Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews
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An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some academics worried
The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.
www.insidehighered.com
I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge
so I have some bad news about what it means to be a lawless fascist nation in terms of voting to stop that same fascism you’ll come to find out we a academics were correct but the reality is you’re not voting this out you’re gonna actually have to do more than that and waiting a year dooms America.
January 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
so I have some bad news about what it means to be a lawless fascist nation in terms of voting to stop that same fascism you’ll come to find out we a academics were correct but the reality is you’re not voting this out you’re gonna actually have to do more than that and waiting a year dooms America.
Check it out it’s the 2026 Democratic Party platform in image form.
January 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Check it out it’s the 2026 Democratic Party platform in image form.
Weaponized unreality has punched people in the face so hard that many of them will never recover
Collective sensemaking is dying and when it dies, so too, does any chance to stop this without major worldwide upheaval
Collective sensemaking is dying and when it dies, so too, does any chance to stop this without major worldwide upheaval
January 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Weaponized unreality has punched people in the face so hard that many of them will never recover
Collective sensemaking is dying and when it dies, so too, does any chance to stop this without major worldwide upheaval
Collective sensemaking is dying and when it dies, so too, does any chance to stop this without major worldwide upheaval
So many people are going to die because the Democrats have decided that there’s nothing they can do to stop this.
The Democratic parties learned helplessness is helping fascism more than any of the people they are gaslighting and claiming didn’t vote hard enough for them.
The Democratic parties learned helplessness is helping fascism more than any of the people they are gaslighting and claiming didn’t vote hard enough for them.
Watch this. Watch again.
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."
January 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
So many people are going to die because the Democrats have decided that there’s nothing they can do to stop this.
The Democratic parties learned helplessness is helping fascism more than any of the people they are gaslighting and claiming didn’t vote hard enough for them.
The Democratic parties learned helplessness is helping fascism more than any of the people they are gaslighting and claiming didn’t vote hard enough for them.
We have been in not just the cool zone but open fascism for a year and people truly can’t conceptually understand that reality because it doesn’t look or feel like what they imagined it would.
Modern warfare and civil war is like that as well. It doesn’t look like the imagined scenarios
Modern warfare and civil war is like that as well. It doesn’t look like the imagined scenarios
I think people thought - and I certainly did - that the Cool Zone would be a lot more distinguishable
Like you're walking around, and suddenly you are stopped in your tracks, the battle music starts playing, and you're in a fight for your life in a random encounter you're underleveled for
Like you're walking around, and suddenly you are stopped in your tracks, the battle music starts playing, and you're in a fight for your life in a random encounter you're underleveled for
(You're right that we're in the Cool Zone presently)
January 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
We have been in not just the cool zone but open fascism for a year and people truly can’t conceptually understand that reality because it doesn’t look or feel like what they imagined it would.
Modern warfare and civil war is like that as well. It doesn’t look like the imagined scenarios
Modern warfare and civil war is like that as well. It doesn’t look like the imagined scenarios
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It’s actually a form of despair propaganda to say “there’s nothing we can do because we didn’t win in 2024 and that’s your fault for not voting hard enough”
Despair, demotivation, denial and dismay are four of the methods groups and bad actors use to manipulate the conversation online.
Despair, demotivation, denial and dismay are four of the methods groups and bad actors use to manipulate the conversation online.
January 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
It’s actually a form of despair propaganda to say “there’s nothing we can do because we didn’t win in 2024 and that’s your fault for not voting hard enough”
Despair, demotivation, denial and dismay are four of the methods groups and bad actors use to manipulate the conversation online.
Despair, demotivation, denial and dismay are four of the methods groups and bad actors use to manipulate the conversation online.
Actual doomers are anyone saying that “we can’t do anything to stop fascism we didn’t win the vote”
The online Democrats repeatedly making the claim that they “can’t do anything to stop fascism because they didn’t win” are the most dangerous doomers online as they are sowing despair and helplessness
The online Democrats repeatedly making the claim that they “can’t do anything to stop fascism because they didn’t win” are the most dangerous doomers online as they are sowing despair and helplessness
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Actual doomers are anyone saying that “we can’t do anything to stop fascism we didn’t win the vote”
The online Democrats repeatedly making the claim that they “can’t do anything to stop fascism because they didn’t win” are the most dangerous doomers online as they are sowing despair and helplessness
The online Democrats repeatedly making the claim that they “can’t do anything to stop fascism because they didn’t win” are the most dangerous doomers online as they are sowing despair and helplessness
Name the sympathizers in the Democratic Party and their funders.
