just don’t say: “reparations”—like in tech, just don’t say “blockchain.” ai is fine tho, say that & call everything that ever had anything to do with computer processing “ai.” so, we just need an ai word for reparations. there was this funny teddy roosevelt story about negotiating with strikers & capitalists—i have it written somewhere—where he realised as long as he didn’t call what he was doing for the strikers this one word the capitalists were fine with it but if he used the word they didn’t like they stonewalled.

the Guardian

Tulsa mayor proposes $100m trust to repair effects of 1921 race massacre

Plan would give descendants of one of the worst racial attacks in US history scholarships and housing help

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5/25/25

yes i see the bit 🍔 congrats

i call bs! how low can you go to see yourself as “top”? 🙄 stats are that in the US for every 100 people who become catholic 840 LEAVE. but glad some card company self-reporting their own sales makes headline newz. i mean, given that the top Topps card buyer countries are also statically losing catholics the fastest even this lame stat has to be, ahem, FAKE NEWS. “No other religion in the U.S. has as big of a join/leave ratio.” Wonder why!

Crisis Magazine

Catholics Are Rapidly Losing Ground

By Eric Sammons - A new survey shows that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. As bad as that is, the news is actual...

yt is so icky now—like digital slime. that was my last big tech hold-out but i think i’ve been cured.

“When hungry, I eat; when tired, I sleep. Fools laugh at me. The wise understand.” —Lin-chi I-hsuan (Rinzai Gigen), d. 866 A.D.

i can proudly tell my grandchildren, nestled around me by the hearth: i grew up in a time where in the deodorant market saw it only necessary to sell to the underarm and not the whole body.

i should probably add that an additional part of that “intuitive message” re: 3-5 months timeline for relocation was this, twice: FIVE EYES BLIND. FIVE EYES BLIND.

before 2019: migrant ships sink in the ocean after 2019: U.S. fighter jets & influenzers’ selfie yachts

😬 don’t brag abt ur crypt-o

the Guardian

French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings

Victims have had fingers chopped off by attackers in crimewave targeting entrepreneurs and their families

DAYS ARE NOT DAYS UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE DEEMED AGAIN TO BE DAYS. Whole speech is good but best part from 5:30: “The House, in its haste to give away its power to tax, actually passed a rule to prevent a mandatory vote on ending the emergencies. They prevent it because the rule says that DAYS NO LONGER EXIST. They declared that legislative days will not exist despite the legislature continuing to meet each day. The House has essentially ruled that days are not days and they are not to be counted as days until such time as the House again agrees to allow days to be counted as days.” The assault on language and meaning is REAL. I don’t know if it is a “communist” thing or “fascist” thing or the distortion of legality by drowning justice in a morass of semantics but the struggle to have words mean something is essential to societal function. 1984 theme obv.

i think reddit wins. as per social media.

TEN PLAGUES (APOCALYPSE OF ABRAHAM) *not in catholic bible not for the public* And he said to me, “Abraham, I shall tell [you] what your heart desired, for you have sought to know the ten plagues which I prepared against the heathen, and I prepared them beforehand after the passing of the twelve hours on earth. Hear what I tell you, it will be thus. The first—distress from much violence; the second—the fiery burning of cities; the third—destruction of the cattle by pestilence; the fourth—famine in their native land, the fifth—destruction in their domains through the ravage of earthquake and sword; the sixth—hail and increase of snow; the seventh—wild beasts will be their grave; the eighth—famine and pestilence will take turns in their destruction; the ninth—punishment by the sword and flight in distress; the tenth—thunder and voices, and ravaging earthquakes. Then I shall sound the trumpet from the sky, and I shall send my chosen one, having in him one measure of all my power, and he will summon my people blamed among the heathen. And I shall burn with fire those who mocked them ruling over them in this age and I shall commit those who have covered me with mockery to the reproach of the coming age. Since I have destined them to be food for the fire of hell, and ceaseless soaring in the air of the underground depths, the contents of a worm’s belly. For those who do justice, who have chosen my will and clearly kept my commandments, will see them. And they will rejoice with joy at the destruction of the abandoned.

can’t automate coffee at starbucks. can’t automate robots at tesla. and we’re supposed to believe in a “dark” technocracy that will be so all powerful with what—automated “warfighters”?! 🙄

“Over the last couple of years, we’ve actually been removing labour from the stores, I think with the hope that equipment could offset the removal of the labour,” Niccol said. “What we’re finding is that wasn’t an accurate assumption with what played out.”

the Guardian

Starbucks says cutting shop staff in favour of automation has failed

Chief executive Brian Nicoll vows to ‘fundamentally change’ strategy in face of worse-than-expected results