brainthink

brainthink

@brainthink.bsky.social

About me: • Focused on U.S. current affairs and the global issues they influence. • Moderate upset about our decaying democracy • Lifelong independent voter • I like Presidents that aren’t tyrants • Fair warning: I’m very opinionated and I swear

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My country has become a disgrace. My President is a fascist dictator. Trumpers voted for this insanity. My people have lost their minds. This isn’t America, it’s Trump’s fiefdom. My heart is broken. I am ashamed.

Holy shit. This is usually the last step that’s taken by a company (with the cash) before mass layoffs. That’s coming. All because of a handful of bullshit artists shoving AI down everyone’s throats and wreaking havoc in global economics.

apnews.comMicrosoft offers a quarter of its global workforce voluntary buyouts as AI spending acceleratesMicrosoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

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Fascists lose in Brazil, Serbia, and Hungary. Rising protests in Albania, France, and other European countries against billionaires and corruption. Very encouraging...

You know what’s bullshit? Being in Japan on a trip and still getting unsolicited US election spam text messages on my phone. Can’t even get away from this bullshit halfway around the world… for fuck’s sakes. Let’s just end the fascist tyranny already so we can start fixing the shit Trump ruined.

Apparently over 1,300 of you have generously graced me with a follow - I’m humbled that anyone would listen to my ad hoc angry rants, so thank you for sharing some of your mindshare with me. Honestly all I want is decency and thoughtfulness back in my government. Then I’d feel better, I think. 👍

I honestly feel bad for Gen Z. You all honestly have no clue what it was like to live in a functional country that wasn’t run by history’s most corrupt morons that destroyed everything America stands for. Russia is not our friend. Musk is evil. Trump is a traitor. It’s THAT simple.

Yup. I remember that. Vlad had a SERIOUS shit-eating grin on his face, like he just reminded Trump of some VERY serious shit he has on him. Dear Leader looked downtrodden, like somebody had just killed his cat and ate it. I have no doubt that Vlad has apalling kompromat on Trump. No doubts at all.

Did anyone else have no idea that #NoKings was happening today? Like AT ALL? I saw no posts by others, no ads, no emails, no texts. Not a word. Now today the damn bursts and my feed is filled with it. What the fuck.

Capitalism isn’t broken, America’s moral compass is broken. Give a broken person a perfectly good tool and they’ll do terrible things with it.

Human moments NOT made by AI: - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. - The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. - Luke, I am your father! - Throw me the whip! Give me the idol! - In the beginning… You are human. Act like it.

Things in America are NOT normal. Things here are VERY VERY wrong. And EVERYONE EVERYWHERE should be REALLY fucking worried about it. There is NO escaping what’s happening. For anyone. Anywhere. Regardless of your situation. Borders won’t protect you from the change that’s happening now.

Why winning the Senate matters: - Only it can remove a President from office - Only it can approve treaties - Only it approves cabinet Secretaries - Only it can approve military promotions - Only it can approve judges - Only it can remove Supreme Court justices - It must approve all legislation

Before people go half-cocked on me: Those are the actual powers of the US Senate. My post is NOT a prediction of what WILL happen. But this is the Internet, so I expect plenty of judgemental kneejerk replies by people with low reading comprehension. Those folks can kindly fuck off.

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Through US history, no matter how bad they might have been, the title of US president commanded some respect, some authority, Until this f'ing 🍊🤡. Now it's just an embarrassing joke.

If you still use or follow anyone on #Facebook, #Instagram, #Threads, or #Twitter / #X, what is wrong with you? Zuckerberg and Elon are NOT good people with the best interests of you, your family, your kids or your country in mind. So why do you still do it?

#AI is the enshittification of #reality. Tech has completely lost the plot that technology is supposed to enrich peoples’ lives, not use people as wallets to find shareholder value.

Now that Texas has Elon Musk and Nashville is getting Larry Ellison, hopefully those states will see what huge gaping assholes they really are, and what insane bullshit the Bay Area had to put up with those fuckers since the 1990’s. They won’t be missed. Have fun TX and TN, and good luck. 🤣