Zohran Mamdani won young men 18-29 by 40 points.

40 POINTS!

And he did so by standing FOR economic justice, FOR Trans rights, FOR immigrant rights, FOR labor rights, FOR Palestinian rights, & FOR diversity.

All the Corporate Democrats who said Dems can only win by by "running to the center," or "siding with Israel on Gaza" or "not being distracted by the Trans issue," should shut up & have the humility to listen.

Zohran is what happens when you run FOR justice rather than just against Trump.

Belgian academics, including renowned AI professor Luc Steels, have joined Dutch scholars in criticizing students’ use of AI for learning at universities.

https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-ai-scientists-resist-use-ai-academia?cdlnk=OFNhOGFlak5qRTE1cjhPbXR6eWMvL2VMRER0cVArcDNzT1Q0cjhVU3N2NVhYUG5GT3dKcjFsZVM2dDFPMyt5SVhVRStyQ3BvRVA4bTU5R1k5MnplSGc9PTo6YzQ1Mzc5NzAzODk5OTI2ZDkzNTY1NmUxNmQ3MjU5NTk%3D

Spot the tiny dragon 🐉

#wildlife

"Put bluntly: in the West, the smartphone is the platform of the new technocratic factory; the social-credit system and its leash. It doesn’t repress; it seduces. It trains citizens to self-surveil, to volunteer their desires, to labor for their own subjection in the attention economy. The attention economy is not a symptom of capitalism’s excess but its evolutionary form: a seamless fusion of work, entertainment, and obedience. What once required propaganda now requires only Wi-Fi.

Modern political “mobilization” actually works through such platforms and infrastructure; the old patronage networks of capital and ideology have simply migrated into the platform and attention economy. Wealthy actors such as corporations, political operatives, and foundations fund campaigns that live inside the same data ecosystems as consumer advertising. The boundary between politics, marketing, and behavioral design has evaporated. It no longer matters whether a financier thinks of themselves as left or right; the tactic is identical: stimulate outrage, capture attention, harvest data, convert chaos into capital or policy leverage.

The smartphone makes this frictionless. It’s the remote-control device of mass affect. One push notification and a few thousand people behave predictably: some march, some buy, some rage. None of this requires conspiracy; it’s just the logic of the medium meeting the logic of speculation."

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/the-velvet-cage-smart-phones-and-the-attention-economy/

#SmartPhones #CellPhones #AttentionEconomy #Technocracy

The black orchid i got at the Hilo orchid show this year is blooming 😍

It's called monnierara millennium magic witchcraft, which is a very fancy name.

#orchids #flowers #bloomscrolling #hawaii #plants

Wild honeybee populations have been officially categorised as endangered within the EU. That’s according to the IUCN Red List

https://theconversation.com/wild-honeybees-now-officially-listed-as-endangered-in-the-eu-267239

The CDC reports that the United States' first known case of a more severe strain of mpox has been discovered in California.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/16/health/mpox-clade1-california-first?Date=20241116&Profile=CNN&utm_content=1731787012&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter