Corrected link to the outrageous Andreas Malm mishegoss in Old Blighty.
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Ignacio Next thing might be the burning of Malm’s books together with others’. I will try anyway to avoid using the term fascism.
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‘@BowesChay
Chay Bowes
@BowesChay
Anyone else getting hostage video vibes from this?’
I’m just going to say it. It looks like somebody biffed her on her left cheek to ‘persuade’ her to make that video. At least she wasn’t blinking Morse code.
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Trees&Trunks I would have felt more assured to see her corrupt guilloutined head on a spike.
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Kevin Smith Speaking as a dermatologist, it looks like she might have had MOHS surgery [for example, to remove a basal cell carcinoma [BCC]. No big deal.
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Bugs Like a lot of French women of her cohort, she’s been very big on having a constant tan for as long as she’s been a public figure, so that makes sense. She’s much paler now so her Parisian dermato must have told her to knock it off.
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Re: Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton’s brand is all about security, and now we read how the CEO is literally dropping the hammer on their dev team to accelerate into “AI” pedal-to-the-metal.
Meanwhile, we are reaching the end of so-called “Black October” 2026, in which serious cyber security incidents are way up compared to last year, mainly due to so-called “Agentic Hacking”, the PHP vuln, the Brotli decoder vuln, flaws in Node.js, and an unprecedented wave of ransomware and data breaches impacting companies worldwide.
U.S. financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Wells Fargo have seen a surge in unauthorized third-party AI agents probing customer accounts. Following the leak of information about the PHP vuln, exploit attempts skyrocketed into the millions, with authorities strongly advising that PHP-driven sites be taken completely offline until they can be patched.
Japan, especially, has been hit badly, with the head of Japan’s National Cyber Security Headquarters (NCSH) declaring a state of emergency in cyberspace.
But apparently, Proton can’t wait to fire any of their devs who don’t pass a new “AI” loyalty test. And for sure, any devs who get fired will take it all in stride and NOT sabotage anything on their way out, amirite? ;) Seriously, what could go wrong?
This is practically an open invitation for black hats to hit Proton hard Lol
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Donald Obama I am not happy after reading that. I use proton to escape Google. But if the CEO is shoveling money into Anthropic and taking such an anti-human stance towards his engineers I don’t want to support proton either. It’s crazy that he pushes them to use Claude code given that they advertise their own “private” LLM.
I understand using LLMs responsibly to help with coding and security, but engineers need to have the autonomy to decide when and how much to use them. And using them to craft customer facing messages seems dishonest.
This sucks. I wonder if Tuta (mentioned in the article as an alternative) has the same problem. The small tech company I work for is also really pushing AI only code, but it isn’t as extreme.
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Christian B I highly recommend Tuta, been using them for years. Unlike proton, all their code is open source. You can read more about how they compare to proton here, and frankly, they are refreshingly honest.
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Jason Boxman Cool. I moved to PM in January, but I can certainly move again.
I hadn’t realized how important spam filtering is though; I’ve had my email domain since 1998, so I get plenty of spam. PM and Google caught 99% of it. I’m on FastMail with another account, and I’ve been getting hammered for months; it’s like the spam system doesn’t even work.
So that’s always my only concern.
Ugh, on the annual PM plan though; I guess I can set a calendar alert too. What a hassle.
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john smith I mostly don’t understand proton mail or the like. The only “feature”
is basically encrypted “cloud” storage of your email. Most
conversations on the other end of your emails end up at big tech,
because that’s where your contacts are. And they sit there in plain
text. Big tech can easily catalogue and cross reference,
especially with AI. Furthermore the emails travel the internet
unencrypted across servers owned by big tech. And can easily be
eavesdropped on. If you want your conversation encrypted, you (and
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nothing but the truth and proton wants your cell number to create that “anonymous” email. That’s some strange anonymity.
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The Rev Kev Thanks for highlighting that article. That CEO is a psychopath and will destroy any person in his way to the altar of AI. So is Proton mail going to be wrecked in a short order of time? It once sounded so promising.
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t Proton had a spate of YouTube videos meant to sound like Benn Jordan or some rowdy privacy security-activist.
Not sure what was up but I’ve been meaning to find an alternative for a while now.
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Es s Ce Tera It’s almost as if every tech exec is breaking stuff, pushing our limits, hoping we go low/no-tech. Not a bad idea, actually.
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Salman Rostam Great, now I have to find a new VPN provider that isn’t owned by the CIA or Mossad.
