Josh 🇵🇸

Middle Eastern History Graduate. Vast & often shallow, like the Hudson Bay, my interests encompass #subaltern, #Palestine, #AllBlackLivesMatter & #babyanimals

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.

[hag @hag_anonymous]

remember when she and her husband threw a Palestinian refugee in Gaza under the bus for sharing their experience of genocide with another Palestinian writer for publishing (and threw that writer under the bus too) you ppl just want zionism done by people you like. she’s a villain

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Dr Walter Rodney was assassinated on June 13, 1980, by a bomb planted in a walkie talkie. He was 38.

His key work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed the roots of global inequality and the violence of colonial underdevelopment.

[💆🏾‍♂️ @BabylonFace]

He hopped in the studio and said “some tall Israeli is running this rap shit.” In 2004 back when they really would’ve put a plunger in your ass for talking like that.

That man overachieved in the entertainment industry when you think about it.

[Navajo Felon 🪶 🇼🇸 🇦🇸 @navajofelon]

She’s the daughter of an IDF soldier.

This is like saying “please be kind to Hitler’s nephew”

[John Q. Septa @dropkick_murray]

The Boston Slide judges the rider’s soul. The bagpiper was pure of heart and got a peaceful ride, the cop was a cop and was spit out accordingly

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

I love that students are still making statements, still walking out, still talking about this - when it feels everyone, everything has “moved on” I’m glad to see this. Not because it materially changes any realities for Palestinians (and Lebanese, Iranians, etc) but because it forces everyone who witnesses it to remember the on-going, unending crimes of our country against entire peoples.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

an irredeemable nation, this is sick

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

profoundly depressing to witness the utter success of decades of cointelpro in pushing a now widely adopted and accepted line that convinces distinct groups of oppressed people to view one another as enemies, as well as to reject the possibility of any alternative to capitalism.

[Josh 🇵🇸 @JoshinSFU]

@DatUncleOfYours It should have been awarded solely to Canada, especially considering that FIFA stated in 1994 that the next time CONCACAF hosted the World Cup, it would be held solely in Canada. Yet, here we are.

[Josh 🇵🇸 @JoshinSFU]

@DatUncleOfYours They'll have to do it without Thomas Rapey, as he's been banned from entering Canada

[Josh 🇵🇸 @JoshinSFU]

@DatUncleOfYours You’ll probably start hearing the same about Canada. Meanwhile, almost twice as many kids play football as hockey. Also, check out how much tickets cost to attend a Canada match a month ago. Tickets to the New Zealand matches weren't much cheaper

[Josh 🇵🇸 @JoshinSFU]

@DatUncleOfYours In Texas alone, the average MLS attendance shows that Austin FC will have 20K, Houston will have 18.7K & Dallas had 19K (it’s smaller now as their stadium is being renovated). That doesn’t include anti-US snobs. The problem: most people can’t afford $500 USD for nosebleed seats

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it's the last "humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems" narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don't need to dismantle the socioeconomic system we built that is destroying our biosphere and driving us to our doom.

Embedded in this logic is the same baseless assumption that has been plaguing us this entire time: that there are effective-yet-profitable solutions to be found. That we can simply let the free market deliver us desirable products that will both (A) cause us to stop cannibalizing our ecosystem and (B) create billionaires and trillionaires. Capitalism hasn't provided any innovations that have allowed us to consume our way out of our problems thus far, but because we've got these complex new AI technologies now, we can allow ourselves to move this entirely faith-based assumption into the purview of our new gods.

But that's just it: it's an assumption based on blind faith. There is no reason to believe we'll ever come up with technologies that are conducive to human and environmental thriving which also generate shareholder profits. Generally profits are generated by producing and consuming more products, which is exactly what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.

What this means is that capitalism has no ability to solve the problems we're coming up against as a species. There is no way to compete and consume our way out of the hole we dug through competition and consuming.

We need new systems. Human behavior cannot continue to be driven by competition and the pursuit of profit. We need to move into collaboration with each other and with our biosphere if we are to survive into the future as a species, and we will be unable to do this if we are excluding all possible solutions that don't generate revenue for the capitalist class.

AI is for many people just a psychological box that allows us to avoid facing this uncomfortable truth, because as Mark Fisher said, “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” It's easier to imagine billionaire tech companies creating AI gods who will serve us up magical solutions to our urgent existential dilemmas which also facilitate continued economic growth than it is to imagine moving into collaboration-based systems where human behavior isn't driven by the pursuit of profit.

But that's just a sign of how insane our species has become. It's a symptom of our collective madness.

We need to wake up. We need to get real. It's adaptation or extinction time for us as a species, and that fork in the road is approaching very quickly.

[James Li @5149jamesli]

Israeli newspaper: Yes, we did it on purpose.

MAGA Zio-bot: No, Israel did it by mistake (followed by 10 paragraphs of hasbara bullshit)

[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

BREAKING: Taybeh, the last Palestinian Christian village in the West Bank, is on fire!

Local residents report that Israeli settlers torched the fields.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

They joke about raping Palestinian men and killing Palestinian babies but will cry “blood libel” and “antisemitism” when you call them the bloodthirsty parasites they are.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Journalists in this country are unable to be completely honest about what role Bari Weiss is actually playing and why she specifically is being chosen to do this, even when they share their most intense critiques of her. Her role is simple: to protect and uphold pro Israel narratives and propaganda.

Nothing has been as transparent in intention of the explicit reconfiguring of Zionism’s paramount position in our news media than the placement of Weiss at the top.

Our news media can’t say that, the big name journalists can’t say that, because they are complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians and for most of them, Israel, Jewishness and Zionism are still too sacred of a cow.