Surveillance capitalism.
Artist specializing in oil painting, drawing, assemblage and installations, jewelry maker, serial renovator of vintage homes, avid reader, nature lover, vegetarian, feminist, poet.
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Surveillance capitalism.
Great idea. I was told yesterday by Safeway Pharmacy staff that they don't know when the Covid vaccine will be available. What are you doing to guarantee availability?
"when the banks inflated the housing bubble, they targeted minority neighborhoods, peddling predatory mortgages to customers who they knew could not afford them. . . When housing prices cratered, the bomb exploded. Mass evictions left entire neighborhoods scarred by empty houses."
"So it makes perfect sense that fascism and colonialism and billionairism would oppose the collective accumulation of human knowledge, because to accept it is to admit to the collective nature of human society."
Easy to scapegoat the old, but the people who are actually stealing the wealth of the country are the wealthy. www.businessinsider.com/wealthiest-1...
The banks were bailed out, not the people. "The banks were at the center of the housing bubble and its collapse. About 10 million people were displaced from over four million homes across the country. Minority neighborhoods were hit the hardest." www.peoplesworld.org/article/bank...
Galloway's chart does not mention the most significant destroyer of our children's future: climate change. We are on track for 4 degrees of warming, which will devastate everything living on this planet. www.greenfacts.org/en/impacts-g...
The reason why senior poverty is down is because of Social Security. "Social Security lifts more than 22 million people out of poverty, including over 16 million older adults and almost 1 million children. justiceinaging.org/social-secur...
Galloway: Social Security is "the greatest transfer of wealth from you to old." It's not a "transfer" at all. "Social Security is an insurance program. Workers pay into the program, typically through payroll withholding from their paychecks." www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soci...
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Not just performative, also lucrative.
“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would submerge coastal cities around the world. www.wired.com/story/antarc...
Thank you for this thoughtful article. This has been happening for decades. Instead of interviewing Shere Hite on her show, Oprah Winfrey had 50 hostile men confronting Hite. Shere Hite eventually left the country because of the hostility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmdS...
The Techlords and Their Ideology Are Mortal Enemies of Humanity www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
🎯. They want every aspect of life controlled by the billionaire tech bros.
Not a new feature. A few years ago they gave Charles Koch's daughter the star treatment. www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/b...
If you're curious, go look at my website. Everything I stand for and everything I love is right there in my art.
No, the people who are fucking the country and the planet are all in their 40's and 50's - Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Theil, Alex Karp, Mark Andreesson, David Sacks, Bill Ackman, Wael Sawan, Darren Woods and most of the other tech, crypto and fossil fuel billionaires.
Boomers didn't "fuck the country." That would be corporations and the politicians who do their bidding.
If future generations survive, this assault on our shared future should never be forgotten. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Did you hear about the backlash to the women's movement? I didn't think so.
What an ageist, ignorant post.
No, we're the boomers who brought you the womens rights movement, the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, technological innovation as well as a lot of great art and music. medium.com/@lbergelt/th...
Union station, DC
Truth Art! #arresttrump #art
We've been used to a two tier system of laws for decades - one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us.
Brave woman to film this disgusting brutality.
Punking the police. People power gives me hope.
Wake up. Dems are all about supporting capital, not people. billmoyers.com/2015/02/14/n...
Installing Heat Pumps in Factories Could Save $1.5 Trillion—and 77,000 Lives and that is just the USA www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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This is shoddy reporting. Crime in DC is down 30% in DC and yet you continue to frame the invasion of an American city as crime prevention. We have an authoritarian government because the media has miserably failed the people by writing junk like this.
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
They've been normalizing shit for decades.
"The process of making art is an act of transmission. It offers some unspeakable truth of oneself to another. In turn, the viewer finds in the artwork a reflection of their own inner sense, their inarticulable fears and desires." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
He worked for Biden.
Flamingo love.
