@AliceAllonym

Apparently Pearl Harbor wasn’t an invasion.

The end point of VC capitalism is universal surveillance. The endpoint of universal surveillance is labor & social control systems by people with the most money. The endpoint of that is fascism. Ben Thompson, like a16z, was always on this path... for anyone with eyes & critical view of capitalism

Brown people generally are what my brother refers to as "ethnically flexible"

Our family blends w/whatever flavor of brownness happens to be nearby

Partial list of languages people have walked up & started conversations in:
-Italian
-Spanish
-Portuguese
-Hindi/Urdu
-Marathi
-French
-Arabic
-Farsi

do you think ducks are upset we call bad doctors “quacks”

If intelligent, principled people ran journalistic outlets

Instead of oligarchic slavering-lickspittle authoritarian toadies

Saying this would destroy journalists or cultural commentators

Shut the fuck up, you fascism-apologist rotting shell of a "journalist"

Everyone who works in journalism knows how easy it is for wealthy and powerful people to place stories favorable to their viewpoint in both the news and opinion sections of major news outlets, yet pretend outwardly to the public as if that's a phenomenon that doesn't happen bsky.app/profile/paul...

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

No, we would not have launched unprovoked wars with no explanation against Venezuela and Iran if Kamala were in charge. Trump is much worse than Kamala. Trump is much worse than even the despicable Cheney/Bush war machine. What's wrong with you people?

Falling down a Fred Rogers rabbit hole at the moment, and dang if this isn't some "fundamental human dignity and self respect" delivered in a calm soothing tone and child appropriate language.

"I hope you're able to grow to respect whoever you are inside." 🥹😭❤️‍🩹

Man was a saint and a genius.

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

Trans rights are human rights.

I'm just waiting for "We can no longer justifying sending arms to Ukraine and leaving ourselves vulnerable to an Iranian attack."

You know it's coming.

“Israel has officially closed all crossings with Gaza, including the Rafah crossing.😭😭😭 Prices have risen insanely, and some traders have hoarded food supplies and hidden them from people to make profit at the expense of their suffering."

Tasneem's three children.

A message today from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza. Unsurprisingly, Israel is clamping down on Gaza in the wake of the attack on Iran, making life worse for the displaced civilians.

Please donate to Tasneem and/or repost. No amount is too small. And give to others. 🙏

chuffed.org/project/1587...

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

There it is. Blew up a school. Claude Code at work.

"Why are you defending yourselves?"

I think it actually does matter whether this stuff is legal or not.

Not because legality would magically make it okay to murder schoolchildren, but because it gives us a stick (eventual prosecution) to threaten the murderers with.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Donald Trump has launched more military attacks at more countries than any other president this century. An yet, the simple-minded fool is *obsessed* with getting a shiny Peace Prize.

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

EVERYTHING you have ever asked about or shared with OpenAI is going to intel database. Our government will know everything there is to about everything you asked or have offered to ChatGPT

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

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so… the whole thing was a play by Altman to shiv Amodei and destroy his company? that’s sort of what I’m getting here

I think the bigger security risk is the gestapo she runs that murders people for standing in the street and kidnaps children to put them in concentration camps. But sure, if the shoe thing gets her shitcanned, do what you gotta do.

Anthropic gets booted from the Pentagon for not wanting to power mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, then OpenAI gets a Pentagon contract that bans mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Someone is obviously leaving something significant out.

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

this is one of those things where i think it would be useful for more people to recognize that this is completely unrecognizable compared to republican party orthodoxy for essentially the entire history of the republican party

No amount of MAGA money can erase @rajaforil.bsky.social’s biggest weakness: his own record. He voted to fund ICE, he voted to thank ICE, and he's spent a decade cozying up to the same ICE contractors and MAGA forces he claims to stand up against.

Illinoisans deserve better.

paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980

paul bunyan and babe, route 2, bemidji, minnesota, 1980