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Patricia Bastos

@patmat.bsky.social

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Pro-civilian, curious, multi-versed, and prose-bound too. A teacher of languages and psychology navigating this chaosmos. Writing on control, collapse, and what gets erased when we call it “progress.” Humane, not a bot.

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: Devastating memoir reveals Epstein victim survived a "choking, beating and bloodying from a former prime minister, whom she refused to name because “I fear that this man will seek to hurt me if I say his name here.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b...

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

I think the plan is to kill most of them, as much as they can, through starvation, bombing. Some will be displaced, and there is a real risk that survivors will be shoved into permanent camps and used as cheap labor like slaves, to serve the billionaire’s projects.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

I think Transhumanism remains a metaphor — and a dangerous one — mobilized to capture policy and to naturalize technical and economic agendas under the guise of human advancement.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Though the Berggruen Institute claims to host “debates,”its magazine Noema consistently promotes frameworks like computational functionalism,where life,mind,and intelligence are reduced to information processing.Dissenting views exist,but they’re sidelined, never centered.
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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 4d

1/10 There are very abstract concepts that must be taken as truth in order to subjugate humans to technology and its owners.One of the most powerful is the idea that computation is consciousness and life is information,the core belief behind what philosophers call computational functionalism.
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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

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Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Transhumanists admit they lack an ethical and philosophical framework. The “philanthropic” Berggruen Institute — whose publication is @noemamag.com — is building it, using “ethics” to legitimize a post-human ideology where life is information and AI is evolution, turning control into policy.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Schneider’s concern was not only metaphysical but political. “Big tech has taken these philosophical ideas,” she warned, “and used them for propaganda purposes,for regulatory capture.They distract us from digital privacy, mental health, and human flourishing.”
#Transhumanism

iai.tv/articles/how...

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Transhumanists admit they lack an ethical and philosophical framework. The “philanthropic” Berggruen Institute — whose publication is @noemamag.com — is building it, using “ethics” to legitimize a post-human ideology where life is information and AI is evolution, turning control into policy.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Schneider’s concern was not only metaphysical but political. “Big tech has taken these philosophical ideas,” she warned, “and used them for propaganda purposes,for regulatory capture.They distract us from digital privacy, mental health, and human flourishing.”
#Transhumanism

iai.tv/articles/how...

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 1d

Schneider’s concern was not only metaphysical but political. “Big tech has taken these philosophical ideas,” she warned, “and used them for propaganda purposes,for regulatory capture.They distract us from digital privacy, mental health, and human flourishing.”
#Transhumanism

iai.tv/articles/how...

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

This is so wrong.
During the pandemic, Germany gave billions in bailouts to big corporations — not repaid.
Politicians involved in mask fraud were convicted or cleared by loopholes, but kept the money.
Now small businesses and freelancers are being forced to return their tiny aid.
Outrageous.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

AI is simpler than a Mycoplasma—the tiniest living thing. When something that simple can take your job, the problem isn’t intelligence, but the economy’s contempt for life.

#AI #Ethics

journalrecord.com/2025/09/05/a...

AI-driven job displacement a growing concern

U.S. unemployment rises to 4.3% in August; AI adoption sparks worker anxiety over job security and displacement.

journalrecord.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Jeff Bezos set out to destroy one of our main newspapers that held billionaires like him to account and it worked!

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Andrea Di Turi #FacetheClimateEmergency @andytuit.bsky.social · 2d

"Five Palestinians killed by israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire"

#israeleStatoTERRORISTA #israeleStatoCANAGLIA #israelestatoGENOCIDA ha violato il cessate il fuoco

dove sono #labuonastampa giornaloni e media mainstream?

FATE VOMITARE!! ANDATE AFFANCULO!!

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Just George Oh🦇🎃👻🐈‍⬛🕸️ @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently... 🙄

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

it's easier to release hostages from gaza than releasing the epstein files

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J'dis ça j'dis rien @jdiscajdisrien.bsky.social · 4d

Gaza

#genocide
#Gaza

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 2d

More details at these links

www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

transparentelection.org

The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant

By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

www.americanprogress.org

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

6/6 So no — AI cannot rescue democracy. It’s being used to secure the order that democracy once threatened. And until that order itself is confronted, all talk of “AI for democracy” is just interface management — the narcotic of participation masking the reality of control.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

5/6 AI is here not to fix inequality, but to amplify it — to automate extraction, surveillance, and social control. Even a “participatory” AI would only stage the illusion of agency inside a system built on exploitation. You can’t code your way out of inequality; you can only redistribute power.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

4/6 olitikverdrossenheit is real because people have already understood: it doesn’t matter who they vote for. The same alliances between money, data, and government remain. Voting has become an elite ritual for cultural signaling while material power flows upward.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

3/6 The same corporations now preaching about “democratic AI” are the ones hollowing out democracy itself — lobbying governments, extracting subsidies, dodging taxes, writing regulation in their favor. They’re not partners in democracy; they’re its creditors.

Patricia Bastos @patmat.bsky.social · 2d

2/6 People aren’t choosing comfort; they’re being coerced. AI functions like a drug deliberately engineered to addict. Addictive interfaces, algorithmic engagement, and convenience as compulsion.its a strategy.And it targets children too, invading schools, shaping attention from the earliest years.