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EU is getting more authoritarian by the day. Kill the beast !
In January 2025, The Economist delivered a devastating verdict: Romania had become the European Union's first "hybrid regime", downgraded from its previous "flawed democracy" status in the British newspaper’s yearly Democracy Index. The trigger was Romania's Constitutional Court annulling the first round of presidential elections based on what The Economist described as "murky intelligence reports" with evidence that was "at best, questionable".
Who better foreshadows Romania’s plummet in the democracy index than General Rog, head of the cyber division of the Romanian intelligence services, boasting of his executive overreach over a year ago?
As one German commentator observed: “The planned ban on Russian gas imports has little to do with the war in Ukraine — and everything to do with the American trade war. The EU is capitulating to Trump. The cost of that capitulation will be devastating, especially for Germany”.
This is not about “stopping Putin’s war machine” but about pre-empting any normalisation of EU-Russia relations — at the cost of deepening dependence on the US and accelerating deindustrialisation
AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future.
Your enemy is capitalism.
Your enemy is the corporation.
This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.
you know the 40% rule, right? Profit + growth "must" add to 40% So if you're growing at 60%, it's ok to have a 20% negative profit. That is one of the reasons we are where we are.
As with many other tools with tremendous potential for humanity and good governance, AI is and will be misused by the capital for dystopian domination and extraction.
there's also this "funny" framing that corporations themselves *are* functionally agi paperclip-maximizers, only they run on human workers instead of sillicon.
"funny" because the various ai doomer talking points, are already shown to be true for corpos:
-(microtargeted) mass manipulation -(occasional) warmongering -government/regulatory capture -the "alignment" issue (mostly on climate) -convert all available matter into rent-seeking -gaslighting opponents (a'la the basilisk wager)
I fundamentally disagree with this characterization of capitalism. Capitalism is not an entity. It has no meaningful intentional stance. It is a model of interaction only. It is not the enemy.
The enemy is those who wish to apply this model upon us no matter what the costs to us. This enemy consists of people. And these people have names and addresses.
Generative AI intrinsically alters the political landscape in ways that put fascists at an advantage. The way people are using it to cognitive offload pretty much any given workload is crippling their own ability to engage in critical thought. Assuming access to a sufficiently advanced model, malicious actors in positions of power can use it to fabricate evidence of crimes and weaponise the state's violence against opponents. It's eroding people's trust in the authenticity of literally all online communication that's not coming directly from an already trusted source. Surely you understand how a tool that's pretty much purpose-built to flood the zone with shit is inherently beneficial to a political project that's been relying on exactly that tactic for its entire existence, right? It's not a coincidence that this technology's most vocal proponents in the political sphere are all basically Hitler.
@Walk_blesseD I’m not saying “AI” as branded and developed by Silicon Valley/Big Tech isn’t *a* problem. I’m saying the socioeconomic system that leads to it being developed in the manner in which it is developed is the problem.
Machine learning doesn’t have to be planet-scale. In fact, it’s more effective when it’s not.
At its core, there isn’t anything that evil about iterative matrix multiplications used for pattern matching in data sets.
But yes, of course, AI as it exists today is a problem. But it’s a symptom of the core malady which is capitalism/corporatism.
All that said, I really don’t think we’re stating different things 😀
Elon Musk Timothy Mellon Miriam O. Adelson Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein Kenneth C. Griffin Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass Paul E. Singer Stephen A. Schwarzman Timothy M. Dunn Rob Bigelow Diane Hendricks John Joe Ricketts Shirley W. Ryan Warren A. Stephens
A pretty sure sign of a dying civilisation if you ask me.
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot [...]
The writer didn't care. The supplement's editors didn't care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn't care. The production people didn't care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didn't care either.
It's so emblematic of the moment we're in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.
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If you want to know how Farage's plan will work out, then get a dog or a cat and then deal with the vets bills. It quickly gets eye watering. His plan only works for the rich who can afford private healthcare.
