Paul Philion

The great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. -MLK

VOTE! And check your status.

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

Seattle. I am climbing through your bedroom window. I am hovering over your supine body. I am your sleep paralysis demon, and I am telling you that you need to go see Noveltease Theatre and Jo Jo Stiletto's production of Much Ado About Nothing. tix.click4tix.com/noveltease

If @xbox.com really wants to make a splash? XBoxOS: Free, lightweight competitor to SteamOS to bring the XBox ecosystem to any hardware, with a focus on retro gaming and low-end CPUs.

Protect trans kids.

After getting degrees in math, philosophy and computer science, then working for 30 years making people like Bezos rich, I did indeed graduate to: - burlesque academy - clown conservatory - dance camp Having fun is serious work.

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

Report: Tim Curry's death to be investigated by suspicious group of eccentrics gathering at his house

RIP Dolly Parton. This breaks my heart. www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgP...

A modest proposal: Take Depression-era recipes and survival tips and rebrand them up as cool new life-hacks. Call it dumpster-maxxing.

PUBLIC SERVICE NOTE: Big 3 day festival of Burlesque set to the inevitable hopeful music of Funk, at #thetripledoor in Seattle Aug 20-22. I'm hosting on Aug 22. Come n get it.

Coming up next! Much Ado About Nothing with Noveltease Theatre! Tix: click4tix.net/patrons/tick...

I _do_ blame feckless Democrat leadership. The GOP have been lying, cheating, manipulative power mongers my entire life. For 50 years, Democrat leaders have played softball to promote "peace" over justice. As a result, we have lost rights and world standing, with more bleeding away every day.

Pithy political analysis: The difference between politicians and public servants is that public servants believe the oath they swear.

Black people Do Not lynch themselves.

It's kayfabe. Creative visualization. Aspirational engineering. Wish-casting vaporware snake oil.

Together with the Freifunk Berlin volunteers, Ester Jang from @seattlecommunitynetwork.org is setting up WiFi repeaters all over DWeb Camp! 🛜 Attend her talk to learn more about community networks, especially about her work in Seattle. ➡️ Full schedule here.

@moneyontheleft.bsky.social, do you have any further info?

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Yesterday, the IDF seized 4 students from their homes in the West Bank, including 20-year-old American, Sama Safi. The Israeli govt didn’t tell her family or the U.S. Embassy where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges. America must secure her release NOW.

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

And finally, what about: - AI surveillance and false identifications - AI weapons targeting - suicides and school shooting planned with AI - AI medical misdiagnosis and treatments - AI insurance and benefit denials - AI security bugs and supply chain vulns None of these are fixed by open models.

ALL THESE CONCENTRATION CAMPS ARE ILLEGAL. 5A: "no person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" ? 8A: no "cruel + unusual punishment" 14A: "nor shall any State ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

s/the economy/my stock portfolio/g

Pam Bondi obstructed the release of the Epstein files, violated the law, & denied transparency to the public and survivors. The cover up continued today with Bondi’s closed-door deposition because this White House is afraid of the truth coming out. All to protect Donald Trump, not survivors.

“Data Center” is such a tame way to say “slop factory”. These huge warehouse complexes aren’t places Spotify stores our music preferences. These are places buying every last GPU so companies can replace customer service workers with chat bots. And our government is paying them billions to do it.

Each of these dimension has been subject to substantial critique: data extractivism, the devaluation of creative labor, large-scale exploitation of workers, neo-colonial expansion, the wasteful consumption of natural resources, as well as the TESCREAL ideologies fueling the development 4/

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

All together class.... Ken Paxton is.... PROJECTING!!!

The Vatican could have told Anthropic to stop stealing data, exploiting labor, killing the environment, deceiving us with anthropomorphic designs & lying about product "capabilities." Instead they partnered with them, like partnering with Sackler family to discuss harms of oxy.

I can see where the old "enchanted sword will consume the souls of all who touch it" trope come from.

Sommelier at metal shows. “A flinty Sauve Blanc pairs well with the Iron Maiden tribute tour. Don’t forget your earplugs.”

How will the State of Washington uphold it's laws protecting privacy, @governorferguson.bsky.social ?

For sale Clown coffin Seats 18

We’re all in it together. - Archibald Tuttle, rogue plumber Brazil (1984)

LiteLLM, a package for standardizing API calls to LLM models, has been compromised by hackers futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm...

Support for the re-election of Orban’s corrupt, racist and pro-Russian govt in Hungary reveals the true fault lines of our new geopolitics. Putin, Trump and Netanyahu on one side- anti-liberal democracy- and UK, EU and Canada on the other, supporting it. Most likely to be the shape of our next era.

Come to the Seattle Community Network fundraiser dinner on Saturday March 28th, 6:30-8:30 PM! Zylberschtein's will give 10% of proceeds to our nonprofit, It's a $40-$45 meal, family style. The founder Esther and her jazz band will be providing live music. Come with all your friends and loved ones!

My latest on Russia assisting Iran in targeting U.S. troops and interests. And a reminder on how Russia did this before in Afghanistan, when they offered bounties to Taliban militants to kill Americans.

I have different opinions. I review LLM-generated code far more often than I like. It's the worst part of my job, and probably my career. I really want to see a John Henry-style humans vs AI code-off. With a 6-month follow-up to see how that genAI code is doing.

Dear @bsky.app, How does one submit a bug report against the Bluesky Moderation Service? It seems to have hallucinated an "antifa organization", and if that's the expected quality of "moderation services", then it is indeed time to find a new Atmosphere platform.

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.