Recommendations?
P.s. Calling the people that build your software losers is bad leadership.
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Christian B Mullvad for a VPN. Highly recommend.
I also recommend keeping all your services separated. I was in tech, and I spent much time looking ito these services and using them. Here are my recommends:
Email: Tuta
VPN: Mullvad
File Backup: Filen.io (but local is better)
Photo Back up: Ente (But local is better)
Browser: Firefox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger
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mookie What advantages does mullvad have over Nord?
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Christian B Better privacy: https://www.pcworld.com/article/403114/mullvad-vs-nordvpn-vpn.html
Plus, I just do not like how much NordVPN spends on marketing and spamming the internet with paid for comparisons.(NordVPN currently has a promotion with Shaquille O’Neal on their front page!)
Plus, Mullvad also makes a browser that works in conjunction with the VPN which also incorporates the Tor project.
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Jason Boxman I’ve heard of AirVPN; It’s in the EU, no logs, you pay in Euros.
Any of the VPN services by probably any American company are surely suspect.
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re: Protonmail vs. privacy
I have the impression Protonmail too has increased self-advertisement presence: “Trust us!”
Which in the wake of latest legislation on what is now regarded as terrorism or may soon be – like simple protest – even mere townhall statements of citizens – against data centers – made me wonder how will Proton guarantee privacy if they are protective of your communication as long as law enforcement doesn´t show up.
They certainly are wide open when cops say “terrorism”.
When Proton revealed info to French security services that was … environmental activists.
And that happened ages ago.
See Chris Hedges with Dan Boguslaw/WIRED – didn´t flora link to it last week?
In case here:
How the Trump Admin. Is Expanding the Definition of ‘Terrorism’ — and What It Means (w/ Dan Boguslaw)
Investigative journalist Daniel Boguslaw uncovers collusion between law enforcement, Corporate America and academics to create new targets for the expanding US security state.
Oct. 15th 2026
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-trump-admin-is-expanding )
As the bar of terrorism definition is slowly being lowered so is quality of protection of privacy.
A soon as something is “the law”, principles, promises, conscience are out the window.
Instead of addressing and solving these real privacy issues they apparently are using AI as a diversion.
Which would bring us back to the early 1980s when this entire new fake “terrorism studies” academia took off.
It has brought us here.
A.I. fits in neatly. While in truth it is all about suppression aka “security”.
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flora Mr. Bll has been all over this lately. Why, it’s almost like they have a cunning plan. / ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdfhZcGSzE
What’s he got up his sleeve? /heh
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AG thanks
interesting he never names names…
p.s. oddly the CC does not correspond with the transcript of the video:
e.g. last sentence ;-))CC: “”that’s where over the next year, primarily in the cyber area, we are going to have a lot of negative surprises.”
transcript: “that’s where over the next year, primarily in the Siberia, we are going to have a lot of negative surprises.”
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Craig Murray is always worth a read, thank you. I see he also considers the end of the neoliberal order as a possible outcome delivered by the west’s irrational enthusiasm for the wars and Zionism in general.
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re: Ukraine war casualty numbers
In case it hasn´t already been linked (by me?) – this very important conversation between Ian Proud and Alexander Grable from King´s College on why the ratio is 10:1.
This would be the first publicly documented admission within an acedemic institution to my knowledge.
And Grable is very much “pro-Ukraine”.
Irretrievable Losses: Why the “Russia is suffering heavier casualties” narrative is simply untrue
A conversation with Alexander Grable
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Ukraine has lost at least ten times more soldiers in the war in Ukraine; this is based on official data and is at the lower end of the range of estimates. This goes sharply against the mainstream media narrative that Russia is suffering far higher casualties in the war, and reminds us that Ukraine’s future on the battlefield and in the war of attrition, look bleak.
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24th of Oct. 2026
55 min.
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/irretrievable-losses-why-the-russia
Grable´s study:
https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/195520
Grable´s video lecture (it´s bookmarked)
TC: 2:45:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXG6C52lQ0&t=9943s
p.s. To NC most of the facts are known. So do not expect major revelations. And you could argue that it is even way worse. But the credentials make this so important.
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“Should Your Kids Be Born in a Pod?”
