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Michael Parenti goes over the history of the US crushing democracy around the world and overthrowing leaders through CIA-backed coups…
There is one common denominator: All leaders overthrown by the US tried to use the political system to change the economic & class structure.
There is one common denominator: All leaders overthrown by the US tried to use the political system to change the economic & class structure.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Michael Parenti goes over the history of the US crushing democracy around the world and overthrowing leaders through CIA-backed coups…
There is one common denominator: All leaders overthrown by the US tried to use the political system to change the economic & class structure.
There is one common denominator: All leaders overthrown by the US tried to use the political system to change the economic & class structure.
"It's a really open question about whether he'll push policies that'll dismantle the infrastructure of mass religious and racial profiling and the pseudoscience of surveillance as safety, and focus on evidence based alternatives, or he'll be too afraid of the NY Post."
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State
In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"It's a really open question about whether he'll push policies that'll dismantle the infrastructure of mass religious and racial profiling and the pseudoscience of surveillance as safety, and focus on evidence based alternatives, or he'll be too afraid of the NY Post."
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
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Beer is on the wrong side of America's class war: www.fingers.email/p/beer-is-on...
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Beer is on the wrong side of America's class war: www.fingers.email/p/beer-is-on...
I would go to school if this was the teacher
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I would go to school if this was the teacher
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"Every effort will be made to sanitize the record of a war criminal and enemy of democratic rights who helped paved the way for the dictatorial actions of Donald Trump."
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Dick Cheney dead at 84: A war criminal who paved the way for Trump
As the power behind the throne in the Bush-Cheney administration, the vice president was responsible for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, CIA kidnappings and torture and illegal mass surveillance of the ...
www.wsws.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Every effort will be made to sanitize the record of a war criminal and enemy of democratic rights who helped paved the way for the dictatorial actions of Donald Trump."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Rockstar are union busters, spread the word.
Rockstar accused of 'the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry' after firing dozens of employees who were allegedly attempting to form a union
Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive says all the employees in question were fired for "gross misconduct."
www.pcgamer.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Rockstar are union busters, spread the word.
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Do bosses need excuses to fire people? Do they push their "employees to produce lower quality results"? Are companies "forced to hire contractors to fix AI’s mistakes"?
There's a lot of confusion out there, but if you think of AI as a Techno-Taylorist machine for crushing wages, it all makes sense
There's a lot of confusion out there, but if you think of AI as a Techno-Taylorist machine for crushing wages, it all makes sense
AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs
Massive layoffs among white collar workers are being blamed on AI -- but the evidence of a causal relationship is as thin as ever.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Do bosses need excuses to fire people? Do they push their "employees to produce lower quality results"? Are companies "forced to hire contractors to fix AI’s mistakes"?
There's a lot of confusion out there, but if you think of AI as a Techno-Taylorist machine for crushing wages, it all makes sense
There's a lot of confusion out there, but if you think of AI as a Techno-Taylorist machine for crushing wages, it all makes sense
“Everything Amazon does when it comes to workers is to either maximize efficiency to physically dangerous, unrealistic rates or to manage dissent and reduce pushback, all while claiming not to be the true employer of their delivery drivers.”
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
Amazon Accused of Trapping Drivers in AI Panopticon
Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.
futurism.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“Everything Amazon does when it comes to workers is to either maximize efficiency to physically dangerous, unrealistic rates or to manage dissent and reduce pushback, all while claiming not to be the true employer of their delivery drivers.”
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
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Our VP of Advocacy, Megan Abell, wrote a blog breaking down how this came to be, including the market dynamics at play in the cloud computing space.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
What the Amazon Web Services Outage Tells Us About the Current State of Our Economy
This week, millions sat in front of loading screens as an Amazon Web Services outage halted business and prevented a sizable chunk of the internet, apps, and web services on which they rely from opera...
www.linkedin.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Our VP of Advocacy, Megan Abell, wrote a blog breaking down how this came to be, including the market dynamics at play in the cloud computing space.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a...
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Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
It's all happening on X, the everything app.
October 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
It's all happening on X, the everything app.
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2) Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down earlier this week and took half the Internet with it, revealing one of the dangers of companies capturing most of a market. @futurism.com @joeonhere.bsky.social
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Amazon's AWS Goes Down, Takes Out "Half of the Internet"
Apps and platforms relying on AWS were in a jam after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet.
futurism.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
2) Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down earlier this week and took half the Internet with it, revealing one of the dangers of companies capturing most of a market. @futurism.com @joeonhere.bsky.social
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in news not at all related to the Broader Discourse: I wrote about DoorDash's new partnership with Waymo and its experiments with autonomous delivery robots—and why they represent a last-mile run to undermine the human Dashers who've agitated for better labor protections slate.com/technology/2...
DoorDash Finally Found a Way to Stop Paying Its Workers for Good
The company launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to fight worker protections and invest in delivery robots.
slate.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
in news not at all related to the Broader Discourse: I wrote about DoorDash's new partnership with Waymo and its experiments with autonomous delivery robots—and why they represent a last-mile run to undermine the human Dashers who've agitated for better labor protections slate.com/technology/2...
One of the most unsettling things about our current moment is how geeked the Altmans Musks Gates suddenly are for a post-scarcity world
Musk says Tesla's new mission of sustainable abundance is about creating a world with "no poverty" and universal free healthcare, because the robot will be an "incredible surgeon" (?)
He articulates this new and utterly insane "mission" with incredibly low energy, underlining its absurdity.
He articulates this new and utterly insane "mission" with incredibly low energy, underlining its absurdity.
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
One of the most unsettling things about our current moment is how geeked the Altmans Musks Gates suddenly are for a post-scarcity world
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Trump's White House renovation gets at least thousand times more media coverage than his presidential directive targeting "anti-Christianity" as terrorism 👍
October 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Trump's White House renovation gets at least thousand times more media coverage than his presidential directive targeting "anti-Christianity" as terrorism 👍
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man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit
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CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete
The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
everything's computer
"There are no people — everything is robotic."
Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China
Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.
trib.al
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
everything's computer
Trump is sending our corn fed boys to Venezuela while our regional airports face an Uber driver shortage like nothing we've ever seen. What happened to America first?
#AmericansBelongInAmerica
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
#AmericansBelongInAmerica
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Trump is sending our corn fed boys to Venezuela while our regional airports face an Uber driver shortage like nothing we've ever seen. What happened to America first?
#AmericansBelongInAmerica
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
#AmericansBelongInAmerica
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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basically impossible to live in a cave these days without it becoming the Main Thing About You
March 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
basically impossible to live in a cave these days without it becoming the Main Thing About You
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New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too
www.404media.co/google-calls...
www.404media.co/google-calls...
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too
www.404media.co/google-calls...
www.404media.co/google-calls...