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - A local organization that has spent four years distributing fresh, nutrient-dense foods to families in need is partnering with the
The YouTube AskTheSpiritGuides 30 day challenge workbook arrived yesterday early, no need to copy over from my spiritual journal now. There’s even a printable version available via link in the YouTube description. Here is a Photo of 30 day challenge workbook with botanical theme of my spiritual journal.
"..according to Israel’s own army, not a single example of 110 aid looting incidents was perpetrated by Hamas. The whole claim by Israel of Hamas stealing aid, used by Israel to justify mass starvation is a lie" Owen Jones
We need to act fast or there'll be a whole generation of lobotomised morons...
I sighed and went around the room getting a quick read on how much screen time each student had accumulated. The class average neared 11 hours. I said, “Guys. Guys. Let’s suppose you sleep 8 hours a day. That means you're awake for 16 hours a day. If you’re on your phone for 12 hours, that means you only spend 4 hours not looking at a two by four inch screen…Is that really how you want to spend your life?” Most of the kids just shrugged. Then one kid said, “What else is there to do?” That’s how I know we’re in deep trouble.
NHSGGC News Update NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Vaccinations are the best way to protect yourself and your family. And to help prevent the spread of measles Measles cases in Glasgow prompt more vaccination clinics NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is urging families to ensure they are fully protected against measles following several recent cases in the Govanhill area. In response, additional drop-in vaccination clinics are being made available to help prevent further spread. Measles is a highly infectious disease that can spread rapidly among individuals who have not received two doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. It can lead to serious illness and long-term complications such as hearing and vision loss, brain swelling, and often requires hospitalisation. a high temperature runny or blocked nose red, sore, watery eyes sneezing coughing
@Christo_459 Alt text, second image: Recognising the symptoms Measles typically begins with cold-like symptoms, including: • High temperature • Runny or blocked nose • Sneezing • Cough • Red, sore, watery eyes Small white spots may appear inside the cheeks and on the back of the lips a few days later, followed by a rash that usually starts on the face or behind the ears before spreading to the rest of the body. The rash may appear brown or red on lighter skin and can be harder to detect on darker skin tones. Symptoms usually appear 10-12 days after exposure. Helen Benson, NHSGGC Consultant in Public Health, said: "While Scotland and Greater Glasgow and Clyde have strong MMR uptake through the childhood vaccination programme, we cannot be complacent. Govanhill is one of the areas where uptake is lower, and although case numbers are low, there is a risk of community spread, especially with increased overseas travel during the holiday season. "Measles is preventable with two doses of the MMR vaccine. We are offering weekly drop-in clinics for both adults and children and would encourage anyone who has missed one or both doses, to come along. The vaccine is free, completely safe, and this is great opportunity to catch up with any doses you may have missed to protect yourself and your family. Interpreters are available, and we welcome anyone who needs extra support. "If you're unsure at all, you're welcome to pop-in for a chat with our immunisation team who will happily answer any questions that you may have too." If you are unsure of your MMR vaccination status, or would like to find out about how to catch up with any missed MMR doses in your area, please visit the NHS Inform page on MMR vaccination for further information.
HSGGC MMR drop-in vaccination clinics For children aged 12 months to 6 years: • Govanhill Clinic (Sandyford Building, Calder Street, G42 7PE) Every Tuesday • 9:00am - 10:45am • 11:20am - 1:05pm • 2:00pm - 3:30pm For adults: • Tuesday 10 June 2025 9:00am - 3:30pm The Community Wing (upstairs), The Shields Medical Practice, 80 McCulloch Street, G41 1NX • Every Tuesday evening from 17 June to 23 September 2025 5:00pm - 7:30pm Govanhill Health Centre, 233 Calder Street, G42 7DR • Saturday Clinics at Govanhill Health Centre (10:00am - 4:00pm): • 28 June 2025 • 26 July 2025 • 23 August 2025 • 20 September 2025 For more information, visit: nhsggc.scot/your-health/general-vaccinations
Hallucinante corruption. Il faut tout cramer, envoyer tous les gens au pouvoir à Cayenne à 8 par cellule, et repartir sur des bases saines.
