Trumpie's former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, is on the verge of cementing his appointment as head of the U.S. Department of Justice And see how he loves his master!
Shane
@incompleteness.bsky.social
Unpublished writer of meta-history-fiction-satire-poesy-philosophy (of sorts)-even a little physics, jumbled up in stream-of consciousness about British and American empires, fascism, the crazy-making drugs and booze they're all on, dreams, religion, UFOs
The head of a Russian drone factory was seriously wounded and his driver killed when their car was blown up near the city of Yekaterinburg, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of targeted attacks linked to the war in Ukraine
The Democratic Party's progressive wing scored a high-profile victory when Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's U.S. Senate primary, according to media projections on Wednesday, giving its anti-establishment message a boost ahead of November's midterm elections
Jonathan Haidt - The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we now inhabit Something went terribly wrong, very suddenly. We are disoriented, unable to speak the same language or recognize the same truth
The Smith-Mundt Act is for indoctrinating foreigners - thanks Uncle Scam!
Most people in most places are pretty stupid, but Americans are really aggressive about it
Herman and Chomsky: mass communication in the U.S. 'carries out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion' But we know that the Defense Department is deeply embedded in Hollywood, for example ...
Day-trips from Tokyo: Nikko is like a spiritual shrine for Japan
Barry Eichengreen - The real message in the yen intervention: the dollar's status as a reserve currency is not what it used to be Just as Nero undermined the Roman denarius—arguably the world's first international currency—America's ruler (Trumpie) poses a growing threat to his country's currency
Social media video shows a Wildberries warehouse in the Leningrad Region of Russia on fire on Tuesday
The first Red Scare in America followed the Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 The Palmer Raids of 1919 and 1920 (named after attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer) saw thousands of suspected radicals and immigrants arrested, many without warrants
In the second Red Scare of the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy used allegations of communist association to destroy careers and silence dissent The accusation often mattered more than the evidence
Theodore E. (Ted) Zorn - Seen from New Zealand, Australia, or Europe, much of the 'radicalism' of the DSA-aligned candidates looks unremarkable Universal access to affordable healthcare, a decent minimum wage, good public education, and government retirement benefits, are standard in our societies
Mike Johnson posted - Communism is no longer a far fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES! ... hysterical much? But it's all a lie: anyone who wants justice for ordinary Americans and universal healthcare gets called a communist by these people
Trumpie called opponents 'hardcore, godless communists' and described communism as a cancer that must be cut out
while warning that 'godless communists' are poised to seize power may be desperate, it is not harmless Conflating reasonable political argument with radical extremism stigmatises political opponents as dangerous outsiders rather than fellow citizens
the U.S. State Department published a 100-page report portraying U.S. journalists, trade unionists and activists as participants in a Cuban-communist influence network ... so, send them to concentration camps?
In his 1979 book, The Culture of Narcissism, U.S. historian Christopher Lasch prophetically told us 'the contemporary climate is therapeutic, not religious' hence this culture of narcissism
Christopher Lasch was basically describing America as he saw it
Christopher Lasch - There is only one cure for the malady that afflicts our culture, and that is to speak the truth about it
Nikhil Suresh - When an employer publicly talks about AI innovation, we have to ask ourselves if they’re simply trying to manipulate the market, or customers ...
Nikhil Suresh, a managing director at Hermit Technology (and all around fun guy): We live in a dark timeline All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing. Every single one: we have seen 0% success in a year and a half, not only amongst projects we have been asked to participate in
Nikhil Suresh - It has become outright dangerous to even raise the possibility that AI might not be the solution to a problem, let alone be the sole focus of a company’s entire strategy – I mean this is more like a religious profession; these are declarations of faith
Nikhil Suresh - There have been several occasions where I have seen someone, apropos of nothing, blurt out almost word-for-word 'AI is changing everything', only to concede moments later that their organisation does not currently use LLMs for anything
Mitchell Hashimoto - I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it
