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I don’t believe it’s possible to grant machines genuine intelligence but it seems the human mind can be degraded into something more like an algorithm

Someone who sees no meaningful difference between the metabolic process of sustaining a human life and the energy inputs of AI has a mind so captured by the logic of capital that I can only equate it to a sort of demonic possession

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

If The Green Knight appeared before me and my uncle and his friends and promised that whatever I did to him he would repay me in one years time I would simply give him an ice cold Modelo Especial.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Absolutely incredible testimony coming out of the sandwich trial

Clown car country

Practically every day we encounter someone who still has no idea ICE shot and killed someone in Chicago already. This happened before many people tuned in (and many have already tuned out again).

As the fascist right seeks to preside over US imperial decline in the midst of worsening ecological crisis with a regime of austerity and repression, puritanical christian sexual/family morality will be an important ideological tool for justifying the resulting mass immiseration and death

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Today a street vendor I’ve seen every day for two years was abducted from our neighborhood by masked thugs too cowardly to identify themselves. Her crime? Selling Tamales. What are you doing to stand up to the Gestapo?

Love is contraband in Hell,
cause love is an acid
that eats away bars.

But you, me, and tomorrow
hold hands and make vows
that struggle will multiply.

Rest in power Assata

I'm not afraid of the fallout of last week's news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned. They've already been scapegoating trans people for everything bad in this country and are trying to criminalize our existence. They've already been talking about declaring "Antifa" a domestic terror organization. They're already funding a genocide (and were before the current administration) and they were already ramping up ICE infrastructure as fast as they possibly can. I don't know that there's any further acceleration available. The fascist pedal is already to the fascist metal. That's not to say that things aren't going to get worse: they are going to get worse. They're just, as far as I can tell, getting worse as fast as they already can. Our actions aren't going to someh convince the fascists to get even more fascist. There's an odd sort of freedom in that realization. We can—and should-collectively stop saying shit like "oh if you behave a certain way, it will just embolden the fascists." They're already as bold as they can get.

as usual, Margaret eloquently summarizes the thoughts that have been drifting around in my head this week. @margaret.bsky.social

the thing thats so galling abt the whole “Charlie was just a sweet boy who loved good faith debate“ line is that he was the opposite! He took advantage of naive college kids who believed in good faith debate, baited them into emotional responses and posted them online to a rabid fanbase of rw haters

The thing about all these fucking statements now from world leaders calling for the food to be let in to Gaza: you have the ability to impose sanctions on Israel and every second you spend talking instead of imposing them is a collaborationist lie.

4 panel comic PANEL 1: MATTIE lying down on her couch, looking at her phone. MATTIE: Man, why do I feel so bad lately. PANEL 2: A shot of MATTIE's phone. NEWS ARTICLE: METEOR DUE TO DEMOLISH EARTH TODAY MATTIE: Oh I see. MATTIE: It's because I'm looking at my PHONE too much! PANEL 3: MATTIE, marching outside, throwing her phone over her shoulder. MATTIE: That's it! I'm gonna go OUTSIDE! PANEL 4: MATTIE looks up, shielding her eyes from something. Red light is all around her. MATTIE: I wonder what that is.

why do i feel so bad lately | patreon.com/lubchansky

Palestine is starving in prison, and the powers that be are crystal clear why this is: it's because a free Palestine means the end of the(ir) world.

something bleakly farcical about this historic moment is that the fascist legislation that just passed is called the “big beautiful bill” largely because the president just straight up doesn’t know very many words

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Marge: I thought you said the law was powerless

Chief Wiggum: powerless to help you, not punish you

thinking about this again, no reason

Here’s a drawing I did in my sketchbook of an AI data center burning. Pen and ink on paper.

Here’s a drawing I did in my sketchbook of an AI data center burning. Pen and ink on paper.

BREAKING: Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israeli troops shot and killed at least 20 hungry Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others while they waited for food at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid site.

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lol

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

they took a detour to rescue a boat full of migrants yesterday.

this right here should be more popular than the goddamn stuck shipping vessel thing, this should be everyone's page-refreshing major event right now