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Hells, we still need to hold Oprah resonsible for being one of the largest vectors of the cultural saturation of New Thought in modern America

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Worth noting that "taking US citizens to other countries without trial" is explicitly condemned in the US Declaration of Independence

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AI is a tool to destroy institutions.

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As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

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I have been telling you all GenAI is a fascist project.

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Elite counterknowledge rules everything around me

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An “ai first” government means a “person last” government.

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Everything is coming up lysenkoist cybersyn

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big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"

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The US government even had sub-committees and law suits against academics for simply documenting that lying was happening and for asking the venues where the lying was happening to not allow it to take place there

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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal

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It was all plain as day, but markets simply did not believe it would happen. These Yankees are living in dreamtime. They are hallucinating about a world that is no longer there. Brideshead Revisited type mental state.

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This new study modeled the potential costs of COVID19 vaccine misinformation on public health. They found that misinformation potentially could have caused an additional 47 million infections in the US at a cost of $143 billion. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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The specifics of this aside, I think every one of us who has a Cassandra-style cursed prophecy streak would agree none of us are doing divinatory magic, we are just paying attention to what people are doing and saying and then allowing ourselves to sit with the realization that it is stupid or evil

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You can’t be empowered about your health decisions if you rely on misinformation, pseudoscientific propaganda, and conspiracies. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/br...

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"A hasty rush to roll out untested AI will not result in high-quality government services. Instead, the unchecked use of AI will accelerate large-scale harms to the public, gutting critical services while offering no avenues for accountability and recourse." datasociety.net/library/disp...

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NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

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Honestly, if America gets rid of mobile phones and internet access, it might take a generation but this problem will eventually solve itself

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Brian Epstein (2025), 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮, is free online from Cambridge Elements. Brian Epstein'ın "Social Ontology" kitabı Cambridge'ten ücretsiz olarak indirilebilir: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Oh this looks good

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New chapter out by me where I argue that people who claim to collaborate with LLMs are mistaken about the role of the bots, and that they're weak ass tools rather than serving the role of an actual collaborator academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:

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Not treating networked harassment as an actual terrorist behavior was a mistake that is now going to bite us so fucking hard

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They are making significant material progress while losing more and more political and popular ground, this contradiction will continually lead to accelerating confrontation until it is resolved

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Hyperstition in action

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It just occurred to me that all these science-fiction and hypterstitional product marketing dervied technofuturisms are pseudofuturism in exactly the same way that myths of Lemuria or Atlantis are pseudohistory

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Oh my god that’s exactly what all this “de-extinction” stuff is. It’s way sexier and more scifi to pretend like we can bring back mammoths (we can’t) than actual wildlife conservation, which is a lot of unsexy hard work but actually gets results.

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New from me: It's very in vogue for tech bros to talk about "network states," where likeminded people get together to form their own alternative nations, often with crypto fueling the economy. The TheoBros are actually doing something like this now in Appalachia. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

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The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

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“But, there’s no political logic to it!” is going to be resounding cry of our moment.

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Colossal is de-extincting dire wolves in the same way that ChatGPT is making new Ghibli art.

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