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Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • Move over, Zuck. Sam Altman is the new minister of thought

  • Language records reveal a surge of cognitive distortions in recent decades

    Can entire societies become more or less depressed over time? Here, we look for the historical traces of cognitive distortions, thinking patterns that are strongly associated with internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety, in millions of books published over the course of the last two centuries in English, Spanish, and German. We find a pronounced “hockey stick” pattern: Over the past two decades the textual analogs of cognitive distortions surged well above historical levels, including those of World War I and II, after declining or stabilizing for most of the 20th century. Our results point to the possibility that recent socioeconomic changes, new technology, and social media are associated with a surge of cognitive distortions.

  • Stop Giving Harm a Microphone

    I’ve tried to separate the art from the creator, but lately it’s been impossible to continue to do so for me. Frankly it’s harmful to see my identity categorized as “ideological nonsense” and “political theatre” in social media posts and news articles. I get it, you should be free to have your opinions too, and I’m not claiming you need to not post that blog post or tweet. But I do feel that if you are in that position you need to carry yourself to a higher standard than what meets the bare minimum. A certain Danish man once claimed that “words are not violence”, to which I say you’re wrong. Telling someone to kill themselves is violent and harmful behavior. Telling someone they don’t belong is exclusionary. Telling people they are “mentally ill transgenders" is harmful. Words do hurt real people. it’s caused me to want to withdraw myself and disengage in the communities I found purpose and belonging in.

    • "I should be free to preach but you who disagree are harming me and others when you preach, so you should be silenced, and your community should become our community"

Musk

Electric / Self Driving cars

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • Scholarship for Black Students at UC San Diego Rebranded After Lawsuit Argued It Was Discriminatory

    A scholarship for Black students at UC San Diego is now available to anyone, regardless of race, after students and a right-leaning nonprofit organization sued the university for discrimination this July. The plaintiffs argued that the scholarship fund violated a series of laws, including the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which was put in place to protect Black Americans in the South. One of the students, Kai Peters, said he was denied access to the scholarship because he isn’t Black. Peters sent a written statement to CalMatters through the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, the nonprofit plaintiff. He said his rejection is an example of “institutionalized racism” — a phrase that was created in part to characterize how government institutions discriminate against Black Americans.

  • Transgender Identity Has Fallen Among Young People

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

TechSuck / Geek Bait

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

Crypto con games

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Trump

  • Trump replacing the White House East Wing is not the end of the world - The Washington Post

    In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties. The State Dining Room seats 140. The East Room seats about 200. Trump says the ballroom at the center of his 90,000-square-foot addition will accommodate 999 guests. The next Democratic president will be happy to have this. Preservationists express horror that Trump did not submit his plans to their scrutiny, but the truth is that this project would not have gotten done, certainly not during his term, if the president had gone through the traditional review process. The blueprints would have faced death by a thousand papercuts.

    Everybody who is not Trump-deranged knows that if any other president had done the same thing, the reaction would be entirely different. The issue is Trump, not the ballroom. Nobody has any special feelings about the East Wing--it's likely that many people who are blowing their tops didn't even know that it existed. They probably thought the East Wing was just the eastern half of the Executive Mansion, which is really a different building entirely.

Democrats

Left Angst

  • Do the people who control the economy just dislike "populists"? Do populists always crash the economy?

  • DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular with Nazi Creators

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted a bizarre new video to social media platforms on Thursday featuring footage of federal agents arresting protesters in Portland, Oregon. The video uses a song that became very popular among Nazis and white supremacists at the tail end of President Donald Trump’s first term, in what appears to be a dog whistle to far-right extremists. The song in the video, MGMT’s “Little Dark Age,” was released in 2018, though it’s been slowed down to an absurd degree. And while nothing in the song suggests sympathy with far-right ideology (quite the opposite, in fact), the song was adopted by far-right content creators in late 2020 to pair with Nazi and white supremacist imagery.

  • Trump admin tries to rig Warner Bros. sale for favored Paramount Skydance studio

  • Timothy Mellon Is Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops During Shutdown - The New York Times

    Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter. Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a “patriot” and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon. Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was “a great American citizen” and a “substantial man.”

    A grandson of former Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Mr. Mellon was not a prominent Republican donor until Mr. Trump was elected. But in recent years, he has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into supporting Mr. Trump and the Republican Party. Mr. Mellon, who lives primarily in Wyoming, keeps a low profile despite his prolific political spending. He is also a significant supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also ran for president last year. Mr. Mellon donated millions to Mr. Kennedy’s presidential campaign and has also given money to his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense.

    In an autobiography that he self-published in 2015, Mr. Mellon described himself as a former liberal who moved to Wyoming from Connecticut for lower taxes and to be surrounded by fewer people. His book also contains several incendiary passages about race. He wrote that Black people were “even more belligerent” after social programs were expanded in the 1960s and ’70s, and that social safety net programs amounted to “slavery redux.”

    In 2020, during a rare and brief interview with The New York Times, Mr. Mellon declined to answer questions about his political giving. “I’ll contribute to him or Biden or whoever I want to,” he said, referring to Mr. Trump and his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr. “I don’t have to say why.”

  • Journalists Uncover Antifa 'Hit List' on the Streets on Portland

  • What Made Blogging Different?

    Some of the best blogs have evolved and expanded. Independent media is more important than ever, and Donald Trump’s recent attempts to censor mainstream outlets, comedians he doesn’t like, and “leftist” professors underscore the fact that speech is critical. The lesson for me, from the early blogosphere, is that quality of speech matters, too. There’s a part of me that hopes that the most toxic social media platforms will quietly implode because they’re not conducive to it, but that is wishcasting; as long as there are capitalist incentives behind them, they probably won’t. I still look for people with early blogger energy, though — people willing to make an effort to understand the world and engage in a way that isn’t a performance, or trolling, or outright grifting. Enough of them, collectively, can be agents of change. Trump may be able to intimidate Bob Iger, but it’s actually a lot harder to intimidate a million different outlets, each run by a single determined person.

    • Remember when "echo chambers" were bad and "fountains of misinformation" couldn't be tolerated?

  • The Left Can't Abandon Nostalgia to the Right

    The global right today excels at leveraging nostalgia for reactionary ends. Yet memories of periods of revolutionary hope and collective victories can provide the materials for a form of nostalgia that the Left can use.

    nostalgia is not inherently fascist-leaning. It can be directed at periods of hope, solidarity, and revolution. Nostalgia has an unparalleled capacity to coordinate large groups of people around shared rituals, memories, and desires. And by recollecting the best from the past and creatively reinterpreting it in light of today’s needs, nostalgia can help us come up with new visions.

    • "creatively reinterpreting" means lying about all the failures socialists have given us, hiding the bodies, and proclaiming yet another glorious socialist revolution.

  • Under President Trump's Direction, Scientific Protections Are Disappearing

  • The 1920s Immigration Mistake America May Repeat

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