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Patricia Bastos
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Pro-civilian, curious, multi-versed, and prose-bound too. A teacher of languages and psychology navigating this chaosmos. Writing on control, collapse, and what gets erased when we call it “progress.” Humane, not a bot.
1/2 Decarbonization has become just another industrial race. It doesn’t address the deeper environmental devastation threatening humans and all species — and in some ways, it could even make it worse.
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In Brasília — where even faith is built in concrete and geometry. This church looks straight out of a sci-fi film.

#travel #Brazil
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
The Gospel of Professional Christian Mike Johnson:
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Nazi regime made grand promises of progress:industry, technology,”national renewal.”They took massive public funds upfront, wrapped it all in propaganda,and like Musk, rarely delivered.

History’s warning:hype plus public money without accountability always ends the same way.
#Fascism #TechScam
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
These Techbros have gone absolutely insane in their Hubris.
If me of all people ever uses such terms about someone's mental health,
they need a long stay in a secure psychiatric ward.

I'm quite agog at the state of the world we've built for ourself.

I for one hail the rise of our new Rat overlords
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Zuckerberg and Chan are pouring billions into AI-powered biology — building “virtual cells” to merge human biology with their tech. They call it philanthropy, but since it’s tax-deductible, you’re covering up to 70% of the bill.
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Remember the guy whose own research showed his platform was harming teenage girls —but he hid it and did nothing?Now he wants to be the future of health.The same clique that mocked the Pope for calling for moral discernment in AI now wants to fuse you with their machines —all under “philanthropy.”
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
"German Food Banks Feed 37,000 US Soldiers. US soldiers stationed in Germany and civilian employees of the US armed forces are not receiving any salary or other payments. German authorities are compensating the civil employees, but not soldiers" hanschristensen.substack.com/p/german-foo...
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
When all this frenzy about nuclear energy started,I warned about this — the long-term fallout of ignored or unreported “minor” leaks.As exposure accumulates,we see more cancers, thyroid disorders,birth defects, genetic mutations, organ damage, and ecological collapse.
www.cbsnews.com/news/radioac...
Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites
AP investigation finds most commercial nuclear power sites have leaked radioactive tritium, often into groundwater
www.cbsnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
Recommendations for actually overall positive news that isn't twee trite crap about firemen saving cats from trees.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

www.positive.news

thebetter.news

If anyone else knows more, please let us know!
The Good News Network: Positive Stories 24/7
Your daily source for only good news: Inspiring stories and images from around the world will make you feel uplifted, optimistic and positive about life.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Marc Andreessen mocking the Pope—the spiritual leader of over1B people—for saying AI should have moral discernment says everything about Silicon Valley,the machines you’re using,and why you shouldn’t trust them. They mock morality yet expect you to hand them your data, health, government, and mind.
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Incredible. The billionaires are emailing each other trying to understand why Millennials don’t love capitalism — like it’s a mystery that can be solved with a spreadsheet. When the guy ranting about the Antichrist is the reasonable one in the room, you know the system’s cooked.
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“We can get rid of advanced AI chips and the factories used to produce them. Scaling up AI is a massive project. It relies on concentrated supply chains, unprecedented investments, and government support.“

#PositiveNews

therealartificialintelligence.substack.com/p/ai-is-not-...
AI is not inevitable.
My new nonprofit Evitable is a bold bet that society will reject AI.
therealartificialintelligence.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
Related if someone prefers to read:
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#Psychology
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychop...
Psychopathy in the workplace - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In the 1990s and early 2000s when everyone was talking about how Berlin property was bound to rise — the city sold thousands of public apartments for next to nothing.
Now, with prices sky-high, Berlin wants to buy properties back to rebuild its public stock.

Suspicious, isn’t it?
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The higher a psychopath climbs, the greater the harm. Now imagine global power—governments, corporations, AI development—driven by people or systems that reward psychopathy: no empathy, no accountability, no sense of limit. The result isn’t leadership; it’s planetary harm.

youtu.be/rt2LqcWQBz8
The Psychology of a Corporate Psychopath - Dr Clive Boddy
YouTube video by Eyes Wide Open I Conor Ryan
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Impossible to disagree with @bennorton.com on this one. Tesla handed Musk a $1 trillion stock award on $7 billion profit.

I no longer see it as capitalism; it’s legalized corruption. Where does the money come from?

From us — tax breaks, subsidies, public infrastructure and specu
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
1/5 The biosphere has balanced itself for billions of years through gravity, sunlight, and chaos. Now billionaires who can’t forecast the weather think their algorithms can “stabilize” Earth. The technosphere balancing the biosphere is cosmic comedy.

#Philanthrocapitalism #PlanetarySapience
“Even as so many nations appear to be going their own way, embroiled in historically familiar trade wars & military conflicts, the simultaneous emergence of AI-driven planetary-scale computation is disclosing the imperative of forging a common future.”

—Nathan Gardels

#ai #google #microsoft
The Infrastructure Of Planetary Sapience | NOEMA
A maturing technosphere can achieve balance with the biosphere.
www.noemamag.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Imagine what happens when healing your brain means connecting it to a network,the ethical risks,the threats to privacy and autonomy,the danger of becoming an interface for Silicon Valley medicine.There are other cures that don’t require turning our biology into hardware.
news.mit.edu/2025/new-the...
New therapeutic brain implants could defy the need for surgery
Microscopic bioelectronic devices could one day travel through the body’s circulatory system and autonomously self-implant in a target region of the brain. These “circulatronics” can be wirelessly pow...
news.mit.edu
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
Welcome, to billionaire Welfare Queen,
Disaster Causing, Neo-Feudalist Anarcho-capitalism with genocide of the poor by legislation for purposes of buying up crushed or liquidated assets and soft eugenics.
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This isn’t capitalism anymore — it’s economic feudalism. The rich fund the rulers, the rulers kill free public programs, and everyone else pays for it. Wealth writes the rules; the rest just follow.
The most corrupt administration in American history.
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
When two parties have a shared agenda:

"Both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap".
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Detail: insulin was discovered and developed entirely through publicly funded research. It was public science, not a private-sector innovation

Ironically, over time insulin became heavily commercialized, and today a few corporations control much of the global supply.

#LegalizedCorruption
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Public money built private empires — public oversight and collective power must reclaim the return.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Reposted by Patricia Bastos
I believe the information in this meme to be accurate.
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM