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[Noetic97.tez @Noetic97]

Today was a good day as a collector! Kinda feel like I was hitting home runs with #ETHNFTs and #TezosNFTs.

So without further ado, in order of today's purchases, a 🧵 to highlight the wins and artists...

[Harry Halpin - Nym @harryhalpin]

Because I get asked a lot.

Why we must fight Palantir, in brief.

1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without censorship. The Internet is not the property of any one government or nation.

2. The Internet enables mass surveillance at a scale unimaginable to the Gestapo and the Cheka. Far too many programmers have wasted their lives at building surveillance systems under the guise of Web advertising. Today, these web tracking systems are being used to monitor, control, and even kill humans by companies like Palantir that seek to combine state violence with corporate efficiency, and thus create a new form of technofascism.

3. Surveillance justified by external national security threats will be turned against citizens inside the nation-state. Mass surveillance was once the exclusive domain of the NSA, but today it has been privatized to corporations like Palantir that are unaccountable to any democratic process. What begins as fear of external foreign nation-states turns inwards to focus on immigrants, dissidents, and eventually to anyone that might challenge the status quo or try to exit an increasingly dysfunctional society.

4. Everyone is a target. The “enemy within” continually expands until it encompasses the entire population of a nation regardless of their status and beliefs, justifying evermore paranoid and totalizing surveillance. The line between policing and military operations blurs, with legal frameworks being replaced by technological violence operating with total impunity.

5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Meek calls for regulation or moralizing demands for human rights are useless in this era. Any rights must be enforced by the hard power of code. Code, not laws, can be used to uphold the right to privacy by making surveillance difficult, if not impossible, even by nation-state adversaries.

6. We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations that fought in the world wars, most of our current rulers are degenerate pedophiles who would sacrifice the well-being of the youth and the entire planet due to their infantile desire for wealth and power. Technology of surveillance and automated warfare reflects their increasingly desperate attempts to maintain archaic forms of domination.

7. The American Empire is unraveling. Once, the United States of America presided over a globe where it could enforce its rule via the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency and a network of equally global military bases, but new regional powers now directly challenge the United States as its empire dissolves in the face of internal economic stagnation, political corruption, and the inflation of the dollar.

8. In a real war, fantasies of total technological dominance always backfire. When a faceless drone kills a child’s father, that child will one day take revenge regardless of the cost, something forgotten by those raised in comfortable suburbs. Going beyond zero-sum games, one can only truly win a battle against a people by demonstrating your victory provides a better way of life, increased prosperity, and an inspiring philosophy.

9. Oddly enough, proponents of fully automated warfare support a universal draft. Deep-down, these keyboard warriors know that their technofascist fantasies are a paper tiger when up against determined opponents that engage in asymmetric warfare. They also know none of their children will fight in a war for their state but they would be happy to see other people’s children come home in body-bags.

10. The problem is not whether AI weapons will be built; we must hold responsible those who are building them. No matter which country is deploying automated killing machines, no one is absolved from the murder of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure due to the parlour-trick of shifting the blame to AI.

11. Atomic war is on the horizon. As various states descend into wars over increasingly scarce natural resources, the possibility of tactical nuclear strikes over Teheran, Kyiv, and other areas of conflict has returned to the historical stage. Increasingly geriatric and authoritarian rulers face less guardrails than before to deploying nuclear weapons, and may even be willing to sacrifice the survival of humanity to appease their own petty egos.

12. Our goal is a world of peace where every person can be empowered by the Internet. Modern war is the quintessential game of sending young people to the meat-grinder. Why die for the profit of corrupt rulers when one could build real wealth and power for yourself using the Internet?

13. We should fight for the world we want, and build the tools needed by future generations. Pacifism would be suicidal in this period of global turbulence and resource wars, but real hard power lies in technology: Programmers should be creating technologies to live a free life and prosper in a hostile society of surveillance and control, and decentralization is the only way these technologies will survive against the inevitable repression.

14. The State will not help us. The state is a dying pre-Internet institution that increasingly resembles nothing but a Ponzi scheme fueled by taxes and debt. None of the youth alive today will likely inherit any benefits, such as welfare and health care.

15. Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it.

16. Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labour union.

17. Digital identity is the next step in their system of control. Within the next few years, access to the Internet–including in Europe and the United States–will require biometric national identity cards, using the flimsy excuse of “protecting children.” The real goal is to gatekeep free access to subversive political content and halt cross-border communication in order to prevent new forms of self-organization and resistance from emerging.

18. Only when one can be anonymous is one truly free. The freedom to express oneself without censorship and surveillance is a vital precondition for both the autonomous use of reason and the democratic evolution of society. Technology must enable the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves to the world–so that we can become who we want to be–by preserving the right to privacy over the Internet, including not just individual privacy but the right to transact and form contracts privately.

19. America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten or perhaps taken for granted the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the operating system of a cross-border global secret state while it pushes its own farcical version of ethno-nationalism.

20. Culture wars are a psyop. It is ironic that “Epstein class” virtue-signals about traditional morality and the superiority of forms of ethno-nationalism, while trying to return to the rule of hereditary elites, even in the United States. Rather than reverse the gains of the Enlightenment, we take the side of our ancestors who fought a centuries-long battle for individual liberty, scientific progress, decentralized markets, bottom-up democracy and the emancipation of humanity from feudal monarchs and their make-believe mythologies.

21. New forms of technology can reshape the world. Technology is not just a tool, but the world we live in and an extension of our cognitive capabilities. The co-operation of humans with the collective intelligence embedded in AI could accelerate human progress and overcome planetary crises such as climate change and atomic war that threatens the survival of our species.

