Ty Crisp ➡️🐘🦋

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[Ty Crisp ➡️🐘🦋 @luxorator]

“We cannot shame ourself into change. We can only love ourselves into evolution.” 🐦‍🔥

[Drey @thedreydossier]

@BaddRyno Put it anywhere else and it is subject to FOIA, congressional subpoena, and inspector general audits. Put it under the White House and it falls under executive privilege and the Presidential Records Act- same servers, same data. The address is what makes it untouchable.

[Drey @thedreydossier]

The lesson from Israel is how much infrastructure can be built before the public can even see its shape.

They sold the biometric database as safer passports.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

When urgency becomes your default setting, you begin to live as if everything needs to happen immediately. You rush through conversations. Rush through meals. Rush through books. Rush through mornings. Rush through the people you love. Always thinking about what's next instead of where you are. And after a while, you stop noticing life altogether. You begin to believe your worth depends on how much you can do, how quickly you can get to the "next thing". That's what makes life dull, empty, and full of anxiety. Slow down. Live this moment first. Fully. The next one can wait.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

“The ugly reality is that corporations are buying these homes as potential rental properties, presumably to be occupied by people permanently frozen out of the housing market.” https://t.co/dz6a34oiNU

[FIFA World Cup 26 Kansas City @FWC26KansasCity]

A World Cup moment, Kansas City style. 🇺🇸

#FIFAFanFestival #FIFAWorldCup #WeAreKansasCity #WeAre26

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The human species has essentially been transformed into a giant profit-generating machine for corporations.

Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden used to carry margin expansion forward from quarterly statement to quarterly statement. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders.

That’s why everyone’s so unhappy. We’re not living with purpose. We’re not working together to build a better world and a better future, we’re just pulling levers to turn gears to make the arrow line go up on the graph in the conference room. It’s a hollow, pointless way for people to live.

It makes our whole culture vapid and soulless.

Music is made to be as profitable as possible, which means giving it the broadest possible appeal using formulaic song structure calculated to cause a chemical response in the largest number of human brains.

Movies are designed to draw the largest possible box office revenue at the lowest possible risk to studios and investors, often by just rehashing a movie that’s already proven successful in the past or by slapping together a story about an IP with pre-existing mass appeal.

Food is made to be fast and addictive rather than nourishing.

Healthy human connection has been commodified as social media intertwines with friendships and dating apps insert themselves into the development of romantic relationships.

Human sexuality is being warped and twisted as internet porn normalizes violence and degradation for the maximum number of clicks.

Attention and engagement have been monetized, creating an information ecosystem dominated by conflict and gossip designed to appeal to our baser instincts.

Advertisement is injected into every possible corner of our waking sensory experience, with any available space where the eye might rest or the ear might listen being flooded with psychological manipulation compelling us to consume. They’ll start running commercials in our dreams the instant they have the technology to do so.

You spend eight hours at the office working to generate corporate profits, then you come home and consume products to profit other corporations. You need your beer and snacks to unwind, your streaming services and social media to distract your mind from the stress of it all, your online clothing purchase to try to feel good about yourself, and your prescription drugs to get to sleep at night. People live their entire lives like this.

And that’s those of us who are lucky enough to be living in the global north. In the global south you get wage slavery and exploitation with far more toil, far less relaxation time, and no cheap products made by impoverished workers on other continents with which to comfort yourself.

All of humanity has been roped into this mess. And for what? To make the numbers in some bank accounts increase. To get some green arrows pointing upward on the stock exchange. To enable a few billionaires to buy islands and elections.

All while destroying the biosphere we all depend on for survival.

This, we are told, is the best possible system we could possibly be living under.

I personally do not believe this is true. I personally believe we can have better. Those who benefit from this current arrangement are going to assure us it’s impossible and do everything they can to stop us from changing it, but we do have the means to reclaim the wealth, dignity and happiness that they have stolen from us.