"Palantir’s technology is also powering Israel’s genocide in Gaza. In January of 2024, Palantir agreed to a “strategic partnership” with the Israeli Defense Ministry, selling them an advanced AI platform."
There are o guardrails on genAI. It was designed to give sycophantic feedback. "The human element largely drives sycophancy — human feedback is routinely included when researchers fine-tune and train modern language models." www.nngroup.com/articles/syc...
Well said, particularly since it now clear that the sycophantic bots are doing real harm: apnews.com/article/chat...
I'm sorry to see NPR shilling the genAI corps. You don't even mention possible problems until paragraph 34. "It sure sounds like the explosion of the homeworking-cheating machines also known as AI models is obliterating the up and coming generation of students." futurism.com/ai-destroyin...
So is the US.
Love what you do, but why are you supporting the theft of creativity by the billionaires supporting Trump? GenAI is a scam destroying the jobs of actors, writers, artists, musicians, CGI artists and filmmakers.
GenAi is not a tool. It's the complete replacement of the artist with a plagiarism machine. GenAI is not part of the creative process. It's the theft of creativity from human artists. GenAI doesn't make art or write. It simulates both of these creative processes through extraction.
To do that, you must stop standing up for Netanyahu and your donors.
The Abundance movement is just neoliberalism rebranded.
"Many of The Argument’s writers have supported (or, in Thompson’s case, authored) the ideas of Abundance, a recent book advocating for reforms to improve government efficiency, lower the cost of housing, and improve public transportation, among other initiatives."Neoliberal center right publication.
Federally sanctioned cruelty, lawlessness, savagery.
We are literally cooking our planet by using and sharing these stupid genAI memes. We're also rewarding the tech bros who are backing Trump by promoting AI.
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Dear NPR - since you apparently haven't heard, AI chatbots can do serious harm. Articles like this make them seem harmless, but they're actually causing delusional thinking and suicide. This article is completely inappropriate. time.com/7306661/ai-s...
$80 TRILLION. A stunning amount of money that could have meant universal healthcare, paid child care and leave, a decent wage, affordable housing, affordable drugs, renewable energy and the freedom to leave soul crushing jobs.
You can't do your own research? "Without the bailout bank failures would have been more widespread . . . but still not the makings of an unavoidable depression with a decade of double-digit unemployment." cepr.net/publications...
Obama's DOJ decided the banks were "too big to fail." He failed to prosecute a single banker and now the banks have consolidated their power and are bigger than ever. Obama supported capital, not people. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
We are facing a dictatorship. R's want to seal their power in perpetuity by cheating the system.
The first thing Obama did was hire Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. Geithner bailed out the banks that caused the market crash while allowing 4 million Americans to lose their homes. Geithner was the protege of Robert Rubin, who destroyed Glass-Steagall while he was Clinton's TS.
"A federal takeover of D.C.’s crime apparatus could, in theory, address this problem . . " Rather than threatening violence, maybe we could offer people a living wage, universal healthcare, guaranteed child care, a freeze on rents, affordable housing and, you know, try treat people with humanity.
We need a different system.
The obvious answer is yes.
“Canada’s 2025 fire season is already the second-worst on record, as scientists report climate change is prolonging and exacerbating the burning, leading to more destruction, evacuations and smoke-filled skies.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
People understand exactly what ChatGPT is. It's the theft of human creativity designed by tech oligarchs to monetize plagiarism. It will not lead to AGI. It is already destroying people's ability to think and write and create. It's a scam.
Our fascist government hard at work illegally kidnapping pregnant women.
"Around 80% of humanity lives in conditions of deprivation. But this scarcity is artificial. If we directed production toward meeting human needs rather than mindlessly pursuing capitalist growth, we could ensure good lives for 8.5 billion people"
Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work? The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize. And they've saved literally millions of lives already. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
psychopaths are now in charge of the government.
And legalize Roe V Wade.
