Just like "AI" is manmade. (last week was explaining all this to graduating engineering students who didn't know places like Stanford were studying AI in the 1950s/1950s or that genX graduated into similarly poor career prospects).
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Just like "AI" is manmade. (last week was explaining all this to graduating engineering students who didn't know places like Stanford were studying AI in the 1950s/1950s or that genX graduated into similarly poor career prospects).
Inflation is you paying more/less for the same service/product. Whether it's the result of govt policies, pricing for profit (be some do have more money & can pay without pain, while others are captured, eg need to eat & heat), or constraining supply (OPEC strategy), it's inflation & it's man-made.
I expect the GOP government will shut down this fall because the Vance-Trump govt isn't interested in govt that responds to American needs or Americans who aren't already wealthy & supportive of the inflationary big billionaire bill. I expect the USD to fall.
Neighbour's incessantly yappy dogs put in the yard 3 hrs ago & RTÉ discusses US affairs, [ignorantly or naively or from privilege] claiming Vance is less dangerous than Trump. Luckily found a less parochial, more wise Irish voice that elicits hope for humanity www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
![He worries about the “corporatisation of everything”, the way multinationals lobby for legislation, government services are outsourced and corporate algorithms dictate what people see online and pit organisations against one another. “The far right are getting their ‘information’ from Facebook and Twitter and it plays out on the ground,” he says. “It played out in Fairview Park with the Indian man beaten up yesterday … The answer to much of it is really simple: turn off the recommender system. The system was set up to advertise, to get our data and then advertise [to us], but it’s also being used to box people into different groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxies7eticbkmfjntqngrct6/bafkreig6kittc5jolfxjivlaq3ti6n6zgvsg7tozrg6pcjx2a65oqv3bc4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I'm really not interested in Thiel & Musk having control of the presidency and that is why I want Trump to live so Melania can continue to call the shots.
allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/p/we-need-to... "All the folks screaming that it’s a mental health issue…the mental health issue is yours. You have the issue." 💯
We ban books in the US, but refuse to protect our children from guns. Because it's not the gun that kills. But it is the book that threatens to kill the ideology that only two sexes and hetero relationships and white people who equate guns and freedom are the gold standard of humanity.
Similiar to Matt's attempt to dictate what reasonable (stereotypical German) people see by a Russian propagandist to disclaim Russia's 'operations intended to bring the war in Ukraine closer to the heart of Europe and to undermine support for Kyiv.' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Every day is now a good day to re/read Propaganda and Persuasion by Garth S. Jowett, University of Houston uk.sagepub.com/sites/defaul...
We often mistake confidence for competence.
Noticing reason, rhetoric & argument: But an reasonable person just living their life But an unreasonable person just not living their life Probably would/n't notice Notice something/at all Hard to report Things are happening. Bec he had much to say about something more so to discipline & deny
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
9/ If you don’t understand long-term sequelae but insist the pandemic is “over”—congrats, you’re doing PR for the virus.
'just look at their faces' www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/fleeing-on...
One might now with reaaonably ask if the attack on big balls in DC was a false flag operation, because fascist power grabby history is full of the false, the flags, and false flags.
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So. When/if blue state governors activate their National Guards to defend democracy and keep out the red state National Guards offered to the Red Hatter presidency to aid and abet in manufacturing a national security crisis... Putin claimed natsec too just before invading Ukraine. EU let him, twice.
Pulitzer Prize finalist historian Garrett M. Graff has covered politics, technology, and national security for two decades. Here he describes accurately what 'polite society' and most media can't bring themselves to say. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Vance on his way to Greenland to demand a quid pro quo to allow this to restart would not surprise me. "The project is already 80% completed, with 45 of its 65 turbines in the water off Block Island’s coastline, Orsted, the Danish co-development company, said" mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/25/t...
I think I forgot to mention that my household recently went back to beepers.
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
I'm learning to DIY plumbing. And floor leveling. And all the other trades that aren't calling me back because the job is too small, or quoting obscene rates without a contract or insurance. No, I'm not, I respect my limits. I'll be vacuuming concrete dust & changing AQ filters 'til kingdom come.
What if what we keep calling hypocrisy is bitter imperialist irony? www.salon.com/2017/12/23/t...
New life in Éire: fierce mortgage to pay for decade+ in a climate of unjust home, food, energy costs; under a sociopolitical culture that makes housing an investment account + being a homeowner who can "choose" to pay a plumber a €1000 day rate materials not included or risk DIY.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Remarkable: A US presidency from the free market and freedom party just took 10% of Intel, a taking that looks like the state-run socialist communism US conservatives claim to hate.
High energy costs exacerbate inflation is likely true in other countries too (Ireland 👀). heatmap.news/economy/trum...
(I mean, many parts of the world are still oral, and they aren't cynical for being oral. See also Brehon and other administrative early communication strategies in Gaelic Ireland.)
"New and different media forms don’t just give us new means of expressing the same ideas. They change the internal logic of the human brain." (Orality isn't a broad stroke; different cultures did/do it differently.) www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
As for the labor & wealth women generate & patriarchy extracts ... Makes you wonder what benefit to humanity exactly pricks like this generate, besides hella trauma under the guise of law, order, freedom to oppress.