This mob really loves their Frankenstein experiments and are high on what their technology can do. Have kids born in a pod? I got an idea. Do so, but keep them in that pod until they are young adults after force feeding them to have rapid growth via DNA. Maybe the heat given off by that pod can go into running that facility. And while they are in that pod, tap their brain to feed them memories and training so that when they are born, they are ready to become productive workers or even soldiers.Think of all the money that could be saving by skipping their childhood and teenage years altogether. After that and each pod is ready, they only have to give them birth-
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Laughingsong Holy Borg Maturation Chamber, Batman!
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We seem to have passed the “Slowly” part of “Slowly, and then all at once”
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The Rev Kev Maybe too we are past the ‘What could possibly go wrong?’ stage and now we are about to find out.
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Yup, (fastens seatbelt) or at least we rapidly approach that marker.
@Tom Stone
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ChrisFromGA Mr. Market appears to be finally taking some water in the engine room. Nasdaq down -2.6% premarket.
Market darling like NVDA and AMZN getting taken out behind the woodshed and beaten with a baseball bat. Grandpa packs a punch!
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The Rev Kev Wasn’t Grandpa once the main bass drummer in the Steelmakers Union Band?
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jefemt It’s Halloween weekend… Mr Market and the Great Orange thing have some Trickery up their costumed sleeves?
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Acacia Oil (CL1!) continues its steady march up:
https://www.tradingview.com/x/FHyzyteY/
Trump’s reality distortion field seems to be down for maintenance.
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“A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There”
So Rubio and Musk got this 28 year-old punk, put him in charge of USAID, even though he was not legally an employee much less the big boss, and then proceeded to gut the place. Somebody is going to have to take the fall for this and I guarantee you that it is not going to be Rubio or Musk. Jeremy Lewin had better watch his back then. But reading his Wikipedia entry makes me think that he deserves everything that is about to hit him down the road-
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ChrisFromGA Let’s not shed too many tears for USAID. Remember that it was the plaything of swamp creatures like Victoria Nuland and the Kagans.
I suspect the dirty parts of it are still alive in the State Department, while the rest got deep-sixed, but that’s just a suspicion.
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““Sound and fury in Israel.””
And it’s not going to get any better with Israeli’s young people. This young girl left Ben Gvir’s movement because – wait for it – she thought him too leftist!
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re: EU vs. immigration
EU Commission : Frontex is to become a deportation agency
With two draft laws, the EU Commission aims to transform the border agency Frontex into a central deportation agency. Social media monitoring also plays a role in this. An MEP warns that Frontex could thereby become a European version of the US deportation police ICE.
“(…)Frontex is to become a “Trusted Flagger”.(…)
These entities, classified as trusted whistleblowers, report potentially illegal content directly to platforms, which are then required to process such reports with special priority.
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Since when do you become a whistleblower because you share content that is publicly available???
wtf kind of Orwellian deformation is that?
“(…)The draft law also includes provisions for cooperation with Europol. For many years, the EU police agency has been reporting social media accounts to platforms suspected of promoting human smuggling services. In December 2021, for example , Europol reported having reported 455 accounts for deletion that allegedly facilitated “illegal migration from Belarus to Europe.”(…)”
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The personnel for this will come from a standing reserve, which will also include border guards from EU countries. To this end, the force is to grow to 30,000 personnel by 2041, 17,000 of whom will belong to a new “border and return reserve.” “In addition, Frontex’s own staff will be doubled, along with the 7,000 employees already seconded from member states,” the European Commission stated in a press release.
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“Massive influence campaign floods France with racist ads, months before 2027 presidential election”
Since the main target of these racist ads is Qatar, I am going with the idea that the Israelis are behind it. For whatever reason, Netanyahu’s government really has a bee in their bonnet about Qatar when few people could even pin its location down on a map. So targeting Qatar sounded a really great idea in Tel Aviv but in most countries it would be a case of ‘Saywherenow?’
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The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, on Friday shifted a dozen more House races toward Democrats in the final stretch of the midterm cycle.
The handicapper has shifted dozens of House races toward Democrats in recent weeks, and with the latest moves, it now forecasts more than 218 seats to “lean Democrat” or better, projecting a Democratic House majority of between 227 and 240 seats
240 is my magic number, if we hit 240 Donkeys then I expect Mr. Market will have to put on his pissin’ pants.
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The Rev Kev You vote for Donkeys but get Asses instead.
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ChrisFromGA The honeymoon will be short, maybe less than 24 hours. Hakeem “the AIPAC Dream” is already talking about how impeaching the Orange dude wouldn’t be prudent. Who cares about silly things like the War Powers Act?
