinians in Gaza.”

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Our reps don’t work for free. They aren’t part of a non-profit expected to “just do the best they can” w/o power. They’re adults who will be praised when they’re doing their job well & criticized when they’re not.

92% of Dems is a mandate for pivotal opposition. They talk about Israel even as…

Source: https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-military-action-gaza-new-low.aspx. If there isn’t express support, then there isn’t support.

92% of Democrats and 75% of Independents do not support Israel's military action in Gaza, yet some Dems are still smiling in photo ops with the far right-wing authoritarian responsible for this genocide.

This isn’t representation nor vigorous opposition, it’s morally bankrupt congressional capture.

The problem with AI is the same as the problem with the internet, and America, and the planet—namely, it’s controlled by a tiny oligarchy and their systems of rapacious extraction.

Like the internet, AI could be an emancipatory technology if it was under a form of democratic control.

Looking for recommendations on uplifting accounts on Bsky. Nature, music, humor, humanity, anything to balance out the doom-n-gloom. I want to make a List to look at each day that has positive content too. Thanks in advance!

Wait till there’s reporting on the rest of this. It’s a real eye-opener.

Women in tech were openly mocking their early AI models because it was clear there was an overload of certain types of “data” chosen to feed LLMs, ya get me? Perhaps after the backlash it was used for better gatekeeping but that’s not how it started.

More psychotic messaging.

LOL

Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.

There’s so many of them inside our government I can’t keep track anymore. Thanks for the heads-up, I had missed this.

I see now Beattie had also focused on destroying the US government's Russian disinformation unit.

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'Absolute liars': Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6 In a 36-page memo to the Capitol riot committee, Col. Earl Matthews also slams the Pentagon's inspector general for what he calls an error-ridden report.

I’ll never get over how that conspiracy was plotted in plain sight, incl. collusion w/ many GOP reps and traitors like this inside our government yet somehow we believed bipartisanship would lead to justice.

In 2025 it appears we still have not learned this lesson.

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To your point, the “Network State” concepts are mostly vision statements and lack critical details on how these sovereign “Panems” would actually govern. My concern at this point isn’t about feasibility. With tech-and-state merging (plus AI, crypto and Palantir), they can push this agenda anyway.

Thank you for being one of the few who dug deeper on Beattie vs. headlines I’m seeing that he’s “controversial”. Here’s a timeline associated with the bigger picture on the coalition between DOGE and P2025 specific to USIP:

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Unless and until we collectively recognize that DOGE used “government efficiency” as a smokescreen to dismantle our democracy, that it’s not just comprised of Musk’s tech operatives, and that it had P2025 personnel from inception, we will continue to be behind the 8-ball in combatting this threat.

Now, at the end of July 2025 we have Beattie, whose record of explicit racism and misogyny is well-documented, appointed as acting leader of USIP.

“Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities and demoralizing competent white men.”

Who is Nate Cavanaugh? DOGE official now running US Institute of Peace The DOGE takeover comes on the heels of a sweeping Friday night dismissal of nearly all 300 Institute of Peace employees.

In May 2025, the firing of the USIP board was ruled illegal. The regime was instructed to return the headquarters site and all assets.

End of June, 2025 a stay is granted pending appeal.

By mid July 2025, DOGE representative Nate Cavanaugh continues the firing.

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Timeline of a Takeover: What Happened at the U.S. Institute of Peace The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiated a physical takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace earlier this year. Here’s a timeline of the events that transpired.

DOGE - a Trojan Horse staffed with employees across multiple tech companies (not just Musk’s) and P2025 operatives, gained access to USIP’s computer systems by March 19, 2025.

DOGE’s infiltration of our gov buildings and servers began the night of Jan 31, 2025.

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