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Zeynep Turkic said in 2017 that were building the machinery of an authoritarian dystopia to get more people to click on ads.
Here’s that talk. Show me the lie.
ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_w…
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We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci.www.ted.com
❝These [machine learning systems] only work if there’s an enormous amount of data, so they also encourage deep surveillance on all of us so that the machine learning algorithms can work. That's why Facebook wants to collect all the data it can about you.❞
This is deeply pernicious. Her example: researchers found that social media posts can predict when a bipolar person is entering a manic phase. Casinos have always aimed generic ads at such people — but now they can individually pinpoint them, at their moment of maximum vulnerability.
❝Here's the tragedy: we're building this infrastructure of surveillance authoritarianism merely to get people to click on ads. And this won't be Orwell's authoritarianism. This isn't “1984.” Now, if authoritarianism is using overt fear to terrorize us, we’ll all be scared, but we’ll know it, we’ll hate it and we’ll resist it.❞
“Ha!” you cry, “that moment has arrived, and half the country isn’t resisting — they •like• it!”
Indeed. Read on:
❝But if the people in power are using these algorithms to quietly watch us, to judge us and to nudge us, to predict and identify the troublemakers and the rebels, to deploy persuasion architectures at scale and to manipulate individuals one by one using their personal, individual weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and if they're doing it at scale through our private screens so that we don't even know what our fellow citizens and neighbors are seeing, that authoritarianism will envelop us like a spider's web and we may not even know we're in it.❞
She called it.
Doge has been hell-bent on stealing and merging government datasets: tax records, social security, health, immigrantion.
Listen to Tufekci’s talk, and imagine what a group of technofascists could do with that data.
ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_w…
We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci.www.ted.com
"Could do?". Have already done. Even during Brexit and the 2016 election it was clear that A/B tested propaganda as a service was being deployed at scale. The 2024 election was just the (literal) nail in the coffin of informed democracy.
AI will make the problem infinitely worse. It's primary optimization function is to sound convincing about anything, and it will rapidly displace relying on primary sources. Once that happens, it will be easier and easier to insert individually-tailored "alternative facts" into any narrative. The owners of this technology will be able to distort reality as they please.
Sürünün en çok nefret ettiği şey, farklı düşünen insandır. Sürü aslında onun görüşünden nefret etmez, ancak bu kişinin kendi başına farklı düşünme cesaretine sahip olmasını sevmez. Bu, sürünün tam olarak anlayamadığı bir şeydir.
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Your #timeline in Recall is broken up into segments, which are the blocks of time that #snapshots of your screen are taken while you were using your #PC.
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Why? He forced the Community Notes to admit that many judges have been arrested in the past. It worked out exactly how he planned.
It is brilliant.
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Two years ago, prompt #engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, fetching salaries of up to $200,000 on the promise of becoming any #company’s “AI Whisperer.”Now, the role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI #development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the #technology.
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Joe Rogan Gets SCHOOLED On Truth Of Israel-Hamas War By Coleman Hughes
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"Not one Hamas supporter has ever demand Hamas shelter their civilians."
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The world has a verdict on 100 days of Trump 2.0: Wow, what a loser
His return to the global stage has been an extended, catastrophic self-own. Yeah, he's dangerous — but not seriousSalon.com
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For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan, 1963
I always thought he meant it differently...
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Whether commercial or private, with the CHIKE E-Cargo cargo bike you will always reach your destination quickly with your load.mprager (Manuel Prager)
blah-blah-blah sitrep... #geeksitrep #geekings (*shrug*, gotta tag with something).
been a fair heft of geekings here in past couple days.
oh i forgot about dk.
... still on the back burner... a little dry by now, so maybe this comment will help splash a little more water on the idea... keep it good for when i get around to it again.
living it up in xmonad utterly satisfied (... oh, well, maybe one quirk i could still iron out to a better workflow... always is... heh).
... actually, i think i hastily re-wrote my xmonad config from scratch, a few weeks/months back. ... which is something i didnt know i could do. ... the haskell, as much as it enthuses, also still daunts... but perhaps there's less daunt due than perceptions hold on to.
