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[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???

[James R. Webb @JamesWebb_16]

I just heard from a source very close to top of the White House that, following today’s shootdown of an F-15, an A-10, and the successful hits on multiple helicopters and other aircraft, the WH is choosing further escalation, including US troops on the ground. This would be madness. I truly hope that someone in the Pentagon or elsewhere can prevent this from happening. If anything was proven today, it’s that Iranian AD is still very capable and very intact.

Any US ground operation will be heavily reliant on helicopters and other slow-moving airframes. Despite the assertions of both the Pentagon and POTUS, it is crystal clear that we have not reduced Iranian AD to the point where a ground operation is even a remotely wise decision. Let alone potentially inserting by air and then being exclusively reliant on an air corridor for things such as resupply and CASEVAC. History is replete with examples where this reliance has been disastrous.

Further, the hard part would be after troops were on the objective. Our lack of manpower leaves little room for maneuver, and once static (which would be required), Americans will become a stationary target for the entire inventory of Iranian indirect fire capabilities on Iranian soil, and it is a recipe for failure.

Simply put, this is not an existential war for the US's survival. It’s a war of choice that should never have happened in the first place, and POTUS should be finding a way out, rather than clumsily and recklessly sacrificing America’s finest.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@elonmusk The reason you think this is remotely beautiful is because you are aesthetically infantile. You missed the taste train entirely. This is why your cars, your politics, and your vision are repugnant. None of this will function for any purpose but degeneration and de-evolution. Sad.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@ArtemisConsort The fact that @ArtemisConsort can get paid to publish thoughts this puerile and @elonmusk can force it upon us is the greatest crime of all.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@willienile 🙏🏽❤️🔥

[willie nile @willienile]

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[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@KobeissiLetter Dump trump. You been bamboozled. Duh.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@SteveSchmidtSES Idiot design per usual - will be that much easier to take down when this disgusting episode concludes.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has rejected the Trump Administration’s offer of federal funding in exchange for aligning with Trump’s agenda. This is the first university to do so.

RETWEET to thank MIT President Sally Kornbluth for standing up to Trump!

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

A former Fox News host, who paid a settlement to avoid a sexual assault case, is Secretary of the Department of Defense.

The former head of World Wrestling Entertainment, who is accused of covering up the sexual abuse of minors, is over the Department of Education.

A former heroin addict, who is accused of sexual assault by a former family babysitter, is over the Department of Health & Human Services.

A 34 time convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who has been accused of sexual assault by 26 women, is president of the United States.

When unqualified, morally bereft, white people occupy the highest positions in our government, y’all need to shut up about Black people and DEI.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@astraiaintel .

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@YoBenCohen @MagnumGlobal Can’t believe I’ll never eat #phishfood again, but there you go. F*ck @unileverusa

[Robert Welch II @WelchRobII]

Joe Biden had a scratchy throat and Kamala Harris had a laugh, so you went with chimps on meth running with scissors. Is it not going well?

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@SenBillCassidy U r poison.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@Helen_E_Shaw @silversfound Congrats Helen!

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@BillAckman @realDonaldTrump Can’t wait for the messages of dire regret for supporting @realDonaldTrump just ahead of you. They’ll come win or lose while we suffer through his bs. #stopthegrift

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@TaraBull808 Ask for assistance dummy.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@yotam_heb Of course not a single person on the left would ever say the atrocities on that day were anything less than criminal. This is useless grifty drivel. #stopthegrift

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

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[Andrew Bates @AndrewBatesNC]

Again proving that y’all don’t give a damn about the lives of innocent people or the truth:

@kaitlancollins fact check: "You just heard from every Republican governor...that they are getting overwhelming help from the federal government here."

WP fact check: “No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did.” https://t.co/mL4EPTh4fM