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Error Crater - Undead So Far 🧛🏻 @errorcrater.bsky.social · 9h

a lot of what seem to be fresh horrors is simply that you are now seeing in full view how the sausage was made, and perhaps now instead of going along to get along you might go with the people asking inconvenient & uncomfortable questions about it

it wasn't safety you felt, it was numbness

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

I couldn't believe this but it's true, Thiel can't decide whether the antichrist is Greta or Big Yud. Positively reeling.

(Washington Post) -- Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are "legionnaires of the Antichrist" in private lectures on Christianity that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future, according to recordings reviewed by The Washington Post.
In the four, roughly two-hour lectures, which began last month and culminated Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Thiel laid out his religious views to a sold-out audience told to keep the contents "off-the-record," according to an event listing. He argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings.
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science," Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It's someone like Greta or Eliezer," he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry's approach to AI.

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🖤🐦‍⬛⚫𝑭𝒆𝒅𝒆⚫🐦‍⬛🖤 @fsohns.bsky.social · 1d

The bailout is going through because it's for Rob Citrone, a hedge fund manager who's friends of the US Treasure Secretary. This is nuts.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 2d

Beetle people! Kalioctera are one of the species you can choose from when making a character in The Snarl (our upcoming weird fantasy RPG).

(Art by @crimreaper.bsky.social )

2 kalioctera beetlefolk. A large female and a small colorful male perched on her shoulder.

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 2d

Upcoming DJ things (Chicago and South Bend)

Flyer for a dark techno industrial night called Nexus 6 on Friday October 17 at Subterranean (Chicago) with DJs Sprite, Licious, and Flesh_Bot

Devil's Night Halloween Party in South Bend at Langlab on Thursday Oct 30

Nexus 6 DJ nights the 3rd Friday each month at Subterranean

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 3d

Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."

This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

President Trump Participates in a Roundtable on Antifa

President Trump holds a roundtable meeting on Antifa.

www.c-span.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Posthuman Studios • Eclipse Phase @posthumanstudios.com · 3d

Over on The Snarl's Dev blog, we talk about a key aspect of the setting: the gargantuan trees called pillars that make up the entirety of the world.

snarlrpg.com/the-pillars/

The Pillars

The pillars are ancient if not immortal, having existed since the dawn of recorded history.

snarlrpg.com

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Adam Jury @adamjury.com · 25d

Let's. Fucking. Go.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

SCUM: An Eclipse Phase Board Game

Sci-fi board game where players defend their habitat from a mysterious threat bent on its destruction, based on the Eclipse Phase RPG.

www.kickstarter.com

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

*Many more neighbors were affected, but you won't get tallies on those numbers from the media because they don't get free ambulance rides and a PR team to issue statements on their behalf

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 4d

27 police officers were among those injured by tear gas during a weekend protest, Chicago’s top cop says. blockclubchi.co/4nGOb0m

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 4d

Educate yourself about informants!

Years ago, a group of people who were directly harmed by informant provocateurs put together this checklist, drawing on their own experiences and those of other activists as well as information from informants who have gone public.

crimethinc.com/checklist

Is S/He an Informant?

A group of people who have been directly harmed by informant provocateurs have put together this checklist, drawing on personal experiences as well as those of other activists and information from ...

crimethinc.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

“Body-camera video of a Border Patrol agent involved in the shooting of a woman who was allegedly chasing agents in Brighton Park over the weekend shows an officer saying, “Do something, b----,” before pulling over & shooting the woman five times.”

DHS has lied, a lot, about every act of violence.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Jake Laperruque @jakelaperruque.bsky.social · 5d

"You cannot protest, specifically because you will be at risk of violence by government agents"

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 5d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d

the thing no one tells you about preparing to launch A Thing in 2025 is that on top of working on The Thing you will also have to write one hundred million different bits of copy of varying lengths for all the different bits of the internet you're meant to have a presence in

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 6d

On the other hand there's something *like* a plan, that the neoreactionaries have banded about since 2017. Which is to prioritize slaughtering the radical left activist class so there's no one to provide knowledge and networks to radicalized liberals, while illegalizing NGOs and terrorizing judges.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6d

this is sort of the thing Moldbug is mad about. there isn't any actual cohesive plan for actually taking on american progressivism/liberalism so he's (rightfully) worried about what comes next given thermostatic backlash

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 6d

In one sense, this is the Admin recklessly undermining basic norms of liberal democracy.

In another sense, this is the sweatiest flailing around since Giuliani was giving conferences outside a landscaping shop. It's just blindly groping around for any lever of power, regardless of how dumb it is.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 6d

ICIRR, BPNC, and the southwest side rapid response team are out with a joint statement recounting what rapid response team members and neighbors observed at 40th & Kedzie, where federal agents shot somebody earlier today, repudiating DHS claims.

Full statement here: www.instagram.com/p/DPaGLCEjW5C

A graphic labeled 7 of 12 reads:

Today in the area of 4000 S. Kedzie, Rapid Response Teams and community members firsthand witnessed:
• Federal agents crashed into a civilian vehicle and caused a multi-car collision on Kedzie
• ICE fired approximately 5 shots at a car, one person was shot
• Stemming from that collision, ICE detained a US citizen who remains in custody
• Multiple uses of pepper spray and tear gas on unarmed community members, including throwing smoke bombs upon exiting the area

A graphic labeled 8 of 12 reads:

Today in the area Of 4000 S. Kedzie, Rapid Response Teams and community members firsthand witnessed (continued):
• Use of militarized tactical vehicles, including a tank, and helicopters in a residential neighborhood
• ICE agents were driving recklessly in a residential area
• ICE agents showing extreme aggression and violence towards community members
• ICE agents refused to show a warrant when violently detaining multiple community members in the area
• Teams and community members did NOT witness or participate in any "boxing in" as described by DHS.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 7d

They don’t want you to compare them to the Gestapo, but this is how they act. I’ve seen this agent get violent a few times now. I believe he’s also the agent who has been spotted driving an ICE vehicle with a Mexican flag on the hood.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 7d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 7d

*whistles*

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8d

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

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Sprite / Anarchotech @anarchotech.bsky.social · 8d

You misspelled "expecting mods to do their jobs and follow their own rules without changing them to appeal to bigots"

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 9d

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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