(especially these days with little leg-ups from llm to remind of things expediently... is good as advanced websearch sort of way)
Majorities of voters disapprove of many of Trump's policies, the poll found.Gary Langer (6abc Philadelphia)
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60 Minutes chief resigns over Gaza censorship, with Ali Abunimah #Palestine60 Minutes chief resigns over Gaza censorship, with Ali Abunimah
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Peu nombreuses et nombreux sont sans doute celles et ceux qui se souviennent de la révolution soudanaise qui vit tomber en avril 2019 l’un des plus vieux dictateurs de la planète, Omar El Bechir, sous le coup de plusieurs mandats d’arrêts de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI).
A partir de décembre 2018, un immense mouvement de protestation d’abord contre la vie chère et notamment le prix du pain, s’est peu à peu étendu à l’ensemble du pays pour demander la chute du dictateur. L’occupation, à partir d’avril 2019, par des milliers de personnes de la place située devant le quartier général de l’armée à Khartoum fut l’un des points forts de ces mouvements de protestation. Le 3 juin (dernier jour du Ramadan), la junte militaire a violemment dispersé les manifestants, faisant une centaine de morts. La mobilisation durera néanmoins jusqu’en octobre 2019, de façon plus ou moins sporadique, toujours avec la perspective de la mise en place d’un gouvernement civil.
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Deux ans se sont écoulés depuis que la guerre a éclaté au Soudan entre les deux camps du régime militaire que le pays a hérité du tristement célèbre Omar el-Béchir. Alors que la situation au Soudan…Entre les lignes entre les mots
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"For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray—that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy."
— St. Faustina Kowalska
Gideon Levy über den Medien-Mainstream in #Israel, in dem Aufhetzung zum Genozid (Als Verbrechen in Israel theoretisch extrem hart bestrafbar) mittlerweile zum guten Ton gehört.
»Israeli Incitement to Genocide in #Gaza Goes Mainstream.
Genocide talk has spread into all TV studios as legitimate talk. From here on, one should say: thou shalt murder. All that remains is to debate who should be murdered and who should be spared«
haaretz.com/opinion/2025-04-27… (Paywall)
so langsam converged ein teil der ki-forschung auf "llms sind doch nur statistikmaschinen" und ihre problemlösungskompetenz ein "bag of heuristics".
wann diese information "im markt" (den broligarchs) ankommt, wird abzuwarten sein.
@Friendica Support what license / terms of use is the friendica logo under?
@Fabio pointed me to the SVGs at git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… and git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ; am I correct that they would be under CC0-1.0 as per git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ?
Are there additional term of use on the logo?
Looking at @Fabio 's laptop yesterday we may have agreed that there is an unacceptable lack of hexagons with nested Fs, and I wanted to fix this 😁
Sry no SVG.
JPG-PNG are available in all sizes up to 256px I believe.
I even ulpoaded this to git friendica I think, not sure witch versions, every once in a while I retouch something.
Terms of use are CC0 (actually NC) but in the case of friendica anything goes.
The colored circular image is a svg "permafluer", published creative commons by someone else in some CC svg catalogue site. The copy left is from a SVG creative commons site. The friendica base is from a friendica logo itself.
Gimme a day and I look up all the info with links if I can.