22. Live free or die trying. We must bear eternal vigilance in the struggle against fascism, and the battlefield is technology. There is no middle ground: Technologists must choose whether to work for the enslavement of humanity or to create new spaces for freedom.

These are my personal beliefs, not those of @nym. Yet as a philosopher that founded a tech startup, I have a responsibility to respond to this manifesto of Palantir and it's so-called "philosopher-CEO" Alex Karp.

[Dre @drearetas]

Bimma Williams with the facts
#LetGodSortEmOut

[Mark Lunn @Mark_Lunn23]

We gotta have some conversations about Little Simz after this 4 album run

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

AI makes us dumber?

I still don't understand the supposed argument that AI makes us dumber.

Anyone who has studied at a university will be familiar with the following phenomenon from academic work: You write a paper on a specific topic. To do this, you read literature: books, other papers, lectures.

The biggest problem with this is that the specific questions you want answered are difficult to find. You often spend a lot of time reading through the literature to finally find the passage that provides the answer to your question. Of course, reading a lot also gives you other information and a broader overview of the topic. However, to be honest, a lot of time is simply wasted on research.

AI makes this much easier. A precise question receives a precise answer, with specific literature tailored to the question. AI therefore makes scientific work more efficient and does not make researchers dumber, but on the contrary, much smarter, in that they can process more essential information in less time.

The myth of alleged dumbing down is regularly perpetuated by those who do not work with AI in such a way that they want to increase or expand their knowledge. I have noticed that I now ask AI questions much more often that I would otherwise have dismissed. Trivial things, such as what happens in the body during exercise, how creatine works, what happens during the recovery phase, etc. In short, I ask for explanations of complex things in a way that I can understand, which I would not have done before because of the effort involved in “Googling” (to get adequate answers to the above questions, I would first have had to read 10 websites with clickbaits).

The only thing you can accuse AI of is that it doesn't train users in critical thinking. However, this argument applies even more to schools and universities and is not a problem specific to AI. Critical thinking has increasingly been lost in the wake of the Bologna Process in European universities. However, this criticism cannot be directed solely at AI.

In summary: In my experience, AI does not make me dumber, but rather smarter, as I learn more about the world and gain a deeper understanding.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I truly do not care if food stamps cover junk food.
It doesn't affect me.
But do you know who it does affect?
The kid who wouldn't get a birthday cake otherwise.
The one who only knows what it's like to say
"no" in the snack aisle.
The one who just wants to feel like every other child for one day.
Let them have the cake.
Let them have the chips at the birthday party.
Let them feel normal because poverty is already isolating enough.
If you've never had to choose between groceries and gas, sit this one out.
Because food stamps aren't your business
But kindness should be. Via April Dickens

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

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[Lily Jay @lilyjayofficial]

Did you know the UN wanted to make food a fundamental human right.

Only 2 countries voted against it.

Can you guess which two countries?

Hmmm… I wonder why? 🤔

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

should we slow down? That's the trillion dollar question. My gut says we're past the point where "slowing down" is realistic - it's like asking if we should slow down a river that's already flowing.

The competitive dynamics are brutal. Every company knows their competitors are racing to implement AI. Every country fears falling behind. Even if the US or EU tried to pump the brakes, others would accelerate. We've created a system where acting responsibly might mean economic suicide.

But here's what keeps me up at night: we're essentially running a massive social experiment with no control group and no undo button. We're rewiring the foundation of human purpose and economic value at breakneck speed. Previous technological shifts had decades to unfold - we're compressing that into years.

The arguments for speed are compelling: AI could solve massive problems, reduce human suffering, unlock scientific breakthroughs. Every month of delay potentially means preventable deaths, continued inefficiencies, missed discoveries. Plus, the cat's out of the bag - the knowledge exists, the incentives are aligned, the momentum is building.

Yet I can't shake the feeling we're being reckless. Not with the technology itself, but with the human side. We have no plan for the displacement. No vision for what humans do in an AI-saturated world. No safety net for the psychological upheaval. We're optimizing for capability advancement while treating social adaptation as an afterthought.

Maybe the question isn't "should we slow down?" but "can we speed up our adaptation mechanisms?" If we can't slow the tech, we need to dramatically accelerate our policy response, our education evolution, our social safety net construction.

The mismatch between tech velocity and institutional velocity - that's what could break us.

[The Palestine News Network @PaliNewsNetwork]

Fuck israel

[ry @RyanNice]

happy to see Ab-Soul getting his flowers on the timeline.

The God emcee that you gotta see…

“all they talk about is kenny, drizzy and cole
and im inspired by all of them but honestly
neither one of them can live without a SOUL”

[Outa @CallMeOuta]

I used to have this mental illness where I thought logical arguments would change someone’s mind

[GNX TOUR LOVER @keepDfamilyaway]

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[Noetic97.tez @Noetic97]

@Xsteveholl @JamesTate121 Fuck you fascist

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

No lies told.

[Monyé @xoxomonye]

Being an emotionally intelligent person comes with not being able to fully hate someone

[Lei Gong @gonglei89]

The funniest thing about 2025 being the China Century inflection point is if you followed China’s policy papers in the 2000s they were expecting the inflection in 2050. That 25 year difference is the gap between their belief in American competence and America’s actual competence.

[Andrew Boozary MD @drandrewb]

The longer I work in medicine, the more convinced I am that anxiety and depression are a just response in a deeply unjust society.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

@natemcgrady take a look at the weave

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

Listen to this carefully ‼️

[Whooping feet @WhoopingFeet]

GNX is on its way to be another classic.

Kendrick Lamar’s discography is insane 5 classics that all sound different & give u a different feeling when u listen to it