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Jesus Christ

A healthy society would not allow Meta to exist. They should be tried for their numerous crimes and the entire company dismantled. In an ideal world Mark Zuckerberg would be dispossessed and set adrift on a melting iceberg

essentially, it's a toy—cute, maybe fun to play around with for five minutes, but it shouldn't be a load-bearing pillar of our economy

nah dude the technology sucks, do like five seconds of research

So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

LinkedIn headshot to support of genocide and climate destruction pipeline

nothing more disappointing to me than travelling to LinkedIn and discovering how many of my esteemed graduate student colleagues, some of them former union stewards, have become pampered shills for AI

the AI "boom": a gold rush but after you pulled the ore out of the earth it turned out to be copper and the roads had to be destroyed to get there and you came back stupider than when you left and perhaps two or three people out of seven billion made money

especially since somehow even though they have numerous options that are supposed to be passed on to the drivers somehow there is no way of knowing for sure where the money goes... deeply, deeply wrong

the crazy shit is that the United States is the richest and most productive nation in history and they act like austerity is natural and not the result of endless greed

do you think it's likely the mid-terms will be fairly administered

yeah thanks very practical, everyone in Canada put a greenhouse in their condo building. I love Carney's rhetoric but I would love for him to find solutions that are NOT putting extra money in the hands of companies literally making record profits off the backs of ordinary Canadians

stop giving free money to corporations like Loblaws and actually do something to break up their monopolies if you want to increase food security at home

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I don't know. what is posting in this time

if you're going to impose a large language model over a legacy media institution hijacked by silicon valley vultures, we can at least make it very expensive to run

reading Margaret Wertheim's "The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace" because I am becoming especially interested in the late 1990s but finding myself strangely consoled by the possibility that we live in ten dimensions and that every bit of matter is just folded and distorted space

ah yes, time for me to borrow an ebook from the university library, which means download it one chapter at a time, because that is how every person in the world reads books, in discrete chunks, like a squirrel raiding a library to line a nest

Homeland security post The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. A photo of an old 70's tan car on the beach with palm trees swaying in the wind as the surf comes in. with the text America After 100 million deportations.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them

This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.

it's a lot of trainers, let's be real

what is better than watching a Mary Beard documentary and imagining yourself walking through all those columns

in 2018 TIME magazine was bought by the rightwing CEO of Salesforce (cloud-based tech company) specifically to pull stunt covers like this, b/c tech bros know they have to buy cultural capital. anyway it is a slap in the face that these losers are depicted as labourers when they are grifters, all

if the computer can see more bridges that need selecting in order to prove that I am human what do they even need me for

It is easy to forget that cooperation and kindness built all forms of community and states run through domination are only a recent aberration. And that this latest emphasis on tech alone is more recent still

wow, and you're telling me this only costs 500 billion dollars? every year? what a steal

All aboard the Kafka Subway!

I’ve had dreams like this. Sculptor Michel de Broin took doors from MR-63 métro cars and turned them into this interactive installation at Arsenal Contemporary gallery in #Montréal.

Très Inception!

www.arsenalcontemporary.com

guy who helped turn off the flow of capital to young people: looks like the flow of capital is fucked for the young?

fucking good