automated idiocracy

NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing

The Merger That Needed A War YouTube video by The Drey Dossier

JFC - Are we done with Capitalism yet!!

youtu.be/-TlYoVsW5ko?...

A mile high and beneath contempt High-flying Noem and Lewandowski diddle our dollars away

My latest: A mile high and beneath contempt: The Trumpworld affair you really didn't want to know about but should because it's kinda funny.

Ever heard of someone firing a pilot mid-flight? Corey Lewandowski did.

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got them both
but I've read that women who take their hubby's family name may have problems voting because the current name won't match the married name - take your marriage cert...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish articles and charge for premium content. Substack takes about 10% of the revenue the newsletters make. About 5 million people pay for access to newsletters on its platform. Continue reading...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Oh look, it's Melania emailing Ghislaine, praising a profile of Jeffrey Epstein, and signed Love, Melania.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The whole interview is worth it

Post from Trump on Truth Social. Shows image of Trump sitting at his desk in the oval office, surrounded by 8 European leaders. To the left of Trump on an easel is a large map showing the US, Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela covered in American flags. The image is an AI doctoring of an image from August 2025

Looks like we're back to wanting to "acquire" Canada, too

Note that Venezuela is not just being "managed" by the US, but is flagged as part of the US

If nobody has the guts to remove him from office, somebody should at least take grandpa's phone away at night before he starts WWIII

New Data On How Trump Is Polling With Gen Z Is A Disastrous Wake-Up Call For His Administration

The kids are alright.

bloody hell day:

Carney on the USEFUL FICTION of the US rules-based order, where trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, where laws applied to the weakest and where the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient.

I desperately want this World Cup to crash and burn. It would suck for our local economy, but we can’t pretend this shit is normal. Even Hitler hosted the damn Olympics

My toxic trait is that I love to tell non-leftist white people that AOC and Bernie are "global moderates" or "moderates in peer high-income nations." When they get angry or confused, I get out my charts.

I'm just a girl who loves OECD data.

This video is the perfect encapsulation of the illegal, thuggish, unprovoked, violent conduct of ICE. Rep. @benniethompson.bsky.social, I trust that you and the House Homeland Security Committee will have interest in this.

U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane

Breaking NYT:

The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.

That is a war crime called "perfidy."

This extremism emerges from the power grab of venture capitalists in the technology industry. Having grown exceedingly rich in the first two internet bubbles, this element now seeks to compromise the US government, to assume a new level of power and wealth, and attain forms of legal, economic and regulatory sovereignty, where they can operate outside of any other nation-state power. The resultant ideology is racist, eugenicist, fascist and authoritarian in nature, often openly so.

“Tech fascists are working to establish their own sovereign, distributed state. This is the Network State: a new, billionaire-backed nation made up of crypto cities and colonies across the United States, Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean, the Philippines.”

www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...

Swiss-Backed Data Center Plan Targets €8 Billion in Gas-Rich Alberta A data center project in Alberta that’s backed by European firms has the potential to be worth as much as €8 billion ($9.4 billion) over the next several years, says the head of one of the companies i...

“Alberta, the heartland of Canada’s energy industry, is pitching itself as an attractive place for artificial intelligence-capable computing power because of its vast, cheap reserves of natural gas.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WOW!!!!!!!

Environmental and Indigenous activists were being labeled terrorists years before Trump took office. We tried to warn you, then…

Have you heard of Jessica Reznicek?

(from the vault: 2023:
youtu.be/1ZDXJjFa7Gw)

Even with all the wealth inequality, I feel like there'd be less backlash against billionaires if they just fucked off and enjoyed their wealth instead of whining all the time

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles

AI and Race Science: How plans for “racial hierarchy”, “genetic optimisation” and “population culling” are circulating inside the billionaire Epstein and Big Tech networks

“The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are the same ones making sure we’re also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced.” - @merirei.com

My first for @unicornriot.bsky.social

Came across this on peer reviewers using AI just after reading Loru et al's (2025) 'The simulation of judgment in LLMs'.
Epistemia: "the illusion of knowledge emerging when plausibility replaces verification"; an epistemic shift in judgment.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This site is digitizing found cassette tapes of old dj sets, mixes & radio shows from around the world

intertapes.net

New low even for America

You know why these glowing stories about innovative austerity by university administration pisses off all the faculty? All of them? It's not because it's about firing faculty--you've clearly never been to a faculty meeting if you think there's solidarity internally! It's actually much simpler!