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gordon.earth
Musician, programmer, tree enthusiast, one of those dangerous radical leftists you've been warned about. Fredericton, Canada.
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The specific annoyance of listening to a podcast that you enjoy and find informative until one day they do an episode on something you know about and the entire edifice crumbles

Leavitt says they’ve begun flying deportees to Guantanamo Bay. This is functionally disappearing human beings. There is no consular access to Guantanamo, making it nearly impossible for those held there to be represented by their governments. There is virtually no media access, either.

“The Open Source Torment Nexus” tante.cc/2025/02/07/t...

one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses

Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years

Extremely unfun fact: math like this is one of the reasons the Nazis ended up deciding to build death camps. They decided it was cheaper and easier to murder people, rather than deal with the logistics of moving them somewhere else after they had been deported.

This is so extremely 80's and yet every year it feels more contemporary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=53Jk...

"I think we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power." ⬇️