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Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
Platner: I believe that input from working people is far more important than input from someone who simply has money. I believe that we shouldn’t be settling for crumbs while billionaires eat the cookie we baked.
Paying a premium to have your kid hooked up to the data extraction machine.
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
The inevitable has happened: Disconnect is back on Ghost after trying Substack again. I didn’t just ditch another US tech platform; I learned the Substack network isn’t as helpful as it used to be, and certainly doesn’t justify putting up with the platform’s support for Nazis.
DSA won’t rule out primary challenge to Hakeem Jeffries 👀
Bravo is going to give Jen Shah her own show, aren’t they? Why not invite her prison pals Elizabeth and Ghislaine too… 🤢
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is finding lucrative opportunities in Republican-controlled Washington An Arizona business advocacy organization led by Sinema is taking credit for portions of Trump's ‘big, beautiful bill.’
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"A panel of three Republican-appointed federal judges in Texas, two of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump, agreed with him." There is something extremely unhealthy about a system that allows someone with extreme wealth and power to cause societal changes when they've never been voted in.
@mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social is running for US Senate, representing MI. Gary Peters will retire and his seat will be open in 2026.
AI: If you use AI like ChatGPT, at least make sure you understand the risks: - They are stealing your work to profit off you, and it seems they have no plans to stop as the Trump regime fired the head of the US copyright office after she released a report on how AI potentially oversteps law.
In our latest article, we discuss the digital fiefs the tech billionaires built to exploit us, and how you can fight back by simply clicking delete.
JD Vance has always been the long-term plan for right-wing tech billionaires to cement a dictatorship in America. “Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”
@solidaritydept.bsky.social set up a war room for the working class so we can fight back against these billionaires and their twisted ideologies. Check out their massive billionaire database and resources to expose them at classsolidarity.org & find a protest for this Labor Day at maydaystrong.org.
You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄
It’s Fred Hampton’s birthday
APOLLO: “.. Will We See a Repeat of 2021 and the 1970s? .. There is upside pressure on inflation and inflation expectations .. The risks are rising that we could see another ‘inflation mountain’ emerge over the coming months.”
Also, see vcinfodocs.com
This is a must-read article.
Did you hear about the Pentagon official who allegedly had some kind of messy affair with an astrologer? (No, that's not the setup for a joke, that's an actual news story.) I just realized today that it's this bigoted guy we wrote about five years ago. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-terrible...
This is worth more than you might think. It creates a local offense that can be prosecuted and from which Trump or whoever comes after he dies (if he’s not dead already) can’t pardon them.
An international group of powerful people meet once a year and discuss the most macro global topics, including AI and defense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderb... Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are members. www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/mee...
vcinfodocs.com
The contract follows a pilot in the council’s children’s services dept, “including using AI for case-note transcription and to summarise social workers’ records. The council is planning to extend the Palantir system to processes for providing support to children with special educational needs.”
Flock just cut off CBP from accessing 80,000 AI cameras across the country
And to add, Vance was a US Senator prior to VP, but that’s the extent of his experience in politics, and even that was not for a long time. With backing from Peter Thiel, Vance took his OH Senate seat only in 2022. Why would he be qualified for the VP role *just* two years into his entrance in gov’t
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Recommended reading: The Psychology of Virality Steve Rathje @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Trends in Cognitive Science, 2025 Link to paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
That segment made me want to go to school again. Thank you, professor.
If what we hope will happen ever happens, we'll watch as many, many people in the world of politics, overnight, go on to pretend they were always against what preceded it. This era has been a highly effective acid test for character. Take notes now, so that you don't forget in the future.
Russ Vought at work...
Did expect to see you here, Ivana. How’s hell treating you?
With O'Neill (apparently) taking over CDC (if they ever get around to firing Monarez), I think it's worth looking back to Project 2025 and asking what they actually intend to *do* to CDC. So, I went to remind myself today. Here's what's in store:
NEW: SSA chief data officer and whistleblower Charles Borges resigned today—but his resignation email quickly disappeared from recipients' inboxes, sources tell @wired.com. @makenakelly.bsky.social and @davidgilbert.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/charle...
Pfft peace, democracy, and nations United. Who needs those?
He entered politics in 2022. He is far from fit to be in congress, let alone the White House
Also coming to a Barbie near you: futurism.com/mattel-annou...
ChatGPT-powered dolls are becoming caregivers in South Korea www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
or read it on my main blog: www.shanley.com/blog/venture...
JUST IN: President Donald Trump revoked Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection on Thursday, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by CNN.
Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.
If I were charged with a federal crime, I’d hire Pam Bondi’s brother as my lawyer. Because I don’t think this is a coincidence.
All roads lead to Peter Thiel. Always.
Their stupidity gives me hope but also scares the shit out of me
I worked with SCADA systems. The seasteaders had no water and sewage plan other than "collect rainwater" and "poop in the ocean" and their only financial plan was "Gambling and precious metals" I told them they would be fighting over potable urine and dead seagulls in a week
Pretty sure I "met" him online in 2008. I liked the Libertarian antiwar stance but I halted my exploration of their ideas when I read their seasteading ideas. The old mises[.org message board had a "Lets Seastead" thread and I have never encountered anyone so ignorant about everything...
Seems like it’s all part of Peter Thiel’s master plan
More about O’Neill and seasteading bsky.app/profile/jswe...
Trump has nominated Jim O’Neill, a Peter Thiel protege, for the #2 position at HHS. 1/ www.theinformation.com/articles/as-...
ICONIC. (And not in a good way.)
