benjamin conner

[cold 🥑 @coldhealing]

This feels like a poster you would find inside an abandoned high school as worldbuilding in a post-apocalyptic video game

[benjamin conner @connerben]

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
-Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940)

[benjamin conner @connerben]

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
-Lyndon B Johnson

[benjamin conner @connerben]

February 13, 2026...

"So the first point is to escape the mental trap that naturalizes the system that makes us think exactly what you just said which is that we have a spontaneous tendency towards this capitalist economy. What I show in the book is that capitalism is far from spontaneous. It requires constant violent enforcement of those policies of austerity to preserve the system in place. So what the state needs to do is to protect the market by keeping the majority of us subordinated to the to the market itself and maintaining us in a situation by which we have no alternative but to go work for wage and usually a very low wage and very precarious conditions."
-Clara Mattei

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced https://t.co/n2m7BMBJ4w via @YouTube

[Makeda Piriano @Minxy112]

https://t.co/JiR9FncS5w

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump three rules:

1. Never admit when you're wrong
2. Never concede defeat when you lose
3. Attack anyone who attacks you even when you're wrong.

50 years later - in 2026 America - we are living under the insanity and tyranny of those three rules.

[benjamin conner @connerben]

September 14, 2015...

'Computer scientist John McCarthy summarized the central conjecture of artificial intelligence (AI) in a proposal for a two-month conference held at Dartmouth College in 1956: "[E]very aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it." Sixty years of research has produced remarkable progress in every aspect of artificial intelligence: speech understanding, language translation, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, text mining, neuromorphic systems and much more. AI technologies pervade web search engines, advertising, recommendation services, social media, fraud detection and drug discovery. AI programs beat the world champions of chess and "Jeopardy!," but more importantly, AI technology is starting to be integrated into our critical infrastructure, our economy and our defense. This panel explored the issues that these changes raise. What new AI capabilities will be required? What safety and cybersecurity challenges must be addressed? What are the potential economic and strategic impacts?'

DARPAtv / I2O Breakout Session 2: AI Ascendant (DARPA "Wait, What?") https://t.co/3z9FeDIN4I via @YouTube

[benjamin conner @connerben]

@loonyberg @SophiaCycles Often seems to tie into Theosophical Society

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Hey look it's Epstein's Best Friend for 15 years Donald Trump eating pizza with Epstein's neighbor and business partner Howard Nutlick

[benjamin conner @connerben]

May 11, 2022...

"...there's the myth of California, and then there's the underbelly of California which a lot of it is military/psychological warfare/storytelling, right, with high frequency, all kinds of things--so they're very sophisticated in in all of that."
-Alison McDowell

Whose Story Wins? RAND, Cognitive Warfare, and Noopolitik with Shai Danon https://t.co/cQvKp09PgB via @YouTube

[benjamin conner @connerben]

@loonyberg @SophiaCycles Omg one of the best books I read last year & his message really resonated

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

WAKE TF UP

[benjamin conner @connerben]

@loonyberg @SophiaCycles For sure, but one of the things I most appreciate about Jung is he would have been the first to admit no one is perfect ;)

[benjamin conner @connerben]

February 18, 2025...

"The actual problem with government is in fact the opposite of the conservative narrative of an out of control bureaucracy riding roughshod over American democracy."
-Frances Fukuyama

What's the real problem with American government? https://t.co/PTYAEgUYFt via @YouTube

[benjamin conner @connerben]

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
-Lyndon B Johnson

[benjamin conner @connerben]

Because in my world, loyalty outranks law.
-Donald J Trump

[benjamin conner @connerben]

July 25, 2023...

"What we found is there's not enough attention being paid to the potential downsides of generative AI-- specifically hallucination--this is a huge problem for DOD, and it really matters for us and and how we apply that, and so we're looking to work more closely with industry on on these types of downsides and not just hand wave them away."
-Margie Palmieri

The Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer: One Ye... https://t.co/Y80vqkbnoR via @YouTube

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

Jung said in a letter once that life is a short pause between two great mysteries. Beware of those who offer answers. They may be sincere, but their answers are not necessarily yours.~James Hollis, 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦

[benjamin conner @connerben]

July 20, 2010...

"If I f*ck a goat i may feel ashamed if someone saw it, but absent harm to the goat, not clear how i should respond if i alone witness it."
-Robert Trivers

The New Science of Morality

https://t.co/udwIJwhdaH

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Sure why not 😂

[benjamin conner @connerben]

Because in my world, loyalty outranks law.
-Donald J Trump

[benjamin conner @connerben]

And as always, the best way to rob a bank is to own one.
-PJ Manney

[shanley @shanley]

Oh yes and this, from the Anduril book The Kill Chain.