Ivana Maletić et Jorg Kristijan Petrovič n’en démordent pas : à peu près rien ne va dans le “plan de relance” européen géant de 723 milliards d’euros décidé par les chefs d’Etat européens en 2020. Publié le 6 mai dernier, son 17ème document (rapport, note, évaluation divers) de la Cour des comptes européenne sur la “Facilité pour la relance et la résilience” (FRR) est sévère, comme les précédents. Manque de “surveillance des réformes annoncées”, “responsabilité des décideurs publics” vis à vis des contribuables et “transparence” insuffisantes, telles sont les “lacunes” pointées par les deux auditeurs lors d’une récente conférence de presse.
Cinq ans après l'annonce du grand emprunt européen décidé en pleine pandémie, les auditeurs des comptes dressent un bilan sévère de l'utilisation de ces 650 milliards d'euros.
Alt text: Hampton Institute @HamptonThink CAL Profit is all that matters in a capitalist system. If your life isnt generating profit for capitalists (working/investing/consuming) it is considered worthless. This is why many feel hopeless & isolated, are searching for meaning & addicted to escapism. Capitalism is dehumanizing 3:08 PM • 19 Dec 18 • Twitter for Android
Mercredi dernier, la Cour de cassation examinait de nouveau la demande de prescription des avocats de l'ancien secrétaire général de l'Élysée. La décision sera rendue le 10 septembre.
Eev (and lisp secret alien technology) made it /really/ easy and convenient to generate a kitten matching @aral's Tutorial 2: dynamic pages, kitten.small-web.org/tutorials… serve it and visit it inside emacs (just press F8 over and over again and it happens on its own).
I guess you can do it too...? What do you think? How much of a Hurkle itch is this giving you Aral ;p. It seems /really/ easy to get a fancy! #tls site up like this.
Haha, part of what’s great about making things is seeing all the ways people end up using it that you hadn’t anticipated. Love that you’re playing and experimenting with it 😀
The ONLY solution is the FINAL solution for Trannies... ERADICATION!
Violent protests erupt in California as trans athlete thrashes female rivals in defiance of Trump's executive order - as her glamorous mother hits back at president
AB Hernandez, 17, sealed her place in three finals yesterday - high jump, long jump and triple jump - after coming out on top in all of her preliminary heats.
Loretta Swit led a decades-long celebrated acting career where she advocated for animal rights. The actress passed away on May 30 at her home in New York City.
“We're widening sidewalks, improving intersections and crosswalks, and we're putting a lot of effort into improving bus infrastructure." > When will Arlington's Columbia Pike Project finally be completed? wusa9.com/article/news/local/a…
This is all the dangerous messy escalation resulting from community defiance. > US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump administration's sanctuary list apnews.com/article/sanctuary-j…
Starving civilian populations is a long-standing strategy of war, used to break morale, force surrender, or weaken resistance—seen in sieges, blockades, and scorched-earth tactics throughout history. > LIVE: Israel kills 2 Gaza aid seekers as UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ aje.io/3tqtdr
'The current wave of anti-liberalism is a revolt against double standards. In a society governed by mistrust the cynic is the only one to be trusted'...
He thinks voters have become fed up with the hypocrisy of the (declared) liberals, who manage to enrich themselves & their families when in Govt. & so prefer people who are at least open about their conflicts fo interest...
Its unlikely to be the full story, but it could be a contributory factor?
Zodiacs & Astrology News: India faces renewed COVID-19 anxiety in 2025 amid a sudden case surge, sparking both medical and mystical concerns. A resurfaced prophecy by Japanese
This is why Trump won so handily > Supreme Court lets Trump end legal protections for 500,000 migrants, exposing more to deportation bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/nat…
The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The past two months since the last update have been busy again around KDE Itinerary, with additional train and bus trip editing capabilities, a new departure...