Some Democrats hate that their party is largely positioning itself in opposition to the operation that resulted in Maduro's capture.
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com
Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," one House Dem told @axios.com
Said another: "It looks weak." www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
"It looks weak": Some Democrats want their party to shut up and clap for Maduro's capture
"Everything Trump touches must be bad according to the base," fumed one House Democrat.
www.axios.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Name the sympathizers in the Democratic Party and their funders.
Collectivism scares white men of means so much that they literally built religion and capitalism around opposing collectivism in any way necessary and trying to kill it off with social rationalization and systemization through the church and Protestant work ethic
I think Mamdani really hit a nerve with the reactionaries this time. Absolute crack pipe take to say that the sacraments of the Church are individualistic. Not a single one of the sacraments is individualistic. Hell is full of individuals though.
January 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Collectivism scares white men of means so much that they literally built religion and capitalism around opposing collectivism in any way necessary and trying to kill it off with social rationalization and systemization through the church and Protestant work ethic
Good.
Hopefully, we spend more
It’s sad you’re gonna try and destroy our Park system like you have every other public good including the mail in this country all so your billionaire owner can make more cash by claiming it’s lost money when the reality is it’s ours and that money is not lost.
Hopefully, we spend more
It’s sad you’re gonna try and destroy our Park system like you have every other public good including the mail in this country all so your billionaire owner can make more cash by claiming it’s lost money when the reality is it’s ours and that money is not lost.
The National Park Service is spending at least $54.2 million to repair fountains and water features at seven locations throughout Washington, D.C.m over the next few months, according to procurement records reviewed by The Post.
National Park Service to spend $54 million on landmark D.C. fountains
The National Park Service is spending $54.2 million to repair seven fountains in Washington, according to procurement records reviewed by The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Good.
Hopefully, we spend more
It’s sad you’re gonna try and destroy our Park system like you have every other public good including the mail in this country all so your billionaire owner can make more cash by claiming it’s lost money when the reality is it’s ours and that money is not lost.
Hopefully, we spend more
It’s sad you’re gonna try and destroy our Park system like you have every other public good including the mail in this country all so your billionaire owner can make more cash by claiming it’s lost money when the reality is it’s ours and that money is not lost.
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With all the talk in natsec world of AI and chips being the new oil it turns out oil was the “new oil” all along…
January 4, 2026 at 6:52 AM
With all the talk in natsec world of AI and chips being the new oil it turns out oil was the “new oil” all along…
The young Republicans sure are not being subtle about their views on Hitler
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Yes, the Notre Dame college Republicans deleted this post but that does not matter.
We are dealing with Nazis the entire government is Nazi
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Yes, the Notre Dame college Republicans deleted this post but that does not matter.
We are dealing with Nazis the entire government is Nazi
January 4, 2026 at 6:39 AM
The young Republicans sure are not being subtle about their views on Hitler
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Yes, the Notre Dame college Republicans deleted this post but that does not matter.
We are dealing with Nazis the entire government is Nazi
(I edited this image so it cannot be shared uncritically)
Yes, the Notre Dame college Republicans deleted this post but that does not matter.
We are dealing with Nazis the entire government is Nazi
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if you leak to me i certainly won’t pull this shit
🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:24 AM
if you leak to me i certainly won’t pull this shit
And that’s the chilling effect of fascism at work.
Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 6:10 AM
And that’s the chilling effect of fascism at work.
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The entire media pushing the “Venezuelans” in Florida celebrating is a masterful gambit, I have to say. The machine is going full tilt, and it’ll work.
January 4, 2026 at 5:39 AM
The entire media pushing the “Venezuelans” in Florida celebrating is a masterful gambit, I have to say. The machine is going full tilt, and it’ll work.
