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Stockholm Syndrome Musk Edition

Meanwhile, in base reality: +2° mid/end 2030s, mark my words.

There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming 1/

I was recently leaked a document that was written by and for think tank and DNC affiliated policy wonks and circulated in private chats. It describes in unsparing terms the threat Curtis Yarvin, Neoreactionary tech founders, and Elon Musk pose to democracy. shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic...

Note here that Musk is now literally assigning himself new contracts based on the use of his DOGE wrecking crew and the associated micro-bros. this isn't a "conflict of interest". it's just handing yourself federal money www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/b...

youtu.be/avXN2a0WJ5U?...

Not so great - living *inside* an Adam Curtis film.

"Everyone in this situation sucks" does not get nearly enough mindshare

"Instead of one distorted but stable media landscape, we now have millions of competing and conflicting ones, each tailored to our own biases and engagement patterns." Ad i like to say: A billion plato caves, all of them editable and we can watch and like and subscribe to each others.

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

Modern-Day Peaceful Protest… TikTokers are hunting Cybertrucks—pulling up behind them and projecting anti-Elon Musk messages onto the tailgate. What’s genius: the driver has zero rear visibility & zero idea. The Cybertruck Hunters account launched a week ago and already dropped a dozen videos.

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

I remember very well how Aldi played a major role in the digital revolution circa mid 90s by offering cheap PC hardware for interested everyday people. Very happy to see this happening with solar now.

New investigation by @apnews.com on the IDF's use of OpenAI models in Gaza. I spoke to them regarding this first confirmation of commercial foundation models being directly used in warfare and the implications of using highly error-prone AI for life or death determinations apnews.com/article/isra...

boingboing.net/2025/02/18/a...

Wow. The US is now officially a dictatorship. So quick. Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order stating that “only the President and the Attorney General can speak for what the law is.”

The official accout for the White House on X yesterday uploaded a video titled "ASMR Illegal Alien Deportation Flight". This level of inhuman cynicism leaves me speechless. (ASMR vids are a webculture phenomenon since circa 2012ish, it's about "quiet and soothing sounds", usually.)

Ok that made me laugh

As a typographer i feel embarrassed by my trade.

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social on Trump as "influencer-in-chief" is spot on.

Can't wait for Maga-base to whine because they can't afford neither coffee nor chocolate anymore as "extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles". www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is what you were voting for.

"Grok 3 is designed to be a nuclear propaganda weapon, and Musk is proud of it."

This should be happening EVERYWHERE!

Christian Stöcker on the current Russian propaganda campaign (www.spiegel.de):

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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Rashomon for idiots is my favorite line of critique, ever.

No kidding, this is a line of dialogue from a 1970 movie funded by the Russian government.

This is an interesting take on right's love of generative AI, but I think it's ultimately misleading. The main problem is that it compares AI slop to the work of artists. But the use of generative AI has little to do with art, and much more with stock photos and other already generic imagery 1/

DOGE is tearing its way through the US government, and NASA will not be spared. Elon Musk says he wants the agency to focus on Mars, but more than anything he wants to sideline traditional aerospace contractors so SpaceX gets even more money and power over the US space program.

NEW: As Musk's quest to replace federal bureaucrats with software continues, the IRS is about to purchase a multimillion-dollar Nvidia AI supercomputer theintercept.com/2025/02/14/i...

No shit.

The Miami News, Florida, May 21, 1939

@stephenking.bsky.social x Maurice Sendak ❤️ gizmodo.com/stephen-king... "a new spin on the iconic Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, with artwork by none other than the late great Maurice Sendak."

The Descent is clearly not the greatest Horror Movie Poster of the 21st century, even with that Dali reference. Mother would be one of my candidates.