I can't tell if this B movie is satire, farce, blaxploitation, comedy, or tragedy. One thing I do know: whatever it is, it's extremely poorly-acted, poorly-written, and ham-fisted.

Pretty good troll. The right can meme.

Back in the day, surveillance meant manila folders and steel cabinets. Today it’s Denver & Utah data centers. Palantir + AI makes every marcher, chanter, or weekend protester a colored dot in the system. Masks and numbers don’t overwhelm—it all scales. Mud duck hunting gone digital.

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (Tom Wolfe) Wolfe skewers limousine liberals hosting Black Panthers in their Park Ave salons. Half satire, half anthropology, it’s a portrait of how elites flirt with radical chic while insulating themselves from real consequences. Still cuts sharp today.

The End of America (Naomi Wolf) Before “Trump fascism” was a meme, Wolf warned that Bush-era Patriot Act crackdowns, surveillance, and endless war bore eerie parallels to authoritarian playbooks. The book’s a time capsule of liberal fear—and a reminder the “fascism” panic didn’t start in 2016.

Moore’s Law killed file cabinets; cheap storage made the panopticon affordable. CCTV, body cams, sensors feed Utah/Denver farms where Palantir + AI scale like Google. The Stasi needed clerks—now it’s one engineer w/root. Every chant, march, tweet: forever.

Such a superior bit of kit.

Moore’s Law killed file cabinets; cheap storage made the panopticon affordable. CCTV, body cams, sensors feed Utah/Denver farms where Palantir + AI scale like Google. The Stasi needed clerks—now it’s one engineer w/root. Every chant, march, tweet: forever.

Cheap storage made the panopticon affordable. Moore’s Law killed the file cabinet, but the real breakthrough was outsourcing human surveillance. CCTV, body cams, sensors feed into Denver/Utah data farms, where Palantir + AI scale like Google Search. The Stasi needed rooms of clerks; today it takes one engineer with root access. That’s why every chant, march, or tweet lives forever.

Back when storage was expensive, surveillance meant picking who to watch. Now terabytes cost pennies, so the state just watches everyone. Cheap data storage democratized the panopticon: every chant, march, or hashtag is affordable to log forever. Ironically, Moore’s Law made repression scalable.

Back when storage was costly, surveillance meant hard choices: who’s worth a folder, who isn’t. Moore’s Law crushed that scarcity—terabytes now cost pennies, so everyone’s worth logging. The bottleneck used to be human eyes; now CCTV, body cams, and AI (30 years ahead of what you see) automate the labor. Outsource the watchers, outsource the analysts, and suddenly the panopticon scales. Cheap storage didn’t just make repression affordable—it made it automatic.

Is it really a “takeover” when mayors still run cities, courts stay open, and DC police still answer to the mayor? Or are students mistaking Guard trucks, trash pickup, and ICE/FBI support for Il Duce in Rome? Isn’t DC already under Congress anyway? https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/10/trump-dc-protest-college-students-walkout/

Unfettered protests are a very fine signifier that Trump's not Hitler. There's not remotely enough people for an anti Trump tipping point, alas. MAGA is actually against student activism so this is just confirmation for MAGA. Also, if Trump were any good as a Hitler or a despot, wound not he crush those students, literally, and then shut those universities with brownshirt force? Indeed > D.C. college students walk out to protest Trump’s 30-day "takeover" https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/09/10/trump-dc-protest-college-students-walkout/

Every fight against the 2A makes it stronger. Courts expand carry, rulings harden rights, and bans fuel demand. What was ink on paper is now granite. Guns once came from Sears—today, every challenge deepens freedom. Crimes won’t be used to strip law-abiding Americans of what’s theirs.

The Tea app was intended to help women date safely. Then it got hacked. - The Boston Globe https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/26/business/tea-app-hack-women-date/

Had a Substack Chat where someone ranted Fox/OANN were “KGB propaganda.” I agreed, adding CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, ABC, NBC, NYT, WaPo, The Economist, and more—all propaganda. I love it. Bias is flavor. He asked my favorite “KGB” source. I said RT and Sputnik. You? He only eats safe media. I told him a varied media diet builds an immune system. Don’t fear ideas—taste everything, even the poison. That’s strength.

US court blocks New Jersey ban on immigrant detention in CoreCivic lawsuit - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-court-blocks-new-jersey-ban-immigrant-detention-corecivic-lawsuit-2025-07-22/

There's a war on. She should recommend surrender because only then can you expect mercy during war. War is war. War is hell. > This Gaza teenager dreamed of being a doctor. Now she just wants to stay alive

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This Gaza teenager dreamed of being a doctor. Now she just wants to stay alive

The U.N.'s children's agency says the war in Gaza has left over 650,000 students without access to education.

Trump’s tariff plan seems to be working — proving all the naysayers wrong - NewsBreak

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Trump’s tariff plan seems to be working — proving all the naysayers wrong - NewsBreak

For all the “sky-is-falling” cries over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, it looks like his strategy may be working — just as his Aug. 1 de...

I mean, he wants to deport the 30 million he thinks flooded in. Blame Biden for the open borders. 30 million in 4 years requires all the money, all the resources, and zero surgical precision.

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