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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 42m

Speaking of the donor class, the Atlantic has consistently wanted people to forget that COVID is dangerous so that nothing inhibits them from being mindless consumers propping up the economy.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · Jun 11

Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?

A sick kid
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Why Are So Many Children Getting Long Covid? What Could Possibly Have Caused This? Lockdowns? Vaccines? Gluten? Screentime? Anxiety? Fortnite? Face Masks? What?
Story by Abner Gater and Ivan Lytomyzelf

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

You should read this by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social if you haven't already done so: organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 4h

And here is one of the twins some years earlier in a show hosted by Calleja, which shows how life is in rural areas. Here, Calleja is showing him in helicopter his village and surroundings. What a cute guy, and how with simple words he describes how much he loves his village and the countryside.

Sergio Felices, un joven pastor:

Uno de los momentos más emotivos del programa ha llegado cuando Jesús Calleja ha montado en el helicóptero a un chico que lleva toda la vida en el p

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 5h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 5h

I live in a city, but my heart has been linked to villages all my life. This touches my heart. I miss the cows, the countryside, the meadows, the woods. The clarity of mind, the simplicity of life.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 5h

I want to talk about extensive livestock farming (vs industrial intensive farming) and the important role it plays in maintaining villages alive in rural areas.
In the vid, young farmers in a little village in the Pyrenees.

Dos hermanos más difíciles de distinguir que sus ovejas. Fernando y Sergio Felices

YouTube video by El campo es nuestro Aragón TV

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 6h

The first skirmishes will occur in unexpected places. Mutiny is in the mind of an apprentice cook. Then dense silence. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose. Pandemonium, mayhem.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 6h

You saw a little crack and heard metal noise. Then, in a blink of an eye, all of it crumbles.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 6h

H5N1, Yersinia Pestis, Sars2, antibiotic resistance...

Public Universehell Girlfriend 🏳️‍⚧️ @girlfriend.bsky.social · 21h

It's time to stop looking at civil service as a career path in the USA. It's a stepping stone, nothing more. Some people will be stuck, hanging on, but everyone else will steer clear of getting locked into rusted handcuffs.

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 14h

The blame game would be a propaganda distraction to hamper any intent of making the main players pay for the crime. Libs and cons...

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 14h

What they are delaying - for just a bit longer - is the house bubble burst, going global, pushing it to the limit with real estate corporate shareholding motherfuckery.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 14h

We'll have to oppose tooth and nail any bailout at the expense of social infrastructure.
Down with speculators and privatizers.

Hannah Harkness @harkitshannah.bsky.social · 19h

People worrying about the AI bubble when I’ve jumped ahead and am already mad about the government bailout of the AI bubble

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

I really hope the AI bubble bursts soon. So sick and tired of them shoving it into everything whether it makes sense or not.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

One of the crazy things about the AI bubble bursting is that consumer sentiment toward AI has always leaned skeptical to outright negative but it’s an industry propped up by pure billionaire greed, sycophancy, and childish fantasy

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 18h

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16h

This isn’t fearmongering — it’s reality. Hospital-acquired COVID can delay care or cost you your health — even your life.

Infection control measures — masks, ventilation, testing, and staff/patient protections — should be standard care in every healthcare setting.

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Prognostic Chats @PrognosticChats

Some day you’ll be in hospital for surgery or chemotherapy or with another illness & a nurse, or doctor or visitor at the next bed, or the patient opposite you will give you a Covid infection & your treatment will get delayed & your life will be put at unnecessary risk.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 16h

Looping the loop, inflating the bubble. AI will drag us all into quicksand.

Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 1d

Another one for the list

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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 16h

Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to late September.

The XFG.* "Stratus" variant continued to dominate, growing to 85% frequency.

NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" grew slightly to 10%.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EUR #LP_8_1 #XFG #Stratus #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 19h

Im still wondering what goes through the mind of someone who joined ICE just for the benefits when they're told to rip a mother away from her screaming children or to kidnap a child from school...

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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 21h

He even wrote a book on it & gets the political nuance—which many don’t—but apparently didn’t like being confronted with facts like COVID is often virally persistent, can damage T cells, & is vascular. Huh. Surprising & disappointing.
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Allison (she/her) @forcedevolution.bsky.social · Aug 10

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You seem to be exactly the type of person Steven Thrasher wrote about in early 2022.

As soon as Biden assumed office, many establishment liberals and much of the mainstream media-who are unable to think outside of a "Democrats good, Republicans bad" binary-stopped caring about the pandemic. Also, on behalf of their corporate owners, many newsrooms actively pushed for a "return to normal." And, as I argue in my forthcoming book, regardless of which party is running the U.S. government, there are multiple ways America perpetually creates what I call a "viral underclass." But for many journalists, it was easier to view Trump as an abnormal monster who made the pandemic so bad, rather than to wrestle with how it is our American way of life that initially made the pandemic more deadly in the U.S. than in any other country on earth, and which continues to make us have the most deaths of any nation.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19h

When the AI bubble bursts, it's going to be a threat to the entire economy that results in a massive bailout, because they're deliberately making OpenAI "too big to fail." It's tentacles are spreading everywhere, risking financial contagion in every part of society and the global economy.

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 17h

We are already living the dystopian nightmare.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 17h

Nowhere is to be seen any intention of de-escalation, and the privatization and dismantling of social infrastructure is widening the hazards, adding to climate chaos and environmental devastation.
Corporate takeover.

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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 17h

The business of rearmament is skyrocketing. The capabilities of destruction and surveillance panopticon is reaching the peak, while the population is sleepwalking to the abyss of war, fascism, hunger, and disease.

Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 19h

Here's another nightmare corporation to watch, along with Palantir and Anduril.

Govini, a defense tech startup taking on Palantir, hits $100 million in annual recurring revenue

Defense tech startup Govini said it has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and secured a $150 million investment from Bain Capital.

www.cnbc.com

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