Republican rhetoric re taxes from propertied white people goes to "welfare queens" admits: Property & taxpayers during slavery was white bec POC were prevented from anything other than slaving labor (enriching whites too weak to do work themselves). White taxes were indirectly paid by slave labor.
"Trump is working to erase women and minorities from the public sphere while openly calling for a system that makes it impossible for voters to elect his opponents" Not an overstatement. Not desired by a majority of Americans. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-20-...
What Apparently their argument now for banning books is their CENSORSHIP is the government's "free speech" and so supersedes any citizen's actual speech. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Says the not from DC guy who grew up in California.
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
Today's random Peanuts paperback. (Yeah, this is a new thing I'm doing. Got enough of these to keep this going for a while.)
Captain and crew of the US titanic, a Russian iceberg, and Europeans on board is the image that comes to mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...
Considering recent RTÉ radio talk of middle-class Irish cocaine addiction and use unherd.com/2025/08/how-...
Russia has nukes and a warmongering leader. It's not Russia's security anyone needs to worry about.
Any updates on the Epstein Trump scandal?
NBC News WH "correspondent Peter Alexander reported that what struck him was “the looks on the faces of a lot of the American delegation here. Karo, ... Leavitt appeared to be a bit stressed out, anxious. Their eyes were wide, almost ashen at times" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.
Seems bad!!!!!!! Very bad, in fact!!!!!!
Okay, I take it back. I do have advice and it is this. Be a sweet potato.
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
free Moscow from ... Russia?
I'm thinking Plastic Patty
On another note, if you are a university employee I strongly recommend that you in no way link any of your university accounts to any of your past, present, or future personal accounts or devices. Especially this.
Here is the NYT reporting on ChatGPT leading a man into psychosis: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t... Another story of a man killed by police in a ChatGPT induced mental health breakdown www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... Another report from Futurism: futurism.com/commitment-j...
... nationalist eugenicist Nietzsche who happened to think himself so superior and clever he cribbed Christian ideas for his 'superhuman' narrative.
Reading this reminded me of how unbelievably stupid Peter Thiel and his circle do not know they are. I also read Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in the context of the writer's identity/ideology: an anti-Christian ...
The use of audio, especially music, by fascist governments is designed to suspend your critical thinking skills.
I recommend turning audio off when looking at videos or media produced by this US government.
About that typeface: (also Peter Bain + Paul Shaw's book, Blackletter: Type and National Identity)
I really don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that there are large communities of people, among them the people who make decisions in the tech industry, who simply no longer believe in the idea of a shared humanity with their fellow humans
The Authors Guild has launched a certification program for asserting that a book has been human authored authorsguild.org/human-authored
Going into deep financial crisis and publicizing I’m a cuck to own the libs
These photos are drawn from the NYC Municipal Archives, which have provided source material for so many maps, art projects, documentaries, etc. Every year I'd take my New School class on a visit; we'd explore the stacks, observe the digitization process, watch conservators fix photos, etc. It was 🌟
Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.
If you'd like to offer comments on the misleading & error-ridden US federal report, "Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," the link to do so is below. Comments are due by Sept 2. Pls see next post for links to resources that debunk the claims in this report.
The targeting of journalists must stop. Journalism is not a crime.
allyhamilton.yogisanonymous.com/p/the-dark-s...
"Donald Trump slapped his MAGA brand on the Republican Party ... and then he sold the working class to the billionaires." reportingfromdoglake.substack.com/p/the-democr...
It's also quietly insidious, in that some Irish I know complain that minorities are racist to them! How's that, I've asked. E.g. Brazilian hospitality workers speaking amongst themselves in Portuguese. Or not serving them quickly enough. Class plays a big role in racism in Ireland.
I've been thinking about this TrumpGOP 'good for the country' messaging x tariff policy a lot more since reading davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-ai-eco... Feeding the machines Silicon Valley, PE, VC country's wealth is more important, that's why.
![“[Spending on AI infrastructure] contributed more to growth in the U.S. economy in the past two quarters than all of consumer spending.” Paul Kedrosky notes that “one explanation for the U.S. economy’s ongoing strength, despite tariffs, is that spending on IT infrastructure is so big that it’s acting as a sort of private-sector stimulus program.” (H/T Brian Merchant) via davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-ai-economy-is-full-of-financial](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lxies7eticbkmfjntqngrct6/bafkreieuto472djnrrbgwt5mrztz5ou2gjcum4fs3xbeyj32k4q4sjyfri@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I've been thinking about this TrumpGOP 'good for the country' messaging x tariff policy a lot more since reading davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-ai-eco... Feeding the machines Silicon Valley, PE, VC country's wealth is more important, that's why.
TOP bit of journalism from Maxim Kelly at the @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social Read the whole thing it's tea out the nose funny
GPT-6 will be sold as "like talking to untenured professors!"
Sam Altman admits he's not that smart.
This is partly why I’m skeptical that Israel should trust the US evangelical rapture Christian Trump regime’s support.
