Something very sad and disturbing that I didn't quite appreciate is how many Americans are actively nostalgic for the moral clarity they feel they experienced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11
I’ve been thinking about this and it’s a quietly radicalizing realization that rapacious profit seeking has hollowed out so much of what’s fun and community enhancing in our society. So many things just stopped existing because they don’t return 300% to awful people.
Listen to him openly ADMIT that corporations want to create mass insecurity, starvation, and poverty in order to create an obedient working class. The owning class is so mask-off that they are casually saying these things in front of huge audiences.
i'm not going to link any of them here, for a variety of reasons, but please be aware of what is probably the deadliest AI scam i've ever heard of:
plant and fungi foraging guide books. the authors are invented, their credentials are invented, and their species IDs will kill you
It occurs to me “The West” never really threw off feudalism. The king makers just became bankers instead of popes or cardinals. We still have dynasties and we still have an aristocracy that is essentially above the law. We just call them CEOs now.