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Last Notes npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r #NoKings in Bothell Washington npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "This is a world of material abundance and prosperity. Just as the post-war world made millions of people comfortable, educated and happy by putting them to work clearing the rubble and building something better, a post-oligarch, post-American world can offer us all all the hard, rewarding work we want, performing the essential work of care and rebuilding." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Hamilton Nolan: "Behind every fortune is a crime; behind every crime is a journalist trying to expose it; behind every journalist trying to expose it is a powerful person trying to shut the journalists down. It has always been thus." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r "He can stay, he can go. He can be impeached or voted out ... But removing Trump will not remove the infrastructure of an entire party that embraced him; the dark money that funded him, the online radicalization that drummed his army; nor the racism he amplified and reanimated." -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Ed Zitron: "Here's some real easy [LLM] regulation. Arrest people. Put Sam Altman and Dario Amodei in cuffs, take 'em downtown, have a chat with them about the cybercrimes their LLMs are doing. If a regular person did these things, they would be in prison. Jail 'em. … But we won't, because we do not regulate technology. We actually need an EPA for AI." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r tell them now I'm gone npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "The VCR was a great idea 55 years ago. 55 years later, it's an idea whose time has come – again." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "But so long as governments and the law are on the side of extraction and enshittification, the disenshittificatory insurgency will be starved of resources, condemned to remain marginal and inadequate." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Two thoughts coming to similar conclusions. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r If privacy, security, and data sovereignty is your goal, as @nprofile…ugpy observes, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here. But here we are." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj Homer Simpson would make a better truck than Elon Musk; hell, so would Bart. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Keep repeating this from @nprofile…ugpy as November's clarion call: npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "… what Uber calls 'flexibility' is really a way for the company to offload its operational risks onto its drivers." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj He'll spackle it with graffiti using Krylon Bauhaus Gold, and he'll give himself a $10M no-bid contract to do it. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r "It can't be nonsense if there's a lot of money at stake" is exactly what Doyle Lonnegan thought right up until Gondorff, Hooker, and their mob took him for all that money. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r The seaside caves of Cape Flattery on the Pacific coast of Washington. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "You don't perfect your society just by making it work well. You have to make it fail well. A utopia isn't a society where nothing goes wrong – it's a society where things go wrong all the time, but we're able to fix them" npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "Many everyday people have replaced their romantic partners with chatbots ("AI boyfriends" / "AI girlfriends"), and they've formed active communities to revel in the delights of pursuing love with someone who demands no moral consideration or compromise, glorying in a world of love without lovers" npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Quiet day on the Sammamish River. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy "... whatever our oligarchs want to steal this month, they get." William Gibson in his book *Agency* captures this exactly: "Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can't stop stealing." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r "AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization, and our descendants will be fixing the mess for generations." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "The senior partners in that coalition [Liberals/Leftists] have driven the country into a ditch, letting Trump stage a fascist takeover that has us fighting not to *win* another election, but just to *have* another one. ... America isn't already great. If we are to have more elections – much less win them – we will need to mobilize millions of people." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "Monopoly is to capitalism as gerrymandering is to democracy, a way to strip out any meaningful choice." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r An "anti-Trump coalition around the world" dedicated to a "post-American internet, a disenshittified and enshittification-resistant internet built on international digital public goods and running on servers outside of the USA", run by people who want to get out from under American greed, surveillance, and interference and who seriously "want to get *really, really* rich." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "As Bouie points out, 'as long as John Roberts has his majority, nothing the left of center in this country wants to do is safe or stable…We can have democracy and self-government in this country or we can have the Supreme Court as it exists, but we cannot have both.'" npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "We’re all living through the *enshittocene*, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy -- "Enshittification happens when someone sets out to reduce your choices, and then uses that lock-in to make things worse for you in order to make things better for themself." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r When countries or regions abandon climate-destroying, expensive, easily constrained fossil fuels, they enter the *Gretacene* (another term from @nprofile…ugpy that I dearly hope makes its way into the lexicon): npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "During the lockdown years, I transformed myself into a machine for turning Talking Heads bootlegs into science fiction novels and technology criticism". npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "New Mexico passed a law banning armed federal officials from showing their fascist asses anywhere within 50 feet of a polling place or ballot drop-box. ... what the *fuck* are the other blue statehouses waiting for? This is a white-hot, hair-on-fire emergency. As Blanc says, if we wait until November to find out what Trump is going to do, it'll be too late. The time to act is *now*." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy 's essay today is a compendium of CorporateSpeak, complete with examples of self-serving nonsense and redolent of bulshytt. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy As you rightly observe, there are so many guillotineable plutes these days; our Mme Defarge will be prompting an AI rather than knitting. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "That's why, when we hold new Nuremberg trials for Trump and his collaborators, we should also unwind every merger that was approved under Trump" npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy Your writing making sense of things is exactly why I look forward eagerly to every Pluralistic installment. Thank you, Mr. Doctorow. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj Amerikanisch dummkopf? npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r No longer are they the 0.001% or the oligarchs or the broligarchs or the uber-rich or the zottarich—they are now and forever the Epstein Class. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r This is one of the best pieces @nprofile…ugpy has written. He rightly reminds us: "The question isn't merely 'How do we elect better leaders?' It's 'How do we make our leaders follow us?'" npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy on tRump's trade policy: "The best summary of Trump's trade 'philosophy' comes from Trashfuture's November Kelly, who said that Trump is flipping over the table in a poker game that's rigged in his favor because he resents having to pretend to play the game at all." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…l70y "'El sueno de la razon produce monstruos.' The sleep of reason produces monsters." -- Francisco Goya, 1799 npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy for the win: "All I've got is an idea for how we can make *insanely profitable products* that people *really want to buy*, that will insulate us from cyberattacks by US tech giants who are in thrall to Trump, and that *Americans* will pay us to use in order to free themselves from the tech giants who abuse them, too." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…23cj npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…ugpy : "For if AI code – written at 10,000 times the speed of any human coder, designed to work well, but not to fail gracefully – is the digital asbestos we're filling our walls with, then our descendants will spend generations digging that asbestos out of the walls." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y Perfect capper to the year: take a truncheon to "capital allocation" and the parasites who practice it. Thanks for a great year, Mr. Doctorow 👏🏻 npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r With the mega-rich funding the GOP to force "eight million student borrowers back into repayment" and sanctioning "the use of price-fixing algorithms to raise rent" and hoarding so much of the country's wealth that "most Americans can't afford to buy *anything* anymore", @nprofile…998y has, as is his wont, coined a marvelous phrase to characterize the kleptocrat class: npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…2hag These people are all "antibodies protecting a disease" (but Lowbeer was doing her work to rein in the klept, not to further it's worst impulses). npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y writes about middlemen enshittifying the internet, taking money from the makers. In 1997, Ellen Ullman's "Close to the Machine" predicted these rentiers: "Indeed, any content, any information, anything posted on the Web was now ripe for the skim. 'Every time someone clicks, someone makes money.' And it would not be the content makers who would be making the money. … the ones making the money would be the owner of the transaction itsef. The new breed of entrepreneur: Net landlord." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…2hag "I’ve seen the pig president speak about 167 times, and he keeps getting funnier *every* *single* *time* I see him!" 🤮 npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…2hag Hamilton Nolan posted this today -- New Orleans is definitely *not* meekly accepting ICE's crap: https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orleans-is-watching-you-fuckers?publication_id=1536173&post_id=180962973&isFreemail=false&r=kte6&triedRedirect=true npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y It's also true that, as @nprofile…998y and Ed Zitron have said, Micro$oft and the rest of Big Tech are frantically building the world's heaviest airplane using AI balsa wood because they collectively will "need to make $2 trillion in brand new revenue, specifically from AI by 2030", which is simply not possible. (https://www.wheresyoured.at/nvidia-isnt-enron-so-what-is-it/) npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…2hag Green Onions. Timeless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oox9bJaGJ8 npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r If my nearest & dearest ask what to get me for Christmas this year, I'll hand them @nprofile…998y 's list of books he read this year and say, "Surprise me." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.” npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r As @nprofile…lnk9 observes, “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.” npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r The Firehole River at sunset, Yellowstone National Park npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…2hag npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r *Enshittification* by @nprofile…998y is up for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards, Readers Favorite Nonfiction. Having it win night be a fun way to give Amazon (Goodreads' owner) a whoopee cushion to sit on. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y , July 2023: npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…2hag Mike would carefully take off the jerseys first, then turn Bannon into kitty litter. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y Hmm ... "laws that protect *some* people but not the disfavored group". You and Mr. Wilhoit are on the same wavelength. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y : "Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Lake Washington on a blustery blue-grey day. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…998y : "To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta. … With 30+% of the S&P 500 tied up in seven AI companies' stock, the coming crash will _definitely_ escape containment and crash the whole damned economy." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r It's gonna be a good day. 