My name is not Bub and I vote in all elections. You are naive. Citizens United means politicians are beholden to the money, not the people.
South Korea, Brazil and France all managed to prosecute their corrupt leaders/politicians in record time. Trump should have been arrested on 1/21/21 by the Biden DOJ.
Yes, there's something wrong with being a billionaire. "50 of the world’s richest billionaires on average produce more carbon through their investments, private jets and yachts in just over 1-1/2 hours than the average person does in their entire lifetime, a new Oxfam report reveals today." Oxfam
“Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit. Of course we can do democracy at scale. We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species"
This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world. I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
Deeply sad, but true: "The schools are non-ideological contestants in an ideological battle. They are hollow shells facing iron wrecking balls. Their opponents may be bigoted, deranged, power-mad, and dishonest, but they believe in something." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/negotiatin...
The future we need. Billionaires are destroying the planet. Literally.
Yes. A real pity we no longer have an educated citizenry.
"Kitchen table issue" didn't help Harris.
"It's not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it's that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry." Thinking about AI and its endless hype -- solving the climate crisis, solving cancer, etc. - when it's actual destroying culture.
Motherfucking wind farms…
"Now it seems exhaustingly obvious that what’s happening to refugees, to the climate and the biosphere, to the poor under hypercapitalism, is a vicious disregard for their rights and humanity, and that some of the men perpetrating public brutality are monstrous in private is a given."
So true, Gavin, but too many Dems are captured by their corporate donors. How do we break through?
Good line. Watch the movie "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" about the courageous fight by Nan Goldin to have the Sackler name removed from museums.
Both political parties have been captured by corporations. We do not have to accept this way of life.
This is insane and will lead to the complete destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
It's not shocking when you understand that a quarter of our population is illiterate and 54% read below a 6th grade level. The USA ranks 26th in the world in literacy. www.snopes.com/news/2022/08...
Both the Trump-led U.S. government and the Netanyahu-led Israeli government are starving children, the U.S. through the cutoff of USAID funds and Israel by shooting Palestinians at food aid stations. There are good people in both the U.S. and Israel. It’s up to them to unseat their evil leaders.
The surveillance state won't stop with immigrants. They're coming for everyone.
During the 1930s, the US "book women" of Kentucky, aka "packsaddle librarians," delivered books to remote and isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains on horseback, riding in rain, snow or heat ...#WomensArt
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Big Tech is building massive data centers, and 40% of the planned and existing centers across the US are in areas with "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity. Mounting evidence points to these data centers exacerbating water shortages across the country.
We have 6 rogue justices who overturned Roe. That was not "incremental," it was entirely proactive. You have two justices who should be in jail for openly accepting lavish gifts. You have a chief justice who has granted the president the power to murder his opponents. SCOTUS is corrupt.
A reminder from the brilliant Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor:
During the stock market meltdown of 2008, 4 million people lost their homes but the Obama Administration did not prosecute a single banker (while 4 million people lost their homes). For comparison, during the S&L crisis in the '80's, 1000 bankers were convicted. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
I don't care about his fear. He was hired to protect us and his cowardice led to fascism and further destroyed trust in the law. newrepublic.com/article/1791...
It is entirely comprehensible. The Biden Adm. should have arrested and tried Trump on 1/21/21. Garland dragged his feet for 2 years before naming a Special Prosecutor. In 50 years, no president has been held accountable for his crimes - not Nixon, not Bush, not Trump by Dem administrations.
He allowed 4 million people to lose their homes during the 2008 stock market crash, but not a single banker was prosecuted by the Obama Adm for. crashing the economy. Obama's net worth in 2024 was $70 million. It's time to find politicians who actually support the people, not corporations.
Another @NYTimes article telling the Dems to move further right if they want to take back control. Dems have already moved so far right over the last 3 decades that there is very little sunlight between the two parties. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
I hope you'll record your conversation and post on YouTube. I would love to hear it.
There's always money for violence or cruelty
