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no cops no cars no cages
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Not only AI-esque, but just "AI," too. A large amount of "???" will no doubt be AI-related products and services pitched by Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI, and so forth
The amount of taxpayer money about to disappear into the pockets of immigration enforcement-adjacent contractors for “???” is going to be AI-esque.
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Not only AI-esque, but just "AI," too. A large amount of "???" will no doubt be AI-related products and services pitched by Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI, and so forth
IMO the way that big tech will keep the AI bubble from bursting is by (continuing) chasing the only growing federal $: the vast surveillance, incarceration machine. The thin enshittified veneer of consumer products may remain but they’ll keep investors happy with bloated DHS contract $$
SCOOP: The CBP asking tech companies to pitch digital forensics tools that are designed to process and analyze text messages, pictures, videos, and contacts from seized phones, laptops, and other devices at the United States border, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
CBP Wants New Tech to Search for Hidden Data on Seized Phones
Customs and Border Protection is asking companies to pitch tools for performing deep analysis on the contents of devices seized at the US border.
www.wired.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
IMO the way that big tech will keep the AI bubble from bursting is by (continuing) chasing the only growing federal $: the vast surveillance, incarceration machine. The thin enshittified veneer of consumer products may remain but they’ll keep investors happy with bloated DHS contract $$
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you show me some guy who emanates hitler particles, i’ll show you the biggest can’t get no bitches loser on the planet
March 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
you show me some guy who emanates hitler particles, i’ll show you the biggest can’t get no bitches loser on the planet
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Things that can be traced back to chattel slavery:
- managerial practices
- accountancy practices
- actuarial principles, as applied in the insurance industry
- payment models for healthcare services (capitation)
- common carceral practices
- modern policing
- non-compete clauses
- managerial practices
- accountancy practices
- actuarial principles, as applied in the insurance industry
- payment models for healthcare services (capitation)
- common carceral practices
- modern policing
- non-compete clauses
ICYMI the original “noncompete clause” was invented by former enslavers:
“Some planters attempted to make it as difficult as possible for Freemen to change their homes, by declaring that a negro should not hire again within ten miles of his former home.”
“Some planters attempted to make it as difficult as possible for Freemen to change their homes, by declaring that a negro should not hire again within ten miles of his former home.”
December 10, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Things that can be traced back to chattel slavery:
- managerial practices
- accountancy practices
- actuarial principles, as applied in the insurance industry
- payment models for healthcare services (capitation)
- common carceral practices
- modern policing
- non-compete clauses
- managerial practices
- accountancy practices
- actuarial principles, as applied in the insurance industry
- payment models for healthcare services (capitation)
- common carceral practices
- modern policing
- non-compete clauses
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and this is why it is an analytical mistake to use “voter without a college degree” to mean “working class voter”
this is a YouGov/Jacobin poll but it is funny that it shows that the strongest affinity for swing voting class voters is for uh.... the petit bourgeois owner
November 24, 2024 at 10:17 PM
and this is why it is an analytical mistake to use “voter without a college degree” to mean “working class voter”
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longitudinal work like this helps drive the point home about basic income, but I think also supports the kind of point abolitionists make (particularly the Gilmore school within prison abolition, but I think largely applies to the police abolition rationale) for largely the same reasons
A natural basic income experiment began in the mid-1990s and how the kids — now in their 30s and 40s — are doing is incredible. As adults, they have fewer drug problems and their average IQ is higher. By age 26, the benefits of the UBI exceeded its cost by 3-to-1.
academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...
academicminute.org/2014/06/jane...
April 13, 2024 at 3:40 PM
longitudinal work like this helps drive the point home about basic income, but I think also supports the kind of point abolitionists make (particularly the Gilmore school within prison abolition, but I think largely applies to the police abolition rationale) for largely the same reasons
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the devil called his greatest pupil home
November 30, 2023 at 1:50 AM
the devil called his greatest pupil home
Impossible to dance (even @ home alone) w/o thinking of you, but coming to see that as a gift ❤️🔥
November 19, 2023 at 12:57 AM
Impossible to dance (even @ home alone) w/o thinking of you, but coming to see that as a gift ❤️🔥
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ISRAEL: no hospital was bombed.
ISRAEL (later): ok, if a hospital were bombed, Hamas did it
ISRAEL (now): attacking hospitals is our most important goal
ISRAEL (later): ok, if a hospital were bombed, Hamas did it
ISRAEL (now): attacking hospitals is our most important goal
November 15, 2023 at 1:12 PM
ISRAEL: no hospital was bombed.
ISRAEL (later): ok, if a hospital were bombed, Hamas did it
ISRAEL (now): attacking hospitals is our most important goal
ISRAEL (later): ok, if a hospital were bombed, Hamas did it
ISRAEL (now): attacking hospitals is our most important goal
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Please read this remarkable document by Fady Joudah. lithub.com/a-palestinia...
A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation
I Hiba Abu Nada, 32, wrote and published her final poem ten days before Israeli bombs killed her and many others on October 20, 2023, in Gaza. She had a B.A in organic chemistry and a master’s degr�...
lithub.com
November 1, 2023 at 1:52 PM
Please read this remarkable document by Fady Joudah. lithub.com/a-palestinia...
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'Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza' by Palestinian poet Khaled Juma, 2014, in response to Israel killing 509 Palestinian children in 50 days.
October 17, 2023 at 9:37 PM
'Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza' by Palestinian poet Khaled Juma, 2014, in response to Israel killing 509 Palestinian children in 50 days.