Keep giving away what little remains of your power to the executive branch, Hakeem, and soon your Speaker gig will be about as prestigious as picking up the poop behind the elephants at the circus.
Hey – that actually is a pretty good job description for Jeffries!
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re: State of the Union – Finkelstein/West/Wolff
I enjoyed this one very much:
Conversation between “brother” Norman Finkelstein, “brother” Cornel West, “brother” Richard Wolff about the US past and working class struggle and future.
Among others some harsh criticism of Mamdani by Finkelstein. (West tries to explain Mamdani´s dependency on the DEMS.)
West talks about his unpleasant experience with the GREENS and how bad a university Harvard actually was, Summers´s racism, and 19th century politics, failures and success of the Black Abolitionists.
Wolff is great when he talks about US politics and his personal past.
Where he errs is German politics.
Not sure where he is getting his ideas from that there will be some form of German economic rise and reconstruction with help of RU energy.
He also seems to totally miss the deep cultural divide over AfD.
131 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFc5by8F2S0&t=1514s
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Henry Moon Pie I’ll throw this in here because of your comment about German politics. Ezra Klein posted an interview of Quinn Slobodian today. Slobodian has a new book out about Elon Musk, and I found Slobodian’s commens about Musk, his goals and his mindset to be quite interesting. But what was relevant to German politics was when Klein asked Slobodian about an earlier book titled, Hayek’s Bastards. Slobodian, who did a stint teaching in Berlin, listed examples of alliances between neoliberals and xenophobes that included Rothbard and Buchanan in the 90s USA and the AfD, a party led by a neoliberal economist, i.e. Weidel. (spot cut) That’s the way her C.V.> looked to me as well, but what does it look like from close up?
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AG Thank you!!
Will listen to it:71 min.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-quinn-slobodian.htmlp.s. “but what does it look like from close up?” – that depends of what policies will guarantee stability within AfD and then more votes.
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Henry Moon Pie I recommend the whole thing, but I did provide a “spot cut” to the point in the interview where the AfD is discussed. I’m an old Boomer, and after we laid aside 45s, we listened to 33 RPM Long Playing vinyl records with 5 to 6 songs on a side. When w wanted to listen to song 3 on side 2, we learned to pick up the needle arm and lay it down in the groove just before song 3 began. That was spot cutting, and it require some concentration, especially when attempted by candlelight with lots of THC and/or alcohol coursing through one’s veins.
Now it’s easy to spot cut to a spot on a Youtube directly relevant to one’s point, especially if there’s a linked list of subjects, no hand-eye coordination required.
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Otto Reply Agreed. Aurelian’s scope and tight reasoning is frequently illuminating and confusing to me. Not throwing shade, I enjoy his challenging essays. As for a definition of “fascism”, Mussolini’s assertion that fascism = corporatism does the trick for me.
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Chris Mussolini meant that the state should direct corporations to serve national interests, not, as people who quote him often seem to think, the other way around.
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mcsnoot But neither states nor corporations have agency; they are machinery that represent and execute the decisions and actions of individuals (or small groups of them). As long as it is the same individuals/groups making those decisions guiding both the state and the corporations, does it matter which is nominally in charge?
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vao The issue is that historically during fascism, the groups making the decisions guiding the state were not the same as those guiding corporations.
Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Röhm, Seyss-Inquart, &co were generally not members of the upper classes or scions from wealthy finance and industry families, and did not represent them. Same for Mussolini, same for Salazar and his buddy and successor Caetano. On the other hand Hess was, but the Hess family was ruined by WWI. Göring’s father was a high-ranking civil servant.
This is why after WWII what would become the EU was so decidedly opposed both to fascism and to the popular front: the community of finance, trade, and industry was dead set against any ideology that would put the business world under the thumb of politicians, whether under fascist corporatism, or left-wing social welfare.
It also explain the everlasting “democratic deficit” of the EU and EU’s authoritarian tendencies (including the itch to prohibit unwanted political parties on the left and right wings alike), since in its (incorrect) historical understanding, it is through democratic elections that both nazis and the popular front(s) ascended to power.
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Chris Sure, but the point is, when Mussolini talked about merger of the state and corporate power, he did NOT have in mind the kind of neoliberal setup that Americans usually think of when they hear this kind of thing in 2026. Fascism was imagined as a noncommunist alternative to rule by capitalists, in which business interests would be subordinate to the state, not the reverse.