Versions of this have been used as canvas for forum profiles, see here to get an idea:
tupambae.org/directory
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The image I posted is the background image of this friendica server as you may find if you visite this comment or for example our TOS page:
tupambae.org/tos
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“He made it to the landing and then went down the slide, like he had done it before.”Anna Young (New York Post)
To most Americans, the big problem with the Democratic Party is that it has moved too far left in recent years. If you’re among those who believe that, brace yourself. The worst is yet to come.Michael Goodwin (New York Post)
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Il rêvait d'investir dans une machine à laver la laine mobile pour permettre aux éleveurs ovins, comme lui, de valoriser la laine de leur mouton. Le projet de Paul Kister, installé à Fontaine lès Clerval dans le Doubs, a...Sophie Courageot (France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)
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İSLAMCI İDEOLOJİNİN İFLASI
Ahmet Hulusi Kırım
Siyasal İslam, 20. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında, Mısırlı Müslüman Kardeşler’in kurucusu Hasan El Benna ve Hint alt kıtasında Cemaat-i İslami Partisi’nin yaratıcısı Ebul Ala Mevdudi tarafından geliştirilen kavramlar çerçevesinde etkinliklerini belirledi. Şii devrimci siyasal düşüncesi, Müslüman Kardeşlerle pek çok ortak noktayı paylaşsa da özgünlüğünü korur. Bu düşüncenin esin kaynakları Humeyni, Bakır es-Sadr ve Talageni gibi Ayetullahlar olduğu gibi, laik Ali Şeriati’dir. Dolayısıyla İslamcılığın üç coğrafi ve kültürel kutbu daha ilk anda karşımıza çıkar. Sünni Arap Ortadoğu, sünni Hint alt kıtası ve İran-Arap Şii alanı. Bu üç İslamcı akım arasında coğrafi birlik olmadığı gibi siyasal birlik de yoktur. En önemli İslamcı örgüt, Arap dünyasının Müslüman Kardeşleridir. Bu ortak gövdeden, Seyyid Kutub’un daha radikal fikirlerinden etkilenen Hizbül Tahir, İslami Cihad gibi ayrılıkçı ve azınlık guruplar doğmuştur. Daha sonra Hint alt kıtasının Cemaat-i İslami. Hizb-i İslami, Cemiyet-i İslami ve Mağripli İslamcılar FİS, En Nahda, İslami Yeniden Doğuş Partisi çıkmıştır. Devrimci Şiiliğin etki alanına gelince; bu, gerçek bir İslami devrimle iktidarı alan tek akımdır. Onu bölgesel güç stratejisinin aracı haline getiren ise İran devleti ile özdeşlemiş olmasıdır.
İslamcı hareketler 1940’den başlayan 85 yıllık bir süreden beri gelişmektedir. Kuşkusuz bu arada anlayışlar evrimleşmiş, tarihsel şartlar değişmiş, bölünmeler ve farklılaşmalar hareketi çeşitlendirmiştir. Bununla birlikte bütün hareketler için geçerli ortak bir sosyoloji ve kavramsal bir ana kalıp mevcuttur. Sosyolojik açıdan olsun, düşünsel açıdan olsun hareketler modern dünyadan çıkmıştır. Militanları ender olarak mollalardır. Asıl olarak modern okul sisteminden gelen ve üniversite gören gençlerdir. Kısa zaman önce kentlileşen ailelerden ya da yoksullaşan orta sınıflardan gelmektedirler. Onlara göre, devlet iktidarının ele geçirilmesi, bir yandan bilim ve tekniğe sahip çıkılırken, Batılı değerler tarafından yozlaştırılan bir toplumun yeniden İslamileştirilmesine imkan sağlayacaktır. Dar anlamı ile fundamentalistler gibi eskiden olana dönüşü değil siyasetten yola çıkarak toplumun ve modern tekniğin yeniden biçimlendirilmesini savunurlar.
İslamcı kuramsal model günümüzde tıkanma noktasına gelmiştir. Önce metinlerde bir tıkanıklık başladı. Çünkü eski temel metinlerden bu yana, zayıf açıklamalar ve dini yazarlardan alıntılardan başka bir şey görülmüyor. Giderek açmaza dönüşen kavramlarda bir tıkanıklık söz konusudur. İslamcılara göre İslami bir toplum ancak siyaset yoluyla mümkündür, ama siyasal kurumlar ancak içindeki insanların erdemine dayanarak işler, erdem ise önce İslami bir toplum mevcut olursa genelleşebilir. Bir daire içinde dolanıldığı için de teoride ve eylemde tıkanıklık yaşanmaktadır. Ne ekonomik kriz ve hizipler tuzağına düşen İran İslam devrimi, ne de Afganistan ve FİS, FLD İslam toplumunun olması gerek şeye model teşkil edememektedir.