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Literally fuck every government intelligence analyst who isn't picking up espionage act charges under Trump for leaking this crazy shit in advance
January 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Literally fuck every government intelligence analyst who isn't picking up espionage act charges under Trump for leaking this crazy shit in advance
We’ve all done it every day for the last five years during an ongoing pandemic with a BSL level 4 neuro invasive pathogen so why would America start caring now?
The fascist got Americans to literally say that their own lives don’t matter as long as the Status quo for the wealth class is maintained
The fascist got Americans to literally say that their own lives don’t matter as long as the Status quo for the wealth class is maintained
Yall I cannot believe that the USA kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation today, and we all just we all just went about our lives as normal.
I feel like I’m going insane.
I feel like I’m going insane.
January 4, 2026 at 4:42 AM
We’ve all done it every day for the last five years during an ongoing pandemic with a BSL level 4 neuro invasive pathogen so why would America start caring now?
The fascist got Americans to literally say that their own lives don’t matter as long as the Status quo for the wealth class is maintained
The fascist got Americans to literally say that their own lives don’t matter as long as the Status quo for the wealth class is maintained
Why are people pretending They’re shocked that Qatar is the clearing house for regime change and state capture by the fascists in America.
How else do you think they’re laundering everything?
How else do you think they’re laundering everything?
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Why are people pretending They’re shocked that Qatar is the clearing house for regime change and state capture by the fascists in America.
How else do you think they’re laundering everything?
How else do you think they’re laundering everything?
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Hmm. Sounds plausible. Also suggests how Trump will try to take down Canada and Greenland.
"Senior Venezuelan government officials, led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez...have quietly promoted a series of initiatives in recent months aimed at presenting themselves to Washington as a “more acceptable” alternative to Nicolás Maduro’s regime...funneled through intermediaries in Qatar."
Exclusive: Venezuelan leaders offered U.S. a path to stay in power without Maduro
Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez used Doha backchannels to offer Washington a 'Cartel Light' plan for a managed Venezuela transition that keeps chavismo in power.
www.miamiherald.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Hmm. Sounds plausible. Also suggests how Trump will try to take down Canada and Greenland.
I literally watched live as a German hacker wearing a Power Ranger suit, took the site off-line during a live hackathon.
“An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate & exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles & 100GB of data…
An “old-school anarchist researcher,” who goes by the online pseudonym Martha Root, claims to have breached a racist dating site & two similar platforms.”
An “old-school anarchist researcher,” who goes by the online pseudonym Martha Root, claims to have breached a racist dating site & two similar platforms.”
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
I literally watched live as a German hacker wearing a Power Ranger suit, took the site off-line during a live hackathon.
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Ai as an Avenue for Hyperstitional belief and the construction of hyperstitional systems of world building is something people really are not at all prepared to have conversations about yet.
They are using AI in a post-structuralist way to generate "synthetic possibilities"... I think it's about "capturing the imaginary' of young activists.. Not sure if it will work but something that has to be taken seriously.
It’s quite telling that so many right-wing dealers in nostalgia are embracing the aesthetics of modern AI-generated art. Can’t actually find real images of the imagined past to which you want us to return? No problem; just generate it with AI.
January 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Ai as an Avenue for Hyperstitional belief and the construction of hyperstitional systems of world building is something people really are not at all prepared to have conversations about yet.
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This industry is fucking cooked, man
Time to shred it and make something new
Time to shred it and make something new
and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
This industry is fucking cooked, man
Time to shred it and make something new
Time to shred it and make something new
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The fascists know they are building the framework to do strikes at home as much as they are building the infrastructure for transnational terrorism and they are salivating that they are building the systems needed to kill Americans who disagree with their fascist goals.
January 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
The fascists know they are building the framework to do strikes at home as much as they are building the infrastructure for transnational terrorism and they are salivating that they are building the systems needed to kill Americans who disagree with their fascist goals.
To be honest if we see Putin and Russia now make a major move in the next few days it shouldn’t be surprising . Either massive attacks across Ukraine or something more bold as they now have the green light that fascist imperial violence is not going to be stopped.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
To be honest if we see Putin and Russia now make a major move in the next few days it shouldn’t be surprising . Either massive attacks across Ukraine or something more bold as they now have the green light that fascist imperial violence is not going to be stopped.