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npub1vup7...kxm7 1 month ago

"“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’" A lot of banging great lines in this book!

npub1vup7...kxm7 1 month ago

"Trump and Hegseth have been on a clear mission to politicize the U.S. military, and to turn it into an armed extension of the MAGA movement. Hegseth regularly proselytizes, both for Trump and for his right-wing evangelical beliefs, from the Pentagon podium."

The Atlantic

Hegseth’s War on America’s Military

Someone needs to explain the Pentagon purges to the American people.

npub1vup7...kxm7 1 month ago

AI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.

npub1vup7...kxm7 1 month ago

Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft a...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

"It strikes me that increasingly in the world it is becoming harder – that there are more people who are not really critically aware of the forces that are shaping them. That’s what most people are feeling today – and that’s the goal. That’s what authoritarian regimes do. — Raoul Peck, director of Orwell: 2+2=5"

Byline Times

‘Orwell Knew the Moment You Discover that the Other is Also You, a Whole Range of Bullshit Just Drops’

Byline Times' Editor in Chief speaks to the award-winning Haitian film-maker and director Raoul Peck about his new documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5,...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. — Ada Lovelace, on AI in 1843"

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

"If every editorial decision about how to present third-party content is now a 'design choice' subject to product liability, Section 230 protects effectively nothing."

Techdirt

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For

First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining the challenges of so...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

More notes on sovereignty

Consider this post to be the afterbirth of the last one. It’s the bits and pieces I couldn’t cram into the last one, which was already haemorr...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

"Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?"

Generation Despair

Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

"Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets." Big scoop from Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr

The Nerve

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security

Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed pic...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

Get ready for it.

Byline Times

Trump: 'When You Think of It, We Shouldn't Even Have an Election'

As his approval ratings slide amid growing discontent over his unpopular war in Iran, the President is looking at multiple ways to subvert the mid-...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

"After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country."

WIRED

How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet

After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggl...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

On sovereignty and freedom and the internet

I was getting ready to hit “publish” on this post at the weekend. But then the world changed… again. So, I put this draft down for a few...

npub1vup7...kxm7 2 months ago

If we had AGI it would look like this.

npub1vup7...kxm7 3 months ago

The U.S. ambassador to Israel saying it has a "biblical right" to territory — regardless of where or how much — is freakishly weird and only something you should expect from a theocratic regime.

Newsweek

Middle East leaders react to Huckabee comment on Israel taking over region

U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee's comments about potential Israel expansion have sparked regional pushback.

npub1vup7...kxm7 3 months ago

Andor was peak Star Wars, and the story needed for our times.

Star Wars: Andor's Tony Gilroy Gives Interview He Couldn't Before

While promoting Andor, a Star Wars about Fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word.

npub1vup7...kxm7 3 months ago

Talked to the Guardian about the Trump administration's government portal to circumvent EU’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act for American content they might block (hate speech, CSAM, violent incitement and suchlike). It's like a VPN but all your data travels through DHS servers.

npub1vup7...kxm7 3 months ago

The cuts “make it easier to build a ‘digital iron curtain’. It makes it easier for the Kremlin to put Russians in a digital information bubble that reinforces specific narratives about people outside of Russia. This makes it easier for China to do this. For Iran to do this."

npub1vup7...kxm7 3 months ago

Clouds without rain

These are notes. The triggering MacGuffin: I was recently asked to take part in an upcoming set of workshops. In general terms it’s around wh...