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in dog years i am dead

[ਜੀਵਨ ਰਾਏ🔻🇵🇸 @jeevanrai]

Again recalling this conversation @davidgraeber recounted having with ‘an economist from one of the Bretton Woods institutions’

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

Women are the primary protectors of women and children. Men are the primary predators of women and children. Men rape across every country, culture, and religion. There is no place on earth that mothers don’t have to protect their children from men.

[n @onlywithn]

for my birthday present i want to know why

[َ @4NGELWING]

can we escalate this minor disagreement into something it doesn’t need to be? let’s die over this

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Apartheid

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

This paper answers why psychopaths keep ending up as CEOs and politicians.

Researchers mapping out the mechanics of "successful psychopathy" found that corporate capitalism and modern political selection systems are not neutral.

They are hyper-efficient filtering machines.

And they are specifically optimized to select for the exact traits normal people find repulsive.

Normal leaders are constrained by empathy, guilt, and long-term risk aversion. They hesitate when a decision hurts people. They feel the weight of collateral damage.

Psychopaths don’t have an emotional brake pedal.

When a company or a political party needs someone to ruthlessly slash budgets, fire thousands of people, bluff through a crisis, or project absolute, unshakeable confidence, normal candidates stutter.

Psychopaths step right up.

Their superficial charm, pathological fearlessness, and total lack of remorse look identical to "strong leadership" during an interview or a campaign.

They weaponize corporate chaos. While everyone else is panicking, they ruthlessly manipulate the narrative, step over their peers, and take credit for the wins.

They weaponize charisma to dazzle the board or the voters, and hide their emptiness behind a mask of high performance.

The system rewards the ruthlessness, promotes them to the top, and punishes anyone who tries to slow them down with ethics.

The researchers call it a feedback loop of structural decay.

Corporations and governments built an environment where being entirely devoid of a conscience isn't a disqualifier.

It’s a competitive advantage.

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

In a…fucking what?

[thrills by @gogokaghagraa]

from one of my favourite reviews 💌

[nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR]

Columbia had students who said this was true arrested, expelled, and stripped of their degrees. They were falsely accused of antisemitism by the international press and government for speaking out. What will the consequence be for the perpetrators admitting it? Probably nothing.

[Hilmi Hacaloğlu @hacalogluhilmi1]

Daron Acemoğlu'nun neden küresel lordların bam teline bastığını merak ediyorsanız Koç Üniversitesi'ndeki konuşması fikir verici olabilir:
-Yapay zekanın işçiye odaklanması gerekir.
-YZ konusunda ABD'deki akademik harcamaların yüzde 95'i şirketlereen geliyor. Bilim özerkliği kalmadı.
-YZ merkezileştirilerek değil tabana yayılarak ve insanlara özgürlük vererek kullanılmalı.

[Jeff @_Jeffery0]

“Do You Support Israel’s Right to Exist?” Mehdi Hasan FIRES BACK

Mehdi Hasan: I've been debating hardcore Zionists, Israeli supporters of Israel, for years. And the conversation always comes back to one talking point:

“Do you, or do you not support Israel’s right to exist?”

If you don't, you're an extremist, you're an anti-Semite, you want to wipe Israel and millions of Israeli Jews off the map.

But you don't have to concede on this point. It's a bullshit argument.

Number one: Right to exist where?

Israel is the only country in the world that refuses to define its borders.

So if you want me to recognize Israel's right to exist, does that extend into Gaza, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem all considered illegally occupied territory under international law?

So, right to exist where?

Number two: What is this right to exist? Where does it come from?

States don't have a right to exist. People, individuals have a right to exist. Human beings have that right. Not states, not countries.

The USSR broke up into Russia and 14 other states. Yugoslavia broke up. Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
What happened to their “right to exist”?
People have rights, not states.

And number three: If there is a right to exist, does Palestine have a right to exist?
Israel exists. It's a country with sovereignty, it's on the map.

The idea that in a world where Israel is genociding the Palestinians in Gaza, ethnically cleansing them in the West Bank, and blocking their legal right to return the idea that Israel's right to exist is the one we should be concerned about, and not Palestine's, is both ridiculous and, let's be honest, racist.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If someone made this exact same statement -- but replaced "Muslim" with "Jew" -- their career would not only be instantly and permanently destroyed, but their families, banks, communities and employers would be relentlessly hounded until they were denounced, disowned and banned.

[duke of dumb 🍉 @mrsdofenshmirtz]

my nicotine addiction has gotten frankly out of hand but I don’t really have time to deal with that

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

One of the first tweets by the CDU’s new general secretary: “there is no genocide in Gaza”

[Roman Lehberger @romanlehberger]

Wie konnte ein polizeibekannter Islamist offenbar einen Angriff in Berlin verüben? Nach dem Anschlag auf den Christopher Street Day in Berlin werden die Fragen an die Behörden lauter. https://t.co/QlMOAIK6fo
@WDR @ndr @SZ

Recherche mit @diehljoerg @FlorianFlade @martinkaul

[hersch @tittyrespecter]

i don't know how many more $12-16 transactions i have left in me