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Everything Is Content for the ‘Clicktatorship’ In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.

In the second Trump administration, online conspiracy theories are shaping real-world policies like never before.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Thank god.

Palantir’s products are vaporware designed to give authoritarian governments plausible deniability for genocide.

Gaza was the test run.

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.

The class wars.

The tech bros' work in Gaza was a trial run for the US.

Look at the technology being used to commit genocide in Palestine, and you'll know what to expect.

Palantir's "ELITE" app used by ICE is nearly identical to the IDF's Wolfpack surveillance system.

This is why DOGE stole all of our data.

trump saying economic collapse is good, on fox news , feb 2014

I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

Jesus.

A preview of what’s to come.

Drones with facial recognition, thermal imaging, and non-lethal weapons will be swarming your neighborhood by the end of the year.

Everyone told me the New Jersey drones were all planes, and not to believe my lying eyes.

I promise you, it’s hell.

Stay safe, I guess.

Happy disclosure day.

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

r/PublicFreakout • 146 people here ICE Shooting POV From Agent 15.6k upvotes • 3.3k comments PublicFreakout-ModTeam MOD • 2h All Nazis defending murder will be permanently banned.

That’s how you moderate a subreddit.

once again we are all tapping the sign

Some lemur studies

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars WASHINGTON—Circulating a new advisory that highlighted what it called the “worst of the worst,” the Department of Homeland Security released a watchlist Friday warning Americans about the presence of ...

“Please be on the lookout for the following mothers, who are confirmed to be in possession of dangerous vehicles and should be met with extreme caution,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

raffi: regime change in America

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Part of me hopes/suspect this may be addressed in the final two films - which are alleged to be pretty radical in terms of what we think we know about ‘Avatar..

Check out this animated short, it features a 🥁feathered dinosaur🥁

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Business Plot Article Talk The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch! and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator. 21(31 Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under oath before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these revelations. 14) Although no one was prosecuted, the congressional committee final report said, "there is no question that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it expedient."

It took a century, but they finally pulled it off.

Drawing of three friendly aliens enjoying each other’s company.

Drawing of three friendly aliens enjoying each other’s company.

Drawing of three friendly aliens enjoying each other’s company.

Drawing of three friendly aliens enjoying each other’s company.

I made some new friends this week.

The devaluing and crushing of art and artists has created the perfect environment for dehumanization, corporate control, a culture of self-service and transactional behavior, and has undermined our ability to imagine a better future than our present.

It’s hard to overstate how devastating it’s been

With disrespect Speaker,

dead people don’t need healthcare.

Seeing Curtis Yarvin tweet is like if you watch a horror movie that sets up this mysterious evil villain, and then at the end of the movie comes the grand reveal… and it’s just Alf. And you can’t help but laugh and also feel a bit let down. That’s it??

If Jurassic Park had feathered its dromaeosaurids in 1993, I'm telling you that this would be the GOOD timeline. And yet here we are.

I like doodling, helping people and volunteering in my free time. It brings me joy and a sense of civic duty that disappears once the act becomes transactional and commercial. Weirds me out when people disapprove that I don't monetise every element of my life and put a price tag on goodwill.

Autism is: fine, common, normal
The problem is a world where only some brains are valuable/able to succeed.
If we are concerned about Autism as a "problem," there are real tangible things we could be doing to make the world better for everyone instead of pretending we can prevent neurodiversity.