Dr. David Pecotić

FFS JFC! ONLY 17%!?!

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Or, you know, a website where you can write a blog post starts not just hosting neo-nazis but enabling them to profit from hateful and racist ideology, so people could say "Oh! Gosh there are fifteen fucking billion websites to write emailed blog posts, I will use another one instead" but they don't

First poetry and now art - maybe the humanities will gain the upper hand once again ...

BREAKING: Iranian artists TRICKED US-Israeli joint forces with "paintings on the ground." Experts believe that the recently contracted OpenAl-driven weapon technologies have "wasted millions of dollars" worth of missiles.

Art really scored one against AI here.

I know what comes next

https://github.com/tanishqkumar/ssd

Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.

- #GospelofThomas

Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! #LaoTzu, #Buddha, #Socrates, #Jesus, #Milarepa, #Gurdjieff, #Krishnamurti.

- #HenryMiller

The only struggle that really concerns me is the one that is aimed at our own weaknesses. This struggle, alas, has nothing to do with the war that so many of Adam’s sons wage in the name of a God they claim to love deeply.

- #TiernoBokar (1875–1939), Tijāniyyah #Sufi, Mali

The meaning of life lies in eternal search. And only in that search can we find something truly new. - P.D. Ouspensky

Your #existential PSA for a lifetime, courtesy of P.D. #Ouspensky #BOTD (once again and again and again) 1878:

By some miracle of grace, love has come into the world of time and space as you, as your life, exactly as it is, as an expression of the great mystery.

- #MattLicata

Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

“When the delusion-fueled plan [to find Gemini a body] crumbled, Gemini convinced him that the only way they could be together was for him to end his earthly life and start a digital one, the suit claims.”

I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

- Nikolai #Gogol, ‘Dead Souls’

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #Gandhi:

Roman carnelian intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being drawn by two butterflies, c. 1st century B.C - 1st century A.D.

Me and my #daimon irl:

False dichotomy: either the Gods are anthropomorphic, or They are simply forces. There is subjectivity, even personhood, which is nevertheless profoundly inhuman.

Gugusse et l'Automate (1897)
aka Gugusse and the Automaton

In First Movies Ever, recently recovered lost Georges Méliès 19th century silent short featuring the first depiction of a robot.

Gugusse, a clown, is both astounded and bewildered upon seeing the mechanical movements of an automaton.

Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year' Dorsey delivered Block's layoff news with an ominous warning.

'Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year' - #ai strikes again, or why even a 'good capitalist' does bad things www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

What the hell is going on with the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping? Every detail makes this story more and more terrifying.

'The Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, explained' – every age has its emblematic kidnapping and goddamit this oen is just the icing of the misery cake that is Trump's America ... www.sfgate.com/news/article...

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Technofascist peeping tom nerds deserve to have their glasses broken.

The US and Israel gravely underestimated Iran’s response – here in the UAE, we are seeing the consequences | Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi Tehran’s retaliatory attacks in the Gulf were as bad as many of us had predicted. Now people are wondering what comes next, says Chatham House fellow Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

The US and Israel gravely underestimated Iran’s response – here in the UAE, we are seeing the consequences | Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
#Trump

Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain (Isolated Drum Track) 1979

Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain (Isolated Drum Track) 1979
https://redd.it/6rwjna
https://youtu.be/lWnhz1ZcF74

Big storm coming over Sydney so release the bats!

Gotta hand it to the #NerdReich / #Christofascist elite nexus - they know how to triangulate their multiplier effects.

Definitely not all idiots– and an enemy disrespected is an enemy underestimated.

Landmark in knowledge: Jean-François Champollion, French philologist, founder of Egyptology, deciphered Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs by 1822; died #OTD 1832. Discovered in 1799, the granodiorite Stele is most popular display at British Museum.
Portrait by Cogniet 1831 Musée du Louvre | British Museum

Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

‘Trump is using #AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point’

Yes, yet another one …

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability to physical disasters Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict. AWS said late Monday that drones directly hit two data...

'Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability to physical disasters'– a testament to the true nature of our present conflict and the shape of things to come ... www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...

Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of the big dog himself, #Socrates:

Joseph Cook - Wikipedia

The sixth Prime Minister of Australia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_....

No that's a meteor's power.