SpartacusI wonder why the mainstream media doesn't report that corporate profits are at a 70-year high too!
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I’m a computer programmer. Queer (they/them/any). Communist ☭. Sacramento native, living up in the hills.
@dangillmor I am inclined to agree. However, you could engineer a search engine that uses AI to help find sources. At least that would be a much more useful and reliable method of utilizing AI. In this case, it would essentially be a more focused Google search. You’d still need to double-check the validity of any web pages you get, but that would be true regardless.
Biggest Little Fur ConIt's the former Captain of the Nascent Dawn
Looks like he's decided on a new path through the Stars
It's Going DownThe crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests and press covering the demonstrations in the streets of #Chicago during the #DNC should be seen not as a surprise, but part of a strategy of counter-insurgency.
This is coupled with an attempt by the party to incorporate a "progressive" veneer - made possible by politicians like #AOC and others - which seeks to crack these movements and defang them.
To move people off the streets and herd them back into the terrain of representative politics. To expand the divide between "peaceful protesters" and "outside agitators" to its logical conclusion: the nullification of class struggle and anti-colonial conflict.
The Democrats want to throw a wet blanket on protest movements and social struggle, and instead make them part of a broader coalition that takes orders from the party apparatus that is managed by those loyal to the Pentagon, Wall Street, and ruling class interests.
The Problem of “Peaceful Protesters”
"I'm not a protester. I'm violent." -Masked Rebel in Ferguson Along with voting, in today's society protesting peacefully is often held up as one of the only ways that everyday working-class and poor people can change the world. This is a myth we are raised with, and since the time that we are very young,...
Joey Fishkinlast year the NYT had a story about class and college admissions. I posted this graphic about the thing we talk about and the thing we don't even have a name for.
Last night Michelle Obama offered a name! "The affirmative action of generational wealth"
Paris MarxImagine if a country passed a law saying Facebook or Google had to sell to a non-US owner or it would be banned.
The ban isn’t because TikTok is a threat to US privacy or whatever, but because it threatens the global market share of US tech and by extension the geopolitical power of the US state.
House passes TikTok ban bill, but its Senate path unclear
The House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell. Lawmakers are concerned the company’s current ownership structure is beholden to the Chinese government and poses a U.S. national security threat. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman accuses Washington of resorting to political tools when U.S. businesses fail to compete. The House bill now goes to the Senate, where its prospects are unclear. TikTok has more than 170 million American users and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese technology firm ByteDance Ltd. A TikTok spokesman is criticizing Congress for being too secretive.
@MnemosyneSinger couldn’t agree more. The owning class knows that the solution is to move away from capitalism but they refuse because they don’t want to give up their power/privilege. So they are essentially doing climate change denial.
The Needling‘Our Country Is Better Than This,’ Says Country That Has Never Been Better Than This: https://theneedling.com/2024/06/14/our-country-is-better-than-this-says-country-that-has-never-been-better-than-this/
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@bluestocking @drahardja this pic looks like a super villain that got hit over the head really hard, so his eyes went all wonky.