JunkyardJay
@junkyardjay.bsky.social
I find value in all. Dedicated hubby and cat-daddy. Facilitator of healthy change. Grateful to reside in Western North Carolina, or what we just call, Home.
Don't trust #AI - especially when, one of these days, everyone's going to figure out that our economies have grown too dependant on these machines and our magical thinking about their promise, and the whole scheme goes belly up. Defend your freedom - defend the future!
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'Immaturity, Kant wrote, “is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another”. For centuries, “another”...was the priest, monarch, or feudal lord'
Now, it's AI blended authoritarianism pushed by the Right as we lose ourselves again
'Immaturity, Kant wrote, “is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another”. For centuries, “another”...was the priest, monarch, or feudal lord'
Now, it's AI blended authoritarianism pushed by the Right as we lose ourselves again
Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
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December 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Don't trust #AI - especially when, one of these days, everyone's going to figure out that our economies have grown too dependant on these machines and our magical thinking about their promise, and the whole scheme goes belly up. Defend your freedom - defend the future!
I've never seen this picture of them before today. It's haunting. She looks 1000% abused, like a trafficking victim #BodyLanguageDoesntLie #MAGA #metoo #trauma #Epstein #Trump #therapy #DomesticAbuse
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I've never seen this picture of them before today. It's haunting. She looks 1000% abused, like a trafficking victim #BodyLanguageDoesntLie #MAGA #metoo #trauma #Epstein #Trump #therapy #DomesticAbuse
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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@abcnewsdesk.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com Help Oregonians keep the peace if and when Trumps sends troops. Be careful to not sensationalize this in order to prevent radical right wing crazies from coming here, like they did last time, while Trump falsely blamed the fictional Antifa. Help us
September 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
@abcnewsdesk.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com Help Oregonians keep the peace if and when Trumps sends troops. Be careful to not sensationalize this in order to prevent radical right wing crazies from coming here, like they did last time, while Trump falsely blamed the fictional Antifa. Help us
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no, it is not 'striking' ... this is *exactly* what they said they would do (if not every little detail, certainly the broader approach) ... it's almost as if the journalist class needs to feign surprise, shock, etc. to maintain the idea they are 'external' to it all www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...
July 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
no, it is not 'striking' ... this is *exactly* what they said they would do (if not every little detail, certainly the broader approach) ... it's almost as if the journalist class needs to feign surprise, shock, etc. to maintain the idea they are 'external' to it all www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/u...
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Happy MAY DAY! “One Struggle, One Fight — Workers Unite!” Stay safe out there 👊
From Tokyo to Turin, Trump’s policies loom over May Day marches
People across Asia and Europe have kicked off May Day celebrations with marches and protests that spotlighted growing unease over U.S.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Happy MAY DAY! “One Struggle, One Fight — Workers Unite!” Stay safe out there 👊
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Multiple people even turned down the presidential pardon.
“It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable. I don’t want the pardon. And I … reject the pardon.”
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“It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable. I don’t want the pardon. And I … reject the pardon.”
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April 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Multiple people even turned down the presidential pardon.
“It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable. I don’t want the pardon. And I … reject the pardon.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“It’s almost like [Trump] was trying to say it didn’t happen. And it happened. I did those things, and they weren’t pardonable. I don’t want the pardon. And I … reject the pardon.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That may be the most prescient thing I've ever read. At least he's honest.
In case you were wondering whether or not all this economic insanity is intentional, or not, here’s what The Felon said in 2014:
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April 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
That may be the most prescient thing I've ever read. At least he's honest.
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"Elon Musk's brother, Kimbal Musk, who also sits on the board, unloaded 75,000 shares worth approximately $27 million."
Elon Musk's own brother among Tesla insiders who've unloaded more than $100M in shares
Share prices of electric car manufacturer Tesla have been tanking in recent weeks as CEO Elon Musk draws controversy by taking a hatchet to the federal workforce.ABC News reports that recent filings w...
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March 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"Elon Musk's brother, Kimbal Musk, who also sits on the board, unloaded 75,000 shares worth approximately $27 million."
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If there's one thing I hate on social media it is the I-told-you-so game. But I can't help but note to all those who are celebrating these revelations about the super-empowered rich or oligarchs that people have been writing about them and warning about their influence for literally centuries.
January 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If there's one thing I hate on social media it is the I-told-you-so game. But I can't help but note to all those who are celebrating these revelations about the super-empowered rich or oligarchs that people have been writing about them and warning about their influence for literally centuries.
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This article published by The Asheville Watchdog, an INN Network newsroom, on September 17th, is too prescient.
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Asheville's flood risk will only grow as rain events and climate change intensify • Asheville Watchdog
While no one can predict the weather with 100 percent certainty, here’s a reliable forecast: As the climate warms, Asheville and western North Carolina will endure more frequent and intense rain event...
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September 29, 2024 at 9:08 PM
This article published by The Asheville Watchdog, an INN Network newsroom, on September 17th, is too prescient.
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