James Tindall

Among the very best explanations of so-called AI, this video Essay by Brooks Brown for The Quarantine Collective is a truly brilliant piece of work —every word of it. It’s long but I recommend watching it in full. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwr2fg2Ops

U.S. Edition v VARIETY Magazine Jim Acosta Interviews Al Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting: ‘It’s Just a Beautiful Thing’ By Ethan Shanfeld

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Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope

My latest: Notes on Assadism, Zionism, Fascism and Hope

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/notes-on-assadism-zionism-fascism

Lord Dannatt urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US firm Police officer was concerned ex-army chief, a Teledyne adviser, sought to have ‘input’ into factory attack investigation

Another deeply concerning allegation, the latest in a long line of apparent commercial and political lobbying against protest movements, some of which has led to the extremely repressive legislation we now face.
Powerful lobbyists are the bane of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.

https://youtu.be/vKSKawpFsfs?si=QyN3xQMHrRvfq1_5

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/billionaire-big-tech-frugal-elon-musk-innovation

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

4. There is no substitute for a political confrontation with capital. And that in turn means a popular confrontation with government. Because otherwise, government will *always* bend the knee to capital. Nothing good will happen without large and sustained protest movements.

5. That's another thing governments believe they can do without. "We don't need to shutter fossil fuels - 'the market' will do the job. Therefore we don't need political intervention either. Therefore we don't need protest movements either." The three forms of magical thinking are closely connected.

Is your phone a tool or a trap?
Spyware, predictive policing apps, and data surveillance technologies are becoming tools of control.
Technoviolence unpacks how these digital weapons target dissent and how we resist.
#Technoviolence #Surveillance #AlgorithmicViolence #dnl36

The integration of next-token prediction machines into the apparatus of attention continues apace. https://x.com/fablesimulation/status/1950589974262448505

The integration of next-token prediction machines into the apparatus of attention continues apace. https://x.com/fablesimulation/status/1950589974262448505

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”

That’s what a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister said in *2006.*

In case you are wondering how long Israel has been using forced starvation as a tactic.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

But Zionism also functions as a model or paragon. And we shouldnt underestimate this. Zionism, actually existing Zionism, is possibly the most concentrated distillation of colonial racism and state excess in the contemporary world. Bar none. It’s not just that it's the inheritor of Europe’s colonial project in its most self-righteous form. It’s also the contemporary vestige of state racism and power in the kind of unrestrained form that elsewhere had to be disavowed. A proud holdover of what everyone else in the West had to pretend not to like anymore. A state racism and power that frees itself from any self-repressive mechanisms, does away with any pretense or even hypocrisy, and wades directly into the unbridled cruelty and sadism that the bourgeois Western political order had to at least pretend it had overcome. Zionism shouts its genocidal intentions from the rooftops; its state ministers openly call for the elimination of everything that stands in their way; its supporters all but explicitly declare that the mass killing of children is necessary for the state’s survival and they will make no apologies. This is the allure of Zionism today. The more it descends into its own suicidal spiral of nihilistic hysterical obliteration, the more it openly celebrates its sadism and will to obliterate, the more it offers a vision of the future for those not interested in co-habiting the planet with what they deem are its subhuman surplus populations.

Crisis and Form | Weird Economies The meaning of images, of testimony, of evidence, of rights, of medical integrity, of journalistic responsibility and the discursive frameworks that …

https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/crisis-and-form

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All those who work for elite power contribute to our undoing. Those who resist it might be our salvation.

Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat The post Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat appeared first on Spectre Journal.

https://spectrejournal.com/mamdanis-judeo-bolshevik-threat/

LOL - Sam Altman proposing the formalisation of Predictive Capital.
https://youtube.com/shorts/osj4s_6dtlo?si=DsmEWOZ3QHk6Dlv8

It is at least intriguing that deconstruction illustrates how our language is multistable at its core; we can interpret differing meanings by mere cognitive ebbs and flows.

When someone proposes a “solution”, they are simultaneously rigidly defining *their* “problem”.

We should be more […]

Elon Musk @elonmusk The path to solving hunger, disease and poverty is AI and robotics

Of course, to date, AI and robotics in the form of next-human-target prediction machines, big-dog style robots fitted with automatic assault rifles, killer drones, and algorithmic discrimination and abandonment have all been deployed in the erasure of […]

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Good riddance Pascal’s Wager/Mugging (and Roko’s Basilisk):

Expected utility calculations break down when probability distributions are underdetermined over ill-defined or incomplete outcome spaces. In such cases, decision theory cannot reliably prescribe rational action, as its core […]

Almost having a Torment Nexus moment here https://mastodon.social/@atomless/114952739168583336

LOL - Sam Altman proposing the formalisation of Predictive Capital.
https://youtube.com/shorts/osj4s_6dtlo?si=DsmEWOZ3QHk6Dlv8

By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists.
This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.

Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

As we accelerate the incineration of this planet in a delusional race for AI supremacy, https://ig.ft.com/ai-data-centres/ the blue whales have fallen silent https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-heat-wave-blob-whale-songs

Elon Musk @elonmusk The path to solving hunger, disease and poverty is AI and robotics

Of course, to date, AI and robotics in the form of next-human-target prediction machines, big-dog style robots fitted with automatic assault rifles, killer drones, and algorithmic discrimination and abandonment have all been deployed in the erasure of […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

WTAF

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, will be the last organisation ever to use Humanitarian Foundation in its name. This phrase will now be forever tarnished, forbidden; associated with horror, mass murder, and the calculated starvation of an entire human population.