Karmaşık ve etkin bir anayasa geliştiren İran devrimi istisna tutulursa, İslamcı düşünce siyasal kurumlar alanında yoksuldur. Oysa İslamcılık siyaset sorununu her şeyin önüne koyar. Bütün İslamcılar, bir İslami toplumun yerli yerine oturtulmasında siyasi iktidarın zorunlu olduğunda görüş birliği içindedir. Fakat öte yandan, ana hatları kaba taslak çizilen kurumlar hakkındaki tartışmanın içi, yöneticilerin nitelikleri ve erdemleri gibi safsatalarla boşaltılmıştır. İslamcı siyaset anlayışının temelinde yatan emir ve şura kavramlarının siyasal kurumlara nasıl dönüştürüleceğinin cevabı yoktur. Onlara göre önemli olan kurumun ne gücü ne de biçimidir. Tersine, insanların gönülleri ve eylemleri üzerinde egemen olması gereken İslami ilkelerin uygulanmaya konmasının ardından, kurumun kendisini nasıl silikleştirebileceğidir. Hakimiyet Allah’a ait ve yasalar zaten verilmiş olduğu için siyasi kurumları belirlemek hiçbir işe yaramaz. Önemli olan, yöneticilerden başlayarak insanların ilahi yasa karşısında silikleşmesidir. Bu nedenle İslamcılarda tartışma esas olarak kişilerin kişisel niteliklerinin ve erdemlerinin belirlenmesine indirgenir. Kurumsal işlevler, onları uygulayanların erdemi ile değer taşır. Siyasetin anahtarı “Toplumsal ahlak”tadır.
İslamcılık siyasal felsefeyi ve beşeri bilimleri reddeder. Erdeme ilişkin büyüleyici çağrı, İslamcı siyasal programı toplumsal gerçekliğe eklemlemenin imkansızlığını perdeler. İslamcılık toplumsal bölünmeyi olumsuzladığı için, bunun siyaset alanına dönüşünü günah ya da komplo olarak algılar. İdeal İslami toplum, müminlerin eşitlikçi toplumu, ümmet olarak tanımlanmıştır. İslamcılar için Ümmet’i ifade eden siyasal kavram, hem toplumsal sınıfları hem de ulusal, etnik ve kabilesel farklılaşmayı reddeden tevhid (birlik) kavramıdır. Her türlü farklılaşma zorunlu olarak Ümmet’in yadsımasıdır ve bu, fitneye, cemaatin dağılmasına, bölünmelere yol açar. Bölünme sosyolojik bir veri olarak değil, günah olarak algılanır. Bu yüzden İslamcı düşünce ayrılığın tohumu olabilecek her şeyi örneğin sınıfları inkar eder.
Yavanlaşarak yeni-fundamentalizme dönüşen İslamcılık, jeostratejik bir etken de değildir. Müslüman dünyayı birleştiremeyecek, Ortadoğu’daki güç dengelerini de değiştiremeyecektir. İslamcı hareketler, iktidar biçimlerini, stratejik taleplerini ve milliyetçiliklerini devraldıkları mevcut devletlerin çizdiği çerçeveye hapsolmuş durumdalar. İslamcılık her şeyden önce, toplumsal ve siyasal olarak uyumsuz bir gençliğin protestosunu ve hayal kırıklığını cisimleştiren sosyo-kültürel bir harekettir.
Günümüzün İslamcı hareketleri yeni bir toplum modeli getiremiyorlar. Bu hareketler muzaffer ve kendine güvenen bir İslam’a geri dönüşü kalıcı kılmak yerine, ithal edilmiş ve tek partiler ve kayırma şebekeleri tarafından ele geçirilmiş Batı tipi devlet modelinin başarısızlığını dillerine doluyorlar. Hiçbir zaman yaşanmamış bir İslami otantikliğe geri dönüş efsanesinin çevresinde seferber olarak, başarılmamış bir modernleşmeden geride kalanları topluyorlar.
İslamcılığa özgü somut bir siyasal model olmadığı gibi, ekonomide durum daha da kötüdür. İktidara gelen İslamcılık, resmi olarak laik ya da ılımlı rejimlerin daha önce ortaya koydukları “yukarıdan aşağıya” İslamileştirme siyasetlerini sistemleştirecektir. Bundan böyle yeni parola “şeriat”tır. Bu İslamileştirmenin hedefi özel hukuk ceza hukuku olacak, geleneksel ya da yeniden kurulmuş dayanışma ağlarına olduğu gibi yürürlükteki ekonomiye de dokunmayacak ve eski rejimlerden miras alınan siyasal modele, esas olarak da tek parti modeline kaldığı yerden devam edecektir.
Sonuç yabancılaşma değil, toplumsal konformizm ve kasvettir. Bütün püriten akımlarda görüldüğü gibi, şizofren bir toplum kendini ilan edecektir. Suç işleme, para, göç ve siyasal iktidar yoluyla bu toplumun nimetlerinden yararlanma imkanı doğduğu andan itibaren erdem söylemi eriyip gidecektir.
