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

this is a long essay and it is well worth every second. by @gabriel

https://libresolutions.network/articles/ai-regret/

#ai #aislop #technofascism #totalitarianism #freesoftware #opensource #community #cyberspace #openweb #SocialMedia

»‘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

Living in constant terror - Michael Malice

#totalitarianism #fear #oppression

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That is all.

#War #Totalitarianism #AntiWar #Resist #Draft #FuckWar

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/