They don’t call him NutLick for nothin’
Except more realistically Tony is talking to this guy:
Shortly after Trump met with Putin in Alaska, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard abruptly ousted a CIA expert who had helped brief Trump’s team in the lead-up to the meeting. By naming this person in a memo, Gabbard appears to have identified a CIA officer who was operating under cover.
Leaders in antisocial technology since 2003.
Fucking hell
Peter Thiel crony named acting director of CDC. Jim O'Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and was managing director for Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital. He also co-founded the Thiel Fellowship. gift link to WaPo, which barely mentions these things:
Reminder that Thiel tried to get Trump to appoint Balaji Srinivasan—the literal Network State guy—as head of the FDA in 2016. It didn't work out, but Thiel is having better luck in the second administration. Thiel wanted Balaji because they both hate the FDA. www.vox.com/2017/1/14/14...
House Republicans sent a letter Wednesday asking Wikipedia to reveal the identities of editors it claims have an anti-Israel "bias." It coincides with a similar effort by the far-right Heritage Foundation to "identify and target Wikipedia editors." www.commondreams.org/news/house-g...
I switched to Vivaldi a month or so ago after @parismarx.com recommended it. I absolutely love it. For me, it's a better baseline browser than Chrome even before you consider their rejection of AI, or how they aren't US Big Tech.
Hell
I always appreciate how much SF hates Silicon Valley.
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Absolutely bonkers personalist regime stuff www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
WTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look." www.c-span.org/program/publ...
Photos and videos from occupied DC.
After Nike dropped her, she played for seven years without a clothing sponsor. That's a big anomaly in a sport where everyone from Ekaterina Alexandrova (K-Swiss) to Renata Zarazua (Alo) has an apparel deal. So, instead of waiting for brands to support her she started her own (and I wrote about it!)
Bessent is kind of funny only because he’s a terrible liar and horrible public speaker. I’d be embarrassed for him if he wasn’t evil. Instead, he’s just a pathetic loser. Even at that table, reading love notes from a piece of paper, he looked like the saddest little weak fool. Makes you wonder…
A couple months ago, I heard a spellbinding talk by a futurist named Tracee Worley, who's spent a lot of time thinking about sci-fi writer Octavia Butler and her stunning predictions. I talked to Worley about futurism, prediction, and collective survival: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is so so so so so good. I'm a huge reader of Butler (and sci-fi dystopia in general). This is a peek into Butler's methods for compiling history and psychology and her vast imagination to create such important works of speculative fiction. And that in the dystopia, she signposts a way forward.
Mark Zuckerberg is building himself an 'apocalypse insurance bunker'... @gilduran.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_3P...
YouTube is using AI to edit people's videos without notice or permission This might actually work as a single unified exam question for all law classes www.bbc.com/future/artic...
NEW: Conservatives in Maine have placed a measure on the Maine *this* November that'd restrict the ease of voting in a lot of ways — notably, with new barriers to voting by mail. (The rules would be in place by next year's key Senate race.) Learn more:
ICYMI: Trump has just about decimated the federal workforce, with more than 199,000 people pushed out since Jan, per a new report. Nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce gone. “The services that Americans have come to expect are not going to be there.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Here, by the way, is a smart essay we published last month about how Yarvin fits into the right: www.thebulwark.com/p/curtis-yar...
It's amusing to observe Curtis Yarvin in this setting. He seems quite in love with the sound of his own voice. And most of his utterances are the sort of banalities you'd expect of a recent autodidact—wowed by the most superficial connections, and lacking deeper contextual knowledge.
Scott Bessent:
CBP says it has no records about agents wearing AI glasses, even though agents wear AI glasses. We filed a FOIA to find out. Read this and more in The Classifieds, our government secrecy newsletter:
Denmark's main national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. https://cnn.it/47KZFL6
Another successful cabinet meeting with Dear Leader
"DOGE" (at least initially) consisted of script kiddies brought in by Musk out of personal loyalty, not experience in government or handling sensitive data. Some had consulted for cybercrime (see link). This is not even slightly surprising. It was the most massive data breach ever carried out.
DOGE posted all our Social Security data to the cloud apnews.com/article/soci...
1/ A high-profile rightwing activist, who pushed to overturn Trump’s loss in 2020, has been appointed to a top position in the Department of Homeland Security helping oversee U.S. election security, I reported for @propublica.org. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/heat...
Protesters in LA occupy the lobby of a building housing the office of a foundation owned by Peter Thiel, demanding an end to Palantir-powered mass surveillance and deportation.
In the gold leaf crown molding of the White House ballroom.
This is the second day in a row he’s said this. This is an intentional normalization effort.
“Why is my information in there?” asked Kathy Gavin, one of millions of people whose data was collected by the gun industry. “Why did you need it or want it? Yes, you could use it to pummel me with postcards, but what else are you doing with it?” (Published Feb)
Trump: "Anybody murders something in the capital -- capital punishment. Capital, capital punishment. If somebody kills somebody in the capital -- Washington DC -- we're going to be seeking the death penalty."
AI “investors have been expecting record returns for their expenditures…” But NINETY-FIVE PERCENT (95%) of companies are getting ZERO return on artificial intelligence — “despite investing billions” www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin... @johncassidysays.bsky.social @newyorker.com
The evil laughs… they know exactly what he means when he says this
Trump: "MSNBC maybe is worse than Tren de Aragua."
A little on the nose for someone who was famously accused of plagiarism
“The danger inherent in Palantir’s AI-powered super-database on all Americans is connected to the vast wealth and power of those associated with the corporation, and their apparent disdain for democratic institutions.” By Robert Reich, 6/30/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