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flora And now we have neoliberalism which directs the state to serve corporate interests. / ;)
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Chris Exactly. Which is why the illiberal society that the US/West in general is moving toward may be illiberal as hell, but it will not be a fascist form of illiberalism.
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“Please Let the Internet Die”–yes! Would the world really be so terrible if we went back to 1990 level technology? I seem to recall life being pretty good then, compared to now at least. Yes, I had to go to the library to look up information, instead of going to Google (now AI sloppified and ad-ridden) or Wikipedia (now basically an arm of the US government propaganda services for any geopolitical information). The library was cool though. Maybe the author specifically means let the world-wide web die, but I first got on the pre-web internet (Usenet news) in 1985, and even then you could see the trolls and spammers taking their first baby steps. Communication is held up as an unmixed good in many discussions, but I don’t think that’s right. Good faith communication among benign participants may be good, but more communication allows more bad faith and malign actors to prey on everyone else and expand their own reach. I would vote for sending the internet, at least the web and maybe the whole thing, back to the drawing board for a major redesign. While that’s happening, let Amazon, X, Google, Facebook, and all the rest die. It would be no loss in the long run, a brief period of madness that future humans could look back on and wonder about..
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Partyless poster I’ve seen many articles like this now about how ugly internet dialog is and how sites amplify division, but the question is never asked how it could be different when there are monstrous evil things going on (genocide, Iran war, Epstein) and people are legitimately angry about them. Are we supposed to pretend everything is wonderful?
I think the ugliest thing thats changed about the internet is how its all based on surveillance and monetization, and has had the major corporations take over almost all communications. Back in the day it felt empowering to have your own blog or website, now its just Facebook etc.
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Mikel Some of it is a power grab to make people use the LLM slop and propaganda messages.
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And the Anthropic IPO ain’t gonna happen, they were a Month late and a trillion dollars short.
It will take a little while for reality to sink in, but it’s toast.
No Money, No Money, No Money, it’s time to go short.
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Regarding letting the Internet die, here’s a post from Justin Patrick Moore about logging on to the alternet:
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There used to be talk about the necessity for a third party in the USA.
It´s gone it seems as of late (thanks to DSA…). Or is it?
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Mike I opine that the DSA operates within the Democratic Party due to their knowledge that third parties cannot sail without gobs of money and experience in elected offices. That, and the fact that their socialism is very simply the old theory of market socialism that supports what they call small business as opposed to corporate dominance. All well and good, but they look over their shoulders every time they talk, afraid of what the “Central Committee” (DNC) will say and do to them. Put that together with the ability of both parties to scuttle, undermine, and sabotage any effort in any direction except appeasing the financial class and you have gridlock.
Any socialism from above is not. It’ll come from the streets and coffee shops or it won’t come.
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Acacia This.
I never pay attention to the DSA because the DNC can cut them down anytime. They are just another sheepdogging operation.
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Socal Rhino There is active talk of forming a libertarian/America First party.
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AG interesting
Which proves Mike´s point, which I would say also suggests that the strength of the “right” is what the left has abandoned as its main identity.
We are not running out of ideas. We are giving up on them for others to pick them up to put them to less generous use.
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an aside: Just cost me over $50 bucks to fill up my little old Honda car. That’s almost double what it cost me at the start of this year.
Noticed that the price of diesel is $6 bucks a gallon at the filling station I use.
It’s still harvest season for some crops here in KS. Farmers are not happy.
T cancelled a rally in western KS this week because reasons. The KS US Senate race is incredibly close, unheard of in KS for an incumbent GOP Senator to be fighting for his political life against any Dem challenger, let alone a newcomer, a non-politician (until now) Dem challenger.
The TV ads on the local news channels are almost all Senate race campaign ads between the GOP incumbent and the Dem challenger during the news. Everyone watches the local news to get the weather reports and local happenings.
I really have never seen anything like this for a Senate race in this state before. Even the Gov. race between the two parties’ non-incumbents is not throwing this much ad time to support their candidates.
You don’t need to look farther than KS to see just how unpopular T and his admin and his freaking, useless, pointless war driving up prices of essential goods are.