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Surprising to see Youtuber PewDiePie (110M subscribers) publishing a video last night , "I installed Linux (so should you)" with a call to his community to join the platform, underlining the fun of customisation and DIY, in opposition to all the enshitification of Windows. His main point of friction for moving was Photoshop, and he explained how he made the effort to adapt GIMP to his needs. Always good to see initiatives like that shared to large audience.
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@meowski The single player game is fun in the way that most roguelikes are: you explore procedurally-generated terrain trying not to die, and going "woah, what the heck is that?" a lot.
A lot of zoomers seem to be hugely nostalgic for the multiplayer mode because it adds the potential for trolling, and to do creative things communally or cooperatively.
So of course, pedowood cashes in on that nostalgia with some LCD prolefeed and now anyone who hadn't formed his own opinion now has hype-aversion. 🤣
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God of mercy,
you wash away our sins in water,
you give us new birth in the Spirit,
and redeem us in the blood of Christ.
As we celebrate Christ’s resurrection
increase our awareness of these blessings,
and renew your gift of life within us.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
Good morning everyone and happy Sunday.☕
Wishing you all a Blessed day.
Pray for those among us who are ill or in distress.🙏
Take good care of yourselves.
Be alert, be healthy, and be free. 
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Good morning everyone and happy Sunday.☕
Wishing you all a Blessed day.Pray for those among us who are ill or in distress.🙏
Take good care of yourselves.
Be alert, be healthy, and be free.
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Edwin George Lutz (1868-1951, US-American)
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Illustration, 1913
What to Draw and How to Draw It - The Ideal Method (1913) Dodd, Mead & Company
Drawing Made Easy was Lutz's most popular book and was reprinted through the 1970s. In it, Lutz taught a method of drawing based on the technique used in French art schools in the 19th century: begin with large basic forms and progressively refine them by adding smaller shapes and detail.
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Hab gestern ein 90 Jahre altes Buch im Keller gefunden, Maria Sibylla Merian, arg vermaggelt und verzogen und dachte vielleicht läßt sich aus den Zeichnungen noch was machen, aber oben dann gesehn, nur Blumen auf dem Cover, ein Roman über sie 😀)
Le meurtrier a filmé la victime agonisante et évoqué « Allah de merde », a indiqué le procureur de la République d’Alès, démentant la thèse évoquée la veille d’une agression entre fidèles. L’homme est toujours en fuite.Yann Philippin (Mediapart)
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The continuous tire pyrolysis plant offers a sustainable solution for recycling waste tires into valuable products such as pyrolysis oil, carbon black, and combustible gases. However, to fully capitalize on this technology, expanding the profit model is essential. By optimizing processes, diversifying product offerings, and leveraging new market opportunities, plant operators can enhance revenue streams and achieve long-term profitability.
In addition to the primary products, there are various by-products generated from tire pyrolysis that can be monetized.
The continuous tire pyrolysis process generates significant heat, which is often lost to the environment. By installing a waste heat recovery system, the plant can capture this heat and repurpose it for other operational needs. For example, excess heat can be used to preheat incoming feedstock or to produce steam for power generation, reducing the need for external energy sources. This reduces operational costs, thereby improving the plant’s profitability.
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Emerging economies, particularly in Asia and Africa, are experiencing significant growth in their industrial sectors, which leads to an increase in tire consumption. In these regions, tire waste management is becoming an urgent issue. By setting up operations in such areas or exporting products like pyrolysis oil and carbon black, the plant can take advantage of the growing demand for tire recycling solutions.
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Harry is a self-described pathologically self-centered person who is proud of himself. He urges other pathologically self-centered people to also be proud of themselves. How can he find pride in this condition? That is not entirely clear to me, but he seems to reason that since being self-centered is his very personality, it must be good, because personalities are holy. Harry doesn't exhibit any sense of need to argue that his personality is useful for others. It is his way of being and that is more than enough, it seems.How did we end up here? I'm usually no fan of slippery slope argumentation. But here I think we actually have a real-world slippery slope in action: It is the ideology of every person's equal value that has run its course to the degree that obvious social pathologies are being counted as of equal value.
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When everybody is entitled to choose their own moral principles, raising a family with more than one child can be impossibly difficult.Tove K (Wood From Eden)
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If Elon does end up being forced to step down from Tesla, remember this:
1. They didn't ask him to step down after telling advertisers to go fuck themselves if they didn't want their products next to Twitter Nazis.