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Some of you lost your ish on here when I said this is very bad for social cohesion and collective wellbeing. But it is.
Trump is considering an exec order to let private equity billionaires tap your 401k to bail themselves out. One of the largest asset managers just admitted private equity is a Ponzi scheme. Private equity owes $1.5 trillion to its current investors. www.levernews.com/your-401-k-i...
Trump will sign an executive order today that allows your 401K money to be invested in private equity. Aside from what that means for your retirement fund, it will also roughly DOUBLE the amount of money P.E. firms have at their disposal to take over companies/hospitals/housing/etc.
What a fantastic lesson on making assumptions vs. actually paying attention. Vance is the child of gay parents and wore a red hat that said “Make America Gay Again.” The reactions they got are very interesting. Not every red hat is bad and blanket assumptions are often wrong. Kudos to his dads!🏳️🌈
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
Value is not worth, aka enshittified America, first. (Cory Doctorow was talking about brotech social & economic VC business models when he coined this term.) www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
“We cannot be trusted, we reverse policies according to whether Trump had a good nights sleep the night before, we gratuitously insult the governments and people of other nations who thought they were allies, and we bully through hard power” open.substack.com/pub/michaelr...
We are “… witnessing the United States become something akin to a rogue state.” Mhttps://open.substack.com/pub/musgrave/p/a-new-era-of-foreign-policy-damnit
Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points: •Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus •Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship
What is going on with all these food recalls because listeria monocytogenes??
Proust says memory is of two kinds. There is the daily struggle to recall where we put our reading glasses and there is a deeper gust of longing that comes from the bottom of the heart involuntarily, At sudden times, For surprise reasons. -Anne Carson #everynightapoem #fragment
This has become the most viral thing I’ve ever put on the internet and I think that rules
"I believe you but" is the less honest version of "I don't actually believe you"
the kids will understand, as ruthlessly as America's teens have been since the 1950s when their identity clearly linked to consumerist pop culture politics, and they'll mock or ostracize accordingly, entrenching the divide between "lame" and "cool", eugenics is never cool
painful, the jeans-genes discussion, there's no ambiguity here, American Eagle advertising experts did repackage eugenicist ideas that glorify white blue-eyed supremacy — whether or not they were aware, they chose cheap sub/text befitting a 45/47 elitist era.
Now what would you say if I told you there are Plattdeutsch (Low German) speaking religious enclaves in Alberta who settled in Canada in the 1800s where after generations they still don't speak English? www.rmoutlook.com/beyond-local...
Anyone with a credit card + sick & twisted sense of morality can claim it is moral to buy an 'obit ad' in a Cdn newspaper while knowing: they violated the deceased's dying wish for privacy & exclusion of extended family & to leave their children in peace. And the editor can't do anything about it.
Tariffs today to inflict economic and political pain and punish sovereign nations. Tomorrow, he'll inflict sanctions to isolate nations that decide to stop trading with a bullying, untrustworthy US.
4. Core reality in the sense that we know perception and cognition and subjectivities are real and really manipulated in the fight for belief, hearts, minds, votes, humanity.
3. politics, e.g., 2026 elections. Politics is the art of the possible; optics is a core reality of that. iow there is no singular reality. I'm not even sure why we talk about reality outside physics.
2. maybe European countries that use and need fossil fuel to power their economies are humiliating themselves by not creating economies that don't rely on importing fuel. Also, lost in all this tariff analysis is VAT and how US isn't exempt from that cost. Trump needs these optics for domestic
1. Just read Eurocentric opinions on the humiliation of Europe by Trump re: tariffs, with the usual pot banging that Europe has always been too reliant on the US. Yet Putin's war on Ukraine revealed how reliant e.g. Germany is on Putin. Humiliation of Europe by Putin is more acceptable? Or maybe
Let's consider that venture capital is the root of enshittification (via @davekarpf.bsky.social)
Come for the @ichotiner.bsky.social interview of the right-wing Israeli journalist, but stay for the wondrous inline italic factchecks. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
It's bizarre to think Europe will accept whatever trickle-down economic scraps the US will offer to its allies, but the recent tariff 'agreement in principle' suggests maybe scraps is what Europe will accept.
"... advocates not for a globalist techno-utopia in which artificial intelligence jointly benefits the world, but a benevolent jingoism in which freedom and prosperity is underwritten by the guarantee of American dominance. ... of American prosperity that trickles down to its allies."
For anyone in Europe excited to find OpenAi expanding its footprint, consider its imperialist territoriality and divisiveness: "In a paper submitted directly to the Trump administration, OpenAI outlines a Cold Warrior exhortation to divide the world into camps." theintercept.com/2025/06/03/o...
Broadly need similar across societies, starting w those tasked with enabling human potential & wellbeing. "The researchers also found that as kids worked in Assist Mode, they learned to use AI as a tool that needs guidance rather than as an answer machine." www.washington.edu/news/2025/07...
Was discussing with spouse a US citizen if he's going to be able to partner with old colleagues in the US on academic research (AI, ML, DSP) or anyone funded with US money. It's grim: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-ai-a...