Patricia Bastos
@patmat.bsky.social
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.
Public goods and property are exactly that: public. They belong to everyone, so neither the state nor private capital should be able to sell or buy them.
If public land/goods belong to everyone, how can any government—just a temporary representative—sell them off? And if libertarians reject state coercion over the commons, why accept private coercion via ownership/exclusion?
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Public goods and property are exactly that: public. They belong to everyone, so neither the state nor private capital should be able to sell or buy them.
If public land/goods belong to everyone, how can any government—just a temporary representative—sell them off? And if libertarians reject state coercion over the commons, why accept private coercion via ownership/exclusion?
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 PM
If public land/goods belong to everyone, how can any government—just a temporary representative—sell them off? And if libertarians reject state coercion over the commons, why accept private coercion via ownership/exclusion?
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic
I agree with him—but it’s not just the pace. The real danger is the system and incentives, and the people who control them.
www.ft.com/content/c309...
I agree with him—but it’s not just the pace. The real danger is the system and incentives, and the people who control them.
www.ft.com/content/c309...
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief
Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful technology in years to come
www.ft.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:32 AM
‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic
I agree with him—but it’s not just the pace. The real danger is the system and incentives, and the people who control them.
www.ft.com/content/c309...
I agree with him—but it’s not just the pace. The real danger is the system and incentives, and the people who control them.
www.ft.com/content/c309...
I get the need to demystify and deglamorize billionaires. But are they all one moral bucket?
I’d rather target the system that enables extreme wealth and capital’s capture of life.
That’s why Americans must speak up: U.S. power helps impose this order worldwide.
I’d rather target the system that enables extreme wealth and capital’s capture of life.
That’s why Americans must speak up: U.S. power helps impose this order worldwide.
January 27, 2026 at 8:48 AM
I get the need to demystify and deglamorize billionaires. But are they all one moral bucket?
I’d rather target the system that enables extreme wealth and capital’s capture of life.
That’s why Americans must speak up: U.S. power helps impose this order worldwide.
I’d rather target the system that enables extreme wealth and capital’s capture of life.
That’s why Americans must speak up: U.S. power helps impose this order worldwide.
Deutschland verliert laut Cum-Ex-Ermittlerin Anne Brorhilker jährlich 100 Milliarden Euro durch Steuerkriminalität. Trotzdem dominiert „Migration“ die Debatte. Ablenkung funktioniert, wenn sie nützt.
January 27, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Deutschland verliert laut Cum-Ex-Ermittlerin Anne Brorhilker jährlich 100 Milliarden Euro durch Steuerkriminalität. Trotzdem dominiert „Migration“ die Debatte. Ablenkung funktioniert, wenn sie nützt.
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The working class needs a Workers Party, not the Democratic Party.
January 24, 2026 at 4:54 PM
The working class needs a Workers Party, not the Democratic Party.
It’s easy to lose faith in humanity online,because it makes cruelty look normal.The ugliness—perversity, futility,desperation for attention—gets concentrated and rewarded,and kindness starts to feel like a liability.It erodes the beauty in daily life.Being good may not be cool,but it’s revolutionary
January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
It’s easy to lose faith in humanity online,because it makes cruelty look normal.The ugliness—perversity, futility,desperation for attention—gets concentrated and rewarded,and kindness starts to feel like a liability.It erodes the beauty in daily life.Being good may not be cool,but it’s revolutionary
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That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 AM
That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.
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Nick Fuentes is now selling a $69.99 “U.S.A. Quarter-Zip” that riffs on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous JEE quarter-zip. Turning a child sex trafficker’s look into merch isn’t “edgy”—it’s laundering abuse into meme culture.
January 25, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Nick Fuentes is now selling a $69.99 “U.S.A. Quarter-Zip” that riffs on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous JEE quarter-zip. Turning a child sex trafficker’s look into merch isn’t “edgy”—it’s laundering abuse into meme culture.
The latest news on X is Nick Fuentes selling Jeffrey Epstein's Quarter zip. It does seem that the aim is to normalize pedophilia.
January 25, 2026 at 7:55 AM
The latest news on X is Nick Fuentes selling Jeffrey Epstein's Quarter zip. It does seem that the aim is to normalize pedophilia.