2. They didn't ask him to step down after doing a Nazi salute on live national TV.
3. They didn't ask him to step down after he put Nazi youth in charge of cutting veterans benefits, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, or USaid.
They could have.
But no. They're doing this because the stock prices are spiralling. And the only reason that's happening is because of the Tesla protests.
Keep going. Become ungovernable. It's working.
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Nous sommes redevenus une société d'héritiers, plutôt que de travailleurs. Débat dans la matinale de France Inter.
Qu'est-ce qui permet de formuler une telle affirmation ?
Quatre chiffres, tous publics, vérifiables par chacun :
1/ La majorité de ce que chacun possède ne vient plus, en moyenne, de son travail, mais de son héritage. Pour être plus précis : 60% du patrimoine des Français s'explique désormais par l'héritage, et 40% par le travail. Dans les années 1970, l'héritage expliquait 35% de la richesse des individus, la majorité dépendait de leur travail. Rapport CAE décembre 2021, Repenser l'héritage : lnkd.in/e6ZUu9Jf
2/ L'âge moyen d'héritage est désormais de 59 ans, ce qui n'est jamais arrivé dans l'histoire. Ce qu'on transmet à ses enfants est donc de plus en plus ce dont on a soi-même hérité, et pas ce qu'on a acquis grâce à son travail :
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3/ Nous taxons l'héritage huit fois moins que le travail, c'est à dire à 6% en moyenne contre 46% pour le travail. Quand on gagne 100 euros en travaillant, on en garde 54. Quand on gagne 100 euros en héritant, on en garde 94. Les taux apparents des droits de succession (jusqu'à 45%) sont trompeurs : il existe beaucoup d'abattements et exonérations, de sorte que le taux réel moyen est bien de 6% : 300 milliards transmis en 2022, et 18,6 milliards de droits de succession : lnkd.in/e4wGyg7B. Chiffres page 43.
4/ Le travail ne permet plus à la majorité des gens qui travaillent (qu'on gagne 1000, 2000 ou 5000 euros par mois) d'améliorer leur niveau de vie : c'est la première fois depuis 1945 qu'une génération est dans cette situation là (ce qui ne veut pas dire pour autant que le niveau baisse) : lnkd.in/eNHcDKy3
Au total, la combinaison d'un travail qui ne permet plus à la majorité des gens d'améliorer leur niveau de vie, avec une taxation des travailleurs huit fois plus importante que celle des héritiers, fait que la majorité de ce que chacun possède vient du hasard de sa naissance, et non plus de son mérite individuel.
C'est en ce sens que nous redevenus une société d'héritiers, et que c'est un choix collectif français.
On peut changer ça en améliorant la rémunération du travail (réduction de l'écart en brut et net) et en garantissant que les héritages les plus chanceux n'échappent pas aux droits de succession (exemple : 10 à 20% de droits minimum pour les 10% d'héritage les plus chanceux, à partir de 500 000 euros d'héritage par personne).
Nous diffusons, avec son accord, le texte de Denis Collin, publié sur le site de La Sociale le 16 avril 2025.
"Lors de son dernier rapport l’ONDAM (une émanation de la Cour des Comptes) propose des mesures pour limiter le déficit de la Sécurité Sociale. On sait que ce déficit est la simple conséquence des cadeaux que le gouvernement fait aux entreprises, mais qu’importe. Les destructeurs d’acquis sociaux ne s’arrêtent pas à si peu.
A la fin d’une série de mesures, toutes plus inacceptables les unes que les autres, nos experts technocrates proposent ni plus ni moins que la fin de Sécurité sociale. Voici ce qu’ils écrivent :
Au-delà des mesures de déremboursement ponctuelles appliquées, il serait possible de repenser le champ des soins remboursés par l’assurance maladie obligatoire en fonction du niveau de revenus des assurés, comme cela est appliqué en Allemagne."
