Are AI doomers justified - in their anger at the corporate aristocracy, who openly promote that AI could cause the extinction of humanity?

Hubris: "The American “character”...is defined by arrogance, delusion, and militaristic violence.... We would be reduced to a laughingstock as we alienated our allies and friends and walked stupidly into an escalating series of traps laid out by our rivals."

A nation of guns, death and hate: Trump's proposed 2027 defense increase of 42 percent, or $445 billion, to a staggering total of $1.5 trillion, through the elimination of “woke, weaponized, and wasteful programs” — inc. steep cuts to the IRS, EPA, NASA, and NIH.

DT not in an escalation dominance position, and increasingly desperate - will he go nuclear, and make America the most hated country in the world?

psychopathic doomsday cultists and crusaders preaching end times prophecy

Cooking gas shortage and hoarding in India and Asia. Sounds like a call for rocket stove manufacture.

To change everything, start anywhere. If you could change anything, what would you change? Would you go on vacation for the rest of your life? Make fossil fuels stop causing climate change? Ask for ethical banks and politicians? Surely nothing could be more unrealistic than to keep everything the way it is and expect different results. Our private financial and emotional struggles mirror global upheaval and disaster. We could spend the rest of our days trying to douse these fires one by one, but they stem from the same source. No piecemeal solution will serve; we need to rethink everything according to a different logic.

To change anything, start everywhere. When we see what all the different institutions and mechanisms of domination have in common, it becomes clear that our individual struggles are also part of something greater than us, something that could connect us. When we come together on the basis of this connection, everything changes: not only our struggles, but also our sense of agency, our capacity for joy, the sense that our lives have meaning. All it takes to find each other is to begin acting according to a different logic.

If you could change anything, what would you change?

We need to rethink everything according to a different logic.

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You Can Smell It Now: The Trump Presidency Is in Total Free Fall A loyal army of followers, a huge disinformation network, and a party of soul-selling cowards can crowd out facts for a long time. But eventually, reality catches up.

These pillars have sustained Trump in and out of power for more than a decade: Millions still believe that Trump is basically Jesus, the propaganda networks for whom he can do no wrong are still out there, & Republicans in Congress still praise him to the heavens. trib.al/OX9VmCo

"This took a lot of people. Some of them are in the room tonight. Most of them are not. Some started working on this long before most of us were paying attention."

Brainless body transplants = immortality? "After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing."

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Degrowth is coming, organized or not. But the accelerated energy crisis being caused by the warring on Iran has revived the trope, "Degrowth Don". This article was a year ago: heatmap.news/politics/deg...

Will the chaos that ensues from systemic collapse be America's revolutionary moment, and fuel new forms of radical organizing?

On the escalation of Non-Cooperation and more diverse methods for more "muscular movement strategy" than just elevating simple mass protest

I and others were asked by @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for Haggadah recommendations; here was my slightly curmudgeonly answer.

Big social media companies should be adding end-to-end encryption to all of our data, and encrypt it already:

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This is a horror story. More details:

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‘Tinderbox’ UK may be one shock away from food riots, experts say Weakened food security could tip into unrest after a cyber-attack, extreme weather or conflict, analysis finds

Your 'moment of doom' for Feb. 23, 2026 ~ Optimism bias

"A large majority of the experts – 80% – said large-scale violence caused by a food crisis was possible in the next 50 years, with 40% saying it could occur within the next decade..."

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Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

People's State of the Union alternative watch 8:30 p.m. est

Infographic: 40 to 50% of US Air power has been deployed in preparation of Iran strikes.

Bot activism: AI powered "Grassroots campaigns" for digital astroturfing. Non- paywalled article here: archive.is/ZYbjG

ANALYSIS | Once again, B.C. NDP frames budget as a ‘balance,’ but this time with more red ink | CBC News Some B.C. budgets have big spending announcements, tax cuts, or bold new directions that inspire excited press releases from different partisans or stakeholders. The 2026 budget wasn't one of them.

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