The destruction of knowledge and truth-based sense making is a hallmark of fascism and dictatorship Trump and the Republicans are actively murdering our ability to make sense of the world around us, and the shared sense making that is crucial to maintaining a functioning democracy - ThreadSky

brainnotonyet.bsky.social • 2 days ago

The destruction of knowledge and truth-based sense making is a hallmark of fascism and dictatorship
Trump and the Republicans are actively murdering our ability to make sense of the world around us, and the shared sense making that is crucial to maintaining a functioning democracy

Reposted from WIRED

The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.

This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.

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lynnvar.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤬

lorifreshwater.bsky.social•2 days ago

We are losing our narrative. It has to be fought, with everything.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•2 days ago

That’s exactly right. One of the things fascism does when it starts to crush the cognitive culture of democracy and replace it with its own is replace the narratives that undergird democracy and knowledge.

lorifreshwater.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which is why CNN hawking this book targeted at maga is so egregious. Make America a puppet state in the worst Nazi’s fantasy Eurasia.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•2 days ago

These attacks on knowledge, truth, and shared sense making is coupled with the growing push by Silicon Valley and others to replace all of human made thought and knowledge with generative AI. the net effect is the creation of a knowledge destruction mechanism that is self self propagating/enforcing

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•2 days ago

Many of you who have followed me for the past two years on this website, and for those who have followed me for longer when I was on Twitter, know that one of the areas that I have really focused on is the use of generative AI as a knowledge destruction tool and authoritarian control and domination

porcupunk.bsky.social•2 days ago

Did you see this? https://bsky.app/profile/karenattiah.bsky.social/post/3lltm2l6fvk2n

I am speechless if AI now is programmed to modify and delete it's output and then lie to the user about.

williambwilliams.bsky.social•2 days ago

I shudder to think how police departments will utilize it. The idea of faking evidence is very frightening.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•2 days ago

In this moment, we can see the physical effect of the decades, long attack on knowledge, truth, and sense making as the right destroys those physical manifestations of free knowledge sense, making and truth. Our fight against fascism must be epistemological as much as physical.

battynatty.bsky.social•2 days ago

feemus.bsky.social•2 days ago

That is so 😰 Cute

battynatty.bsky.social•2 days ago

Rory Blank cartoon, had to have it

feemus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for sharing!

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