Bob Stark

Creating order out of chaos

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

[Rideshare Drivers United @_drivers_united]

Tomorrow, May 20, drivers rally for justice across 3 cities

10 AM:
LA @ Ronald Reagan State Building in DTLA
SD @ 600 W Broadway
SF @ City Hall

Show up and demand Lyft & Uber pay billions in stolen wages.

RSVP: https://t.co/HdSYT2g6X0 #DriverPower

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

The US Copyright Office on AI 🔥🔥🔥

"Making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

These so-called journalists parroting press releases are the biggest sources of the disinformation that has allowed the broligarchy the highest levels of centralizing power and control.

Don't blame anyone else for killing journalism except for yourselves.

[Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @HeidyKhlaaf]

Appalling that NATO, through its acquisition of Palantir's AI system, is boasting about using an LLMs for war fighting capabilities. LLMs frequently get basic tasks like citations, historical events, or calculations wrong. This is not a technology that can be used for targeting.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨URGENT: Multiple credible sources – including UN agencies, 12 major international NGOs, and journalists on the ground – report that most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people are now surviving on just one meal per day or less due to Israel’s total blockade on food and other essentials since March 2.

The CEOs of 12 major aid organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, CARE, NRC, and others, said in a joint statement on April 17, 2025:

“Survival itself is now slipping out of reach and the humanitarian system is at breaking point.

Every single person in Gaza is relying on humanitarian aid to survive. That lifeline has been completely cut off since a blockade on all aid supplies was imposed by Israeli authorities on 2 March.  

We have supplies ready. We have trained medical staff. We have the expertise. What we don’t have is the access – or the guarantee by Israeli authorities that our teams can safely do their jobs.”

[Weredragon @Cynthianwings]

I don’t ever want to hear someone say this country has free speech again

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

"[AI agents] are threatening to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer and the OS layer."

Signal President Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) warns of "real danger" in agentic AI hype.

To be "magic genie bots" (concert booking etc.), they need root access to all your data: browser, cards, messages.

Cloud-processed & unencrypted: "privacy & security guarantees" at profound risk.

[Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social @BasuAshis]

“Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.” ⁦@lukeobrien⁩

ht: ⁦@timnitGebru⁩ https://t.co/ad7BzVRox1

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.

AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

The unnamed book EMPIRE OF AI is mine, based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, & my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order: https://t.co/i5rNJ45fNo.

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

Our next TWC 101 is on Tues, April 15th! Hear about our projects, meet some cool people, & get plugged in, whether you’re new or have been lurking, or simply want a refresher 🌞

Register now at https://t.co/YZpcRJtiQu or https://t.co/i7Ginerfq2 for what timezone is best for you!

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

Our next Workers Circle is on Tues, April 22nd at 5pm PT/8pm ET. All are welcome — we’ll come together to discuss strategies on winning, what it means to build power during the rise of tech fascism, & the importance of hope + action! Register now at https://t.co/GJzRRl1O2D 🎟️

[AppleTogether @AppleLaborers]

Trump nominates anti-union lawyer to defend workers' rights. Cases against Apple halted indefinitely.

https://t.co/R8Hs6g691W

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Pure evil. War crimes within war crimes, and with total impunity.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I always find it funny when people say "Where is the Palestinian Mandela?", because Mandela literally founded the armed wing of the African National Congress, which engaged in militant struggle against the apartheid regime. The US classified Mandela as a "terrorist" until 2008.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The Lancet estimates 64,260 Palestinians were killed from October 2023 through June 2024. The study indicates ~59.1% of these were women, children and elderly (37,978). https://t.co/mua5OMrH84

We can take this as a *minimum* measure of civilians killed by Israel. That's 142 killed per day during the study period. An underestimate, because this ignores all the non-elderly adult male civilians that have been killed.

Even if we ignore all deaths that have occurred since June 2024, and divide the figure by all days through today, that's 71 civilian deaths per day. A Sharpeville Massacre every day for nearly 18 months.

The apartheid regime was one of the most brutal states of its time. And yet Israel dwarfs it in terms of the sheer scale and barbarism of its violence.

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

How do #DataCenter's destroy our #climate, exploit #labor, and create toxic conditions for those who live nearby? RT plz

Join our Zoom webinar with @datasocietyahead @SFClimateWeek

📷 Friday, April 18, 2025
⏰ 3:00 PM PDT / 6:00 PM PDT
🔗Register online https://t.co/dZgGBqkHUZ

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

What's striking about capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social progress, no commitment to improving human welfare or ecology. All we get is the chaos of profit-oriented production and accumulation as the world burns around us.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Time to revisit the classics...

One nice thing about having principles and conviction, about refusing to bow to the winds of political whim, is that our messaging doesn't need to change much from one year to the next!