An out-of-touch, miserable-looking Musk says:
“It’s better for your quality of life to be an optimist who’s wrong than a pessimist who’s right.”
I say: For your quality of life, it’s better to tax and boycott billionaires than to be a “wrong optimist” about them.
“It’s better for your quality of life to be an optimist who’s wrong than a pessimist who’s right.”
I say: For your quality of life, it’s better to tax and boycott billionaires than to be a “wrong optimist” about them.
January 25, 2026 at 6:52 AM
An out-of-touch, miserable-looking Musk says:
“It’s better for your quality of life to be an optimist who’s wrong than a pessimist who’s right.”
I say: For your quality of life, it’s better to tax and boycott billionaires than to be a “wrong optimist” about them.
“It’s better for your quality of life to be an optimist who’s wrong than a pessimist who’s right.”
I say: For your quality of life, it’s better to tax and boycott billionaires than to be a “wrong optimist” about them.
The Board of Peace: After the Accord
January 24, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The Board of Peace: After the Accord
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Frightening.
January 23, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Frightening.
Mark Carney talks about the rule of law in Davos, but in Canada he’s backing a bill that lets ministers exempt specific companies from legal requirements, and he moved to repeal the digital services tax aimed at Big Tech.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws - CCPA
Buried on page 300 of the government’s omnibus budget implementation bill is an extremely troubling clause regarding corporate power in Canada—one that allows all cabinet ministers to exempt any indiv...
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January 24, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Mark Carney talks about the rule of law in Davos, but in Canada he’s backing a bill that lets ministers exempt specific companies from legal requirements, and he moved to repeal the digital services tax aimed at Big Tech.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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This is how he will keep ICE funded
January 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is how he will keep ICE funded
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Living conditions in Gaza remain dire, with nearly 80% of people facing hunger and dependent on humanitarian aid for survival.
However, in DAVOS, this is what they talk about👇
However, in DAVOS, this is what they talk about👇
January 22, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Living conditions in Gaza remain dire, with nearly 80% of people facing hunger and dependent on humanitarian aid for survival.
However, in DAVOS, this is what they talk about👇
However, in DAVOS, this is what they talk about👇
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It’s only a matter of time when he shows up, speaks up at the wrong time, wrong place, around the wrong people. Same for its henchmen/women. Enough of their stale cake. People are starving, cold & tired of being pushed around, laughed at & worse. Vive la France.
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
It’s only a matter of time when he shows up, speaks up at the wrong time, wrong place, around the wrong people. Same for its henchmen/women. Enough of their stale cake. People are starving, cold & tired of being pushed around, laughed at & worse. Vive la France.
AI is being run on a huge resource burn
January 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
AI is being run on a huge resource burn
It’s not just social media.
The broader system has rewarded psychopathic traits for decades—
especially in corporate culture.
When ruthlessness is celebrated, life on Earth becomes unsafe and unbearable.
That’s how you build a world people don’t want to live in.
The broader system has rewarded psychopathic traits for decades—
especially in corporate culture.
When ruthlessness is celebrated, life on Earth becomes unsafe and unbearable.
That’s how you build a world people don’t want to live in.
January 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM
It’s not just social media.
The broader system has rewarded psychopathic traits for decades—
especially in corporate culture.
When ruthlessness is celebrated, life on Earth becomes unsafe and unbearable.
That’s how you build a world people don’t want to live in.
The broader system has rewarded psychopathic traits for decades—
especially in corporate culture.
When ruthlessness is celebrated, life on Earth becomes unsafe and unbearable.
That’s how you build a world people don’t want to live in.
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Food contaminated with worms and mold. Limited access to clean drinking water. Inadequate medical care. These are some of the allegations made by migrant families about conditions children face in ICE custody. https://to.pbs.org/4qYTV6L
Migrant families allege children held by ICE face unsafe and unsanitary conditions
Food contaminated with worms and mold. Limited access to clean drinking water. Inadequate medical care. These are a few of the allegations made by migrant families in recent court documents about thei...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Food contaminated with worms and mold. Limited access to clean drinking water. Inadequate medical care. These are some of the allegations made by migrant families about conditions children face in ICE custody. https://to.pbs.org/4qYTV6L