Zuck's told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make ads that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything. In other words, Meta will make an AI mind-control ray and rent it out to grateful advertisers.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts

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Trump condemns Mexico and the south for “open borders” and demands the border is shut down, while condemning Canada for an “imaginary line” on the map and demands the border be dissolved.

If you still don’t see the overt white supremacy as the motivation behind Trump’s “immigration” policy, it’s because you don’t want to see it, or you’re complicit.

quaint.
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just fucking drain the bank accounts of every billionaire, starting with the orange shitstain. cant redistribute it to every person alive? fine. just dump it all to the United Nations. for shits and giggles, transfer it all to the IRS.

we will die waiting for US Congress to tax them out of existence. and like Foxy Brown used to say, killing them is too easy.

to destroy the oligarchy, take away what they hide and cherish the most: their actual wealth.

In some meetings, you wear a red band around your arm, in others, you bring your red basecap.

#uspol #USPolitics

apparently there is a “rave collective” in toronto that has offered to be on-call for any reports of right-wing protests to bring a portable sound system and drown them out with 200bpm hardcore acid techno

i am so fucking here for this

We got this "HIGH security problem" reported for #curl earlier today:

"The -o / --output parameter in cURL does not restrict or sanitize file paths. When passed relative traversal sequences (e.g., ../../), cURL writes files outside the current working directory, allowing arbitrary file overwrite. In automated or privileged environments (CI/CD, root containers), this leads to Remote Code Execution (RCE), privilege escalation, and supply chain risk."

Never a dull moment.