The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood.
These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.
there was a really interesting interview that @parismarx.com did with @beccalew.bsky.social in 2025: techwontsave.us/episode/251_...
The EFF pops up a lot in the thought workspace around early internet design and the (non) involvement of governance. And how technology should be shaped to work.
Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.
Larry Ellison wants a surveillance state to keep the plebs humble
Also noteworthy that one of the primary benefactors of the Tony Blair Institute for Change is the big tech plutogarch, Larry Ellison, Executive Chairman at Oracle.
The guy who said in an outdoor voice that AI will be part of a surveillance state that keeps the serfs in line.
So some jerk called the police, who just beat up a disabled Rohingya refugee instead of trying to communicate with him and then charged *him*. He probably thought he was getting jumped since he couldn’t see or understand the cops.
He survived a genocide and ending up getting murdered by CBP.
Must be all the "suicidal empathy" MechaHitler creator Musk has been droning on about.
Jesus, say it louder for those in the back.
And we resent it deeply
Reminder that unless you are a journalist, you very likely do not need to real-time subject yourself to the stream of utter & complete bullshit coming out of a fascist's mouth today.
If you are a journalist, your coverage needs to fundamentally dismantle the bullshit coming out of fascists' mouths.
Can't believe this would happen with tech built by indiscriminately vacuuming up all of the Internet, running a billion Plinko simulations, then training by sociopaths who can't even understand culture much less appreciate humanity.
"Restoring Trust in Media"
with Mathias "Pray for Trump & Pledge support of Israel" Doepfner, CEO #AxelSpringer of my son worked directly for Thiel and I asked Musk to buy Twitter to promote violence fame.
Remember Ben “I was charmed.” Smith*?
*co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor
“The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems, subtle declines in functional capacity, and lost independence”
There's no money for anything else, but: 'UKRI committed a record £1.6 billion of funding directly targeted at the AI sector over the next four years. This is UKRI’s biggest single investment area for 2026 to 2030.' Growth, growth, growth, nothing about flourishing or a liveable society. Pathetic.
Andreas Bernard hätte besser einen Blick in David Columbias "Cyberlibertarianism" geworfen, dann würde er sich nicht so darüber wundern, wie aus den Internet-Hippies diese Ultra-Kapitalisten geworden sind.
Bei seiner Geschichte des Internets fehlt leider eine Hälfte.
The headline's great, but the article is beyond impressive for how much ground they cover with such fidelity in just a few words.
When Joshua Clemans posted these, he was a partner at New Founding, which is backed by Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen. Thiel, Andreessen, & New Founding co-founder Nate Fischer are invested in Pronomos Capital, which supports the construction of crypto colonies around the world. 1/
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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"I'm gonna give Homan the benefit of the doubt"
"They should coordinate with local law enforcement, pick these people up in the middle of the night when they're not suspecting it"
Walz is capitulating to fascists and encouraging night raids. Genuinely disgusting. Why would anyone settle for this?
Matthew Yglesias C @mattyglesias Follow .. • • The smearing of the victim by top officials is the most indefensible part, and the only solution is to defeat them and have a governing regime that is not composed of vicious and immoral people. 6:23 PM • Jan 24, 2026 • 113.2K
You sure that’s the most indefensible part Matt
incredible that the ADL just added an evangelical war criminal to their board
Spectacularly pathetic. Minnesota is being attacked. The federal government literally said “ICE > MN.” We are shot to death in the street and are deemed terrorists the moment the bullet enters our back. And these self-styled Minnesota civic leaders can’t find it within themselves to pick a side.
“His friends would say that, without the Gawker trial, Thiel’s early endorsement of Donald Trump that same year was unthinkable. To others, Thiel’s readiness to simply shut down an online publication…revealed…the authoritarian tendencies of the tech industry…”
Hank has also bought into the "AI safety" grift and has started linking up with Effective Altruist movements.
it's breaking through. bsky.app/profile/hank...
www.celinekeller.com/utopia/suici...
This is rr how most people I know became radical lefties. You go to an antifascist demonstration because you just think it's your democratic duty and you suddenly see cops beating your friends up to make way for actual Nazis. And then media will report you were the violent ones.
ICE may be shooting people in the face, sending people to concentration camps, and illegally occupying our cities but, apparently, the Democrats think saying, "abolish ICE" is "emotional" and politically "lethal."
Oilfield Rando V Follow • •• @Oilfield_Rando See that thing we just did to Venezuela? That's what I want done to Minneapolis, Seattle, Sacramento, Austin, Boise, Columbus, Detroit, Madison, NoVA, Raleigh, Atlanta, Lewiston, Chicago.... 8:21 AM • Jan 3, 2026 • 529.9K Views • 1.5K . C, 6.4K 36K 387
The fascists know they are building the framework to do strikes at home as much as they are building the infrastructure for transnational terrorism and they are salivating that they are building the systems needed to kill Americans who disagree with their fascist goals.
