Ghost of Kropotkin

This is the AI equivalent of the ads promoting robots that do cutesy things like dancing, so that people don't focus on the armed robots whose dance coordination will be used to efficiently mow down human protesters someday soon.

What the powers-that-be can't understand because they have dominated the discourse for decades is that riots are only a response to the systemic violence exerted against the people. What follows next is what they can't foresee: a confrontation with the status quo. The rules of the game are changing.

@hilaryagro.com Thank you for capturing the angst I feel every day having to exist within this system and interact with those still so deeply plugged into it against their own interests. I know I was there once too. But yes, ignorance and indifference are violent acts, regardless of intent.

Something I wish more people would realize.

There we have it. A human being is worth $20 million. Also, this is what the tech-led AI fear campaign is about. Problem - Reaction - Solution Create the problem. Get a fear reaction. Propose your original aim as the solution. Writing the laws to legalize murder in pursuit of profits & power.

Didn't Eric Adams rush off to Albania to escape the consequences for his corruption here? Is this how it's going?

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

“Lula’s Workers’ Party alleges Meta blocked paid promotions and disabled its advertising account on Instagram and Facebook. *** Internal PT data shows Bolsonaro’s page averaged 2.96 times more engagement despite having 17.2% fewer followers than Lula’s.” Meta blames “technical issues” 10/12/26 …1/

Because capitalism is antithetical to democratic power, it breeds and rewards corruption. That corruption breeds people like Trump and the PR machine that breeds right wing voters to protect capital. In systems terms, Trump didn't bring corruption to the US. Capital brought Trump to do its bidding.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

An awful lot of doomsday hype articles being put out by the AI companies themselves. They want to scare the public into accepting the tech bros as responsible, so they can then stay at the helm to "regulate" it. But they claim AI sentience so that they can dismiss AI's misdeeds as not their own.

🚨Sen. Gustavo Rivera caught two plain-clothed ICE agents who claimed to be investigating a shooting carried out by their colleagues in the Bronx. However, they appeared to conduct the investigation in highly illicit manners.

If the stock market tanked, but everyone was fed, clothed, housed, healthy, and content, the news would tell you to panic because of the economic emergency. The stock market is not the economy. Its benefactors just want you to think it is, and to care about it above society's needs.

🔥 @angieforfl.bsky.social : “Let’s talk about the Black Panther Party…”

Precisely.

No they didn't. No it won't. They designed a program and it responded based on how they designed it. It's always this fucking story and it never changes.

Reminder that a healthy society should seek the continual reduction of "jobs." Tech has reduced our need for hard, obligatory labor. But we're trapped in a system that says we don't deserve to survive if we don't continue to toil, so that the worst among us can extract that power for themselves.

"I’m thinking of a labor movement, but one very different than the kind we’ve already seen. A labor movement that manages to finally ditch all traces of the ideology that says that work is a value in itself, but rather redefines labor as caring for other people." - David Graeber

Tired of this nonsense. We live in capitalism. This is how it always operates. The capital class uses govt to take what they want from the public and the world, as far as they can until there is adequate resistance. Until they fear for their lives and fortunes.

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

Under capitalism if you steal from your employer you go to jail but if your employer steals from you then you need to win a class action lawsuit to get back what they stole, and they suffer zero consequences. Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force.

Future Headline: New Low Cost Housing Supported by "AI Calculations for the Public Good."

When's the last time they said that protesters can self-police?

We fucked over domestic EV production and banned the Chinese ones, only to make oil changes unaffordable in less than a year.

I googled "how to migrate to the BlackSky servers," and had my whole account ported over in <5 mins (in my case, to the myatproto.social domain). WOW they made that easy. Highly recommend. 👍 docs.blacksky.community/info-about-b...

What an easy back room way to pretend like they cared upfront, for when we look back on this in hindsight from the post-apocalyptic future.

if you back transphobic democrats you are not fighting fascism. you are not resisting anything. you are a fascist. trans ppl are a primary target of contemporary fascism. any democratic candidate being transphobic is telling you they will lie down for the fascist machinery sweeping america.

Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...

Londoners say NO to Ray-Ban pervert glasses

I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.

Liberalism is Capitalism's lying smile. Fascism is Capitalism's honest fist. -Michael Parenti We've reached full "honest fist" status. The emperor has no mask.

"We think there’s a moral imperative to put these robots into war instead of soldiers." The High Horse Defense, amazing. Why isn't there a moral imperitive to have these robots grow and harvest crops, or do dangerous work that serves society, freeing us from the chains of obligatory wage labor?

This article is so bad. "People aren't liking capitalism. To find out why, we've asked only capitalists." "To see if this is a systems issue, we ignored market dynamics, growth incentives, and negative externalities, to blame behaviors consistent with these forces on bad management choices."

There are no ethical retirement investments under Capitalism, except in building physical assets like building yourself or your community a garden. But even so, the unethical ones will still be gambled with at your expense.

This doesn't get said enough. Same goes for fireworks (aside from the climate impact). So many beings are traumatized by it and have no escape. Can we get past the "Big boom, yay," stage of collective evolution?

Liberal activism in a nutshell: Getting a tattoo of "Lake Ontario" and propping up pro-genocide, corporate empire candidates until the world burns.

Can we get a Go Fund Me started for the Vanguard Party? Let's chip in and pay people to professionally organize the left while the iron's hot and the empire has no clothes.

🔥 @conversationsfromtennessee: “I know I cannot be the only person that feels this way…” He asks how so many people can feel more connected to corrupt billionaires like Trump and Musk and think their hard-working neighbors are their enemies. 😳 www.instagram.com/reel/DcwXKN3...

You’ve got these viscerally unpleasant billionaires who are more or less open about being Nazis who want to create an authoritarian surveillance state enforced by a robot army to create a permanent underclass complete with Eugenics and pedophilia. And nobody in power dares say: “they are bad.”

IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you