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[🏦💀 @adeadohiosky]

"the ruling class, the billionaires who profit from human suffering, care only about expanding their wealth and controlling the world economy, understanding their power lies only in their ability to convince us that war, exploitation, and oppression is in our interest"

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

if there is a hitlerian tyrant in office and these supposed liberal allies at turdway are trying to chop the anti fascist movements legs, what can you call them but collaborators? the time to pick a side is coming.

[Antinomy 🚩📚 @Gattungswesen25]

I hope more incidents like this would force more people to see more clearly that the role of the police is to carry out violence on the behalf of capital to silence opposition. When freedom of speech collides with capital, the police takes the side of capital.

[☭body without organs 🥀 @farabundocommie]

huh just enough democrats break ranks to pass the most dogshit legislation almost every single time. crazy how that happens.

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

1/ You try to buy groceries and your payment is declined.

Not because you do not have money. You have plenty. But because the system flagged your social credit score. You posted something online last week. Something the algorithm determined was misinformation.

Your punishment: restricted spending for 30 days. Essential purchases only. No restaurants. No entertainment. No travel.

You did not break a law. You did not get a trial. You did not even get a warning.

Your right to spend your own money just became a permission. And that permission was revoked.

This is not science fiction. This is what they are building. Right now. The digital control grid is converting every right you have into a permission the system can grant or deny.

And whether you get that permission depends entirely on how well you obey.

[Sean Morrow @snmrrw]

‘My enemies are anti fascist’ isn’t a great look for a guy who profits off helping the government surveil you

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

The anti-ICE protestors persecuted by the government just received their sentences. These are the first prosecutions under Trump's directive that Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization.

For the crime of moving a box of leftist magazines, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

For the crime of attending a protest outside an ICE facility, Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto, and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison.

For the crime of attending the demonstration and asking her husband (Sanchez-Estrada) to move the magazines, Maricela Rueda was sentenced to 70 years in prison.

For the crime of defending himself with a legal firearm, only firing after a cop raised his gun, a fact that was hidden during the trial, Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison.

Americans are being given de-facto life sentences for protesting their government, exercising their freedom of speech, and defending themselves. The fascism you worried about is here.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

when we say “crime is a social construct”.

what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The US is long overdue for revolution. That it has not yet taken place is a testament both to the enduring power of the US ruling class and to the resulting docility, servility and conformism of its people. The US is truly the most propagandized nation on earth.

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

“Violence is never the answer,” I say sagely from the comfort of my home in a country that has over 800 military bases in 85 countries around the world.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."

[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

All of us have far more common cause with working class Iranians, Cubans, Palestinians and Venezuelans than with any US billionaire. We can either realize this soon and act accordingly in solidarity or suffer and perish together, but either way our fates are linked.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

You have now been at war for 232 out of 249 years of your existence. You are the largest arms exporter on earth (40%), with 800+ military bases across 70+ countries. You are the greatest enemy of peace the world has ever known.

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

I would rather see this beautiful world and everything in it reduced to molten slag than give the Boomers technology to live forever.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Sadly, Americans haven't even figured out that ICE will soon be tasked with election "security".

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They figured if you could just watch 700,000 tons of munitions dropped on Palestinians, then you wouldn’t mind a few street executions here at home.

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

A plan to erect shiny new hotels and skyscrapers on the literal bones of an indigenous people in Gaza is an unforgivable sin. It is tantamount to genocide as an investment opportunity, a dystopian nightmare fashioned in the laboratory of the damned that is late capitalism.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

Gaza has unravelled the world. It isn't Trump and it isn't craziness. It is the thoughtful, rational sentencing of a people to annihilation and the thoughtful, rational facilitation and continuation of this annihilation that have unravelled the world.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.