Le « bouclier sanitaire », un remboursement sous condition. En Allemagne, le « bouclier sanitaire » est un dispositif de plafonnement des restes à charge proportionnel au revenu après intervention de l’assurance maladie obligatoire. Chacun contribue ainsi à ses frais de santé, à proportion de ses revenus, dans la limite d’un plafond au-delà duquel les frais sont pris en charge à 100 % par l’assurance maladie. Les personnes dont les revenus sont les plus bas peuvent être prises en charge au premier euro, de même que les soins pour les affections longue durée. Cet outil est de nature à limiter les importantes disparités de reste à charge entre les assurés. Il permettrait aussi un pilotage plus fin des dépenses de santé, la hausse du plafond se traduisant par une diminution des dépenses publiques.
Le principe de base de la Sécu est un principe « communiste » - de chacun selon ses capacités et à chacun selon ses besoins. Les plus riches contribuent plus que les plus pauvres, mais au moment des remboursements on ne tient compte que des coûts des soins de santé que votre état a nécessités. Ce beau principe a déjà été sérieusement écorné par l’augmentation continuel du ticket modérateur, les déremboursements et la part croissante des mutuelles dans la prise en charge des soins de santé. Mais la proposition de l’ONDAM revient à sortir les plus riches de la Sécurité sociale. S’ils ne sont plus remboursés ou insuffisamment remboursés, ils demanderont, à juste titre, à ne plus cotiser pour s’assurer ailleurs – ce qui est parfaitement possible dans le cadre européen. Sous couvert de « sauver la Sécu », la proposition de l’ONDAM revient à la tuer sans coup férir. C’est bien l’objectif.
Tout cela n’est pas nouveau. Déjà Hollande avait proposé de mettre les prestations familiales sous condition de ressources. Voici ce que j’écrivais en 2001 à propos de cette soi-disant équité promue par les réformateurs de droite et de gauche.
On objectera qu’il est difficile de ne pas admettre l’existence de droits différenciés dans le domaine social. Par exemple, tout le monde trouve juste que les bourses soient réservées aux élèves pauvres et non aux élèves issus de familles plus favorisées. Suivant la même logique, il a semblé naturel de mettre toutes les prestations familiales sous condition de ressources, par exemple, réserver les allocations familiales aux familles les moins favorisées, tout comme les allocations pour le logement sont réservées à ceux qui, sans cela, ne pourraient se loger décemment. Ajoutons que les distributions en apparence égalitaires ne le sont guère. Ainsi l’enseignement supérieur est quasi gratuit pour tous Mais comme les enfants des classes défavorisées accèdent moins souvent à l’enseignement supérieur que ceux des cadres, enseignants et professions libérales. Par conséquent l’enseignement gratuit est un cadeau fait aux plus riches. Tous ces arguments ont été abondamment développés par tous les critiques de la « machine égalitaire.
Or, ces évidences sont des plus trompeuses. Nos principes de justice de distributive sont loin d’avoir la clarté de ceux d’Aristote. Si les honneurs, les récompenses et les emplois publics obéissent au principe aristotélicienne de proportionnalité au mérité – sachant, comme cela a été dit plus haut, que généralement on ne s’entend guère sur ce qu’est le mérite – certaines prestations sont distribuées selon le principe d’égalité arithmétique (c’est le cas des allocations familiales en France ou de l’accès à l’enseignement public) et d’autres le sont sur le principe « à chacun selon ses besoins » (dans le domaine de la santé par exemple ou encore le régime des bourses). L’équité recommanderait sans doute qu’on uniformise ces principes et que les aides aillent seulement à ceux qui en ont réellement besoin. Or, contrairement à ce qu’on pourrait croire, un tel principe détruirait plus radicalement encore toute idée égalitaire. Si l’accès à l’école était soumis à condition de ressources, suivant le principe, proposé par Alain Madelin et repris à droite et à gauche, du « chèque éducation » permettant de faire payer à chacun selon ses moyens, on s’engagerait inéluctablement dans la voie de la privatisation de tout le système d’enseignement, privatisation qui ne pourrait qu’exacerber les inégalités face à l’enseignement. En outre, les plus favorisés, ne participant plus en rien à la redistribution étatique de la richesse sociale, se sentiraient alors fondés à refuser toute idée d’un bien commun. La « révolte des élites » est le complément inévitable de ces politiques différentialistes en matière de justice sociale. (Morale et justice sociale, Seuil, 2001).
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I ran across this while listening to random music on youtube. A very simple song but for whatever reason for me at least, it really tugs on the heart strings.
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It's in Washington state.
Trump has no control over state politics.