👍🏻 npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "Blue Bonds are the good version of Trump's beloved shitcoins. Rather than wildcat money created by and for speculators, Blue Bonds are a source of public prosperity, backed by a present or future Fed under democratic control, accountable to the people. … Here, at last, is a form of novel money creation that builds a human, shared future." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x reserved my spot for you and Ed in Seattle 👍🏻 (I will likely have read it twice by then). npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs The icons are departing too frequently these days, and we remain. Sail through the sorrows of life's marauders. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r Deception Pass, Oak Harbor, WA, looking south from the bridge to Strawberry Island. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs The internet for the win: npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "The Trump II presidency is the most scam-friendly presidency in history, and everyone knows it. The scammers are lining up to get their scams okayed ... Trump and his scammer base will drive out every honest business and interaction in our economy – and when they steal from you, they'll flash their veneers and tell you 'That makes me smart.'" npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs It will be the shortest opening ceremony parade of nations ever: El Salvador, North Sudan, North Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the US. "Citius, Altius, Fortius" will be replaced with "Lentior, Inferior, Stultior". The medals will be a bas-relief of tRump's hair; only silver and bronze will be awarded because Donnie will keep all the gold. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r New Threat Model: Covid from @nprofile…klme : FDA says most Americans will no longer have Covid vaccine access by fall; Moderna compelled by FDA to withdraw its US Covid-Flu shot application; Jay Bhattacharya triggers NIH meeting walkout with anti-NIH Covid conspiracy theory; Millions of kids suffering from Long Covid, study finds; Long Covid linked to rising anxiety and depression in children; and much more. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs "The America I've sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its many faults, it's a great country with a great people, and we will survive this moment." The Boss dwarfs that avaricious, empty, soulless parasite. Come on up for the rising. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs Bruce is The Boss. Donnie is Milli Vanilli. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r New Threat Model Covid by @nprofile…klme : RFK Jr. spews unsubstantiated child rape stories, sidesteps questions at NIH hearing, and swims in sewage contaminated creek; Chief Medical Advisor of MAHA wants to halt the use of mRNA Covid vaccines; Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial; Jeff Bridges has Long Covid; and much more. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "because [Trump] represents the interests of exploitation, extraction and looting, everything nice that he gives to everyday people in his base potentially gores the ox of someone who *really* matters to him. … It seems that there's no material benefit that Trump's oligarch backers are willing to cede to working people." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs Since 1980, this never gets old: npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "So this is why you keep invoking AI by accident, and why the AI that is so easy to invoke is so hard to dispel. Like a demon, a chatbot is *much* easier to summon than it is to rid yourself of." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r The latest Threat Model Covid from @nprofile…klme : A doctor treating children in the Texas measles outbreak appeared in a video for RFK Jr’s Children’s Health Defense with a measles rash on his face & admitted he was infected; an expose revealed 15-year-olds, often without PPE, are among those made to cull [bird flu] infected flocks; HHS stops infectious disease research; FDA head claims "the Covid pandemic is over", and much more. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "Raising the price of a good education and lowering protections against receiving a bad education is an attack on the very idea of education as a source of social mobility." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs Maybe Les Québécois would like New Orleans? npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs If the suggestion is floated that CA-OR-WA should become the 11th province, I wouldn't reject it out-of-hand. 🤔 npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "This is gangsterism, the thing that comes after capitalism collapses into feudalism. In gangsterism, 'fairness' and 'power' have no place. All that's left is a kind of *caveat emptor* brainworm that insists that if you got scammed, you should have shopped more carefully." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "Wynn-Williams documents so many instances in which Facebook's top executives lie – to the courts, to Congress, to the UN, to the press. Facebook lies when it is beneficial to do so – but only when they can get away with it." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "It's not a coincidence that these guys went after the CFPB. It's no mystery why they've gone after every watchdog that keeps you from getting scammed, poisoned or maimed, from the FDA to the EPA to the NLRB." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs His signature looks like a lie detector that's been told a real whopper. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : "… both kinds of downgrade [disclosed at purchase or done in secret] depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. … when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying." npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r “A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.” npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs One week short of three months in office and it feels like years. If he's talking he's lying and the media are eunuchs. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r #photography #SilentSunday npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…kmvs Their rage is a give-away: they see that we won't be cowed so they're getting scared and lashing out. Ignore their lies and threats and keep going. npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r #photography #SilentSunday npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r The #handsoff protests are truly nationwide -- Bothell, Washington turns out npub1xpk8398p6qpuvzh22kxp4yvwzm6grh66ec64ml6rkyghxz08aeeqkzedk2 gregg r @nprofile…qz4x : Trump is "the unfortunate outcome of an economic system that has so profoundly failed to enforce economic equality, and a political system that so profoundly failed to protect its democracy from the influence of capital that it allowed itself to be totally captured by extreme lunatics backed by extreme wealth."
