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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)

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Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews Www.instituteofunreality.com Unreality.institute

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Dec 13

I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 13

The more this is explained the worse it appears.

An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some academics worried

The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.

www.insidehighered.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 9h

Rumble talking head doing Nazi threats of murder on main.

Brian O'Shea @brianosheaspi.bsky.social · 9h

Not really.If I‘m blocked by anyone in black masks with red & black flags I’ll run them down or shoot them.If they get mounted on my vehicle’s grill in my commission of such self-defense I’ll leave them there until I dump them on their parents’ lawns.& I’ll sue mom&dad for the damages to my vehicle

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

What you’re saying is the federal government is ignoring the temporary restraining order that was issued yesterday?

Wonder who’s going to actually do anything about this considering there’s no real mechanism in place to stop this now that the federal government is ignoring the courts openly

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 9h

I would expect the amount of ai content especially trying to muddy the waters around government actions like the fake reporter arrest video to accompany any actual video of fascist violence coming online in an effort to discredit it all as ai.

The information war is getting much more serious now.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

This is AI.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 13h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 11h

You won’t know the next pandemic is happening until your neighbors or family start getting sick.
the governments goal now is to make the world more Darwinian and dangerous so those seen as weak(read poor and minorities) will die and those they see as strong (read wealthy and white) survive

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 17h

Jim is looking rough. His years of conspiracy theory’s are eating him alive.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 17h

Reminder that MAHA is an explicitly socially Darwinian, supremacist, eugenics movement that is building the infrastructure for social murder at scale under the mantle of “public health”

MAHA is explicitly inverting public health into eugenics and preventable mass death.

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s all you need to know about her without the sanity filter of WaPo editors:

www.importantcontext.news/p/trumps-new...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah. Within the established context they have built this reads as being able to enter anyone’s home under false pretenses without remedy.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 17h

Plain bagel, smear of garlic creme cheese a meat patty and fried egg.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 17h

So what they’re saying is that fps can claim someone’s house is a threat and without a warrant or other legal remedies enter the home and detain those within it. Sounds like a police state.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 18h

"The administration is doing dumb things, this proves they will fail."

1. They are not as dumb as you think in the areas that matter to them: grabbing power.

2. Being dumb is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarianism. Hiring based on loyalty does that.

3. This thinking is what leads to inaction.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

This is a direct contradiction to the first amendement tro that is in place.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

Neil liberalism could never stop fascism so instead it intended to stop those pointing out that fascism was bad and are trying to create their own friendly face for fascism brutality.

Americans need to accept the truth of the moment we find ourselves in the Republicans are fascist domestic threats

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

The American government is waging war against the Democratic population of this country and the longer we allow these voices, claiming those of us on the academic and research side are doomers for pointing out the hard realities we face the more danger we are putting ourselves in.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

We are in this moment of immense crisis in part because the loudest liberals and Democrats and centrists, came together to call those with academic expertise and research experience in countering the far right and fascism doomers at every turn instead of accepting the new reality

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

When the reality is many of us on the academic and research side have been saying these things because we knew the process that was being enacted by the fascist in power, and the centrist neo liberal establishment decided that the only route forward was by moderating with fascism not fighting it

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

It’s absolutely wild that we just spent the last four months, watching as the loudest people both on social media and in traditional media scream that anyone pointing out the social construction of law in American democracy was unable to hold up to the weight of American fascism was just a “doomer”

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

It’s not.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

Canada is still unwilling to admit they did genocide. hell they won’t even fully admit boarding schools existed and that they were genocide

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

Cool strawman please stick to arguments that are actually being had not the ones you’re making up in your hand.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

They continue to steamroll everyone because there’s no elected leadership doing a goddamn thing, but appeasing them. Position it won’t matter how unpopular the fascist are they continue to walk right over us

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

“But if we dress up our jailer they don’t see so much like our jailer”

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

Correct.