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By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
The most incompetent administration in history by far, populated by idiots from top to bottom putting all of our lives in danger.
Nobody wants this. Polling shows that Americans want to protect public lands, and certainly don't want data centers built on them.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 17h agoThe Trump administration has moved to build at least 12 data centers on 17,600 acres of public land.
This reminds me of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet colonel who disobeyed orders when a technological warning system told him that the US had fired nuclear missiles. He distrusted the machines, waited, and investigated. As a result, he prevented nuclear war. AI makes rash, deadly mistakes more likely.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h ago⚠️ The US almost went to war with China because of a false report generated with AI
Julia Ioffe: Who is Umar Kremlev, who paid for part of Donald Trump Jr's wedding? Turns out, he's the business front of Vladimir Putin's chief body guard, one of the most powerful men in Russia. That's about as close as it gets.
Don Jr.’s “Dear Friend” in Moscow
Kremlev bankrolled Trump’s Bahamas wedding afterparty. He’s also a former Kremlin biker gang member and reputed proxy for Putin’s bodyguard.
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How to actually fight fascism. Check out the new Factually! episode with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social wherever you get podcasts! » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw... » YouTube: youtu.be/QNevJWXrrEY
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy
Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · last yr.This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
As a long-time technologist who has built many software products: If your software does something you can’t control, you are a shitty software engineer. You have not birthed an alien intelligence.
Reminder that Elon's DOGE recommended firing government workers at the... -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. See what DOGE was really all about?
75% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch.
look we are too corrupt and ignorant to regulate so it's up to a collection of foppish, pasty sociopaths in overpriced sneakers to hold themselves accountable for killing everyone with monopolized cloud computing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
The U.S. government isn't regulating big business. Big business is regulating the U.S. government.
Persuasion fails when we focus our efforts on those least likely to be persuaded, or when we define persuasion as "agreeing with our opponents intellectually in hopes of reciprocation." So often, "persuading fascists" is confused with "being persuaded by fascists." www.the-reframe.com/us-and-them/
Us and Them
Exclusion isn't good for the team. Telling disruptive stories in a fascist locker room.
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It’s up to all of us to protect the vote. Get trained up to be a poll monitor at ProtectTheVote.net. 🎥 Maria Comstock 🕵️♂️ The Steady State @thesteadystate.org #ProtectTheVote #ElectionProtection #VoteEarly
📌At this moment WE can't get an answer from OUR Pentagon on whether THEY will deploy troops against US on election day. Read that again. I'm sorry but just who in the fuck do they think they are? And to you so-called military leaders out there? WAKE UP, and start honoring your oath to protect us.
“We are also looking at whether the Earth is flat”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"
Google is uniquely invasive. No other company surveils you so deeply or makes escape so difficult. They don’t just harvest and monetize your data—they hand it to governments on demand. Breaking free is tough, but possible. Here is how to escape. psychopete1.substack.com/p/the-infini...
De-Google Your Life
And starve the machine while you're at it.
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Just a reminder… The richest 1% own more than the bottom 90% combined. That's not an accident. That's the design. Trickle-down was always a scam rigged FOR them and AGAINST you.
Stupidity is actually very dangerous
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoRFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"
For the folks in the back: CEOS ARE PAID *325* TIMES AS MUCH AS THE TYPICAL WORKER! 📣 It hasn't always been this way. It doesn't have to be this way. When workers had more power, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as their workers. Workers, it's time to take your power back. #FormAUnion #UnionStrong
Elise Gould@elisegould.bsky.social · 2d agoNew data alert 🚨 - CEO pay surged in 2025, rising 14% to an average $27.9 million - CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker in their industry - Between 1978 and 2025, top CEO pay rose 1,316% compared to only a 28% increase for typical workers www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay... #EconSky
There is absolutely zero Communist threat in the United States today. Anyone who tells you there is should be gently escorted to a wheelchair and taken promptly to some sort of hospitalization. What we do have is the gravest *fascist* threat America has ever faced on home soil.
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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With 89 percent saying corruption is widespread, history shows what can follow when citizens stop believing their institutions will hold criminals and the powerful accountable… hartmannreport.com/p/america-lo...
America Lost Trust in Its Government. Now Comes the Dangerous Part.
With 89 percent saying corruption is widespread, history shows what can follow when citizens stop believing their institutions will hold criminals and the powerful accountable…
hartmannreport.com
it is not "acting out" it is doing exactly what it's being programmed to do, and the failures come because it's being overseen by incompetent people with no ethics
'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways
The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.
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