Beau foucault

books, theory, study. here to debate, read and talk shit

[jordan ☼ @iixxivmmxviii]

FUCK all AI data centers

let this logo reach every corner
of the globe as a warning.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

to whomever made this: thank you from the wells of history and farthest echoes of indigenous screams for justice for this labor of love and justice.
their terror will not be whitewashed.

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

I recently heard something I can’t unhear: Over 80% of the feedback women receive at work is about their personality; not their work. I know it’s true.

[☭Comrade Kat⚒︎ @nowwerevolt]

The only data centers we need

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

It’s a coup. A literal soft coup. Eventually everyone will figure this out and start using this word. But it’s taking a really long time.

[Julian☽◯☾ﾟ｡⋆🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈(OBSESSION SPOILERS) @onewitchwillow]

Davonta Curtis
Juniper Blessing
Lucas Redbeard Knapp
Aleanna Royal Belcher
Dannielle Spillman
Shyyell Diamond Sanchez-Mccray
Lanessa Rodriguez
Hailey "Spotsie" King

These are the trans people we KNOW OF who've been murdered this year for being trans. Remember all of them.

[Beau foucault @well_versd]

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive
Baldwin

[Butlerian Jihad🍉 @Baudib1]

Everything Israeli is spiritually American.

[Isabella Maria DeLuca @IsabellaMDeLuca]

They call them “data centers” because calling them “mass surveillance centers” would cause a national uprising.

The government and Big Tech don’t build billion-dollar facilities in the middle of nowhere just to store your family photos.

They are building the infrastructure for a surveillance state— one capable of monitoring your speech, mapping your behavior, tracking your movements, analyzing your purchases, harvesting your biometrics, and building a real-time digital profile of your entire life.

And they package it all under buzzwords like “AI,” “security,” and “innovation” so the public blindly applauds the expansion of the very system being built to monitor them.

WAKE UP BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

I find this discourse perplexing because the solution seems straigthforward: make university marks almost entirely dependent on lengthy in-person exams that combine handwritten essays with oral questioning.

Why is this even a conversation? Are there implementation barriers or something?

[𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙜𝙖𝙗𝙚🏴 @g_abe2]

i wish so bad i could share about all of the cool shit i see people doing behind the scenes in terms of building mutual aid infrastructure and self sustainability. genuinely real movement shit, done with little to no recognition. people are moving, with hope or without it.

[Scott @disorderlyswine]

Take this as a reminder that if you go to the Mall of America they have also deployed surveillance against everyone including facial recognition. MoA utilizes Corsight AI, which was originally developed to track Palestinians.

[Duck (aka Syd) @TheExiledDuck]

domino's, pizza hut, and papa johns are all on the bds list. literally the easiest boycott campaign of all time was "don't buy from chains, eat at your local pizzeria"

[kyle cL @kycarrerolopez]

toni morrison tried to break this down for everybody long ago

https://t.co/ieV97vkxna

[four loko's basilisk 🌼🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ @fawnmeats]

I really think more people should be willing to go to other people's houses and help them with chores and cleaning as a form of mutual aid

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽eheal 𝕭𝖆𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖊 @jacthequeen_]

$1500 in rent is why peoples Grandmas are sitting at the bus stops with a suitcase! We get it, you’re ok with slaving to pay rent but the ELDERLY physically can not keep up with the amount of labor it takes to afford these prices!

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

So we write our books and make our films knowing that anything we say—seriously or in jest, even anything we imply— can and will be used against us in the courts of law and public opinion.

We talk to each other as if the sniper is standing over our shoulder.

And I understand the impulse to self-censor. I know that as Palestinians our notoriety precedes us; we are guilty until proven otherwise and otherwise is often impossible.

I know that I probably do not resemble myself in most people’s imaginations. But there are vast universes outside of the sniper’s gaze; worlds beyond the colonizer’s field of vision.

What matters more than how we will be viewed by our enemies or our allies is how we view one another and what we inspire in one another. Is it self-respect or self-reproach?

To be irreverent at the podium is to remind yourself that you are part of a collective, a scrutinized people whose psychic and affective allowances are shrinking endlessly; the working classes, the exhausted, the under-resourced, those who do not have access to Ivy Leagues or a knack for double-speak.

And in that performance of irreverence, you enmesh yourself in their complexities, you make room for them in the public discourse, no matter how they articulate themselves, and you reassign the blame from the victim to the perpetrator.

Otherwise, we would be punching down—we would save ourselves and ascend in our careers by throwing others under the bus. For one to be described as genteel, someone else needs to be viewed as savage.

[alpha @omarsbigsister]

These are what get you designated as a domestic terrorist under NPSM 7, by the way.

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

boycott Wonderful Company brand products, owned by the resnick family. they spent years lobbying DC for war to decrease iran’s global market share of pistachios. this strike was a personal gift to the family, who also donate their money to the IDF.