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:41 SteamOS outperforms Windows on the same hardware 04:20 Linux kernel 6.15 is released 06:31 Firefox revamps the search and URL bar 08:29 Firefox 139 brings faster uploads and more customisation 10:14 Rust works on being a better Linux kernel citizen 11:44 XFCE merges their Wayland compositor 13:57 Linux Format magazine closes shop 15:36 Peertube launches campaign for their mobile app 18:13 GeForce Now is on Steam Deck 20:43 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 21:30 Shilling my own channel
So what would be the best device to run steam os right now? The steam deck has old specs. Don't know how good the support on newer handheld devices is.
I'd be fascinated to know how much you get paid per viewer per month on average from YouTube. I'd bet it's not very much. I love the idea of having a "Peertube subscription" where basically I could subscribe via Librapay or similar for twice the YouTube amount to know that I was both supporting you, the use of Peertube, but also making Peertube the MORE profitable platform for you, per viewer.
Kind of missed the release of the Peertube app on AppStore. Just checked it, the thing starts quiet solidly:
default local account that allows to manage "Watch later" and History lists offline;
defaults to official instance / content indices;
instance / search indices can be set in settings;
runs on older iOS version (at least version 15.8.4, which my perfectly intact, still sufficient hardware will never be able to update or switched from);
That said, some cons are:
it's complicated to search for an instance and/or channel outside of chosen index; there's no search by URL or federated handle, so to find a channel not on selected index, one must specify instance URL in settings for search index, scroll the main page down until any channel from the instance is found, click on it, click big plaque that finally leads to instance' view. This is a lot more convoluted than if just searching by URL could give a desired result;
to log into account, one must find the instance their existing account resides on, see the point above;
can't create custom playlists with local account;
no audio-only mode and no playback when screen is locked / app is minimized (there might be situations when one might want to consume a video content as audio-only);
no video quality setting (mobile trafic can get expensive like that);
All things considered, solid application for it's solid purpose at its's current maturity level, just needs more time, attention, and funding — which Framasoft speak clearly about.
I wonder if it'll be a lot easier for MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, etc. to switch to #Wayland after GNOME & KDE have already done so. Perhaps some of the heavy lifting has already been done?
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Commands I showed in the video:
Set krunner to open with the Super key: kwriteconfig5 --file kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.krunner,/App,,toggleDisplay"
Apply the changes (needs dbus, ovbiously): qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure
List all the things you can trigger with a shortcut: qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.shortcutNames
Set the thing you want to open with the Super key:
kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group ModifierOnlyShortcuts --key Meta "org.kde.kglobalaccel,/component/kwin,org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component,invokeShortcut,NAME_OF_THE_THING_YOU_WANT_TO_OPEN"
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In the center of America’s top cancer treatment hub - Houston’s Texas Medical Center - a mosque is quietly being transformed into a launchpad for Sharia supremacy.
🔴 Led by Dr. Salah al-Sawy, one of the most radical Sharia jurists in America, the Medical Center Islamic Society (MCIS) is pushing an extremist agenda under the guise of religious charity.
Al-Sawy is Secretary-General of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), a U.S.-based Sharia council whose official fatwas include:
➡️ Death for apostates ➡️ Support for Hamas ➡️ Female circumcision as “honorable” ➡️ Forced sex in marriage is “not rape” ➡️ Prohibition on loyalty to non-Muslim nations ➡️ Rejection of the U.S. Constitution in favor of Islamic law ➡️ Preparation for future offensive jihad once a Caliphate is declared
"Trump has tapped Palantir to create a 'master database' on every American - The New Republic.
The Trump administration has sought access to detailed citizen data, including bank account numbers, student debt amounts, medical claims, and disability status, from government databases.
Palantir has secured over $113 million in federal contracts since Trump took office, with ongoing talks to expand its technology to the Social Security Administration and the Internal .."
