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Once more, we're on. Out January, THE POWER FANTASY #18. "Where we consider the big issues, like if you could travel back in time to kill baby Hitler, would you? How about if Hitler was actually a lovely-if-self-obsessed artist who killed the world by accident? Also, Jacky Magus panics."

NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...

When your friend gets kidnapped by the state, there isn't the time to theme up something fancy for a support website and folks often make do with a default wordpress. So I put together a jekyll theme specifically for support websites deployable as a gitpage: github.com/rechelon/sup...

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

It's been widely noted that Torres is batshit dishonest in their lossy reductive "TESCREAL" account in ways that writes out the long history of anarchist & socialist transhumanists, cosmists, etc. Today I learned they EXPLICITLY grounds hostility to transhumanism in hostility to anarchism!!

Vote on how this year's Gyrovision is gonna work over on our discord discord.gg/fK9DsEpKF

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

transgenderism *is* transhumanism eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things

I wonder how many Dutch voters fully realize that what ICE is doing in Minnesota is *exactly* what Wilders (and van der Plas, Baudet, Eerdmans etc) would like to see happen here. It’s a free preview of what far right government actually looks like.

everyone must stop thinking like this. nobody is illegal. the united states' immigration policies have been cruel and inhumane regardless of who the president is. demand better than the lesser evil

Tiny climatologist me: *quiet exhausted sobbing*

Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper. He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult. In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.

I'll add that we should tax the rich into oblivion for reasons of social and democratic stability. The revenue is a secondary bonus.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I'm writing up a retrospective on the rise of fascism over the last 10 years of the Trump era, and while I want more nuanced takes, there really is no central and more influential villain singularly responsible for the complete collapse we're in than the media. They created Trump. They sustain him.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

it’s cool we can’t say “die” on social media but chatgpt can tell me people how to commit suicide.

I wrote "You Are Not The Target Audience" after going through fiftieth round of Discourse over disruptive protests in Portland in 2012 to explain why it's a good strategy. humaniterations.net/2012/02/29/y... Well my thesis has been demonstrated by researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey, I wrote a book. Did The Science Wars Take Place? Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right. Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...

Mark Smits, VVD-fractievoorzitter in de Provinciale Staten van Gelderland, heeft ons gesommeerd om een artikel te verwijderen. Hij dreigt ons via zijn juridische bedrijfje voor de rechter te slepen. Ook eist hij een schadevergoeding van 7.500 euro.

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Literally so much of the response from this Howard dipshit and others is them being like oh yeah no I'm a fucking monster who's absolutely fine with babies getting slaughtered to make myself feel 5% more safe, everyone else must be like this too Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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I hate trump for destroying twitter. I wanna be surrounded by a feed that has lots of Iranians in them. Please at least repost this so I can find some decent Iranians here.

Which Dutch person should we talk to about how things are going in the Netherlands? Any guest recommendations?

similar to how "free markets" as used by the right has nothing to do w markets but unlimited capital accumulation, maximal extractivism, and plutocrat supremacy, "free speech" has nothing to do w speech but unrestrained (mis/dis)informational cacophony, targeted harassment, and stochastic terror

george lucas after he names the bad guys the empire because he hates american imperialism:

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally. Short version: Nope. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Goed, draadje 🧵 (de 🧵 is een dreigement) Omdat mensen weleens vragen 'maar waarom is die politie dan kut?' Hier wat artikelen die ik in de loop der tijd op een lijstje heb gezet Laten we beginnen met: De politie heeft een eigen StaSi dat activisten buiten hun eigen mandaat volgt, het TOOI.

I'm gonna compile a small thread of anecdotes and details re Anarchist Spain and the CNT that frequently get left out of our histories. (I feel like I constantly mention this stuff, but I guess it's been years and all on twitter where a friend couldn't find it?)

Exactly one year ago, 25 year old US Airman Aaron Bushnell took his own life by self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Rest in Power, brother. I didnt know you in life, but I will never stop thinking about the strength, resolve, and compassion you showed in death

Not being anti-fascist at this moment in history is anti-science. Probably always was. But cannot be clearer than these last few weeks.

“Science education against the rise of fascist and authoritarian movements: towards the development of a pedagogy for democracy” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

rheka's so real for this, its such a struggle to just be vegetarian even

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

This is the main problem with billionaires. It doesn't matter if he "earned" it (he didn't though), what matters is that one person (or a small group) shouldn't wield that level of economic power. He should not be a position where he can waste rail network money on a project nobody but him wants.

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