@MattyChopsSC@EndWokeness Even you call it ‘the Kennedy Center’: you know in your heart that Trump’s name never deserved to be before and above that of JFK.
@steven_l_b@BladeoftheS Our children are more likely to rent their accommodation. They lease their vehicles and increasingly their tech and white goods. Software is rented, media is streamed. They might own the clothes they stand up in but little else. 2/2
@steven_l_b@BladeoftheS By saying your childrens’ wealth will be inherited you are declaring that they will be unable to create the wealth that you have been able to amass in excess.
And the idea that our descendents will own nothing is not an insult, it is a planned trajectory. 1/2
@BasedMikeLee Tawdry spectacles?
Europeans can look back to Ancient Rome. You’ve scheduled gladiatorial contests next, let there be blood!
Incidentally, the architecture of the degraded building forming the backdrop is based on that of Rome and Greece before it.
We do know, @JoshFerme. You just didn't look.
Huszár et al. (2022), PNAS, using X's own internal data: algorithm amplified right-wing content in six of seven countries, amplification exceeding 200%.
Pecher et al. (2025), ACM FAccT: new accounts experience right-leaning bias in default timelines.
Milli et al. (2025), PNAS Nexus: algorithm amplifies emotionally charged out-group hostile content that users say they do not want to see.
Sky News (2025): nine test accounts, left, right, neutral. All received more right-wing content. New accounts had the strongest rightward bias.
And "open source"? X released a new Grok-based algorithm in January 2026 with the exact engagement weights removed. You cannot verify what you cannot see. The EU fined X €120m in December 2025 for insufficient algorithmic transparency.
Your lot does not flourish here because X is uncensored. It flourishes because the algorithm is built to amplify it. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is peer-reviewed evidence you could have found in five minutes.
PS: For anyone interested in beating the Algo Beast, read the article in the link below.
@heynavtoor@Kasparov63 Humourously this tweet carries markers that suggest it might itself be AI generated, for instance the ‘This is not x. It is y.’ formulation in “This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.” and “Modal collapsed is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one.”
One reason AI is being pushed so hard is because it's the last "humanity can capitalism its way out of all its problems" narrative that has yet to be fully discredited. The idea is that if we can just create AI gods and let them come up with the effective-yet-profitable innovative technological solutions to our various existential crises that our own fleshy brains have so far failed to produce, then we don't need to dismantle the socioeconomic system we built that is destroying our biosphere and driving us to our doom.
Embedded in this logic is the same baseless assumption that has been plaguing us this entire time: that there are effective-yet-profitable solutions to be found. That we can simply let the free market deliver us desirable products that will both (A) cause us to stop cannibalizing our ecosystem and (B) create billionaires and trillionaires. Capitalism hasn't provided any innovations that have allowed us to consume our way out of our problems thus far, but because we've got these complex new AI technologies now, we can allow ourselves to move this entirely faith-based assumption into the purview of our new gods.
But that's just it: it's an assumption based on blind faith. There is no reason to believe we'll ever come up with technologies that are conducive to human and environmental thriving which also generate shareholder profits. Generally profits are generated by producing and consuming more products, which is exactly what has gotten us into this mess in the first place.
What this means is that capitalism has no ability to solve the problems we're coming up against as a species. There is no way to compete and consume our way out of the hole we dug through competition and consuming.
We need new systems. Human behavior cannot continue to be driven by competition and the pursuit of profit. We need to move into collaboration with each other and with our biosphere if we are to survive into the future as a species, and we will be unable to do this if we are excluding all possible solutions that don't generate revenue for the capitalist class.
AI is for many people just a psychological box that allows us to avoid facing this uncomfortable truth, because as Mark Fisher said, “It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” It's easier to imagine billionaire tech companies creating AI gods who will serve us up magical solutions to our urgent existential dilemmas which also facilitate continued economic growth than it is to imagine moving into collaboration-based systems where human behavior isn't driven by the pursuit of profit.
But that's just a sign of how insane our species has become. It's a symptom of our collective madness.
We need to wake up. We need to get real. It's adaptation or extinction time for us as a species, and that fork in the road is approaching very quickly.
@Pawsitee I once bumped into a stag party of mature men each of whom wore one of these shirts with their respective wives’ or partners’ faces featured – to keep them out of trouble!
@AnnaDeMilanese They’ve learnt from the Strait of Hormuz: control over a chokepoint can have major consequences. They wish to take over this strategic location and deny it to others. Stay alert for other such moves around the world.
@fesshole I am an exam invigilator at a public school and A-level candidates have asked me what time an analogue clock is showing. £60,000 a year in fees and they can’t tell what the big hand and the little hand are saying – Rolex should be worried.
@Ben_said_it@ZackPolanski@WestminsterWAG Are you suggesting that non-Jews are unlikely to choose to use weapons in the genocidal IDF or unlikely to be allowed to use weapons in the genocidal IDF?
Because neither of your possibilities reflects well on Jews.