It’s also key for understanding the “Thank You For Your Service” culture of mil/vet worship the past 50 years.

"The "anxiety molecule" has just been discovered!"
- The Ecstasy of Communication

IMO, this is one reason (of many) why milquetoast AI literacy lessons are such a failure: they don't engage students with questions like, "Should 'robot dogs' be deployed to protect the sprawling infrastructure of AI?"

No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.

Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.

Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

“The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70” - Brandon Gill

Me: look, it’s very important to understand racism as a social structure, focusing on individuals as “racists” is counterproductive

Rep. Brandon Gill: hold my beer

It's 4/20! Let me remind you why marijuana was criminalized to begin with: "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - John Erlichman, senior advisor to Nixon

Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate!

Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court

my father, an old school doc who worked in the public health system in India, used to describe tetanus (which he saw in unvaccinated, often poor people in India without access to post exposure vaccines) as scary, and agonizing.

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

Likewise, when you’re a small business owner and tariffs are now eating into your margins or otherwise screwing with your long term plans, you start to worry

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.

Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

But this is more her personality

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CHAPTER ONE The Six Epochs Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. -ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER am not sure when I first became aware of the Singularity. Id have to say it was a progressive awakening. In the almost half century that I've immersed myself in computer and related technologies, I've sought to understand the meaning and purpose of the continual upheaval that I have witnessed at many levels. Gradually, I've become aware of a transforming event looming in the first half of the twenty-first century. Just as a black hole in space dramatically alters the patterns of matter and energy accelerating toward its event horizon, this impending Singularity in our future is increasingly transforming every institution and aspect of human life, from sexuality to spirituality. What, then, is the Singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian nor dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lives, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself. Understanding the Singularity will alter our perspective on the significance of changed truly understand it inherently

My general impression of the Singularity crowd is that they’re basically a religious cult, clad in the trappings of science and technology.

And right away, in the first paragraph of ch 1, we have pretty strong evidence that yes that’s precisely what they are.

Next time you hear someone talking about “the singularity” point them to this 🧵.

RFK Jr wants “government-run farms where Black youth would be “reparented” away from their families”

I am so fed up of people telling me to “find common cause” with RFK Jr & his MAHA movement. Absolutely nope.

Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are

Bombs and missiles hit their targets, but the war's actual goals keep shifting by the day. A ledger of destruction is not a substitute for a theory of victory.

As someone who covered the drone war for a decade: this both builds on precedent about expansive targeting and is wildly beyond it. Congress should have halted all Pentagon funding until Hegseth resigned over it in September, it's murder by the military beyond the scope of war to prove that we can.

It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though:
-There’s no war
-The US wasn’t attacked or under threat
-Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists
-These may not be traffickers
-It’s blatantly illegal
-With no clear strategy either

Last month in The Onion:

The Myths of McMasterism The Limits and Politics of Professional Protest

Why has no general resigned over illegal boat strikes, the operation in Venezuela, the Iran War, or an impeding operation against Cuba (apparently)? I think HR McMaster and Dereliction of Duty, a book that supposedly demands it, actually lets them off the hook, offers one explanation. My latest⬇️

It would be so damn popular among groups they want to get. It’s such a smart idea so of course the Dems won’t do it.

A quick historical context for the whole "WEAK on Crime" thing. Ever since the 1960s, conservatives and moderates have always been able to paint their opponents as weak on crime by simply saying it. Voters always buy it. Journalists cover it as true. He's simply doing what always works.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

what i would add is that while it presently Does feel good for us to hate, this should not be taken as a natural truth. This is something that Develops, and we'd do well to analyse why we think that is

Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran Six weeks after the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran, what was the political object? Not the military means and objectives — those are

“War exacts a toll so severe that only the clearest and most necessary purposes can justify it. If…Iran is still in the fight and still able to exact major military and economic costs, then it is fair to ask what purpose this war truly serves.”

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Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester Emma McCorkindale

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

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