El Cuco
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I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
Grokipedia, the copycat of Wikipedia launched by Elon Musk isn’t just a string of AI generated slop, it is a weapon. The launch of "grokipedia" is a calculated, strategic escalation by the billionaire...
www.thedissident.news
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality.
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...
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The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.
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if "bigballs attacked by two 15 year olds" is our Reichstag fire then i officially declare an end to history because we don't want anybody reading that shit later
August 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
if "bigballs attacked by two 15 year olds" is our Reichstag fire then i officially declare an end to history because we don't want anybody reading that shit later
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I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.
August 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.
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This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is horrifying beyond words.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
Budget agreements won’t matter, funding obligations won’t matter, expended funds on the basis of promised reimbursement won’t matter.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
You really don’t get the impression the GOP is thinking through what this means for the second they’re not in control.
“We don’t have an appropriations process. It’s broken. It’s been broken for a while,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
He predicted that there will be CRs and rescission packages for the next four years.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
July 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them
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One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora!
July 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
One of the wildest color gradients I’ve ever seen in the aurora!
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Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave.
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
Climate necropolitics
I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.
jksteinberger.medium.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave.
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
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Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.
July 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Difficult to overstate how depraved, racist, sociopathic, and fascistic the modern Republican Party has become.
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Nietzsche: “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.”
2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”
2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”
June 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Nietzsche: “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.”
2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”
2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”
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"Andrew Cuomo is visibly upset and people are crying"
June 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Andrew Cuomo is visibly upset and people are crying"
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.
theonion.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
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🏝️In a new op-ed, leaders from the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge founding organizations—Island Conservation, @rewildorg.bsky.social & Scripps Oceanography — urge a shift in how we view islands. Not as a site of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of resilience, restoration and innovation.
Islands are Solutions: the Case for Island-Ocean Coalitions — Island-Ocean Connection Challenge — Island-Ocean Connection Challenge
Islands are places where global climate solutions can be tested and proven, showing recovery is not only possible but fast!
www.jointheiocc.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🏝️In a new op-ed, leaders from the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge founding organizations—Island Conservation, @rewildorg.bsky.social & Scripps Oceanography — urge a shift in how we view islands. Not as a site of vulnerability, but as living laboratories of resilience, restoration and innovation.
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Trump’s university assault also includes zeroing out over $400 million in funding for early career and grad student scientists, much of which goes to state schools.
Cutting this off at the knees would block career pathways for countless scientists, which seems to be the goal for some reason
Cutting this off at the knees would block career pathways for countless scientists, which seems to be the goal for some reason
June 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Trump’s university assault also includes zeroing out over $400 million in funding for early career and grad student scientists, much of which goes to state schools.
Cutting this off at the knees would block career pathways for countless scientists, which seems to be the goal for some reason
Cutting this off at the knees would block career pathways for countless scientists, which seems to be the goal for some reason
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...