YouTube video by Democracy Now! Naomi Klein on the "end times fascism" of the far right

The end times of #Fascism

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teens think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.”

More than half of teenagers in the U.S. use A.I. tools for help with their schoolwork, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The results, the report said, indicate that teenagers think “cheating with A.I. has become a regular feature of student life.”

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D&D obvs

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoye...

Germany's far-right AfD has scheduled their party conference this year for exactly 100 years since a major Nazi rally in 1926 - in the same location. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Was man außerdem noch viel lauter sagen muss: es geht hier nicht "nur" um individuelle Lebensentscheidungen. Ein System, das mit viel Aufwand Menschen anlockt, ausbildet und sie dann so fallenlässt, zerstört sich selbst.
Davon abgesehen: Alles, alles Gute, liebe Amrei!

Jetzt mit Update: Ich habe @evamurasov.bsky.social über die zahlreichen Reaktionen berichtet, die ich auf die Ankündigung meines Ausstiegs aus der Wissenschaft erhalten habe — und wie die deutsche Wissenschaftspolitik darauf reagieren sollte! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Or even overstate.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."
Anatole France

imagining doing a raid to confiscate Anne Frank's journal

and thinking you're anything but evil

The patent for Insulin was sold for $1 by its inventor so it could be provided almost for free.

Insulin costs $2 to make in the USA.

The average price of insulin in the USA is now $1500 a month.

Grotesque

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right

The new batch of Epstein files make me retch. They reveal the rot of abuse & corruption at the highest levels of government, finance & tech.
As Rebecca Solnit observes, it feels like: “rapists all the way down, and enablers all the way up.”
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Everything else is commentary

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Encrypt It Already End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data.

Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data. www.encryptitalready.org

Bugonia (2025)

“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”

We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

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It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon Police charged at people who could not flee due to being kettled. As always police say that is not what happened

First Dog always seems able to transmogrify frustration & despair into laughter & energy.

Good on ya Dog!

🇭🇲🦘🤠

#auspol

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

So Trump also wants to eat Canada alive. He's just sad he's only getting leftovers?

Befristung: vorherrschend. Strategie: keine. Reform: keine. - Ernüchternder Befund des neuen European Commission
#EURYDICE Reports „Academic Staff in Europe 2025“ für das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem.

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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests