Descent Path

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Wait the pope is a litebrite Romanista? bsky.app/profile/orga...

AZIZ DID IT, EVERYONE! HE CALLED IT FIRST AND VERIFIED IT!

it’s a guy from Chicago named Robert Prevost I’ve never heard of in my life

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation

and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional

this is what the national Dems just don't get

YouTube video by LegalEagle DOGE Is The Real Fraud ft. Liz Dye

Great video by @legaleagle.bsky.social and @lizdye.bsky.social going through a bunch of Elon/DOGE claims and how they're all just completely made up bullshit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hK...

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

This may be of some relevance to contemporary policy debates.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

“For us to be of any use in a Trump world, we must pay attention to our inner states, so we don’t perpetuate the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion, and constant disorientation.”

What’s weird about running the Shock Doctrine here is that they will decimate all the US baseline capacity (science, economic stability, soft power) that allowed them to capitalize on the pillage when they did it everywhere else. Don’t they see it?

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Death by idiocy & ignorance is coming.

Uganda has an Ebola outbreak. 12 Americans were exposed to it.

Uganda tried informing the US but its staff had gone.

There was no-one to answer the phone. No-one to set up border screening. No-one to liaise with WHO.

Madness.

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week (Gift Article) The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

sorry, pronouns in bio triggered us so hard we had to become a fascist dictatorship over it

Summarizing Elon Musk's government takeover thus far in under 60 seconds:

a basket

"I was going to make a noose, but instead I made a basket."

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-crafts...

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

Trump’s cuts to the Bonneville Power Administration are threatening the Pacific Northwest with blackouts — the very thing the administration vowed the solve.

Great @maeveallsup.bsky.social scoop.

www.latitudemedia.com/news/trump-a...

Mass layoffs now paused at US nuclear weapons agency

Musk's minions are *firing people responsible for securing our nation's nuclear arsenal and their panicked bosses are frantically reaching out to them to say actually no please come back oops*

abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

We need to understand the reality of what is happening right now and learn how to communicate that clearly so more and more people can begin to recognise that what is unfolding right now is literally seen by those behind it as a war, a network insurgency, against humanity and the earth.

the media has, as far as i can tell, voluntarily opted to not cover the social media history of trump/musk staffers. it is not like “the president is surrounded by nazis, at least one of whom was selling services to csam cyberextortionists” is something that would generate zero clicks.

Trying to understand America's current crisis without examining Tech Fascism (the "Dark Enlightenment," the "network state") is like analyzing 9/11 while ignoring Al Qaeda.

This isn't random chaos – it is an orchestrated attack by a small, dangerous, and determined group.

Oh come on

4. What's new?
Unlike the oligarchs of old, broligarchs aren't just looking for tax cuts and lighter regulations; they largely solved those problems.

Broligarchs have a global political vision, and it’s set on a collision course with American democracy and American leadership on the world stage.

Trump during the election: No new wars!

Trump after inauguration: We’re going to send the U.S. military in to conquer Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and the Panama Canal!

was DEIA singlehandedly keeping planes functional what the hell is going on