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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 · 12h

National guard leadership showed us whose side they chose and it’s not democracy or we the people.

Hope you understand that now that boots are on the ground in Chicago it’s going to accelerate again much more brutally.

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

If you haven’t noticed they are already emboldened.

Fascists. Do. Not. Need. Pretext. For. The. Violence. They. Are. Already. Enacting.

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

That was pure cope. The generals will go where the commander wants.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10h

Hey guys remember when everyone was convinced that the military was planning some super secret defense of the American people lmao

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1d

This discussion on NPR's 1A with experts on military affairs and civil-military relations did not reassure me at all!
the1a.org/segments/if-...

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 10h

At some point one of the Gestapo is going to pull the trigger in a crowd and America will be forced into a place it may not be able to ever fully recover from.

The fascists are going to end up killing a lot of people before this is all said and done.

Laura N. Rodríguez Presa
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A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.
Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

As I have been saying for months now, the only way out is through and part of getting through this is pulling the Band-Aid off now versus later we must now force the fascists hand.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is now threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to bully courts into letting his illegal military occupations proceed unchecked by rule of law.

Inventing a fake crisis wholesale to bulldoze what's left of constitutional restraints: Unhinged despotism.

Okay, then. Make him invoke it.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

Hope the “but that is illegal” neoliberal crowd is having a terrible night.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been a twenty year commitment that brought us Trump. The democrats committed suicide they didn’t get murdered. Settle down mark adults are talking.

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 22h

What’s truly insane here:

I gave the FBI some of these images in 2020 when they were investigating a Terrorgram-related hit put out on me, and I had to explain what all this shit meant.

5 years later, and DHS is spreading that same goddamn fascist propaganda.

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

short thread on the Homeland Security Twitter’s use of literal fascist, accelerationist, and Neo-Nazi Telegram propaganda, aesthetics, and memes — incoming

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 1d

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the US Homeland Security Twitter uses — and clearly knows — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h

I think in this case we should maybe turn the temperature down.

Aaron should have been more explicit in his post and not assumed people knew the details of what he was talking about.

Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you’d like.

None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content.

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

So ugh did miller just say they have plenary power to do as they please in regards to deploying troops domestically? If so that is wildly dangerous and shows their goal is absolute power without check.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

A racist sting operation framing a brown person for a crime they entrapped them in, in a suit.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

She’s ex fbi what do you expect

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

Well, yeah, because Netanyahu and anyone who supports him are fascists

Zionism is fascism, if you support Zionism it’s simple you’re against democracy and human rights and are a fascist.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h

Benjamin Netanyahu called for the extermination of all Palestinians on American television, under the name "Ben Netay" - in the 1970s.

Netanyahu called for the extermination of all Palestinians at massive racist rallies

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

You don’t support democracy though you support a genocidal fascist doing genocide. sit down “hon”. Adults are talking

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 23h

After Reconstruction, the media refused to believe that white supremacists were massacring entire towns of Black people attempting to claim local sovereignty over their own lives. It is not true that violence, even when it's "plain as day," necessarily moves public opinion.

The white- run news transformed this event from a coup that overthrew an elected Republican government into a horror story of armed Black men, turning the massacre into a legitimate act of white self- defense. The Shreveport Times described the event as “the most deplorable and bloody affray ever

perpetuated.” Years after the event, white Democrats would periodically fearmonger about a Black militia that would return to overthrow the government, blaming power- hungry Republicans.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

You remember late last fall when I was speaking about the “silence of authoritarianism” This is what that looks like as the silence starts to unfold across academia and society due to the threats posed by fascists and their surrogate actors.

If we do not push this back the silence becomes eternity

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 21h

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

So many of you doing this side of the work have literally been sidelined because of the implications of the work it’s still just mind-boggling in someways

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 21h

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

Someone should Ask Obama this is all around his presidential Library site.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

This might be one of the most accurately Nazi moments we’ve seen in so far as the link between capital and the state

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 21h

Looks more and more like the raid in Chicago was more than just a fascist terror raid but the use of federal violence to help a bank empty a building they held in receivership.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

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Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. (Mark
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