Raul Portales
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Aral Balkan
in reply to Raul Portales • • •Raul Portales
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •So if you're growing at 60%, it's ok to have a 20% negative profit.
That is one of the reasons we are where we are.
Adél Kučera
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •maybenot
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •there's also this "funny" framing that corporations themselves *are* functionally agi paperclip-maximizers, only they run on human workers instead of sillicon.
"funny" because the various ai doomer talking points, are already shown to be true for corpos:
-(microtargeted) mass manipulation
-(occasional) warmongering
-government/regulatory capture
-the "alignment" issue (mostly on climate)
-convert all available matter into rent-seeking
-gaslighting opponents (a'la the basilisk wager)
🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I fundamentally disagree with this characterization of capitalism. Capitalism is not an entity. It has no meaningful intentional stance. It is a model of interaction only. It is not the enemy.
The enemy is those who wish to apply this model upon us no matter what the costs to us. This enemy consists of people. And these people have names and addresses.
Use them.
Ariel
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Hard disagree.
Generative AI intrinsically alters the political landscape in ways that put fascists at an advantage. The way people are using it to cognitive offload pretty much any given workload is crippling their own ability to engage in critical thought. Assuming access to a sufficiently advanced model, malicious actors in positions of power can use it to fabricate evidence of crimes and weaponise the state's violence against opponents. It's eroding people's trust in the authenticity of literally all online communication that's not coming directly from an already trusted source.
Surely you understand how a tool that's pretty much purpose-built to flood the zone with shit is inherently beneficial to a political project that's been relying on exactly that tactic for its entire existence, right? It's not a coincidence that this technology's most vocal proponents in the political sphere are all basically Hitler.
Aral Balkan
in reply to Ariel • • •@Walk_blesseD I’m not saying “AI” as branded and developed by Silicon Valley/Big Tech isn’t *a* problem. I’m saying the socioeconomic system that leads to it being developed in the manner in which it is developed is the problem.
Machine learning doesn’t have to be planet-scale. In fact, it’s more effective when it’s not.
At its core, there isn’t anything that evil about iterative matrix multiplications used for pattern matching in data sets.
But yes, of course, AI as it exists today is a problem. But it’s a symptom of the core malady which is capitalism/corporatism.
All that said, I really don’t think we’re stating different things 😀
Soldier of FORTRAN
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •instead of a rogue AI turning evil to "protect humans", instead it destroys corporations and the financial system.
Here's hoping.
Vassil Nikolov
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Capitalism came to be after a long chain of developments starting with the Neolithic Revolution and the latter was a consequence of climate change.
Deconstructing this thesis is left as an exercise...
Marquise de What 🇨🇦
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •It is a cancer that has funding & direction from individuals.
These bigoted billionaires have names.
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024…
usatoday.com/story/news/politi…
politico.com/news/2024/11/24/b…
opensecrets.org/elections-over…
Elon Musk
Timothy Mellon
Miriam O. Adelson
Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein
Kenneth C. Griffin
Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass
Paul E. Singer
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Timothy M. Dunn
Rob Bigelow
Diane Hendricks
John Joe Ricketts
Shirley W. Ryan
Warren A. Stephens
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Trump says he wasn't aware of Musk reportedly using drugs during the 2024 campaign
Zac Anderson (USA TODAY)Aral Balkan
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Aral Balkan
Unknown parent • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •There's a long history linking substance abuse, alcoholism, and fascism, that is then used in excuse-making narratives whitewashing their conduct.
Musk may be an addict, but it in no way diminishes what he has done.
He is sane and culpable. He's trying to evade trials & lawsuits by claiming he was under the influence.
Richard J Evans "The Third Reich in History and Memory" and "The Pursuit of Power 1815-1914"
theguardian.com/books/2016/nov…
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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler review – a crass and dangerously inaccurate account
Richard J Evans (The Guardian)