This is KS, the GOP could pull out a squeaker of a win. But in KS it shouldn’t be even close. The rural parts of the state, most of the state, is solidly GOP. Except this year with this administration ruining their economics and their businesses. / my 2 cents
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erstwhile While trump’s war on Iran has certainly driven up prices here, in the usa, and essential goods are increasingly more expensive, I have to say that the price of a gallon of gas pales in comparison to the deaths that trump has instigated in his criminal war on Iran. People around the world will perish because so much that exits Hormuz has disappeared. It might be the realization of just how completely american capitalism has captured the minds of our citizens when our thoughts turn to the financial burdens of how much american evil costs each of us in the dollars and cents we spend on a single gallon of gas. God, I’m so sick of the american way of life.
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flora You’re right, but people largely only pay attention when something affects them personally. They already have a lot to worry about and care about. People vote their pocketbooks.
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flora Update: T has decided to reschedule the KS rally for this Sunday. We’ll see if it moves the needle. Looks like the current tactic is to associate the Dem candidate with the DC Dem elites. Problem is, the GOP incumbent is already tightly associated with the T admin and its war and its economic impact on Kansans.
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Correct Verso link:
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From Useful Idiots:
Gabor Maté and Francesca Albanese on Israel, Naza & Hope for Humanity
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We haven’t had a good 4% down day in the markets in a long time. Maybe liberation day? April 2025.
Kevin! The WiFi is out!
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From a president that ought to get fisted.
As a result, you are receiving a One-Time Payment of $90 to offset some of the cost of your October Medicare premium. This will ensure these funds benefit YOU and your individual healthcare needs.
Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. As a result, 1 am proud to be the First President in History to bring down Americans prescription drug prices.
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Make that figging, something to put a little ginger in his step.
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Trump is already losing it and it’s only Friday.
Are Kalshi and Polymarket offering odds on whether he will have a stroke before 11/5?
I’m half serious, he’s been pushing himself very hard on the campaign trail and his remarks at recent rallies have been as tone deaf as anything that has ever come out of Hillary’s mouth.
It’s going to be a wild ride the next few days, I wonder if Iran will add to the drama?
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Acacia Polymarket is predicting Dems will control House and Senate after the midterms.
Trump out before 2027 is only 4%, though a number of ppl are asking for a monthly market heh.
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flora If polymarket is right things could get wild after Nov. 3rd, imo.
The new Congress will not be seated until January, 2027. That still gives T two months to do all kinds of crazy stuff: Attacking Irn, sanctioning more countries, using the DoJ to investigate the election results? Who knows.
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night. / ;)
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Just like the Democrat Party NGOs
We’re writing to remind you and other registered voters in North Carolina of the importance of participating in the upcoming North Carolina midterm election on Tuesday, November 3.
Who you vote for is private information, but whether or not you vote is a matter of public record.
A sampling of your public voter record is below:
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So we’re getting this in the mail. Bold theirs, with an underline.
They give you a score too.
“Thank you for being a good voter” by following directions.
I sent them an explicative laden brief email. Sick people.
Shame, embarrassment, fear? That’s what Democrats have. Nothing from the Environmental Voter Project about what they’re going to do about the environment, lol. Just coercion.
And you know some sick f**k bought a new Mercedes G-wagon off this campaign.
And this is the same s**t.
I got a poster card, anonymous, saying the same thing. Those hand written ones. Pretty fascist, our Democrats. That’s VotingMattersNC.org (redirects to the official state web site)
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RE: Agentic AI is myth set in motion
The article compares the way LLMs operate to how bards in ancient Greece would deliver narratives. That was an interesting and fairly apt comparison – they both take a formulaic approach and you likely won’t ever get the same story twice. Fine. But the differences are important ones – those Greek bards were s entertainers, and not everyone had one in their back pocket. Today you can’t swing a cat without upending a dozen clankers, and they are most definitely being pushed for uses beyond simple story telling.
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Seeing rumors of a coup underway as we speak in Poland, Anyone seen anything credible?
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The Rev Kev RT is covering Poland right now-
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flora wow. Martin Armstrong is still saying the EU in its present form will end by 2032, that it can’t continue in its present state. Wonder if he’s right?
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johnnyme According to The Associated Press, it doesn’t look like a coup d’etat:
Polish president turns back plane during protests over court president’s removal
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police secured Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal on Friday as dozens of protesters gathered to demonstrate against what they perceive as the wrongful suspension of the top court’s president by the current pro-European government.
The information about the suspension of the president of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, was published on the website of the court around 6 p.m. local time. The website of the Tribunal went down soon after so The Associated Press could not independently verify the official reasons given for his suspension.
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Moody’s downgraded Meta’s credit rating after hours:
I think the carnage in the Nasdaq bleeds into next week.
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