@EUCommission The problem is you see, the commissioners are unelected. So they act in their own interests, not in the interests of citizens. #ageverification #totalitarianism

Repetition bores people. Me included. But in the face of #totalitarianism, we have to repeat the truth or the lies will be the only thing that most people remember.

#Cartoonist Will #McPhail drew this one years ago now, but its clarity has been one of my anchors as people claim that their outrage gives them the right to do and say whatever they want... without consequences.

Resentment does not equal truth or competence, and does not excuse arrogance.

Expertise is not elitist. Telling the truth is not elitist.

Ah #Plato , you should have thought this one through some more.

#philosopherkings #totalitarianism #philosophy #imwithpopper

Fortuitous asymmetry: the censors are shockingly ignorant.

By expanding shorthand terminology an inexpensive cloaking layer can be applied to most efforts, obfuscation that is mostly transparent to other specialist practioners.

The rest of us need to up our game a little bit, terminology-wise.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/to-keep-climate-science-alive-researchers-are-speaking-in-code

#ClimateScience
#totalitarianism

To Keep Climate Science Alive, Researchers Are Speaking in Code

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We will come to regret our every use of AI

Drawing the distinction between using tools and having systems use you

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»‘Revolt in 2100‘ is a 1953 science fiction collection by American writer Robert A. #Heinlein, part of his Future History series. […] "If This Goes On—" is a short novel detailing a rebellion against an American #theocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_in_2100

»The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, and current and former leaders say his proselytizing violates the Constitution«

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/03/29/pege-hegseth-christianity/

#scifi #uspol #literature #totalitarianism

Revolt in 2100 - Wikipedia

Living in constant terror - Michael Malice

#totalitarianism #fear #oppression

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The Epstein Files and the Matrix of Elite Control

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Whoever has used the recent large language models with "agentic" (i.e., decision making) properties understands the perception of omnipotence they induce. This may lead to megalomania or not - in any case social hierarchies will get steeper, and more volatile, and more detached from reality.

I'm not sure if a mass of people, Orwell's "proles" can counterbalance that. Technology will not safe us, but maybe language will.
#fascism #totalitarianism #technology

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/chinese-narratives-around-anthropic-highlight-contradictions-for-the-us/

Chinese narratives around Anthropic highlight contradictions for the US

Commentators in Chinese state media outlets have seized on the dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon to make larger critiques of US tech governance.

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