They built this whole machine on our backs. All we need to do is stand up.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

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.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

The growing risk of a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation system, of which the Gulf Stream is part, is nothing less than the number one long-term security threat to our way of life in Britain, Europe and the Western world in the era in which we live.

The consequences on our societies of an AMOC collapse would be simply devastating for Britain especially, beyond anything imaginable but a full blown super pandemic or nuclear war — with scientists modelling temperatures dropping around 15.c and half of our arable land being lost.

This is just one of many climate catastrophes starring at us of the modelling and the observed data and is why it is why Labour has continued to place such importance on Net Zero and international climate talks despite the Greens and progressive activists now looking elsewhere post-October 7th and the Conservatives joining Reform in now campaigning against them.

It is also one of the most important areas our foreign policy has and must continue to diverge from Trump’s America, an active opponent to progress on this agenda. It is also why despite the huge security, technological and industrial risks they pose we need an active and substantive dialogue here as far as is possible with China — which Labour has pushed for.

[Hauken Yusi Entumaiyaiz Lykoupendorz |🪬إيڤان🪬 @thirst_trap_exe]

The sudden outpouring of love for Evanescence from every side after so many years is so nice and heartwarming. they’re finally getting their flowers and I can’t be more proud of them! 💖

[Ty Crisp ➡️🐘🦋 @luxorator]

@thedreydossier Hey Drey, first I just want to say that I am a massive fan! You have done so much to open my eyes. Secondly, I wanted to ask if you could possibly upload your new short form videos to YouTube Shorts? They can then be added as a feed to RSS readers. Thank you so much! 🙏

[divya venn @divya_venn]

To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. all economics, politics, laws, armies, and institutions are only beneficial so far as they prolong and multiply such scenes: a household laughing together over a meal, two friends talking over a pint of beer, a man alone reading a book that interests him.

[Ty Crisp ➡️🐘🦋 @luxorator]

My hot take of the day — I think the moralization of personal choice is a mechanism that absorbs political energy and redirects it away from power. I want to write an essay on this soon with emphasis on personal AI usage, but also activism more broadly.

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

Truth. I love a boring life. Quiet mornings. Coffee & sunrise on the porch. Long walks in nature. Working on my purpose. Reading thick novels. Watching deep documentaries. Seeking wisdom. Finding meaning. Growing a little everyday. A slow life. A simple life. A peaceful life. That's what I live.

[Tyrus Morton @mrtraemaine]

@mskmalibu The hobbies, dreams, and interests you loved as a child often carried pieces of your most authentic self before shame, pressure, and responsibility taught you to disconnect from them.

[B.G @ourworld_live]

In a world that glorifies speed, noise, and hustle, choosing a slow, intentional, quiet life is one of the most rebellious and powerful things you can do. Protecting your peace, clearing your mind, and actually hearing your own heart again that’s real luxury.

The older we get, the clearer it becomes: status and stimulation are cheap. A calm soul and a life that feels like your own? That’s priceless.

Thank you for this reminder. Needed it. 🙏

[Karun Pal @karunpal]

You are allowed to live a life other people don't understand. A slow quiet life of meaning. A life where your nervous system is not constantly on fire. A life where your mind is clear. A life where you are no longer running away from yourself. A life where mornings are calm. Where you think deeply. A life that slows you down enough to hear your own heart again. A life built intentionally that expands what you already are. Because the older you get, the more you realize: real wealth is not status, attention, or endless stimulation. It’s having a calm mind. A quiet soul. And a life that actually feels like yours.

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

I’ve got a theory.

When people don’t create
music
art
ideas
anything…

they start creating problems instead.

Unused energy gets weird.

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

The profound psychosis exhibited by the media and markets lately has got me reading science fiction again in a futile attempt to make sense of the world. Yet, nobody from H.G. Wells to Radiohead seems to have predicted the sheer horror of our present Nihilist Casino Rapeworld.

[Ella Boo Bella @SummerShaddows]

@WallStreetApes @HillsOutBack This was the best take of the entire thing IMHO.