DJ B.Cause

Audio manipulations/music production. DJ edits/live remixes. Social media skeptic. BLM. Tierra Whack to Terre Haute. Sun.rar. Public housing. Free Filistin ♪♫

[Rae Bops @raebops]

Far East Cafe. Chinatown. San Francisco. Fred Lyon. Photographer. 1940s.

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

CA realtors and apartment associations (yimby) spending buckets of cash to make sure rents won't flatten 🎃

[Housing Is A Human Right™ @HousingHumanRt]

Here's a very important report about Big Real Estate's bully tactics to stop tenant protections in California.

It's a must-read! https://t.co/dawTGDal3u

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@dsallentess At least they offer something tangible to society without using mountains of borrowed money

[Left in the Bay @leftinthebay]

60 years ago, October 11 1966, the Hunters Point Tenants Union, which represented ten families living in public housing managed by the San Francisco Housing Authority, called a rent strike. Denouncing "deplorable conditions," the strike soon spread to the entire SFHA system

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Today is the first anniversary of the martyrdom of journalist Saleh Al-Jafrawi who has been an inspiration to millions of people around the world.

May Allah place his soul in the highest heavens. ❤️🤲

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Techno-utopianism is the naive belief that technological innovation is going to create a paradise on earth for all of humanity. In the age of AI this notion has been enjoying a bit of a resurgence.

Techno-utopianism is an infantile worldview to hold in the year 2026, because it is assumes we live in some kind of children’s cartoon show with wild-haired inventors in laboratories lined with beakers and microscopes who create helpful new machines which are then either purchased by consumers on the free market or implemented by the government to make the country a nicer place to live in.

In reality, we live under a globe-spanning empire run by plutocrats and secretive government agencies who manipulate our entire society to ensure that all outcomes expand their wealth and power. They’re not interested in making the world a better place. The most powerful among them are not even simply interested in money. They are interested in dominating the planet and maintaining the political status quo which allows them to rule.

The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else. They’ve been doing it with the internet, they’re doing it with AI, and they’ll keep doing it with anything else that comes up for as long as they hold power.

If anything like free energy ever emerged, the empire managers would immediately restrict access to it and then start working on turning it into a weapon.

If we ever developed neurological implants which allowed our brains to interface wordlessly with machines, the CIA and the NSA would with absolute certainty have a backdoor into every single one operating inside the western empire.

Anything that could end poverty and lack would be suppressed, because capitalism doesn’t work without scarcity and have-nots. Artificial superintelligence would be used solely to preserve and bolster the imperial status quo. Nanobots and anti-gravity would be immediately weaponized by the Pentagon. Dramatic lifespan extension would be priced to accessibility only by billionaires and trillionaires.

And that’s assuming our capitalist system is still capable of producing major improvements to human life anymore, which doesn’t really seem to be the case. These days most “innovation” takes the form of coming up with an app designed to extract labor from the working class in some new form of exploitation, or these new AI technologies that we all know are going to end up being used for domestic surveillance and horrifying weapons of mass military slaughter. Apart from that, innovation has largely stagnated, because it turns out that only permitting inventions which both (A) generate profit and (B) do not threaten existing power structures is an incredibly constricting limitation to hamstring ourselves with.

So we’re not going to innovate our way out of this mess. The technological deus ex machina solution to all our problems is not going to arrive at our doorstep while we sit on our couches scrolling Instagram. If we are to survive the existential hurdles our species is approaching and begin building a healthy world, we’re going to have to actually change how we are and how we live.

That’s what I find so off-putting about techno-utopianism: it’s a faith-based belief system which discourages humanity from changing. We don’t need to push toward revolution; the robots are coming to save us. We don’t need to change our collective behavior and stop destroying our ecosystem; the superintelligent AI gods will change the world around us. We don’t need to adapt as a species beyond this awkward evolutionary transition phase and shatter the bonds of the ego; all we need to do is passively wait around for High Tech Jesus to come and rapture us all to paradise.

It ain’t gonna happen, kids. The metallic messiah’s not coming. If we survive as a species, it will be because we grew up and made the necessary changes to our hearts and our minds to transcend our self-destructive patterning.

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@loomdoop @ch3rryxx13 We'll see how that works out for them. I'm not sure it will do much help ease the growing frustration with these "companies" rinsing us out.

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@loomdoop @ch3rryxx13 Pretty odd, the tech folks that do arrive don't have a great interest living in the east bay, south bay, even the southern/western parts of sf. Techfi has a different reason to pour money into this, and it sure af ain't transit.

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth.

https://t.co/z3d6a5Eh1f

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@edzitron The AI social bubble is tiny. Most San Franciscans never see these people.

[zellie @zellieimani]

I mean..he aint' lying

[Jaime Omar Yassin @hyphy_republic]

Look for more statements like this, as life's own truth serum, "age-related loss of impulse control" occupies more and more of this man's output.

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@loomdoop equal parts hand-wringing and hopium

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@loomdoop groan sf wants this bad

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@KimChiSpicey @Scott_Whiner @ThunderParley idk, household vehicle expenses could be going in landlord + waymo pockets and help stimulate the economy (s/o lime scooters)

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

tfw it used to be the
Sucka Free, but now it's a
sucker free-for-all

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

Some “charities” pouncing on the smallest and most traumatized survivors of Israel’s holocaust in Gaza want to make sure they never say a mean word about the colonizers who wiped out their families, starved them, or took their limbs.

[Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr]

The landscape for digital royalties for comedians has been changing for quite a while it was happening long before the Sebastian Maniscalco stuff that bubbled up this week.

This is mainly for stand-up comics to give them a more nuanced look at whats changing in your industry

[DJ B.Cause @djbcause]

@HotSpotHotSpot CIA ^^^