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Trust nobody "official" in the US.
Pathological narcissists are the problem. Old, fragile men, who insist on clinging and clinging, produce the worst violence for, and against, us all.
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
Fcking ICE fascists.
I am mad familiar with DS9! I've published widely on Afrofuturism and DS9 is crucial in the pop culture construct. Wormhole aliens are contactable though. And don't worry about the translation, honestly. I'd just read Solaris regardless. Tarkovsky's film is also excellent, adds another dimension..
Another fantastic read. Don't want to ruin it for you. Much of LeGuin's series includes anthropology-like figures who hide out on planets as (secretly) embedded participants, waiting to reveal themselves as interplanetary beings (and representatives).
So the US Gov't is simultaneously preparing for mass gov't firings — creating even more gov't poverty, lack of info — while ALL Generals are being recalled for a hands-on meeting with Hegseth, who has renamed DOD the "Department of War."
Fascists gonna fascist, folks. Global war is coming.
Point being I taught these books and others (Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Ursula L LeGuin) to address philosophy of alterity, race, time, ontology, phenomenology, deconstruction, Afrofuturism/music/film, etc. good stuff for cultural anthropological insights
Well worth it. Story then movie. Also, 3 Body Problem. It’s a book trilogy. I taught Philosophy, SF Studies, Comms etc at Quest U for years.
Assuming they “speak,” not sure if Chomskian deep grammar is transpecies. While ARRIVAL did some neat work around that, the “Solaris” encounter could also be likely. But ya we’ll need all kinds. Buddhist Monks, I suspect, all the most. Indigenous Elders. SF philosophers.
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"Enslave those on Medicaid" is the new MAGA slogan
What’s the next likely stage with a network of concentration camps? Forced slave labor. As historian Timothy Snyder urges, CEOs should pledge to not hire these laborers and each of us should pledge not to buy from or invest in companies that do.
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Smoke? Better get used to it. Cheeto says climate change is a hoax, has defunded climate science in academia, NASA, the NOAA + National Weather Service, cancelled EnergyStar, banned California's EV laws, and is now opening coal plants. What on earth did you expect? Rainbows?
We have rule of law, many good people, lots of good rules, and laws, I know them well, but we don't need them, many rules are bad, bad people, we will rule them
"But how can we stay rich without being cryptofascists.." cry the elite white Dems in their New York penthouses
Son, I have a doctorate, been teaching on it since ages. You, anonymous internet troll with a bullshit Star Wars handle, are just yet another brownshirt fanboy. Go crawl back to your videogames.
Meanwhile, the CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, has resigned. I guess presiding over an outright fascist propaganda site is even a bit too much for her at this point. I mean who wants to be second to the second reincarnation of Goebbels, anyway?
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Consumer AI is nothing less than Fascist Big Brother. It's all about straight-up white supremacist propaganda at this point. Don't like the facts? Create your own whiteboy brownshirt fantasy. No point in even hiding it on Musk's Roman-salute orgy known as X
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By intentionally training Grok on "politically incorrect" material to rid of it of "woke" biases like science, democracy, and human decency, Musk has willfully created HitlerBot.
As we become unprotected from corporate malfeasance, climate change, fraud, ill-health, horrific accidents, and toxic chemicals — all so that big corporations and their top executives and major shareholders can make even bigger profits — more of us will take a stand.
They also can’t be fixed. It’s a terminal illness.
So banning guns is what makes Nzis? So Canada is a Nzi country but your own country’s ICE concentration camps, armed raids by Amazon militias and Marines on the streeta deporting US citizens— all to make what Miller calls a white ethnostate— nah that ain’t NAZI FASCISM at all 😂
Defend this man. He is one of few standing for decency and he is risking his life doing so.
The latest gaslighting BS: “climate science is real but not 99% scientists with data consensus, just THIS GUY who says we gonna be fine and to keep burnin’ oil..”
Ffs. If that’s your brainrot, I want none of it. Won’t even debate, just ban.
So now you’re cherrypicking “science” to contravene the 99% consensus of the world’s climate scientists? Man, I do not have time for this gaslighting bs. Hasta la vista!
What on earth is your point? You think CLIMATE SCIENCE is a “fairy tale”?
