The Clampdown
@mostlytrue.bsky.social
Uniquely unremarkable misanthropic humanist, begrudgingly believing in a better world
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The Clampdown
@mostlytrue.bsky.social
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“Net Worthlessness”
Could we make this a thing?
It’d be a metric for assessing billionaires, eg. a ratio of their wealth vs their positive contribution to society?
Could we make this a thing?
It’d be a metric for assessing billionaires, eg. a ratio of their wealth vs their positive contribution to society?
Trump’s international policy, domestic policy and personal policy: protect the aggressor, punish the victim.
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Trump’s international policy, domestic policy and personal policy: protect the aggressor, punish the victim.
Monroe Doctrine 🤝 Moron Doctrine
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Monroe Doctrine 🤝 Moron Doctrine
In the end it’s predictable and poetic that American exceptionalism would be what causes the USA’s downfall.
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In the end it’s predictable and poetic that American exceptionalism would be what causes the USA’s downfall.
By new decree (sponsored by ShakeshackTM), Trump must now be addressed as PEACEMONGER SUPREME. All hail the mighty Peacemonger!
December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
By new decree (sponsored by ShakeshackTM), Trump must now be addressed as PEACEMONGER SUPREME. All hail the mighty Peacemonger!
Average tech CEO:
“Sure, my immense wealth could be used to drastically reduce suffering on Earth, but wouldn’t it be of much greater utility to spend it shooting my load into space so that the Galactic AI can use it to inseminate herself to produce a Master Race of Starchildren?” 🤷
“Sure, my immense wealth could be used to drastically reduce suffering on Earth, but wouldn’t it be of much greater utility to spend it shooting my load into space so that the Galactic AI can use it to inseminate herself to produce a Master Race of Starchildren?” 🤷
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Average tech CEO:
“Sure, my immense wealth could be used to drastically reduce suffering on Earth, but wouldn’t it be of much greater utility to spend it shooting my load into space so that the Galactic AI can use it to inseminate herself to produce a Master Race of Starchildren?” 🤷
“Sure, my immense wealth could be used to drastically reduce suffering on Earth, but wouldn’t it be of much greater utility to spend it shooting my load into space so that the Galactic AI can use it to inseminate herself to produce a Master Race of Starchildren?” 🤷
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
—FDR, 1944
—FDR, 1944
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Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group - The Kansas City Star
apple.news/AXklhhh_NSEm...
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Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group — The Kansas City Star
The attorney general did not provide any evidence to support her claims, which the campaign called false.
apple.news
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Missouri attorney general involves ICE in push to halt anti-gerrymandering group - The Kansas City Star
apple.news/AXklhhh_NSEm...
apple.news/AXklhhh_NSEm...
BREAKING: Terrorists have been located off the shores of Venezuela.
They are escalating their terrorist threats after brazenly blowing up civilian boats for several months.
They are escalating their terrorist threats after brazenly blowing up civilian boats for several months.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
BREAKING: Terrorists have been located off the shores of Venezuela.
They are escalating their terrorist threats after brazenly blowing up civilian boats for several months.
They are escalating their terrorist threats after brazenly blowing up civilian boats for several months.
Remember folks, Venezuela did 9/11 just as much as Iraq did. Why wouldn’t they get invaded?
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Remember folks, Venezuela did 9/11 just as much as Iraq did. Why wouldn’t they get invaded?
AI is malware.
Your AI assistants in Windows 11 could be giving hackers your files
Microsoft warns that new AI agents, which access your Documents and Desktop, introduce novel security risks like Xpia.
www.windowscentral.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
AI is malware.
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Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
![https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation
Paradox of automation
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The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical. Lisanne Bainbridge, a cognitive psychologist, identified these issues notably in her widely cited paper "Ironies of Automation."[49] If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in.[50] A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for.[51]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:byjjq67p7iau6qufzjmizpbn/bafkreie4ootzzyowpylsxjg7gxsp63iujxh4qceuuxxhwm63yrm2qffa4e@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
“A wealth tax is not punishment, it’s plumbing” #econsky
Why the Left and Right Are Both Wrong About Wealth - Barry's Economics
YouTube video by Barry's Economics
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“A wealth tax is not punishment, it’s plumbing” #econsky
The Deep Financial System is Cracking
YouTube video by Cy Canterel
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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"Prosecuting a former president or prime minister is a normal and healthy thing for advanced democracies to do." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/28/d...
Prosecuting the Powerful
Historical data shows putting leaders on trial is a healthy democratic practice.
foreignpolicy.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Fraud and scams count towards quarterly earnings too! 🤡 ♾️ #META
Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Fraud and scams count towards quarterly earnings too! 🤡 ♾️ #META
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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.
They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.
Wanna fix fraud and abuse?
Fix that.
Oops Kash, you fired the wrong guy again. Look in the mirror and try again.
November 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Oops Kash, you fired the wrong guy again. Look in the mirror and try again.
Great now chimps will be rubbing this in our faces.
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Great now chimps will be rubbing this in our faces.
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A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A federal judge has denied OpenAI's request to dismiss a copyright suit from George R. R. Martin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, John Grisham and other authors.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
The judge says that text generated by ChatGPT may infringe their copyrights.
Essential historical context from @andreapitzer.bsky.social. Sobering but hopeful.
Why Trump Wants Chaos
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Essential historical context from @andreapitzer.bsky.social. Sobering but hopeful.
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"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
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This is political correctness in the original soviet sense — the state enforcing the current regime-approved terminology and history, even retrospectively.
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is political correctness in the original soviet sense — the state enforcing the current regime-approved terminology and history, even retrospectively.