Farewell to America

© Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva

#politics #UnitedFascistsOfAmeriKKKa

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. The more things change the more they stay the same.
This memory popped up this morning.
#politics

And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

* and here we are...

The galaxy is a beautiful place, but there's a star destroying black hole at the center of it. Political metaphor. There is still joy to be found, just not at the event horizon.

@TheAbbotTrithemius Largely due to setting the algo toward Big Five Personality Traits that favor That was the entire premise of “Mindfuck” by Christopher Wylie.
The algo finds the correlations between people who have low empathy and conscientiousness and high neuroticism and the algo blasts Rogan and Tate ads to them. Constantly. Non stop.

TPM has been publishing their readers observations about the election. This one is especially revealing of how algorithms drive the “bro” online culture via what it perceives as male interests using almost any young male oriented subject area as a way to target and feed them Rogan and others in that bro landscape (Andrew Tate)…

Again and again the algo is the out of control poison diminishing us all.

Your [TPM reader{ Reactions #14

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/your-reactions-14

@lisaannlm The two complains I read from people who tried here and left are:
1. The user interface is different
2. There is not enough engagement

(1) is laziness. They presumably forgot that they had to learn how Twitter/IG/Facebook worked.
(2) is where they confuse engagement with useful engagement. Sex bots and assholes provide engagement, but not useful engagement. Unfortunately a lot of people get a dopamine high from every response.

@StevenSavage I live in a community that is about 50% hispanic.
I'll get the news pretty fast.

And if anyone truly listened to Stephen Miller and the idiot, they'd realize "naturalized" won't mean a damned thing.
According to the idiot... American means "Murican"

Children’s book by chef Jamie Oliver is withdrawn after criticism from Indigenous Australians

Indigenous campaigners were particularly aghast that neither Oliver nor his publishers, Penguin Random House, had consulted with them before the novel was published.

#News #IndigenousPeoples #WorldNews #Australia

https://apnews.com/article/oliver-britain-australia-first-nation-book-f44a87778a262ff9b2806123bae8ae6e

#ElonMusk #TruthSocial

Will Donald Trump's Truth Social Merge With Elon Musk's X? Rumors Swirl

If we want to get out country back... we need to know our enemy. Kamala didn't lose bc of her campaign, VP choice, even being a woman... we lost this election bc MainStreamMedia is not the evening news & newspapers. It's the no limits 24/365 social media outlets that literally brain wash/no facts people into believing the mis/disinformation.

That's why he bought twitter.

https://www.newsweek.com/will-truth-social-merge-elon-musks-x-rumors-swirl-1982993

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Many moons ago, I remember the outrage that erupted when President Clinton, in one of the final acts of his presidency, pardoned the fugitive financier Marc Rich.
The GOP ranted and raved for weeks about "abuse of pardon power".
After January 20th next year, we are going to see an orgy of pardon power that makes Clinton's pardon of Rich look like an insignificant blip.

This hispanic Trump voter is looking at a big disappointment.
He thinks the mass deportation is not gonna happen?
Delusional.
As I said yesterday, within a year or two.... this community is going to realize their mistake, their belief he was not serious.

It's so sad for me to say, but perhaps this is what it will take to wake them up and realize MAGA doesn't give a tinker's damn about them.

The spread of algorithmic surveillance systems in workplaces has prompted federal regulators to warn employers about misusing tools that predict and create dossiers of employee behavior. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission banned the pharmacy chain Rite Aid from using facial recognition after it found that the company’s system had falsely flagged customers, particularly women and people of color, as shoplifters.

A brand new way of being surveilled could be coming to a store near you—a facial recognition system designed to detect when retail workers have anomalous interactions with customers. #privacy (not my favorite source but interesting)

https://gizmodo.com/facial-recognition-that-tracks-suspicious-friendliness-is-coming-to-a-store-near-you-2000519190

𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐔𝐒 𝐡𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩

While Donald Trump has cultivated his reputation as a feared strongman, internal chats and online talk across a spectrum of terrorist organizations calling the US government their enemy show that many see advantages to the president-elect’s incoming administration.

One post from ex-members of neo-Nazi group says ‘we’re happy’ with Trump’s plans to slash national security jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/10/terrorism-trump-administration

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Illustrators/Artists are out-shining themselves.

Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed?

https://apnews.com/article/4e5b18ecd4799cc4cfd8cd7dc7b326ee

Yesterday, would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. In the past, @InUnfunky pointed to this passage.